Former United States President and current White House candidate Donald Trump accused his successor, Democrat Joe Biden, of being “a threat to democracy” on Tuesday after being disqualified from the Colorado primary by a state court. . “No wonder corrupt Joe Biden and far-left lunatics want to stop us by any means necessary,” Trump said […]
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Chile rejects a change to its constitution for the second time
With more than 74% of the votes counted, Chileans rejected this Sunday with 55.4% a second proposal for a new constitution that they will vote on in fifteen months and decided to abandon the current Magna Carta, inherited from the military dictatorship (1973-1990). ) to maintain. and largely reformed into democracy. The option to approve […]
Alert to increasing attacks on freedom of expression in Latin America
The ex-governors who signed the statement remember the leather hemispheric on freedom of expression as established by the IACHR: Freedom of expression, particularly in matters of public interest, “is a cornerstone in the existence of a society democratic“. In this regard, they stressed that it should not be guaranteed only with regard to the spread […]
what’s going on in poland
Poland is in turmoil ahead of elections scheduled for next fall. Oppositions are raising the level of confrontation with the Law and Justice party (Pis), which has been in power since 2015 and will try to seize power from the people for the third time. On Sunday, the country held the largest demonstration since mass […]
Government-controlled judges in Poland, EU Court condemns Warsaw
New and definitive rejection by the European Court of Justice of Polish judicial reform, which, according to Community judges, violated the bloc’s democratic principles. The Luxembourg-based body denounced the reform approved by Warsaw in 2019, arguing that it would place national judges under government control, thereby violating the principle of separation of powers and the […]
Presidents of South America express their differences on Venezuela
The “Brasilia Consensus”, in the second of its nine points, includes a commitment “to democracy and human rights, sustainable development and social justice, the rule of law and institutional stability, the defense of sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs”. . This point outraged Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou, who said in his first speech at […]
Erdogan’s victory is a headache for the West (and good news for Putin)
Turkey chose continuity, choosing to leave in power the strong man who has ruled it for 20 years and will now hold the reins of the nation for another five years. In yesterday’s second round, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defeated opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52.1 percent of the vote. Despite the criticism that the earthquake, […]
They present warnings about election funding for the 2023 election
The continued heavy reliance on private funds to finance political campaigns tops the list of the five key patterns identified by Transparency for Colombia through the campaign finance alliance for citizen control, which characterized the financing of You are in the presidential days during the year 2022. According to what was stated by this group, […]
Having received the approval of ultra-nationalists, Erdogan reaffirms the approval of the ‘Sultan’
A heavy blow to the Turkish opposition led by Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. The third candidate in the Turkish election has publicly declared his support for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bolstering the position of the outgoing president, who is most likely a candidate for reaffirmation in next Sunday’s runoff. Sinan Ogan, a radical nationalist who was little known […]
Thais want the end of dictatorship, army defeated at the ballot box
Thais want an end to the military dictatorship that has lasted for almost a decade. In yesterday’s elections, two opposition parties, seeking to reduce the power of the army and the monarchy, won. With 97% of the vote counted, the progressive party Go Forward took the lead with 151 seats, followed by the populist Pheu […]