• Suu Kyi's supporters and independent analysts say the numerous charges against her and her allies are an attempt to legitimize the military's seizure of power while eliminating her from politics before an election it has promised for 2023. (dunyanews.tv)
  • After the progressive anti-junta Move Forward Party's electoral victory on 14 May 2023, tigers and crocodiles abound. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The protest movement has grown over the past two weeks, after the junta partially lifted the ban on political activities, and since a Constitutional Tribunal ruling that dissolved the former ruling Thai Rak Thai party, which was led by Thaksin, and banned 111 of the party's officials from politics for five years. (wikinews.org)
  • Last year, the ruling party's government made a minor amendment to the oath that the parliamentarians take, in which they swear their allegiance to the finality of the Prophethood. (razarumi.com)
  • The Lady, as she is often called in Myanmar, passed over many independent-minded, popular and media-friendly party members when selecting the NLD's parliamentary candidates last August, and has since ordered NLD cadres not to speak to the press about the party's transition plans. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The daughter of Aung San, Myanmar's founding father, Suu Kyi became a public figure in 1988 during a failed uprising against a previous military government when she helped found the National League for Democracy party. (wunc.org)
  • In March, Myanmar's junta-stacked election commission announced the NLD would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a new military-drafted electoral law. (bcfausa.org)
  • Some are in exile while others have taken refuge in border areas controlled by ethnic armed groups long opposed to Myanmar's central government. (aljazeera.com)
  • The U.N., after its special envoy Noeleen Heyzer met in August with Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, announced the head of Myanmar's military-installed government, that he "expressed openness to arranging a meeting at the right time" between her and Suu Kyi. (dunyanews.tv)
  • On 19 September 2006, he became the de facto head of government of Thailand after overthrowing the elected government in a coup d'état. (wikipedia.org)
  • As late as May 2006, Sonthi publicly denied the need for a military coup: Whenever soldiers get involved in politics, it seems that the nation's problems begin to escalate and become worse. (wikipedia.org)
  • Guinea's status declined from Partly Free to Not Free because military commanders seized power in a coup, removing President Alpha Condé and dissolving the legislature. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Guinea experienced a transition to civilian rule in 2010, following a 2008 military coup and decades of authoritarian governance. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Military officers launched another coup in September 2021, suspending the constitution and detaining the president. (freedomhouse.org)
  • In September, the civilian government was overthrown in a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the head of the special forces. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The parliament was dissolved following the September 2021 military coup. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The score decreased from 1 to 0 due to the dissolution of the National Assembly following the military coup. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Even if there were any legitimate concerns or complaints about corruption by any member of an elected government, a coup and enforced military rule are certainly not the way to pursue such concerns. (wunc.org)
  • Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 military coup, has been moved from prison to a government building, an official from her party said Friday. (bcfausa.org)
  • The military has cited alleged widespread voter fraud during elections in November 2020 as a reason for its coup, which sparked huge protests and a bloody crackdown. (bcfausa.org)
  • Both Turkey and Greece had originally agreed to respect the island's independence and territorial integrity, but as tensions flared in the 1960s and early 1970s, the military junta in Athens backed an attempted coup by Greek-Cypriots in 1974, triggering an invasion of North Cyprus by Turkish troops. (time.com)
  • A failed attempt at a military coup to overtake President Perez in 1992, ended Chavez in prison for two years. (slideserve.com)
  • Although focused on the present, Queer in Translation picks up in 1980 when chief of the general staff Kenan Evren replaced the democratically elected government in Ankara in a coup d'état, establishing a military junta that would rule the country for three years until a conservative constitution restored limited democracy. (thebaffler.com)
  • But when the coup came, Carmona was handpicked by the plotters to head a government established in violation of the Constitution. (thenation.com)
  • In 2004, the country experienced a coup d'etat and the ruling party was overthrown in a bloodless coup. (vacation-thailand.com)
  • The military, or Tatmadaw, has sought to control the country in the wake of the February 1 coup, which triggered mass protests and a civil disobedience movement. (aljazeera.com)
  • Under the 2017 Constitution , which was designed by the 2014 coup group to ensure its continued control in determining the country's leadership, both the 500-seat House of Representatives and the 250-seat junta-appointed Senate vote for prime minister - meaning that Pita must assemble an overwhelming 376 votes. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Instead, Prayut became Prime Minister after the junta-appointed ECT allocated party list seats away from large parties to a series of small parties that supported the coup-maker. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Only eight months after Aristide took office, he was ousted from Haiti in a bloody coup d ' etat led by disgruntled military leaders and police forces. (encyclopedia.com)
  • A whole host of NGOs have fallen over themselves to promote human rights, even as the United Nations briefly administered the country and oversaw its first democratic election, so why is the country's politics still so authoritarian and corrupt, and its human rights record so abysmal? (the-american-interest.com)
  • BANGKOK (BLOOMBERG) - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn issued a rare rebuke of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra about a week after an inconclusive national election, making it more likely that a pro-military party would form a government. (straitstimes.com)
  • Provisional results show the Thaksin-linked Pheu Thai party emerged with the most seats after the general election on March 24, which followed almost five years of military rule. (straitstimes.com)
  • He or his allies have won the most seats in every election held since 2001, only to be unseated from government by coups or the courts. (straitstimes.com)
  • The shape of the next government may not emerge for many weeks, following a messy election dogged by opposition claims of rigging and incompetent administration. (straitstimes.com)
  • The King, who serves as head of state and is traditionally considered above politics, has been vocal around the election. (straitstimes.com)
  • When the army allowed an election in 2015, her party won a landslide victory and she became the de facto head of state. (wunc.org)
  • Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won a landslide victory in the 2020 general election, but lawmakers were not allowed to take their seats when the army seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, arresting Suu Kyi and many senior colleagues in her party and government. (wunc.org)
  • In an election where many party lists include former members of Mubarak regime , the FJP boasts strong anti-regime bona fides. (salon.com)
  • The polls will see high-ranking ministers members of parliament and government officials vying for the position of mayor in the country's 201 communes or president of the 31 regional councils in the second electoral test of the newly realigned and merged political parties since the re-election of President Alassane Dramane Ouattara 81 in October 2020 (AC Vol 61 No 20 Ouattara leads in a perilous poll). (africa-confidential.com)
  • The CCC has said it will boycott parliamentary business until the 15 are reinstated, widening the post-election political cracks. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • The 77-year-old Suu Kyi has also been convicted of several other offenses, including illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies, violating coronavirus restrictions, breaching the country's official secrets act, sedition and election fraud. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Despite winning the largest share of parliamentary seats and initially announcing a coalition in the 2019 election , the Pheu Thai party was unable to form a government. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The Nigerian Constitution, for example, directly forbids a legislator whose election was sponsored by a political party from becoming a member of another party unless there is a division, conflict in his previous party or there is a merger or dissolution or factionalisation therein. (independent.ng)
  • NLD officials later came to believe that the specter of such trials had been decisive in persuading junta officials not to recognize the election results, despite significant domestic and international pressure. (nationalinterest.org)
  • When the military did not get its way, it ignored the May election results and jailed many of its opponents. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Today, the question is whether the constitutional arrangements (which the military drew up in the years since it ignored the 1990 election results) should be adjusted to better reflect the landslide victory that the NLD won in November, and whether to roll back or further extend some of the prerogatives that document bestows upon the military. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Yet whatever its nastiness, or its inconsistencies, or the foreign opposition it faces, the military junta is unflinching in its determination to remake Greek society along authoritarian lines, and to form, in the words of Brigadier Stylianos Patakos, Minister of Interior in the ruling triumvirate, "a new Christian society in which man will approach near-perfection. (nybooks.com)
  • Created by President Ronald Reagan and Congress in 1983, NED was designed to run a parallel foreign policy for the United States, backing and assisting entities that Washington might not be able to officially endorse-say, an opposition party challenging a government with which the United States maintained diplomatic relations. (thenation.com)
  • As elections continue over the coming months, it is unclear how smoothly the Brotherhood can transition from an opposition movement to a political party with a (growing) popular mandate. (salon.com)
  • Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa said the lawmakers' removal was part of an attempt by the ruling ZANU-PF party "to silence us. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi denied government or ruling party collusion in the removal of the opposition lawmakers and said others would lose their positions if they missed 21 consecutive Parliament sittings. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • Media outlets, the usual defence analysts who claim to be the voice of the establishment and opposition parties jumped on the bandwagon to use the opportune moment to their advantage. (razarumi.com)
  • The military government has repeatedly denied all requests to meet with her, including from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which seeks to help mediate an end to the crisis in Myanmar that some United Nations experts have characterized as a civil war because of the armed opposition to military rule. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , have documented widespread human rights abuses under el-Sisi's regime, including repression against civil society groups, activists, and political opposition. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • During les années sombres , the "somber years" of forcible disappearances and farcical mass political trials, large numbers of people representing various political persuasions served long prison sentences for voicing opposition to the regime. (merip.org)
  • The junta vowed to preside over a return to civilian rule but did not immediately set a date for elections. (freedomhouse.org)
  • BANGKOK - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her. (wunc.org)
  • BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption Friday, sentencing her to seven years in prison in the last of a string of criminal cases against her, a legal official said. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Anti-junta demonstrations in Bangkok reached their largest point yet on Saturday night, when between 10,000 and 15,000 protesters marched from Sanam Luang to the Royal Thai Army headquarters to call for the resignation of Council for National Security chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin . (wikinews.org)
  • Pheu Thai says it has built an alliance of anti-junta parties that would have a majority in the lower house of Parliament. (straitstimes.com)
  • In an unrelated statement on Sunday (March 31), Pheu Thai said the anti-junta coalition had twice as many votes as the pro-military camp, showing the country doesn't want the current junta chief and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to stay in power. (straitstimes.com)
  • The generals who seized power and the shadow government of overthrown elected officials are jostling for UN credentials. (aljazeera.com)
  • The National Unity Government, meanwhile, formed out of the remnants of Aung San Suu Kyi's overthrown administration in exile or hiding, has also made little headway in its attempt to regain control of the country. (aljazeera.com)
  • But it could have been anywhere in this wounded land which overnight was transformed from a parliamentary democracy into a military dictatorship. (nybooks.com)
  • For decades, Szekely Land inhabitants were treated as second-class citizens by Romania's communist dictatorship-they were barred from speaking Hungarian in public life, elections of Hungarian officials were invalidated, and cross-border communication was severely limited. (time.com)
  • Since that time period, a military dictatorship has ruled over the country. (vacation-thailand.com)
  • The process of the junta dictatorship shedding the tools it used to overthrow the government goes on. (antiwar.com)
  • Pheu Thai, the second-place party which nominated three candidates for prime minister, could potentially step in and lead the coalition, provided it does not run afoul of the ECT. (eurasiareview.com)
  • If Pita is unable to gather sufficient support, the prime ministership could fall into the hands of Pheu Thai - and Thai media has speculated that a Pheu Thai government may be willing to drop Move Forward from its coalition to secure senate support. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Canada Unity, which initiated the Convoy and whose leader co-heads its GoFundMe campaign, publicly calls for a putsch that would replace the democratically elected government with a junta. (wsws.org)
  • Niger's military leaders -- who overthrew the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 -- welcomed the announcement. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • The government has tolerated the protests, if only just barely. (wikinews.org)
  • Text messages were sent out by the junta to mobile-phone subscribers, asking them to stay away from the protests. (wikinews.org)
  • The takeover was met with large nonviolent protests nationwide, which security forces quashed with lethal force that has so far led to the deaths of almost 1,800 civilians, according to a watchdog group, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. (wunc.org)
  • Besides overt propaganda, the campaign is characterized by the use of forgeries, communist international fronts, communist parties, covert media placements and staging of demonstrations and protests. (cia.gov)
  • The Right Sector played a major role in the violent protests which installed the current interim government, but the group has continued to stir trouble in recent weeks, promising to take a violent revenge on the nation's Interior Minister over the death of one of their leaders, killed in a shoot-out with police. (antiwar.com)
  • The protest wave started in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where students, workers, small traders, intellectuals, political activists and others organised large-scale public protests in various cities. (marxist.com)
  • But Alassane Ouattara also telephoned Malian junta chief Colonel Assimi Goïta with an invitation to make an official visit - just the sort of recognition of legitimacy that Bamako had been angling for. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Malian political groups expressed outrage on Wednesday (Sep. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • A junta spokesman told AFP the meeting had lasted more than one hour but did not give details on what was discussed. (bcfausa.org)
  • New dates for the voting "will be communicated later," a government spokesman said. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • The spokesman also cited a dispute with French company Idemia, which the junta says is involved in the census process. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • In July 1990, weeks after Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy ( NLD ) won elections held at the end of May of that year, party spokesman Colonel Kyi Maung was asked whether the junta should be concerned that the NLD would take its revenge on the military brass once it came to power. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Ever since last April the Greeks have been under martial law: their parliament closed down, their Constitution suspended, and their political parties proscribed. (nybooks.com)
  • We must thank the Thai Rak Thai party for creating and implementing projects which benefit poor people, but at the same time we must accept the verdict of the Constitution Tribunal on dissolving this party because it had committed several political blunders," Surayud said in an address on television and radio. (wikinews.org)
  • In February, he denied an attempt by a Thaksin-linked party to name Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya as its candidate for prime minister, saying it was highly inappropriate and violated the spirit of the Constitution. (straitstimes.com)
  • Just over a month after he ascended to the throne, the military-appointed legislature approved changes to an interim national Constitution following suggestions from the king's office. (straitstimes.com)
  • The military junta suspended the 2020 constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and detained President Condé. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The 2008 Constitution and the general elections scheduled for 2010 will only perpetuate military rule and stagnation. (socialwatch.org)
  • Acting as Prime Minister he ordered the disarmament of the Resistance and backed the British military assault on tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators in Constitution Square in Athens killing and wounding hundreds of Greek freedom fighters. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Pinochet's 17-year rule was given a legal framework through a controversial 1980 plebiscite , which approved a new constitution drafted by a government-appointed commission. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 1995 Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Constitution is the backbone of all forms of devolutions from the federal to the lowest levels of governments practiced in Ethiopia today. (logov-rise.eu)
  • The Constitution under Article 1 officially establishes a federal state structure, where power is constitutionally dispersed between the federal and state governments (Articles 50, 51 and 52). (logov-rise.eu)
  • After affirming the division of power between the states and federal governments, the Constitution stresses the need for devolving adequate power to the lowest levels possible. (logov-rise.eu)
  • When one reads the interest of the Constitution to devolve adequate power to the lowest hierarchies of state administration (Article 50(4)) together with Article 39 that emphasizes on self-determination rights of every nation, nationality and people (NNP) in Ethiopia, it is pretty much clear that local governments will be established at grass-root levels taking into account the needs and preferences of the local community. (logov-rise.eu)
  • However, the role and status of local government in its strict sense - as the third sphere of government with their own powers and responsibilities - are not clearly delineated in the Constitution. (logov-rise.eu)
  • There are few references scattered here and there in the Constitution which can be invoked for their being in equal status with the other two spheres and as a 'separate third sphere of government' in the Ethiopian federation. (logov-rise.eu)
  • The most direct expression referring to local government in the Constitution could be Article 50(4) which reads as: '[s]tate government shall be established at state and other administrative levels that they find necessary. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Moreover, the powers and responsibilities to be given to these 'lowest units of governments' are not clearly specified in the Constitution. (logov-rise.eu)
  • One thing to be clear however is that the phrase 'adequate power shall be granted to the lowest units of government' suggests that the Constitution has given recognition to local government as the third sphere of government. (logov-rise.eu)
  • The discretion is given to state governments to grant adequate power to local government that they are required to establish by the national Constitution. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Generally, the Ethiopian way of devolving power to the local government under the Federal Constitution is vague and ambiguous. (logov-rise.eu)
  • First, the Constitution does not explicitly provide for the 'independent existence' of local governments having specified powers and functions. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Second, the Constitution mandated state governments only to devolve 'adequate power to the lowest levels administrative units' without mentioning what powers and functions to be devolved. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Put differently, the division of responsibilities among the three spheres of government is not specifically given in the Constitution. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Therefore, it can be said that local government under the FDRE Constitution has legal recognition but with no granting of explicit powers and functions which is left to each state. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Partly emanated from the ambiguity in the Federal Constitution itself and partly from the unwillingness of states to share their powers, all regional states created administrative agents rather than autonomous self-governing local governments at lower levels until 2001. (logov-rise.eu)
  • In 1990, the primary question was whether the winners would be seated as a constituent assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution while the military continued to rule, or as members of a parliament with the power to form a government. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Few people in Myanmar think that the military will seek to prevent a transfer of power along the lines prescribed in the constitution, a document they wrote to protect their interests even in the event of an NLD landslide like the one that occurred in November. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Was the current head of government or other chief national authority elected through free and fair elections? (freedomhouse.org)
  • Padania is notable for another reason too-the group long-pushing for Padania's break from Rome and the rest of Italy was a party called the Northern League… which recently rebranded itself as the "League" and stormed to second-place in Italian national elections. (time.com)
  • In 2001 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the former mayor of Istanbul, formed the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which went on to win the 2002 parliamentary elections. (thebaffler.com)
  • If the capitalist state and judiciary do not ban Golden Dawn it is quite likely to participate as a 'legitimate' party in May's municipal and euro-elections. (socialistalternative.org)
  • That changed between the two elections, when Kasidiaris in a live TV programme attacked two left-wing women MPs, Liana Kanelli (KKE - Communist Party) and Rena Dourou (Syriza). (socialistalternative.org)
  • It awarded a large grant to a student group linked to an outlawed extreme-right paramilitary outfit in France, helped finance the development of conservative parties in countries where democracy was doing just fine and played a heavy-handed role in Nicaragua's 1990 elections. (thenation.com)
  • Party denies plans for an "Islamist" government after gaining in first round of elections. (salon.com)
  • The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political arm of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is exceeding already high expectations in the first of Egypt's three-round parliamentary elections. (salon.com)
  • Although there has been an explosion of new political parties since the fall of Mubarak last spring, elections returns suggest these new parties still lag far behind the FJP in name recognition and organizational strength. (salon.com)
  • The Nour Party has done especially well outside of Cairo and quite a few of its candidates are headed towards runoff elections. (salon.com)
  • Between the Nour and the FJP, Islamic parties won a clear majority of seats in Egypt's first round of elections. (salon.com)
  • The issue has added to the political tension in the southern African nation since President Emmerson Mnangagwa won a second term and ZANU-PF retained its parliamentary majority in disputed elections in August. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • The backlash then was expected but it has been cynically exploited by the coalition of anti-Nawaz forces who think that chipping away of the Barelvi vote in Punjab's constituencies will reduce the total number of seats the ruling party may get in the forthcoming elections. (razarumi.com)
  • There's a Thai proverb - 'flee a tiger only to find a crocodile' - that describes a situation in Thai politics in the aftermath of this month's elections aptly. (eurasiareview.com)
  • On April 29 2010, six months before the first general elections in 20 years were held, the NLD gave their Shwegondaing Declaration to the military junta demanding that 1). (cloudfront.net)
  • The military junta ignored them and went ahead, and held elections. (cloudfront.net)
  • Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to a high-level venue compound on Monday night," an official from the National League for Democracy told AFP Friday on condition of anonymity. (bcfausa.org)
  • Confinement in the isolated capital is a far cry from the years Suu Kyi spent under house arrest during a previous junta, where she became a world-famous democracy figurehead. (bcfausa.org)
  • But many fighting for democracy have jettisoned her core principle of non-violence and taken up arms to try and permanently root out military dominance of the country's politics and economy. (bcfausa.org)
  • Using an $84,000 grant from the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-governmental foundation funded by Congress, Consorcio Justicia was supposed to bring together political parties, unions, business associations, religious groups and academicians to discuss "protecting fundamental political rights," as an NED document put it. (thenation.com)
  • It shows, though, how democracy-promotion can slip, perhaps unintentionally, toward supporting the opposite-especially in a highly polarized political environment like the one in Venezuela. (thenation.com)
  • But even if its programs have indeed enhanced democracy on occasion, NED overall has long been problematic, as it has handed taxpayer dollars to private groups (such as the two major parties) to finance their overseas initiatives and has conducted controversial programs that could be viewed abroad as actions of the US government. (thenation.com)
  • The unity government was formed in secret in mid-April by 20 elected legislators - primarily from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party. (aljazeera.com)
  • Such was the horror wreaked by the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) massacre squad on 3 June that the tentative steps towards dialogue this week between the pro-democracy protesters and the junta have been greeted with some relief but low expectations in Khartoum. (africa-confidential.com)
  • As is clear, the transformations taking place in Myanmar are due to consensus between both the leaderships of the government and the pro-democracy movement, the power of influence they wield, and strong leadership. (cloudfront.net)
  • The populist priest, known for his impassioned speeches and his activist role against Haiti ' s repressive government, was first elected president of the island nation in 1990, thereby becoming the first official elected by democratic process in Haiti in almost 200 years. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Haunted by the consequences of Kyi Maung's words, Aung San Suu Kyi has also exercised much tighter control over the party and its message than she did in 1990, when she was under house arrest. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Her party won a greater majority in the 2020 polls. (wunc.org)
  • Aung San Suu Kyi has exercised much tighter control over the party and its message. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Rather than keeping Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, the leaders of the military and outgoing government quickly acknowledged the legitimacy of the result, and have met Aung San Suu Kyi several times to discuss the transition. (nationalinterest.org)
  • For her part, Aung San Suu Kyi, rather than hinting at a 'Nuremberg in Rangoon,' has promised a "government of national reconciliation" that would include not just her allies in the ethnic parties, but also at least one member of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). (nationalinterest.org)
  • The next day, the party rebuked Nyan Win, stating that from here on out, Aung San Suu Kyi alone would speak for the party on the transition and matters of party policy. (nationalinterest.org)
  • 2. The decisive electoral defeat of the right-wing New Democratic Party in 1981. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • This did not affect Golden Dawn's electoral rise, and the party saw this as a green light. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Holding shares in a media company could violate electoral laws, which would mean Pita would be ineligible to hold political office. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Is it ideological, electoral strategy, constituency-influenced, conscientious responses to a given unacceptable situation or simply political harlotry or self-centered opportunism? (independent.ng)
  • Today, as twenty-five years ago, the military and the NLD find themselves negotiating the meaning of the latter's electoral victory and the nature of the military's ongoing role in politics. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Suu Kyi has only been seen once since she was held after the February 1, 2021 putsch - in grainy state media photos from a bare courtroom in the military-built capital Naypyitaw. (bcfausa.org)
  • The court's action leaves her with a total of 33 years to serve in prison after a series of politically tinged prosecutions since the army toppled her elected government in February 2021. (dunyanews.tv)
  • As a filial son, he inherited from his dictatorial father a broken brutal Stalinist system of governance with Korean juch'e-style specifics, which provided the original basis for his political power and legitimacy. (nautilus.org)
  • Since the passage of Objectives Resolution in 1949 - another attempt to appease the Mullahs and find political legitimacy and an anchor for nation building - every instrument using religion has divided this society. (razarumi.com)
  • When the parties went to court, the judge ignored the Singapore company's arguments and unjustifiably used its broad discretion under the law to rule in favour of the Government. (socialwatch.org)
  • Burma's development will only be fully realized once the judiciary is independent from the SPDC and all parties respect the rule of law. (socialwatch.org)
  • But with entrenched political groups of Sudan's ruling class seeking to secure their government positions and a diverse set of civil society actors anxious to provide input, but not to hold formal power, a credible civilian alternative to military rule does not yet exist. (csis.org)
  • The daughter of General Aung San, the founder of the Burmese army and the man credited with negotiating independence from British colonial rule, Suu Kyi's early life was scarred by his assassination at the hands of political rivals in 1947. (thediplomat.com)
  • In the minds of ordinary Burmese citizens - repressed for decades under the often comically incompetent rule of the military junta - she was the link between an era of great national pride and achievement and a future of promise. (thediplomat.com)
  • March 2011 witnessed the end of 23 years of rule by military government. (cloudfront.net)
  • Eight days after the death of King Hassan II on July 23, 1999, his son and heir Mohammed VI affirmed in his first throne speech a commitment to establish the rule of law, and to safeguard human rights, individual and collective liberties, a constitutional monarchy, a multi-party system, economic liberalism and policies of regionalism and decentralization. (merip.org)
  • From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them - abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. (project-syndicate.org)
  • In the decades since, Turkey's particular amalgamation of conservative Islam and neoliberalization, a formation Savcı denotes as "neoliberal Islam," flourished while support for traditional center-right, secular parties waned. (thebaffler.com)
  • Jean-Bertrand Aristide shaped Haitian politics since the early 1980s, as a priest, president, and exiled statesman. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Condé was initially held incommunicado by the junta, though he was sent to house arrest in November and remained there at year's end. (freedomhouse.org)
  • All political prisoners including the leaders of the NLD are unconditionally released, 2). (cloudfront.net)
  • A series of changes in the law during the 1990s serve as a thumbnail history of the treatment of political prisoners in Morocco. (merip.org)
  • In a much-quoted speech delivered July 8, 1994, King Hassan II promised "to turn the page definitively" and to resolve the pressing issue of political prisoners. (merip.org)
  • Nonetheless, in state security cases, the rubric under which political prisoners were tried, the garde-à-vue period remained 96 hours with possible extensions by the prosecutor. (merip.org)
  • The endowment-which devotes much of its budget to funding the foreign policy arms of the Democratic and Republican parties, the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO (its core grantees)-has been involved in both questionable and praiseworthy projects. (thenation.com)
  • The readiness of a substantial faction of the ruling class to instrumentalize the far right and employ fascist violence to achieve their political objectives marks an inflection point in the breakdown of Canada's bourgeois democratic order. (wsws.org)
  • Our purpose," she declared, "is to show that the entire people entertain the keenest desire for a multi-party democratic system of government. (thediplomat.com)
  • A new audio recording reveals how Rudy Giuliani pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden. (justsecurity.org)
  • A similar charge brought down Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit in 2019, who led the Future Forward party, Move Forward's predecessor. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In each of the three decisive moments of recent history, Greece has been pulled backwards from a chance for social transformation, political independence and freedom from external tutelage by one and another of the Papandreou family. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The majoritarian vote for the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK) together with the Communist Party controlled nearly two-thirds of Parliament. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • In a way, NED took public some of the covert political activity the CIA had previously mounted. (thenation.com)
  • Your nation will become the target of covert military operations, terrorism, political subversion, and economic sabotage, the very root of Venezuela's current malaise. (blogspot.com)
  • That claim is disputed by a pro-military party, Palang Pracharath, which says it will seek to form a coalition government after winning the most votes of any single party. (straitstimes.com)
  • It's now in an anti-establishment coalition government with the Euroskeptic Five Star Movement, where its strong anti-migration bent has Brussels on its heels. (time.com)
  • On 18 May, Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Move Forward and its sole prime ministerial candidate, announced an agreement between eight parties to form a coalition government encompassing 313 parliamentarians. (eurasiareview.com)
  • The junta, composed largely of politically unsophisticated provincials, has behaved in ways that are crude, nasty, and occasionally comic. (nybooks.com)
  • Some of the government properties were sold below market price to politically connected buyers, including Pinochet's son-in-law . (wikipedia.org)
  • The combined vote of the Socialist and Communist Parties was over 60% and provided a clear majority to legally transform the society and economy. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • To help its citizens achieve this near-perfection, the junta has imposed the most severe restrictions on political liberties this side of the Iron Curtain. (nybooks.com)
  • Yet describing Islam as merely a victim of western neo-imperialism flattens relationships within Muslim-majority countries and between their citizens and governments, while continuing to privilege western perspectives. (thebaffler.com)
  • The lawmakers from Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change party were removed Tuesday after a man claiming to be the secretary-general of the CCC sent a letter to Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda saying they were being withdrawn. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • Time well tell, but as long as the Swedish citizens and other European nationality, member of European right sectors guarding the parliament demanding the resignation of Ukrainian government, it won't happen. (antiwar.com)
  • If they do not listen and assault officials and destroy things then it may be necessary. (wikinews.org)
  • They are determined to push politics far to the right-to intensify the assault on the working class at home, through a quick pivot to "post-pandemic" austerity, and to give Canada an even more prominent and frontline role in the incendiary US military-strategic offensives against Russia and China. (wsws.org)
  • The judicial ouster of Nawaz Sharif in 2017 led to a multi-pronged assault on his party and politics. (razarumi.com)
  • Based on this trend up to 65 percent of Egypt's incoming parliament could be controlled by Islamists, according to Diaa Rashwan, the head of the Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies here in Cairo. (salon.com)
  • In addition to the corruption cases that Sharif and his family face, the religion card has also been brazenly used to undercut his support in the Punjab, heartland of Pakistan's largest province, and the region which will determine who forms the next elected government in the Centre. (razarumi.com)
  • Changed the official name of the country from the Republic of Venezuela to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, paying homage to the ideas of Bolivar in his overthrow of Spain, just as Chavez seeks to undermine the US. (slideserve.com)
  • Egypt's current president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has been in power since 2014, when he led the military overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • The Spanish high court is currently investigating a former Israeli defense minister and six other top Israeli officials for their role in the killing of civilians, mostly children, in Gaza. (rense.com)
  • Since being awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1991, her ongoing campaign against the Burmese military junta has rightfully become well known. (thediplomat.com)
  • Following the 2001 regional states' constitutional revisions, all the constitutions of the four major regions (Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region - SNNP and Tigray regional states) incorporated local governments as third sphere of government. (logov-rise.eu)
  • The party cancelled a planned rally in Bangkok featuring Ms Sudarat Keyuraphan, its candidate for prime minister, just a few hours after the King's statement was published. (straitstimes.com)
  • Corruption washed through our government," Surayud said. (wikinews.org)
  • Transparent, fair and accountable institutions are necessary for development, which cannot coexist with rampant human rights abuses, corruption and political oppression. (socialwatch.org)
  • As you may already know, a disk with the names of the Lagarde list was officially handed over to the Greek government for purposes of investigating corruption and tax evasion. (indexoncensorship.org)
  • It captures the way corruption functions in Greece-with, unfortunately, the support of the political system. (indexoncensorship.org)
  • But Mudenda, an official from ZANU-PF, still removed the lawmakers and declared their seats vacant. (samfordcrimson.com)
  • Win Myat Aye, at the center of the case, escaped arrest and is now Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management in the National Unity Government, established by the military's opponents as a parallel administration by elected legislators who were barred from taking their seats when the army seized power last year. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Their parties received much weaker support than expected, with only 36 and 40 seats respectively. (eurasiareview.com)
  • In lawsuits filed by dozens of states and local jurisdictions, public officials have argued that the companies, among other corporate defendants, flooded the country with billions of highly addictive pills and ignored signs they were being steered to people who abused them. (panix.com)
  • From the issuance of passports, ID cards to the oaths of public officials, there is an assumption that unless you declare otherwise you are a threat to the majoritarian religious beliefs. (razarumi.com)
  • Some observers saw this as a message to the Government that Sonthi was still firmly in charge of the Army. (wikipedia.org)
  • Firstly, most observers were unable to imagine that General Than Shwe would remove himself so smoothly from politics. (cloudfront.net)
  • Some political observers have suggested that he was so transfixed by his role as leader of the oppressed that he ignored political reality - the need to involve the legislature, the mercantile elite, and other constituencies in his crusade to redirect his embattled country. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In December 1974, the ruling military junta appointed Pinochet Supreme Head of the nation by joint decree, although without the support of one of the coup's instigators, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh . (wikipedia.org)
  • [12] After his rise to power, Pinochet persecuted leftists, socialists , and political critics, resulting in the executions of 1,200 to 3,200 people, [13] the internment of as many as 80,000 people , and the torture of tens of thousands . (wikipedia.org)
  • Organizers have vowed to continue the demonstrations until the junta gives up power. (wikinews.org)
  • They'll be successful in forming a government, but it will be difficult for them to maintain its power and last a full term. (straitstimes.com)
  • Her supporters and independent legal experts consider her prosecution an unjust move to discredit Suu Kyi and legitimize the military's seizure of power while keeping the 76-year-old elected leader from returning to an active role in politics. (wunc.org)
  • Subsequent to the demise of the military junta (1967-1974) the Greek Right came to power, retaining much of the old state apparatus and propping up a wealthy but dysfunctional ruling class living off monetary transfers from the EEC. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • And in the country where a government of the left is becoming more and more likely, as recent polls show, with Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) as a dominant power. (socialistalternative.org)
  • U.S. diplomats have urged civilian leaders to be prepared to receive power when and if the parties agree to cease hostilities and have welcomed a recent round of civilian-run talks in Addis Ababa as a way to coalesce seemingly disparate civilian interests. (csis.org)
  • With economic desperation and a deadly virus ravaging the population, neither the military, despite its de facto power, nor the parallel government, with its international influence, has managed to turn the tide of the pandemic or break the political deadlock. (aljazeera.com)
  • It appeared that he did not have a clear political vision and was strongly attached to his power. (cloudfront.net)
  • In 2011, there were also rumors that directly after the transfer of power, Than Shwe was pulling political strings in the background to manipulate the new administration through the "State Supreme Council. (cloudfront.net)
  • With a near total embargo imposed on Haiti by the United Nations and the mounting threat of international military intervention on Aristide ' s behalf, Aristide returned to power in 1994. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The phrase 'other administrative levels' may presuppose simple decentralization of power to Zones, woredas (districts) or kebeles (lowest levels of government administration in Ethiopia) by states for administrative convenience. (logov-rise.eu)
  • The constitutional requirement is that 'states must devolve power to local governments' but no mention of the kind of powers and functions to be devolved. (logov-rise.eu)
  • During those six months the ruling junta-a brigadier, two colonels, and a council of nine-has tightened its grip on the nation and ruthlessly moved to crush potential sources of resistance. (nybooks.com)
  • The military regime, through the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has been devastating Burma's population by means of rampant human rights abuses and pervasive criminality since 1988. (socialwatch.org)
  • The campaign is also accompanied by diplomatic efforts and official propaganda. (cia.gov)
  • The sad news is that those laws have not been able to completely eradicate the phenomenon of intra-party migration of elected officials due largely to the existence of numerous loopholes which politicians often exploit to the detriment of party discipline, political cohesion, ideological consistency, the best interests of their constituencies and obligatory loyalty to agreed principles. (independent.ng)
  • Military officers, accordingly, must step back from politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • The number two Capitol Police official, who oversees uniformed officers, has resigned. (justsecurity.org)
  • An example of this was the conflicts that existed between the field officers and those officers attached to the military intelligence. (cloudfront.net)
  • Friday's verdict in the purpose-built courtroom in the main prison on the outskirts of the capital, Naypyitaw, was made known by a legal official who insisted on anonymity for fear of being punished by the authorities. (dunyanews.tv)
  • The ECT will likely decide in the coming weeks whether to forward Pita's case to the conservative Constitutional Court, which could result in a conviction and ban from political office. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Almost all modern constitutions have provisions that are designed to prevent indiscriminate defections by elected officials from one platform to another, which often undermines the credibility of the party system as well as the constitutional scheme altogether. (independent.ng)
  • [3] In subsequent years, local governments have received sub-national constitutional recognition in all member states of the Ethiopian federation. (logov-rise.eu)
  • Christina reports on the response of the political establishment - and why the left and workers' movement must provide a genuine alternative. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Mr. Dagan's public and critical comments, at the age of 66 and after a long and widely admired career, have shaken the political establishment. (truthout.org)
  • Instead, the United Nations would administer the failed state as a transitional authority until a new, somehow genuinely defined Cambodian government could be put in place. (the-american-interest.com)
  • In late September, the junta released a transitional charter that specified the structure of the transitional government. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Later in September, the junta introduced a transitional charter, which established the CNRD-headed by Doumbouya-as a transitional governing body. (freedomhouse.org)
  • After seven months of fighting in Sudan, prospects for a clean end to the conflict and the restoration of a transitional government appear nonexistent. (csis.org)
  • Then, referring to the junta's powerful head of military intelligence, he added: "Of course, people [such as] Khin Nyunt might reasonably feel themselves pretty insecure. (nationalinterest.org)
  • O bservers of the Nigerian political scene must be wondering how easy it is for politicians that were elected under the platform of a particular political party to switch allegiance without qualms or shame. (independent.ng)
  • In addition to strong legal and judicial institutions, the country's economic health requires political institutions that provide access to information and accountability. (socialwatch.org)
  • If Ethiopians have a chance of overcoming their enormous economic and political problems, they must first make fundamental choices. (ethiopianreview.com)
  • This includes limited social change, political and economic pluralism, and updated ideas of Bolivar. (slideserve.com)
  • Part ethnography, part history, part entreaty for a new queer politics, it delves into contemporary Turkey to understand the place of modern queerness under an Islamist regime that has pursued economic neoliberalization. (thebaffler.com)
  • Savcı's basic contention is that Turkish queerness is intimately wrapped up in the political and economic changes that the country has experienced over the last forty years, and she suggests that we in the United States and Europe cannot hope to comprehend those changes without an on-the-ground appreciation of them. (thebaffler.com)
  • In those years, military leaders introduced a slew of neoliberal economic reforms with the support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. (thebaffler.com)
  • This synthesis, Savcı asserts, was a "social glue, a remedy to political rifts in the country," one designed to generate support for the junta and its economic policies. (thebaffler.com)
  • They have also failed to manage the economic disruption brought by the pandemic-induced lockdown measures, on top of the political turmoil. (aljazeera.com)
  • A series of corporate defaults, a recession in the real estate market, soaring unemployment and a rapid decline in people's consumption have debunked the ruling Communist Party of China (CCP) regime's fraudulent claims of a "strong economic recovery" in China. (marxist.com)
  • The capitalists of the region and beyond sense the coming economic crisis and accompanying political and social turmoil and are betting big on Singapore to be the safe harbour to ride out the storm. (marxist.com)
  • In rapid succession, the new government brought about political and economic reforms. (cloudfront.net)
  • Under the influence of the free market -oriented " Chicago Boys ", Pinochet's military government implemented economic liberalization following neoliberalism , including currency stabilization, removed tariff protections for local industry, banned trade unions, and privatized social security and hundreds of state-owned enterprises. (wikipedia.org)
  • While these figures were absurdly low, the CCDH memorandum implicitly confirmed official state recognition of the fact of forcible disappearance. (merip.org)
  • The use of socialism by two governments no more indicates an affiliation than would guns in the hands of two opposing armies on a battlefield. (blogspot.com)
  • Recently it has sentenced students to jail for twenty years for distributing anti-government handbills, imprisoned a housewife for criticizing the colonels over the telephone, and arrested a woman for listening to the music of the banned Communist composer, Mikis Theodorakis, on her home phonograph. (nybooks.com)
  • BACKGROUND The Soviets had been in touch with the Salvadoran Communist Party (PCES) for years. (cia.gov)
  • All this is happening in the country where the labour movement has organised 31 general strikes in the last three years against the savage austerity of the government and the troika (the EU, IMF and European Central Bank). (socialistalternative.org)
  • The military's attempts to remove him have so far been in vain, but this month Aung Thurein, who left the military this year after 26 years, was nominated by the regime's foreign minister Wunna Maung Lwin to replace Kyaw Moe Tun. (aljazeera.com)
  • The legal official said Suu Kyi received sentences of three years for each of four charges, to be served concurrently, and four years for the charge related to the helicopter purchase, for a total of seven years. (dunyanews.tv)
  • Yet, the subsequent positive approach of Thein Sein toward reconciliation and Aung San Suu Kyi's compromises after their first meeting in August 2011, led to a thaw in years of political confrontations in a remarkable short period of time. (cloudfront.net)
  • More government activity concerning human rights reforms in 1998 seemed to complement Morocco's newly elected 1997 government of alternance (rotation of prime ministers). (merip.org)
  • Surayud, the head of the military-installed government, yesterday appealed for acceptance of the Thai Rak Thai's dissolution by the public. (wikinews.org)
  • As Move Forward nominated only Pita for the prime minister's seat, this result could dash hopes that the party would be able to head the government. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Thus in May 1992 the recently installed civilian director of UNTAC, Yasushi Akashi, and the mission's Australian military commander, John Sandilands, arrived at an illegitimate Khmer Rouge check point (actually a bamboo pole wedged in a rock) manned by one young Khmer soldier in western Cambodia. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Since 1992, Than Shwe occupied the highest position in the military junta and was seen to be one of the few archetypal dictators of our time. (cloudfront.net)
  • At the time, Venezuela was undergoing severe political strife. (thenation.com)