• That's a contrast to the Maryland Republican Party's semi-annual convention this past weekend, where party stalwarts chose Nicole Beus Harris to serve as chair in a session that was held behind closed doors. (marylandmatters.org)
  • However, the appointment carries risks and could alienate the party's core supporters while failing to broaden its electoral appeal and improve the effectiveness of government decision making. (lse.ac.uk)
  • 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)
  • The Party's authority rests primarily on the Government's ability to maintain social stability, appeals to nationalism and patriotism, Party control of personnel, media, and the security apparatus, and the continued improvement in the living standards of most of the country's almost 1.3 billion citizens. (state.gov)
  • He was referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party's (PKK) position within the government-led peace process aimed at ending the three-decade long conflict between the PKK and the security forces of Turkey. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • But in 2020, the party's lawmakers joined fellow pan-democrats in a mass resignation from the Legislative Council, quitting in protest after China's top legislative body empowered the local government to unseat politicians without having to go through the city's courts. (scmp.com)
  • The literary critic and university lecturer helped draft a 2008 manifesto called Charter 08, calling for political reforms including the end of the Communist Party's monopoly on political power. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • A constitutional amendment from May introducing a state of emergency due to Russia's war against neighboring Ukraine granted the government the power to rule by decree through November, which was later extended until May 31, 2023. (state.gov)
  • August 18/19, 2023 - Information Clearing House - US Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in celebration of Pakistan s preparations for free and fair elections on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that the US pressured Pakistan to oust its popular democratically elected prime minister Imran Khan last year. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Republican Presidential candidate former, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie smiles during a gathering, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. Christie filed paperwork Tuesday formally launching his bid for the Republican nomination for president after casting himself as the only candidate willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump. (wane.com)
  • For many years in politics, decisions are made based on what side of the political party that the representatives are on. (change.org)
  • These two-week intensive study programs involve travel to at least two cities where delegates meet with senior government officials, representatives from political parties, industry executives, and community leaders. (jcie.org)
  • Popular trust in government, elected representatives and political parties has fallen to extremely low levels in the US. (minnpost.com)
  • By tapping a deep strain of political disaffection with the functioning of democracy, Mr. Trump became a beneficiary of the low esteem in which US voters hold their government, elected representatives and political parties, but he was not responsible for a problem that has had a long gestation. (minnpost.com)
  • As a Republican in a county which is home to only four elected officials from my party (two county council members and two state representatives), I am grateful for this opportunity and for the example it sets for those who want their elected leaders to rise above partisan politics. (seattletimes.com)
  • The public expects and deserves that their representatives put politics aside in order to work together to get the job done. (seattletimes.com)
  • He argued that although there is nothing wrong in defending Sweden's previous neutrality policy, it is not necessarily something that Swedish political representatives should brag about, as it implies that the countries that were occupied or fought against Germany ended up in that situation because they were not as 'skilled' as Sweden (Helmerson, 2022). (lu.se)
  • Staff and representatives of these human rights actors (organizations) face the risk of arrest and/or imprisonment for their overt criticism of government policies. (lu.se)
  • Don't take this as another attack on President Trump, but 2016 was a bad year for democracy in the world and a setback for the quality of democracy, even in the United States. (minnpost.com)
  • 2016 was the first year that the EIU rated the United States as enjoying anything less than "full democracy. (minnpost.com)
  • The US has been teetering on the brink of becoming a "flawed democracy" for several years, and even if there had been no presidential election in 2016, its score would have slipped below 8.00. (minnpost.com)
  • A similar trend of declining popular confidence in political elites and institutions has been evident in Europe over the past decade and helps to explain the outcome of the UK Brexit referendum in June 2016 as well as the growing ascendancy of populist movements across Europe. (minnpost.com)
  • Reflecting such concerns, the Democratic nominating process includes fewer caucuses this year than it did in 2016. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • And in 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign declared victory after 2:30 a.m., even though official counting was not completed until that afternoon. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • RWI's partnerships with academic institutions, state actors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have in the past four years changed in order to adapt to the circumstances following the state of emergency declared by the government in July 2016, and the shrinking civic space for human rights actors. (lu.se)
  • The Official Document System (ODS) is an online database of UN documents that was first launched in 1993 and updated in 2016. (lu.se)
  • From a democratic perspective, as Joana Mendes has pointed out, this question is of very high political relevance and "ought to place the legitimacy of the procedures followed for the adoption of these acts at the core of the discussion of the legitimacy of the Union" (2016, p. 238). (lu.se)
  • For the Minister to release it days before Christmas - after Parliament has risen - is cynical politics driven by his desire to minimise the significance of the step National is taking. (scoop.co.nz)
  • After the Parliament passes any law, the bill passes to the government. (orangesmile.com)
  • Trudeau revealed in Parliament on Sept. 18 that Canadian intelligence services were investigating possible ties between the Indian government and the fatal shooting of Nijjar in Surrey, B.C., outside of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara. (ctvnews.ca)
  • For the past three years, however, Hungary has been operating under consecutive states of emergency that allow the government to pass laws by edict, bypassing parliament, which elects the president (the head of state) every five years. (state.gov)
  • The president appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition in parliament following national elections every four years. (state.gov)
  • In parliamentary elections on April 3, the Fidesz-Christian Democratic People's Party alliance led by Fidesz party leader Viktor Orban won a two-thirds majority in parliament. (state.gov)
  • It comes at the half-way point in the four-year parliament ahead of a series of elections in the next three years: local government in autumn 2018, European Parliament in summer 2019, parliamentary in autumn 2019, culminating in the summer 2020 presidential poll. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In 2017, Fairfax reported that nearly half of all Liberal MPs in the federal parliament were former political staffers, party officials or government advisers. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • An Anglo-Irish Parliament was established by the English conquerors, who held most of the seats of power in the Parliament (government). (encyclopedia.com)
  • Kwame Nkrumah (1919-1972)-later to become the first leader of an independent Ghana-was general secretary of Joseph Boakye Danquah's United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), but in 1949 he broke away to establish the country's first mass political organization, the Convention People's Party (CPP). (jrank.org)
  • In negotiations over the shape of the new government the People's Party also presented it as an effort to prevent the communists from participating in the government, even if it meant supporting a minority Social Democratic cabinet (ČTK 15. (omp.org.pl)
  • Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chair Sezgin Tanrıkulu (inset) says the government should take 'concrete steps. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Concrete steps should be taken by the government through legislative and judicial arrangements in order to prevent failure in the stalled peace process, a senior executive of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has said. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • People's Party of Canada (PPC) Leader Maxime Bernier has gone from leading a small fringe group with tepid support to heading up a right-wing party that, according to the CBC Poll Tracker, could have the fourth-highest share of the vote on Sept. 20. (cbc.ca)
  • Featured Video The CBC's John Paul Tasker asks Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole what he thinks about former Fort McMurray-Cold Lake Conservative MP David Yurdiga, who is expected to endorse People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier and the local candidate in that riding. (cbc.ca)
  • Both the Maoists and UML had periods in unstable coalition governments, before teaming up last year to defeat the challenge of the main right-wing party, Nepali Congress. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Friday's attack on Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, is the most recent example of the country's increasing political violence. (latimes.com)
  • The authors make a powerful case that, even amid tight political control, transparency is altering China's government, with deep implications for the economic and political future. (brookings.edu)
  • Officials at all levels of Puerto Rico's government are facing corruption charges amid a massive federal crackdown. (reason.com)
  • It urged the government to distribute a new round of HK$12,000 (US$1,528) in shopping coupons to ease the financial strain amid the pandemic slump. (scmp.com)
  • The European Union has imposed sanctions on eight Nicaraguan officials, including Rosario Murillo, the country's vice president and wife of President Daniel Ortega, amid a crackdown on opposition leaders and presidential hopefuls in the Central American nation. (aljazeera.com)
  • The United States has also imposed sanctions and visa curbs on Nicaraguan officials amid the arrests, while the Organization of American States (OAS) urged Ortega's government to release all those detained and ensure that free and fair elections can be held. (aljazeera.com)
  • Amid the effects of the pandemic, indigenous protagonism has played a fundamental role in guaranteeing these peoples' rights and access to food, denouncing the absent and slow official responses as acts of institutional violence, which will have serious and lasting effects on the lives of indigenous peoples. (bvsalud.org)
  • His 2000 election victory as leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ended almost two decades of Jerry John Rawlings' rule and was hailed by various commentators as pivotal to the country's transition to democracy and as such was seen as a historic moment for the African nation. (jrank.org)
  • As Tuesday morning wore on without results from Iowa's Democratic caucuses, the long-awaited first test of the strength of President Donald Trump's would-be challengers, both public officials and enraged commentators stoked fears that Iowa was a harbinger of chaos for the rest of the 2020 campaign. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Some commentators and party leaders argued that the best way to increase the coherence and transparency of government decision making was for Kaczyński himself to take over as prime minister. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Many political commentators today bemoan the level of our national discourse. (au.org)
  • The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe election observation mission found that the elections "were well-administered and professionally managed but marred by the absence of a level playing field" and concluded that a "pervasive overlap between the ruling coalition and the government blurred the line between the state and party. (state.gov)
  • With the midterm elections days away, the president delivers a warning about political violence and the future of American democracy. (latimes.com)
  • US Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in celebration of Pakistan s preparations for free and fair elections on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that the US pressured Pakistan to oust its popular democratically elected prime minister Imran Khan last year. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill, whose office will oversee the state's primary in April, said, "The Iowa caucus is an excellent reminder of why important elections should be run by trained, skilled and experienced state and local election administrators, not political parties. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Even before the elections, KDU-ČSL chairman Cyril Svoboda said that his party preferred a government that would be "a majority government, but with a shared program. (omp.org.pl)
  • The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre, which formed a new coalition government after winning elections late last year, now plan to unify the two parties. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Four months after announcing their decision to jointly contest the December elections - which started the merger process - the two Communist parties decided that the new party will be called the Communist Party of Nepal, UML Secretary Pradeep Gyawali told EFE. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The 2008 elections to the constituent assembly were won by the Maoists, paving the way for the official abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic. (greenleft.org.au)
  • adoption of the government budget , declarations of war and peace, defining national boundaries, calling referendums and elections, appointments and relief of officers, supervising the Government of Croatia and other holders of public powers responsible to the Sabor, and granting of amnesties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following the collapse of the ruling Communist League , Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 - which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia - and organised its first multi-party elections. (wikipedia.org)
  • But he faces an uphill battle to the nomination in a party that remains closely aligned with the former president, despite Trump's reelection loss in 2020 and Republicans' poorer-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections. (wane.com)
  • The two earliest landmarks in political party history was most likely that of the first free and fair Nepal elections which were held in 1991 and that of all Nepalese citizens of 18 years and older becoming eligible to vote in the elections. (nepal.com)
  • The political use of the judicial system, the exclusion of candidates from the elections and the arbitrary delisting of opposition parties are contrary to basic democratic principles and constitute a serious violation of the rights of the Nicaraguan people. (aljazeera.com)
  • Since early June, Ortega's government has overseen a wave of arrests of opposition figures and presidential hopefuls ahead of elections in November. (aljazeera.com)
  • The 2022 US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange Program was held virtually, allowing the 31st Japanese delegation to explore US-Japanese relations and build global relationships. (jcie.org)
  • After getting a briefing from Saif Ratul, who led the Democrats' coordinated campaign in the state, the committee members will elect party officers to serve from 2022 to 2026. (marylandmatters.org)
  • This comment by the Swedish Social Democratic EU MEP Heléne Fritzon sparked much controversy on social media and was met with heavy criticism from some of her political opponents (Jakob Hanke Vela & Lynch, 2022). (lu.se)
  • Fritzon's quote is taken from a debate that took place in May 2019 but did not go viral until January 2022 in light of the increased tensions between the West and Russia, which had put Sweden's relationship with NATO at the top of the political agenda. (lu.se)
  • O n 1 July 2018, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won Mexico's presidency with 53 percent of the popular vote-a landslide total in a four-candidate race and about 20 percentage points higher than he had polled in two prior runs for the nonrenewable six-year term. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Mexico began 2018 with one of Latin America's most stable party systems, but the continuation of that stability is now in doubt. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Since he came to power in April 2018, Abiy has attempted to bring ethno-nationalists to the political centre. (thisisafrica.me)
  • In July, Wintemute's research team queried Americans on political violence, race and threats to democracy and found that, among the more than 8,600 surveyed, 51% believe there'll be a civil war in the next several years. (latimes.com)
  • Such glaring hypocrisy is standard for US secretaries of state, because their job entails continually using concepts like democracy and human rights not as values that they wish to promote, but as political cudgels to be used against their enemies. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Paying lip service to democracy and human rights is just one of the ways they manufacture the illusion of moral authority while diplomatically undermining the governments they don t like. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit has been measuring changes in the quantity and quality of the global quotient of democracy over recent years. (minnpost.com)
  • So, you see, it isn't that big of a change, but one that had been coming for several years and just enough to drop the U.S. from the "full democracy" ranks. (minnpost.com)
  • A healthy democracy requires a high level of popular confidence in the institutions of government and politics. (minnpost.com)
  • Popular confidence in government and political parties is a vital component of the concept of democracy embodied by the Democracy Index model. (minnpost.com)
  • Growing popular disaffection with the key institutions of representative democracy has been a factor in the democratic regression of recent years and in the rise of insurgent, populist, anti-mainstream parties and politicians in Europe and North America. (minnpost.com)
  • The government is still not able to realize that there is a problem of democracy, and failing to take the required steps. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • While the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is playing a central role, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies and pro-Kurdish politicians have also been involved in the process assumed to have begun as of 2012 autumn. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Drawing on public dissatisfaction over chronic poverty and inequality, slow economic growth, rapidly escalating violent crime, and a parade of corruption scandals, AMLO's antisystem rhetoric led voters to question the nature of political power in Mexico's new democracy. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • In recent weeks, several human rights organisations - such as Black Lives Matter, American Muslims for Democracy, and Hindus for Human Rights - led a campaign to raise awareness among elected officials in New Jersey about the dangers of Islamophobic Hindu supremacism. (dawn.com)
  • There are both formal procedures through laws, rules, regulations, as wel as deliberate political actions and security measures that undermine human rights work, and block and curtail a vibrant democracy. (lu.se)
  • Getting them to face that is the challenge, particularly in an election year. (hubpages.com)
  • Party officials have less training and experience in administering the vote than do state and local election administrators who oversee most of the primaries. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Even though we have concerns about the capacity of election officials, at least this is what they do a lot of," said Charles Stewart, who runs MIT's election data and science lab. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Poland's ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party has taken a huge political gamble replacing incumbent prime minister Beata Szydło, who had held the post since it won the autumn 2015 parliamentary election, with finance minister Mateusz Morawiecki. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Hong Kong's biggest opposition party may mount a comeback bid in next year's election for the district councils, its former stronghold before nearly all of the members who helped manage neighbourhood affairs quit when Beijing required they pledge an oath of allegiance. (scmp.com)
  • Certain liberal NGOs have joined the DA in condemning the protests claiming that they are violent and motivated by political party agendas. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • NGOs have been known for their role in gap filling for the government. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between the government and NGOs is an indispensable to help in reaching a higher level of health care provision and accessibility. (who.int)
  • This study aims at determining the factors affecting the relation between the government and NGOs working in the health sectors in Palestine for better health sector performance. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between governments and NGOs is indispensable to help improve health care provision increase accessibility to health services and achieve UHC. (who.int)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • They don't have any official political positions as an organization. (libcom.org)
  • That's to say, the organization is prepared for any probable conflict, while there is no signal indicating that it will take the path to the political arena from the armed struggle," CHP Deputy Chair Sezgin Tanrıkulu told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Existing studies on "modifiers" in SCCT constrain their scopes within the organizational domain and overlook the impacts of contextual factors beyond organization, such as society, politics, and culture. (lu.se)
  • US delegations, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, include state and local elected officials, federal and state officials, party officers, and Congressional staff. (jcie.org)
  • Unfortunately, the report doesn't name specific officers and government officials responsible. (motherjones.com)
  • This has led to the killing of local administrative officials, mayors of towns, and government security officers. (thisisafrica.me)
  • Less well known is that China's leaders have also implemented far‐reaching governance reforms designed to promote government transparency and increase public participation in official policymaking. (brookings.edu)
  • This puzzle lies at the heart of Chinese politics and could dictate China's political trajectory for years to come. (brookings.edu)
  • Although China invited two foreign doctors, from Germany and the U.S., to help treat Liu, Beijing has dismissed calls by foreign governments for Liu to be treated overseas, calling it meddling in China's internal affairs. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Sondland has donated heavily to Republican political candidates, but he has also crossed party lines, serving in 2002 on the transition team for Oregon Democratic Gov.-elect Ted Kulongoski. (latimes.com)
  • There were also many more candidates this year, further multiplying the amount of information to be reported. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • And Jewish Canadians, over the years, have determined that involvement and participation in the political process whether as candidates, supporters, canvassers, voters, or lobbyists is the most effective means of guaranteeing both individual and communal well-being, which have as basic foundations equality and acceptance. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • After winning candidates from other parties decided to join MORENA's caucus, his coalition controls 313 seats in the 500-member Chamber of Deputies and 70 seats in the 128-member Senate. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The party decided against fielding candidates in the Legislative Council poll last year, arguing an electoral overhaul by Beijing mandating that only "patriots" hold power was a thinly disguised attempt to quash critical voices. (scmp.com)
  • Republican leaders who surely know better accommodate the "Big Lie" because they're scared of Donald Trump's political hold on his worshippers. (latimes.com)
  • Politicians from Puerto Rico's two major political parties, the PNP and the Popular Democratic Party (PPD), have caucused nationally with both Democrats and Republicans. (reason.com)
  • Australians are disconnected from politics, but that doesn't necessarily mean they differ from politicians in their policy preferences. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The public and their politicians are on the same side here - paeans of praise to the US alliance are boilerplate for politicians from both major parties, and the Lowy Poll has consistently showed that this reflects public preferences. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • And it shows that one of the few ways people feel able to challenge the new authoritarianism is by pursuing the politics of misbehaviour , by letting out a sort of juvenile screech of rage rather than forcing politicians to rethink and retreat. (spiked-online.com)
  • Today's unheroic, ideology-shy politicians leave their mark on society, not by making a profound political speech or by founding an eponymous 'ism', but by passing reams and reams of pernickety, petty and frequently bossy laws. (spiked-online.com)
  • Five years later, those hands sit even more ominously at 100 seconds to midnight (as they have since 2020), closer than they've ever been since that magazine established its clock in 1947. (tomdispatch.com)
  • through the Depression 1930s which saw the assumption of power by the Nazis in Germany, the growth and activities of pro-Nazi organizations in Canada, including Winnipeg, and the increasing concern of provincial and federal governments about incipient revolution, which placed many political organizations and individuals, including Jews, under official suspicion. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • When carrying out its functions, the WHO FCTC Secretariat cooperates with the relevant departments of WHO, other competent international organizations and bodies, as well as non-governmental organizations accredited as observers to the Conference of the Parties (COP), the governing body of the Convention. (who.int)
  • Civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and academicians experience a range of different government measures that put legal constraints on human rights work. (lu.se)
  • The contextual factors beyond organizations, the political, cultural, economic factors in this case, function as modifiers that altered the attribution generated by basic crisis types. (lu.se)
  • So far it seems they've managed to repel any overtures from the current parliamentary opposition (small right-wing parties), which is good. (libcom.org)
  • The politics of Croatia are defined by a parliamentary , representative democratic republic framework, where the Prime Minister of Croatia is the head of government in a multi-party system . (wikipedia.org)
  • The governments usually dissolve through internal collapse or through parliamentary dissolution by the monarch. (nepal.com)
  • Japanese delegations consist of prefectural and local officials, assistants to Diet members, and policy staff from the governing and opposition parties. (jcie.org)
  • What do the policies Poilievre's party passed say about the Conservatives' future? (ctvnews.ca)
  • Unlike authoritarian clampdowns in the past, the behaviour-policing measures of both New Labour and the 'new Conservatives' are not attempts to impose a clear political will on a disobedient populace - they're about creating the illusion of political will where none exists. (spiked-online.com)
  • I remind Canadians, if you're tired of a Liberal government that's constantly in scandal, corrupt at its core with Mr. Trudeau's constant ethics investigations, there's one team and one leader that can replace him - Canada's Conservatives,' O'Toole finally said when pressed. (cbc.ca)
  • The dynamics of party interaction, the form of coalition governments, and developments within the political parties was co-determined in some aspects by the topic of European integration, even though in the long run the clearly dominant cleavage in Czech politics has been the socio-economically defined conflict between the right and the left. (omp.org.pl)
  • Throughout his entire career, David has established a reputation for working effectively with public officials from both major political parties, as well as the career civil servants who really make government work. (natlawreview.com)
  • As a rule, the leader of the ruling party or the leader of the coalition party becomes the new Prime Minister of the Antilles. (orangesmile.com)
  • Two groups in the Canadian Sikh diaspora are calling for Canada's political parties to 'present a united front' on India after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 'potential link' between the shooting death of a local leader and the Indian government. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The federal government's fiscal update presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Tuesday includes billions of dollars in new spending and targeted policy measures aimed at increasing Canada's housing supply in the years ahead. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The Canadian government is doubling the pollution price rebate rural top-up rate, and implementing a three-year pause to the federal carbon price on deliveries of heating oil in all jurisdictions where the federal fuel charge is in effect, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada will be making a $650 million 'multi-year commitment' for further Ukraine aid. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are separating after 18 years of marriage, and while they plan to co-parent their children, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau will no longer be considered the prime minister's spouse in any official capacity. (ctvnews.ca)
  • A leaked document reports that State Department official Donald Lu issued blatant threats to Pakistan s ambassador to the United States that it will be tough going ahead for Pakistan if Khan wasn t ousted but all will be forgiven if he was, saying the US and its European allies didn t like the prime minister s aggressively neutral position on the Ukraine war. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Obviously if you ve got officials from the world s most powerful, violent and destructive government telling your country it will be tough going ahead if its prime minister is not removed from power but all will be forgiven if he is, that s brazen interference in the democratic processes of that nation. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Keizo Obuchi (former prime minister), Koichi Kato (former defense minister and secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party), and Morihiro Hosokawa (former prime minister). (jcie.org)
  • states that by appointing a respected former banker as prime minister, Poland's ruling party is hoping to re-focus the government's priorities on to economic development, and improve the country's international standing. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Vlada ), the main executive power of Croatia, is headed by the prime minister, who has four deputy prime ministers who serve also as government ministers. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oromia, one of the regions in Ethiopia's ethnically constituted federation and the country's most populated one, also happens to be the political constituency of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (thisisafrica.me)
  • Head of government is the Prime Minister who exercises executive power. (nepal.com)
  • This was explained in stark detail in a leaked 2017 State Department memo in which warmongering swamp monster Brian Hook was seen explaining how the US government views human rights to then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson a newcomer to the DC underworld at the time. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • His running mate is 27-year-old Berenice Quezada, the 2017 Miss Nicaragua. (aljazeera.com)
  • the meaning "priestly or religious body wielding political and civil power" was first recorded in 1825. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thanks to a fairly rational distribution of power and relative freedom within each island, the Antilles have been able to refrain from various political discontents over the past few decades. (orangesmile.com)
  • It was the first time that Ghana-the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957-witnessed one elected government hand the reins of power to another through the means of the ballot box. (jrank.org)
  • For three years, from 1967 to 1969, Kufuor was also chief legal officer and city manager of Kumasi, a position that, according to his biographer Ivor Agyeman-Duah, exposed him to the practical realities and power politics of public policy. (jrank.org)
  • Just how far will a political party go to be or remain in power? (hubpages.com)
  • We have two major political parties that would seem to stop at nothing to get or keep power. (hubpages.com)
  • Moreover, Szydło was also loyal to the ruling party, knowing the limits of her power and never attempting to use the premiership to challenge Kaczyński's authority. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The existence of an influential power centre outside of the government also meant that the Law and Justice leader was constantly being called upon to resolve personnel and policy disputes, lengthening the decision making process and delaying the implementation of government projects. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In a city obsessed with parochial political power, many people care only about two things where Rostenkowski is concerned: he's from Chicago and he carries clout. (chicagoreader.com)
  • Executive power is exercised by the Government and the President of Croatia . (wikipedia.org)
  • The People's Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power. (state.gov)
  • In its first 10 years in power, from 1997 to the end of 2006, New Labour legislated more than any other government in British history: it created more than 3,000 new crimes (almost one new crime a day! (spiked-online.com)
  • Citing political and religious differences, King Henry broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church , whose seat of power was in Rome. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. (seattletimes.com)
  • China today is far more confident of itself and its power relative to other countries, and analysts believe President Xi Jinping would be hard-pressed to see any benefit to releasing even the most celebrated dissident, especially in a year when a leadership transition is scheduled. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Since regaining power in 2014, the Swedish Social Democratic party has pushed a security policy line combining increased spending on the Swedish armed forces and deepened international cooperation while at the same time maintaining the policy of military non- alignment. (lu.se)
  • Drawing on previous research on the development of Swedish foreign and security policy, this study aims to contribute to our understanding of the self- image and ideas that have formed the ambiguous character of the security doctrine pushed by the Social Democratic Party since regaining power in 2014. (lu.se)
  • President Biden has defined MAGA Republicans as those who voted for Trump two years ago and - most importantly - deny that he lost legitimately. (latimes.com)
  • It seems that the U.S. decline had mostly to do with a continuing decline in the U.S. electorate's confidence in their government, their system and their elected officials, a decline that was in place before Trump stole the show. (minnpost.com)
  • MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wasted no time going after Donald Trump while launching his presidential campaign on Tuesday, calling the former president and current Republican primary front-runner a "lonely, self-consumed, self-serving mirror hog" and arguing that he's the only one who can stop him. (wane.com)
  • Now that Trump is running for the White House a third time, this year's crop of rivals have no choice but to criticize him relentlessly, or risk political history repeating itself, Christie says. (wane.com)
  • Christie enters a growing primary field that already includes Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. (wane.com)
  • JP Marzullo, a former state representative and former vice chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, previously backed Trump but is now supporting Christie. (wane.com)
  • He said several major policies implemented by the populist government of Thaksin would continue, including a low-cost medical scheme. (wikinews.org)
  • Protests in the form of marches, the burning of tyres, and road blockades, have been happening every week throughout the City for years. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The government has tolerated the protests, if only just barely. (wikinews.org)
  • Riding on the momentum of the anti-government protests in 2019, the camp won control of 17 district councils that year. (scmp.com)
  • U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin addresses the crowd at a Democratic party rally attended by President Joe Biden in Rockville. (marylandmatters.org)
  • What is the leadership of the Maryland Democratic Party going to look like under the first Democratic governor in eight years? (marylandmatters.org)
  • The Iowa Democratic Party ran the caucuses, much as its counterparts in Nevada, Wyoming and several territories will do in the next few months. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • In retrospect, Iowa's Democratic Party made one mistake after another. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • These are probably the most prepared we've ever been as a party for these caucuses," Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price told CBS on Monday morning, while shrugging off concerns about the possibility of technical problems. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Then we will focus on the changing attitudes of the Civic Democratic Party towards European integration, and finally we will look at the fall of the government that occurred in the spring of 2009, during the Czech Republic's presidency of the European Union. (omp.org.pl)
  • Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei on Wednesday said members would "go ahead" with campaigning provided the government did not change the current system under which all seats were directly elected. (scmp.com)
  • The Democratic Party has seen its influence shrink in recent years, along with the opposition camp. (scmp.com)
  • Each island is a separate federation with local self-government. (orangesmile.com)
  • In December, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas , alleging that the maps drawn by a Republican-controlled Legislature and GOP Gov. Greg Abbott disenfranchise Latino voters. (ijpr.org)
  • AMLO's calls for change resonated with voters frustrated by chronic poverty and inequality, rising violence, and corruption, and his win has called into question the stability of Mexico's party system. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Parties with roots in the dominant-party era may see their support wither as chronically displeased voters (like those in other countries that experienced party-system breakdown) turn to personalistic outsiders, engage in serial protest voting against incumbents, or turn away from electoral politics to voice their discontent outside current institutions. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • To help heal the social divide, the party also urged Lee to exercise his powers and pardon young people arrested or convicted because of their roles in the 2019 social unrest. (scmp.com)
  • While the country's major polling firms can't agree on just how much support the PPC enjoys, it's clear that the party is much more of a force now than it was in the 2019 campaign. (cbc.ca)
  • Kufuor's first ministerial appointment was in Busia's Progress Party government, from 1969 to 1972, in which he served as deputy foreign minister under Victor Owusu, another old-time visitor to his family home. (jrank.org)
  • Szydło will remain in government as one of Morawiecki's deputies responsible for social policy but without an official ministerial portfolio. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The following month Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote, and he now sits in prison , officially barred from politics for five years. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • He died in a prison hospital five years later. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • In 1995, five years after walking out of prison and one year after being elected the nation's first Black president, Mandela formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate apartheid-related crimes. (history.com)
  • It may be distasteful to some, but there is no escaping the need for political elites. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is unlikely to survive MORENA's rise, and the rightist National Action Party (PAN) faces deep internal rifts after a bruising nomination battle. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • Remarkably similar to the way it has looked for the past few years - at least at the top. (marylandmatters.org)
  • And to think, most of us grew up proudly believing that one great thing about America was that we settled our political disputes at the ballot box - not with bombs or guns or a hammer. (latimes.com)
  • David J. McQuade's extensive expertise in state and federal legislative procedure has served private and public interests for more than 35 years. (natlawreview.com)
  • The prominent progressive had just left a July 26 committee meeting on the Puerto Rico Status Act, a legislative compromise negotiated by the territory's nonvoting House member, Rep. Jenniffer González-Colón of the New Progressive Party (PNP). (reason.com)
  • It is the government who will break through this situation through legislative moves and it is the judiciary as well by making gestures. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • There is a critical role for government to play in the energy transition space, particularly in setting up the operating environment and legislative framework to provide confidence to private sector investors. (voxy.co.nz)
  • Josue Franco, an assistant professor of political science at Cuyamaca College in San Diego, said the amount of public comment (more than 36,000 entries) as well as the failure of the petition, likely warded off more lawsuits. (ijpr.org)
  • However, attempts to achieve far-reaching social change were frustrated by powerful forces and political instability. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Ever since then, the Nepal governmental arrangements have tended towards instability and no government has lasted for more than two years. (nepal.com)
  • With the support of the Political Instability Task Force, the Polity IV Project has been transformed into a living data collection effort, meaning that it constantly monitors regime changes in all major countries and provides annual assessments of regime authority characteristics, changes and data updates. (lu.se)
  • While the government took some steps to identify, investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who committed human rights abuses, action against high-level, politically connected corruption was limited. (state.gov)
  • Corruption washed through our government," Surayud said. (wikinews.org)
  • The Global Corruption Barometer debuted in 2003 and since that year has surveyed the experiences of everyday life of people confronting corruption around the world. (lu.se)
  • The biggest tragedy of our political system is that people now view it like a football game where you root for your team and put down the other team. (hubpages.com)
  • If you have faith in a system that rewards opinion with money and truth with distain then welcome to the seedy underbelly of our political prrocess. (hubpages.com)
  • What else could you expect from the capitalization of the political system we operate. (hubpages.com)
  • In our current political system, a person with good intentions and no corporate backers doesn't get elected. (hubpages.com)
  • Party officials didn't hire enough people to take reports by phone in case the system failed. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Among the topics taken up in the context of the mutual interrelationship between European integration and domestic politics have been the political changes in the party system, in work such as that of Peter Mair, Marco Steenberge, Gary Marks, Simon Hix, and Leonard Ray. (omp.org.pl)
  • In the Czech and Slovak environment the problem of European integration and the party system has been studied by Lubomír Kopeček, Vít Hloušek, and Marek Rybář. (omp.org.pl)
  • The situation in the Czech Republic has been very inspirational for studying the political party system in relation to European integration. (omp.org.pl)
  • Citizens lack both the freedom peacefully to express organized opposition to the Party-led political system and the right to change their national leaders or form of Government. (state.gov)
  • London's transport system is relatively safe: last year, there was one assault for every 449,690 commuters on the London Underground, compared with one for every 222,360 commuters on Perth Railways in Australia (where many Brits migrate when they've had enough of allegedly crime-ridden, grime-stained London). (spiked-online.com)
  • It is thus most probable that MORENA's ascent augurs a recomposition of the party system rather than a process of partisan dealignment. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The two parties that spear-headed democratization and gave structure to Mexico's party system also now find themselves in trouble. (journalofdemocracy.org)
  • The work of restoring faith in our political system starts at the local level, the government which is closest to the people. (seattletimes.com)
  • The old monarchy has given way to a republic that features a multi-party system . (nepal.com)
  • To heal the wounds this time, Mandela-who had himself been jailed for 27 years for challenging the white minority-led apartheid system-had to first acknowledge and address the widespread pain and division apartheid had wrought. (history.com)
  • While racial segregation had been long practiced in South Africa, the official system of apartheid emerged in 1948, after the political ascendance of the Afrikaner National Party. (history.com)
  • The possibility for stakeholders, as well as other interested parties and citizens, to participate in the law-making process is a vital part of any democratic system. (lu.se)
  • Despite National's rhetoric last year, it is in sound financial shape and operates with lower costs and levies than overseas schemes. (scoop.co.nz)
  • An article published by The Intercept last week titled Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan revealed evidence that the US State Department which Blinken heads had placed pressure on the Pakistani government to remove Khan from office in March of last year. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • But that's not terribly surprising: last year, Roman Catholic bishop Juan Jose Gerardi issued a report on wartime atrocities that did just that. (motherjones.com)
  • Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs, or in which human leaders who follow a certain religion are thought of as the ideal and only class of ruler. (wikipedia.org)
  • She brought a sense of calm and stability to the turbulent political scene and, on more than one occasion, used her formidable communication skills to rescue the government's image and reputation. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Christie noted that he'd known Biden for decades and that he was a nice guy, but said that the president is "out of his depth" because "he's not the guy he used to be," referencing the 80-year-old Biden's advanced age. (wane.com)
  • While the Chabahar project could enhance Iran-India political and economic engagement, there are potent obstacles in the way. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The resolution also called on India to protect the rights and freedoms of religious minorities and asked the US government to include the matter as part of the bilateral strategic dialogue. (dawn.com)
  • For example, in both India and China, with two economies that increasingly depend on globalization, we see a strengthening of nationalism, understood here as the cultural politics that has the nation as its subject and its object . (lu.se)
  • A related phenomenon is a secular government co-existing with a state religion or delegating some aspects of civil law to religious communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1929, through the Lateran Treaty signed with the Italian Government, the new state of Vatican City was formally created and recognised as an independent state. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is expert in local, state and federal government administrative functions and has extensive experience in advocacy before public interest and community groups. (natlawreview.com)
  • His extensive contacts throughout state and local government (and politics) are without equal. (natlawreview.com)
  • The authenticity of the document has been begrudgingly confirmed by Pakistani officials opposed to Khan, yet prior to its publication by The Intercept the US State Department had denied what was revealed by its contents on multiple occasions . (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Last month State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said unequivocally that the United States does not have a position on one political candidate or party versus another in Pakistan or any other country, which is plainly contradicted by the revelations in the document. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Earlier this month the State Department put out another doozy on Twitter (or whatever we re calling it now), quoting Blinken saying Governments that violate human rights are almost always the same ones that flout other key parts of that order such as invading, coercing, and threatening other countries, or breaking trade rules. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Since we know this is the established orthodoxy in the US State Department, it s no wonder that secretaries of state are always speaking in ways that run directly counter to the actions of their own government. (informationclearinghouse.info)
  • Once in office, Kulongoski appointed him to head the Oregon Film board, where he served for 13 years, cultivating Hollywood connections to attract film and television productions to the state. (latimes.com)
  • The state party will hold its biannual meeting of the Democratic State Central Committees from all 24 jurisdictions on Saturday morning at the headquarters of the International Brother of Electrical Workers Local 26 in Lanham. (marylandmatters.org)
  • This year, the brand-new technology, lack of training and overconfidence by the state party amounted to a perfect storm. (wallstreetwindow.com)
  • Predsjednik/ica Republike ) is the head of state and the commander in chief of the Croatian Armed Forces and is directly elected to serve a five-year term. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although state-owned industry remains dominant in key sectors, the Government has privatized many small and medium state-owned enterprises (SOE's) and allowed private entrepreneurs increasing scope for economic activity. (state.gov)
  • In the industrial sector, continued downsizing in state-owned enterprises prompted 2 million layoffs in the first half of the year, bringing the total number of jobless urban residents to over 20 million in an urban workforce of about 240 million. (state.gov)
  • His father, Sheikh Abdullah, the founder of State political party of J&K - 'Jammu & Kashmir National Conference', was one of the most prominent political figures of the State. (allgov.com)
  • As divisiveness and hyper-partisanship appear to dominate the political environment at both the national and state level, local government leaders from every political persuasion must make a purposeful effort to demonstrate and model what good governance looks like. (seattletimes.com)
  • As a 24-year-old elected official, my experience during my first term as the youngest council member in Snohomish County's history gives me great hope for what we can accomplish together in the future of our local communities, state and nation. (seattletimes.com)
  • But a few years later, China began releasing political prisoners, often to smooth over visits by Western heads of state that might otherwise have been tense. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • This rhetoric seemed somewhat surprising, as the state sees itself as the principal custodian of Islam in the archipelago, and as the government neither had any intention nor any legal ground to change that. (lu.se)
  • Even the new constitution of 2008, which was the outcome of a four-year-long democratic reform process, clearly states that the state religion is Islam and only Muslims can acquire Maldivian citizenship. (lu.se)
  • Political actors in Ghana readily locate themselves in relation to these two traditions. (jrank.org)
  • The fact that the two most important 19th century secular ideologies that still dominate our contemporary world, namely communism and liberalism, pose as trans-or inter-national modes of political practice shows that nationalism is always to be understood in relation to "the other" and "to the world. (lu.se)
  • Experts on Puerto Rican politics believe statehood nevertheless would prevail in a referendum, given the movement's growth during the last three decades. (reason.com)
  • The infrastructure sector requires more certainty of pipeline, not just for a couple of years, but for the decades ahead. (voxy.co.nz)
  • And it is terribly important for it to be the government that leads the Czech Republic into the EU " (author's emphasis). (omp.org.pl)
  • The term was initially coined by Flavius Josephus in the first century AD to describe the characteristic government of the Jews. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, according to Josephus, the government of the Jews was unique. (wikipedia.org)
  • Janus's thesis has a great deal of merit when applied to the relationship between Jews and politics in Canada and the Jewish community in Winnipeg in particular. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • Although we are all wary of easy analogies with American examples, an observation by Stephen D. Isaacs in his study on Jews and American Politics is nonetheless instructive. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • Jews in politics are striving for a 'just society. (mhs.mb.ca)
  • A centuries-old monarchy was overthrown in 2006 by a combination of a decade-long "people's war" waged by the Maoists and a mass uprising by an alliance of parties, including the UML. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Various members of the public where elected by the people to work with numerous officials chosen by the monarchy - thus ensuring that the wishes of both parties were met. (nepal.com)
  • In 1973, JCIE and the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) jointly launched the US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange Program, an annual bilateral exchange program designed to expose young leaders of each country to the politics and policymaking processes of the other country and to enhance their understanding of US-Japan relations. (jcie.org)
  • The official gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate through the third quarter of the year was just over 8 percent--a decrease from the double-digit growth rates of the early 1990's, but slightly above the 1999 figure. (state.gov)
  • CONCLUSION: The analysis demonstrates that while technical evidence is important, political strategy is necessary for elevating health on trade agendas. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sometimes, as in the recent road blockades organised by activists in the Sweet Home settlement, political party members are also involved in the mobilisation. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • This is why rank and file ANC members protest against the DA in Cape Town and against their own party throughout the rest of the country. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Created as part of the 1996 peace accord that ended Guatemala's civil war, the Commission and its 272 staff members interviewed combatants on both sides of the conflict, gathered news reports and eyewitness accounts from across the country, and extensively examined declassified U.S. government documents. (motherjones.com)
  • Our politics is dominated by two big parties, yet the public doesn't care about political parties at all (in 2006, only one per cent of Australians were members of a political party) . (lowyinstitute.org)
  • At the national and regional levels, Party members hold almost all top government, police, and military positions. (state.gov)
  • The government has raised the prospect of appointing members to the seats, a practice that was phased out nearly a decade ago in favour of choosing district councillors by popular vote. (scmp.com)
  • Today, current Executive Dave Somers champions an open and transparent budget process that includes council members of both parties, who have come together to adopt balanced budgets while limiting the tax burden on residents. (seattletimes.com)
  • Composed of community and social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and community members affected by hazardous waste sites. (cdc.gov)
  • In a country that has been ravaged by the politics of ethno-nationalism, most occurrences are interpreted along ethnic lines. (thisisafrica.me)
  • This paper examines this tension by discusses the largely taken for granted notion of Maldivian Muslim nationalism, while focussing on the religious-nationalist rhetoric surrounding the controversial transfer of government in 2012. (lu.se)
  • With regard to its South Asian neighbours, the significance of the Maldivian case is that the conjuncture of religion and nationalism is hardly challenged, but rather evoked, played out and reinforced in the political realm. (lu.se)
  • The plan to create a new, united Communist Party of Nepal will bring together most of the Communists in a nation with a long and powerful left tradition, the EFE news agency said on February 20. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The Conservative party is no longer a conservative party,' Craig Mostat, an-ex Conservative supporter of the PPC from Edmonton, told CBC News. (cbc.ca)
  • Running in a Left Front alliance, the two communist parties won 174 seats in the 275-seat legislature (with UML taking 131 seats and the Maoist Centre 53). (greenleft.org.au)
  • There are the key political parties and their affiliates in the youth leagues, civic organisations, ward committees and development forums. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • These organisations, while they may have some popular support in protesting communities, generally are only present when the media arrives so that they can score political points by vilifying the opposition. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • City leader John Lee Ka-chiu, who took over in July, has said the government will review the past "failures" of the 18 district councils and propose reforms before next year's poll, with the aim of making them "efficient" organisations. (scmp.com)
  • Hindu nationalist organisations have infiltrated all levels of politics and were highly effective in blocking US House Resolution 417 which was a congressional attempt to warn against the Hindu nationalist movement," TDMC said. (dawn.com)
  • However, as he grew closer to Jawaharlal Nehru, his politics grew more secular. (allgov.com)
  • The commissioners struggled at times to reach consensus, and their mapping was critiqued nearly every step of the way by some experts, advocates, elected officials and the public. (ijpr.org)
  • The official language is also recognized as Dutch, although English, Spanish, and also the local ancient dialect, the Papiamento, are quite widespread. (orangesmile.com)
  • In fact, with the government retaining widespread support and Szydło Poland's second most popular politician (after Law and Justice-backed President Andrzej Duda), she appeared to be a strong asset for the ruling party. (lse.ac.uk)
  • I analyse the role and development of photography and documentary film in Chinese society and its political constraints. (lu.se)
  • This report was commissioned more than a year ago and has been with Ministers for six months. (scoop.co.nz)
  • However, from the outset Szydło was surrounded by powerful ministers whom she only had a limited say in appointing, and Kaczyński grew frustrated at her inability to tackle conflicts between various government factions. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Over the years, the US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange Program has helped create personal networks among leaders from both countries. (jcie.org)
  • A tour through this year's Lowy Institute Poll to see where the public differs from political leaders. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Let's take a quick tour through this year's Lowy Institute Poll, and specifically the parts of it related to national security, to see where the public does and does not differ from their political leaders. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Following Hundessa's death, the government arrested powerful activist Oromo Jawar Mohammed and other political leaders. (thisisafrica.me)
  • The G7 countries are the world's economic and political leaders. (bvsalud.org)