News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Nicaragua is a multiparty constitutional republic, but actions by the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party resulted in de facto concentration of power in a single party, with an authoritarian executive branch exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, and electoral...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Armenia’s constitution provides for a republic with an elected head of state and a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly. According to a constitutional referendum conducted in December 2015, the country is expected to transition gradually to a parliamentary republic by the end of the existing ...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Togo is a republic governed by President Faure Gnassingbe, whom voters re-elected in April 2015 in a process international observers characterized as generally free and fair. In 2013 the ruling UNIR (Unity) party won 62 of 91 seats in the National Assembly. International and national observers monitoring the election declared it generally free, fair, transparent, and peaceful, although there were logistical shortcomings.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident was sentenced in federal court to 5 years’ probation with one year of home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is a constitutional democracy governed by a president and a unicameral legislature. Observers considered parliamentary general elections during the year and presidential elections in 2012 free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Gerald Michael Ward, 31, of Panama City, was sentenced to 84 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release yesterday after pleading guilty on Dec. 15, 2016, to receipt and distribution of child pornography. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Germany is a constitutional democracy. Citizens choose their representatives periodically in free and fair multiparty elections. The lower chamber of the federal parliament (Bundestag) elects the head of the federal government, the chancellor. The second legislative chamber, the Federal Council (Bundesrat),...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Sudan is a republic with power concentrated in the hands of authoritarian President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his inner circle. The National Congress Party (NCP) maintained control of the government, continuing 27 years of near-absolute political authority. The country last held national elections (presidential...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Kingdom of Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with democratic, parliamentary rule. Queen Margrethe II is head of state. A prime minister, usually the leader of the majority party of a multiparty coalition, is head of government and presides over the cabinet, which is accountable to a unicameral...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Kyrgyz Republic has a parliamentary form of government designed to limit presidential power and enhance the role of parliament and the prime minister. On Dec. 11, a national referendum on constitutional reform was held in conjunction with municipal elections. An overwhelming majority (79.6 percent)...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Malawi is a multiparty democracy. Constitutional power is shared between the president and the 193 National Assembly members. The 2014 elections for president, parliament, and local councils were characterized by international observers as free, transparent, and credible.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Barbados is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. In the 2013 national elections, voters re-elected Prime Minister Freundel Stuart of the Democratic Labour Party. Observers considered the vote generally in accordance with international standards, despite allegations of small-scale vote buying.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Louis D. Lappen, Acting United States Attorney, announced the unsealing of a Forty-Two count indictment issued against Lawrence Jamieson, 57, of Malvern, PA, and John Brown, 25, of Norristown, PA. The pair was charged yesterday with enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct, manufacturing...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In 2015 citizens elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a four-year term in the first successful democratic transfer of power from a sitting president in the country’s history.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Nepal is a federal democratic republic. The political system is based on the constitution, which was promulgated in September 2015, replacing the Interim Constitution of Nepal 2063 (2007). The constitution establishes a framework for a prime minister as the chief executive, a bicameral parliament, and...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Cooperative Republic of Guyana is a multiparty democracy. National and regional elections were held in May 2015, and a coalition of parties named APNU+AFC won. The largest components of that coalition were the Alliance for Change (AFC) and the People’s National Congress/Reform, which constituted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Palm Beach County resident Frank Earle Noyes III was sentenced today to 384 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, after previously pleading guilty to the production of child pornography, in violation of Title, United States Code, Section 2251(a)(e) and enticing a minor to engage in an illegal sexual activity, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Mark McLeod Wygant, 46, of Chico, today to 10 years in prison for transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Nicaragua is a multiparty constitutional republic, but actions by the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party resulted in de facto concentration of power in a single party, with an authoritarian executive branch exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, and electoral...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Sultanate of Oman is a hereditary monarchy ruled by Sultan Qaboos al-Said since 1970. The sultan has sole authority to enact laws through royal decree, although ministries and the bicameral Majlis Oman (parliament) can draft laws, and citizens may provide input through their elected representatives.
