News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Philippines is a multiparty, constitutional republic with a bicameral legislature. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, elected in May, began the first year of his constitutionally limited six-year term on June 30. The May presidential and 2013 midterm national elections were generally free and fair. The 2016 local elections were postponed until 2017.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Cuba is an authoritarian state led by Raul Castro, who is president of the Council of State and Council of Ministers, Communist Party (CP) first secretary, and commander in chief of security forces. The constitution recognizes the CP as the only legal party and the leading force of society and of the...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Norway is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy. The government consists of a prime minister, a cabinet, and a 169-seat parliament (Storting), which is elected every four years and may not be dissolved. The monarch generally appoints the leader of the majority party or majority coalition as prime minister with the approval of parliament. Observers considered the multiparty parliamentary elections in 2013 to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Uganda is a constitutional republic led since 1986 by President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. On Feb. 18, voters re-elected Museveni to a fifth five-year term and returned an NRM majority to the unicameral National Assembly. The elections fell short of international...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: India is a multiparty, federal, parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament. The president, elected by an electoral college, is the head of state, and the prime minister is the head of the government. Under the constitution, the 29 states and seven union territories have a high degree of autonomy...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Mozambique is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a freely elected republican form of government. The most recent national elections for president, parliament, and provincial assemblies took place in October 2014. Voters elected Filipe Nyusi of the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Zimbabwe is constitutionally a republic. President Robert Mugabe, his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, and its authoritarian security sector have dominated the country since independence in 1980. Presidential and parliamentary elections held in 2013 were free of the widespread...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has a constitutional monarchy and a democratic, parliamentary form of government with a popularly elected unicameral Chamber of Deputies (parliament). The prime minister is the leader of the dominant party or party coalition in parliament. In October 2013 the country held parliamentary elections that were considered free and fair.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Botswana has been a constitutional, multiparty republican democracy since independence in 1966. Its constitution provides for the indirect election of a president and the popular election of a National Assembly. In October 2014 the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won the majority of parliamentary...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a parliamentary democracy governed by a prime minister and a bicameral legislature. The island of Tobago’s House of Assembly has some administrative autonomy over local matters. In September 2015 elections, which observers considered generally free and fair, the opposition People’s National Movement, led by Keith Rowley, defeated the ruling People’s Partnership, led by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and the political transition was smooth.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Jose Cardenas Aguirre, 25, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 324 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2016 to one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Anthony Leroy Haygood (28, Sarasota) to six years and five months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Smith & Wesson revolver and six rounds of ammunition.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Azerbaijani constitution provides for a republic with a presidential form of government. Legislative authority is vested in the Milli Mejlis. The president dominated the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. On Sept. 26, constitutional amendments were approved that, inter...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The constitution provides for an executive branch that reports to the prime minister, a unicameral parliament, and a separate judiciary. The government is accountable to parliament. The president is the head of state and commander in chief. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) is an authoritarian state led by the Kim family for more than 60 years. Shortly after Kim Jong-il’s death in late 2011, his son Kim Jong Un was named marshal of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army. Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, the late Kim Il-sung, remains “eternal president." The most recent national elections, held in 2014, were neither free nor fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Venezuela is formally a multiparty, constitutional republic, but for more than a decade, political power has been concentrated in a single party with an increasingly authoritarian executive exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, citizen, and electoral branches of government. Nicolas...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Kosovo is a parliamentary democracy. The constitution and laws provide for an elected unicameral parliament, which in turn elects a president, whose choice of prime minister the parliament must approve. The country last held parliamentary elections in June 2014, which international observers considered...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAVIER CANIZALEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 39, from Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal use of a Social Security Number, in violation of 42 U.S.C. '408(a)(7)(B).
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Montenegro is a mixed parliamentary and presidential republic with a multiparty political system. Voters choose both the president and the unicameral parliament through popular elections. The president nominates, and parliament approves, the prime minister. In its October 17 preliminary report, the observation ...
