News from March 2019
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is ruled by its only constitutionally legitimate party, the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP). The most recent National Assembly election held in 2016 was not free and fair. The LPRP selected all candidates, and voting is mandatory for all citizens. Following the election the National Assembly approved Thongloun Sisoulith to be the new prime minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Ryan Shevin Smith, age 39, of Princess Anne, Maryland, for brandishing a firearm during and in furtherance of a crime of violence, specifically, the robbery of an armored vehicle in Salisbury, Maryland on Jan. 22, 2018. Smith had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit the robbery and to participating in the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Ryan Shevin Smith, age 39, of Princess Anne, Maryland, for brandishing a firearm during and in furtherance of a crime of violence, specifically, the robbery of an armored vehicle in Salisbury, Maryland on Jan. 22, 2018. Smith had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit the robbery and to participating in the robbery.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Uganda is a constitutional republic led since 1986 by President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. In 2016 voters re-elected Museveni to a fifth five-year term and returned an NRM majority to the unicameral parliament. The elections fell short of international standards...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Indonesia is a multiparty democracy. In 2014 voters elected Joko Widodo as president. Domestic and international observers judged the 2014 legislative and presidential elections free and fair. Domestic and international observers judged local elections in June for regional executives to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Malawi is a multiparty democracy. Constitutional power is shared between the president and the 193 National Assembly members. International observers characterized the 2014 elections for president, parliament, and local councils as free, transparent, and credible.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: South Sudan is a republic operating under the terms of a peace agreement signed in August 2015 and renewed in September. President Salva Kiir Mayardit, whose authority derives from his 2010 election as president of what was then the semiautonomous region of Southern Sudan within the Republic of Sudan,...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Peru is a constitutional, multiparty republic. Pursuant to the constitution, in March First Vice President Martin Vizcarra assumed the presidency following the resignation of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Kuczynski, leader of the Peruanos Por el Kambio (Peruvians for Change) party, had won the 2016 national elections in a vote widely considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Japan has a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy. Shinzo Abe, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, became prime minister in 2012. Lower House elections in October 2017, which Prime Minister Abe’s party won with a large majority, were considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Bangladesh’s constitution provides for a parliamentary form of government, but in fact, most power resides in the Office of the Prime Minister. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party won a third consecutive five-year term in an improbably lopsided December parliamentary election that...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Poland is a republic with a multiparty democracy. The bicameral parliament consists of an upper house, the senate (Senat), and a lower house (Sejm). The president and the Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister share executive power. Observers considered the October 21 nationwide regional and local elections free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: The Republic of San Marino is a multiparty democracy. The popularly elected, unicameral Great and General Council (parliament) selects two of its members to serve as captains regent (co-heads of state). They preside over meetings of the council and the Congress of State (cabinet), which has no more than 10 other members (secretaries of state), selected by the council. Observers considered the parliamentary elections in 2016 to be generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Hungary is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. The unicameral National Assembly (parliament) exercises legislative authority. It elects the president (the head of state) every five years. The president appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition in parliament following national elections...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary government. Under the constitution, the king is head of state but does not actively participate in political activities. The prime minister is head of government and has executive authority. In March 2017 former prime minister Pakalitha...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Portugal, which includes the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, is a constitutional semipresidential representative democracy with a president, prime minister, and parliament elected in multiparty elections. Observers considered presidential elections in 2016 and local government elections in 2017 free and fair.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey report for data year 2017. The survey provides relevant and timely estimates of all nonfarm business expenditures during the year for new and used structures and equipment. Expenditures also include capitalized leasehold improvements...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Ethiopia is a federal republic. The ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controls the government. In the 2015 general elections, the EPRDF and affiliated parties won all 547 House of People’s Representatives (HPR - parliament)...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: In 2018, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument earned fourth place among the top ten national parks in annual visitation. The combined totals of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (4,219,441) and Rainbow Bridge National Monument (110,904) was 4,330,345. That visitation was higher than other well-known national parks such as Zion (4,320,033), Yellowstone (4,115,000) and Yosemite (4,009,436).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Swiss Confederation is a constitutional republic with a federal structure. Legislative authority resides in a bicameral parliament (Federal Assembly) consisting of the 46-member Council of States and the 200-member National Council. Federal elections in 2015 were considered free and fair. Parliament elects the executive leadership (the seven-member Federal Council) every four years, and did so in 2015. A four-party coalition made up the Federal Council.
