News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Cooperative Republic of Guyana is a multiparty democracy. National and regional elections took place in 2015, and the APNU+AFC coalition parties won both the presidency and a majority of representational seats. The largest APNU+AFC components were A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)-itself a...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy. Citizens chose their representatives in a free and fair multiparty election held most recently in September 2017. The Labour Party formed a coalition government with the New Zealand First Party, with Green Party support. Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern serves as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Ireland is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a directly elected president, an executive branch headed by a prime minister, and a bicameral parliament. The country held free and fair parliamentary elections in 2016 and a presidential election in 2018.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Republic of Maldives is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In September 2018 voters elected Ibrahim Mohamed Solih president. Observers considered the election mostly free and fair despite a flawed pre-election process, which was overseen by the former administration. Parliamentary elections held on April 6 were well administered and transparent according to local and international observers.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Ireland is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a directly elected president, an executive branch headed by a prime minister, and a bicameral parliament. The country held free and fair parliamentary elections in 2016 and a presidential election in 2018.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The United Republic of Tanzania is a multiparty republic consisting of the mainland region and the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago, whose main islands are Unguja (Zanzibar Island) and Pemba. The union is headed by a president, who is also the head of government. Its unicameral legislative body is...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a centralized constitutional republic. Voters popularly elect the president and the lower house of parliament (National Assembly). Following a two-year delay, presidential, legislative, and provincial elections were held on Dec. 30, 2018; however, presidential...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliamentary government. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won all 125 National Assembly seats in the July 2018 national election, having banned the main opposition party in 2017. Prior to the victory, Prime Minister Hun Sen had already served...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Guinea is a constitutional democratic republic in the early stages of democracy after decades of authoritarian rule. In 2015 President Alpha Conde won re-election with 58 percent of the vote. The election was generally regarded as free and fair. Legislative elections, last held in 2013 and scheduled...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Poland is a republic with a multiparty democracy. The bicameral parliament consists of an upper house (Senate) and a lower house (Sejm). The president and the Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister share executive power. In the parliamentary elections held on Oct. 13, the ruling Law and ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Gabon is a republic with a presidential form of government dominated by the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) and headed by President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has held power since 1967. Bongo Ondimba was declared winner of the 2016 presidential election. Observers noted numerous irregularities...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Union of the Comoros is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country consists of three islands-Grande Comore (also called Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuani), and Moheli (Mwali)-and claims a fourth, Mayotte (Maore), that France administers. In March presidential elections occurred following the passage...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Shawn Bacon, 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady to 720 months in prison, followed by a term of supervised release of 10 years announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 29-year-old Laguna Heights man has been ordered to federal prison for possessing more than 500 images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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. Under the constitution that came into force after December 2018,...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Chad is a centralized republic in which the executive branch dominates the legislature and judiciary. In 2016 President Idriss Deby Itno, leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), was elected to a fifth term in an election that was neither free nor fair. During the 2011 legislative elections,...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. The country has endured prolonged political gridlock punctuated by periods of turmoil. Aristides Gomes is the seventh prime minister since 2015. In March the country held legislative elections, which included all 102 seats in the National Assembly. Presidential...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Guatemala is a multiparty constitutional republic. In 2016 James Ernesto Morales Cabrera of the National Convergence Front party was sworn into office for a four-year term as president. On Aug. 11, Alejandro Giammattei was elected president for a four-year term set to begin on Jan. 14, 2020. International observers considered the presidential election held in 2019 as generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today led debate in the House of Representatives on legislation to stop the Trump Administration from plunging us into war with Iran. The House voted to approve the measure making it clear that Congress has authorized no such military action and the President is prohibited from attacking Iran without congressional authorization. The resolution will now head to the President’s desk.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 ...
