News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Azerbaijani constitution provides for a republic with a presidential form of government. Legislative authority is vested in the Milli Mejlis (National Assembly). The presidency is the predominant branch of government, exceeding the judiciary and legislature. The election observation mission of the ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Somalia is a federal parliamentary republic. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo," following his election by a joint vote of the two houses of parliament in February 2017, led the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), formed in 2012. Members of the two houses of parliament were selected through...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Paresh Patel, a Former Manager at the MTA Responsible for Oversight of Subway Repair Contracts Following Superstorm Sandy, Deleted Emails and Persuaded Witnesses to Lie.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Argentina is a federal constitutional republic. On Oct. 27, Alberto Fernandez was elected president in elections that local and international observers considered generally free and fair. On the same day, the country also held municipal, provincial, and federal elections. Voters elected governors...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Richard De La Cruz (55, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to making false statements relating to health care matters in connection with writing opioid prescriptions. De La Cruz faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Colombia is a constitutional, multiparty republic. Presidential and legislative elections were held in 2018. In June 2018, voters elected Ivan Duque Marquez president in a second round of elections that observers considered free and fair and the most peaceful in decades.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The House of Representatives today passed by unanimous consent the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020 (H.R. 4334), bipartisan legislation that helps provide social and nutrition services to older Americans. The legislation now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Liberia is a constitutional republic with a bicameral national assembly and a democratically elected government. The country held presidential and legislative elections in 2017, and legislative by-elections in 2018, which domestic and international observers deemed generally free and fair. Vacancies...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair multiparty federal election held on Oct. 21, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won a plurality of seats in the federal parliament and formed a minority government.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Republic of Burundi is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected government. The 2018 constitution, promulgated in June, provides for an executive branch that reports to the president, a bicameral parliament, and an independent judiciary. In 2015 voters re-elected President Pierre Nkurunziza...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national, previously convicted of kidnapping and murder in the 1990’s in California, pleaded guilty today and was sentenced in federal court in Boston with illegal reentry.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President Isaias Afwerki. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by the president, is the sole political party. There have been no national-level elections since an independence referendum in 1993.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Kiribati is a constitutional multiparty republic. The president exercises executive authority. Following legislative elections, the House of Assembly nominates at least three and no more than four presidential candidates from among its members, and the public then elects the president for a four-year...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Samoa is a constitutional parliamentary democracy that incorporates traditional practices into its governmental system. Although the unicameral parliament is elected by universal suffrage, only matai (heads of extended families) may be members. In 2016 voters elected a new parliament, confirming Prime...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In February citizens re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a second four-year term. Most independent observers agreed the election outcome was credible despite logistical challenges, localized violence, and some irregularities.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 Assembly elections held on October 20 were considered free ...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led a governing coalition that included four smaller parties. In 2017 voters elected President Paul Kagame to a third seven-year term with a reported 99 percent of the vote and a reported 98...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Italian Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The constitution vests executive authority in the Council of Ministers, headed by a prime minister whose official title is president of the Council of Ministers.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature. In March 2018 the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) presidential candidate, Julius Maada Bio, won the presidential elections. Bio defeated Samura Kamara of the All People’s Congress (APC)...
