News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Republic of Lithuania is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority resides in a unicameral parliament (Seimas), and executive authority resides in the Office of the President. Observers evaluated the presidential elections and European Parliamentary elections in May 2019 and the national parliamentary elections on October 11 and October 25 as generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
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. The March 2019 presidential elections were not free and fair...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Mozambique is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a freely elected republican form of government. In October 2019 voters re-elected as president Filipe Jacinto Nyusi of the ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique Party with 73 percent of the vote in an election with many irregularities reported...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of committing theft as a postal employee, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Gambia’s constitution enumerates a full range of provisions and assurances for a multiparty democratic republic. In 2016 Adama Barrow, the consensus candidate of a coalition of seven opposition political parties, defeated incumbent president Yahya Jammeh in what international observers deemed a peaceful...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Bosnia and Herzegovina is a democratic republic with a bicameral parliament. Many governmental functions are the responsibility of two entities within the state, the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska, as well as the Brcko District, an autonomous administrative unit under Bosnia and Herzegovina...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Crimea. Note: Except where otherwise noted, references in this report do not include areas controlled by Russia-led forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine or Russian-occupied Crimea. At the end of this report is a section listing abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Ukraine ...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Benin is a constitutional presidential republic. In 2016 voters elected Patrice Talon to a five-year term as president in a multiparty election, replacing former president Thomas Boni Yayi, who served two consecutive five-year terms. In 2019 authorities held legislative elections in which no opposition...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Ecuador is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and unicameral legislature. In 2017 voters elected President Lenin Moreno from the ruling party Alianza PAIS (Proud and Sovereign Fatherland) and chose members of the National Assembly in elections that were generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. The country has endured prolonged political gridlock punctuated by periods of turmoil. In March 2019 the country held legislative elections, which included all 102 seats in the National Assembly. Presidential elections held in November 2019 resulted in two finalists:...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Greece is a constitutional republic and multiparty parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority is vested in a unicameral parliament, which approves a government headed by a prime minister. In July 2019 the country held parliamentary elections that observers considered free and fair. A government formed by the New Democracy Party headed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads the country.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. The president retains power over the legislative and judicial branches of government. The ruling political party, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, has remained in power since its creation in 1985. The country held legislative elections...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Belarus is an authoritarian state. The constitution provides for a directly elected president who is head of state and a bicameral parliament, the National Assembly. A prime minister appointed by the president is the nominal head of government, but power is concentrated in the presidency, both in fact ...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Kenya is a republic with three branches of government: an executive branch, led by a directly elected president; a bicameral parliament consisting of the Senate and National Assembly; and a judiciary. In the 2017 general elections, the second under the 2010 constitution, citizens cast ballots for president,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: A man who repeatedly stole mail from mailboxes in Southern Illinois is heading to prison. Seth W.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Today, the United District Court for the District of Hawaii unsealed Honest Services Wire Fraud charges against the following six individuals arising out of schemes in which employees of the Department of Planning and Permitting ("DPP") of the City and County of Honolulu took bribes in exchange for performing official acts at DPP.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Mauritius is a multiparty democracy governed by the prime minister, the Council of Ministers, and the National Assembly. International and local observers judged elections for the prime minister and legislators in November 2019 to be free and fair. The coalition headed by the incumbent prime minister won a majority of seats.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Libya’s Government of National Accord is a transitional government, created through the 2015 Libyan Political Agreement. The 2011 Constitutional Declaration envisions a parliamentary democracy that allows for the exercise of political, civil, and judicial rights. Citizens elected an interim legislature,...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Kenya is a republic with three branches of government: an executive branch, led by a directly elected president; a bicameral parliament consisting of the Senate and National Assembly; and a judiciary. In the 2017 general elections, the second under the 2010 constitution, citizens cast ballots for president...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Tina Smith, D-Minn., announced that they plan to introduce a new bill allocating mandatory funding to build child care availability over the long term and treat child care like the critical infrastructure that it is for families.
