Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustine during a Duma session in Moscow on April 7, 2022. DMITRY ASTAKHOV / AFP In a country where the president decides everything, or almost, the observation seems counter-intuitive. A recent count has confirmed it, however: the Russia of 2022 has been gripped by an unprecedented legislative frenzy. During the year the Duma, the lower house, passed 653 laws, "the largest amount in the history of Parliament, a record since the end of the Soviet Union"in...
Kais Saied does not currently intend to play the mea culpa card on his way of leading Tunisia. The country's president on Wednesday played down the massive abstention in the recent legislative elections. He even violently attacked his critics who denounce a decline in freedoms in the country since he monopolized power.The electoral authority officially announced a turnout of 11.22% in the legislative elections on December 17, very slightly up from the preliminary figure of 8.8% made public after the...
Members of the Bundestag should sit for five years instead of four, the President of the Parliament demands. And she wants 16-year-olds to be able to vote in the future. As President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas wants to push ahead with some reform plans: she recently urged the traffic light coalition to finally downsize the Bundestag. In an interview with the German Press Agency, she now advocates extending the parliamentary term from four to five years. That would then...
The popular legitimacy of the Tunisian president is collapsing. The legislative elections organized this weekend in Tunisia met with massive abstention which undermines the legitimacy of the ultra-presidentialist system built by Kais Saied for a year and a half. Even if the head of state is not directly threatened by a divided and discredited opposition, opponents of the FSN and the influential Free Destourian Party (PDL, anti-Islamist) of Abir Moussi are calling for his departure. Update on the consequences of...
On Sunday, the United States considered that the legislative elections in Tunisia were "an essential first step towards restoring the democratic trajectory of the country", while affirming that the very high rate of abstention showed the need for "participation broader policy. These elections are the culmination of the construction of the hyper-presidentialist system wanted by President Kais Saied, elected in 2019 and author of a coup in the summer of 2021 during which he "froze" the Assembly of Representatives of...
“Failure”, headlined the Maghreb newspaper on Sunday. The fiasco of the legislative elections in Tunisia, marked on Saturday by a record abstention of more than 90%, is a snub for President Kais Saied, whose opposition is demanding the departure, and who finds himself delegitimized and very weakened in his negotiations with the IMF. a crucial loan for a beleaguered economy.The leader of the main opposition coalition Ahmed Nejib Chebbi called on the president to "resign immediately" after the announcement of...
Health Bundestag to pass legislative package on hospitals An intensive care unit in Ludwigsburg. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa Lack of staff and economic pressure: The situation in many hospitals has not only been precarious since Corona. The Bundestag is now to adopt a first legislative package for a reform. According to plans by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD), the financing of hospitals in Germany is to be freed from economic pressure. The Bundestag is to pass a first...
After a short crossing of the desert following his defeat in the legislative elections in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, here is Christophe Castaner (En Marche) arrived again safely. That of Fos-Marseille in this case of which he was appointed to the supervisory board and of which he could take the presidency at the end of the ballot organized this Friday. At the same time he was chosen to chair the board of directors of the French concession company for the road tunnel...
Emmanuel Macron will have waited a few days before applauding Benjamin Netanyahu. The head of state called the former Israeli prime minister on Sunday "to congratulate him on his victory in the" legislative elections, in which he won the majority of seats with his right-wing allies, he said on Twitter .“I just called Binyamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory in the elections. We share the same desire to strengthen the already strong ties between Israel and France,” wrote...
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