Besieged by popular pressure, in the midst of an internal security crisis, the de facto president of Haiti suspended the constitutional referendum. A massive popular insurgency is growing and the new international intervention is looming. Jovenel Moïse is currently the de facto president of Haiti. On February 7, the five-year term of government stipulated by the Constitution expired. Moïse remained ...
Mexico went to elections on June 6th. The electorate determined the 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower part of the bicameral parliamentary system, 15 governors of federal states and a great number of city councils and mayors. The country is governed by a federal presidential system. The current president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, widely known and cited ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In France, regional elections will take place within a month, but all the eyes are directed on the presidential elections occurring in one year. Already today it seems pretty decided that President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally will make it to the second and decisive round, where they will compete ...
On May 15th and 16th, municipal elections were held in Chile together with the election of the delegates who will be tasked with drafting a new Constitution of the State. The electoral process is the institutional canalization of the October 2019 protests. The results exposed a epochal shift in the country’s history. Who are the winners and who are the ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last part, I had argued that the public letter among others signed by French Generals on duty and retired was directed against the French government, taking a racist and anti-islamic stance, targeting the Muslims living in France and defending the country’s imperialist expansionist policies. The Turkish press reported on the event with headlines such ...
Is France’s Fifth Republic, established by General Charles De Gaulle, poised to be destroyed at the hands of military generals once again? Is there a threat of a coup d’état in France? Do the statements one after the other by both active and retired officers target only the Macron government or the political regime as a whole? The questions above ...
In the first days of April 2021, the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, announced a new tax reform, which he tried to disguise under the name of the Sustainable Solidarity Law, in an already common act of the national and international right that, making use of the political and historical language of the revolutionary processes at the global level, utilizes ...
Massive protests have been taking place in Colombia. They began as a demonstration against the government’s intent to impose a new neoliberal tax reform. Violence by the state and the ruling party was unleashed indiscriminately in the main cities of the country. Even after Duque withdrew his bill from Congress on May 2, protests continued to grow. What exactly is ...
Turkey’s Vatan Party has started an Initiative on the New International Order (NINTO) and organized an international symposium. 38 distinguished speakers representing 24 countries from 6 continents parcipated in the symposium, among them various experts of United World International. Participants debated a wide range of issues from the end of the unipolar world to the crisis of neoliberalism, from identity ...
Turkey’s Vatan Party has started an Initiative on the New International Order (NINTO) and organized an international symposium. 38 distinguished speakers representing 24 countries from 6 continents parcipated in the symposium, among them various experts of United World International. Participants debated a wide range of issues from the end of the unipolar world to the crisis of neoliberalism, from identity ...