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BATA, Equatorial Guinea, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Equatorial Guinea's (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo addressed the second regular session of the House of Representatives of the People in Bata and stated the following regarding the judicial process and prosecution of a group of men accused of involvement in the terrorist attack and attempted coup d'etat on February 17, 2009 by armed assault on the Presidential Palace in Malabo:
The trial during the week of August 13th was no different from those held in courts in other parts of the world. They have respected and complied with the laws in force in Equatorial Guinea, the proceedings of the legal process were transparent, impartial, with guarantees for defense and resources as necessary. It was a...
... a weakness or tolerance of our legal system, but rather it is an effort to rehabilitate those ...
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Proposed multiparty system - Editorial
There is a growing call for the establishment of third parties in the US political system. Such parties would serve the interests of Americans dissatisfied with both the Democratic and Republican parties. A multiparty system would also spur the existing parties to perform better.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Just months ago, under intense international pressure to ease its stranglehold on neighboring Lebanon, the Syrian government was talking about ending the ruling Baath Party's grip on Syrian power and paving the way for a multiparty system.
But things have moved in the opposite direction. Syrian officials are aggressively silencing domestic political opposition while accommodating religious conservatives to shore up support across the country.
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Article 4 of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Constitution, says: "The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)... follows Marxism-Leninism and the thought of Ho Chi Minh, and it is the leading force of the state and society." It is on this basis that democratic rights are curtailed. The power structure in Vietnam rejects competition and minimizes the possibility of its replacement by something else.
The highest objective in the struggle to fight for freedom and democracy for the Vietnamese nation today is to make sure that the present political regime in Vietnam is changed in a fundamental way, not through incremental "renovation" steps or, even worse, through insignificant touch-ups here and there. Concretely speaking, it must be a change from the monolithic, one-party, non-competitive reg...
... the present time to a pluralistic and multiparty system; one in which there is healthy competition,...
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There will be no Republican on the D.C. Council next year for the first time in 16 years.
The defeat of Carol A. Schwartz by independent Michael Brown puts 11 Democrats and two independents on the council - a result that at least one council member says sidesteps federal laws designed to encourage a multiparty system in the city's politics.
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Egypt recently held its first direct multi-candidate presidential election, competitive parliamentary elections, and saw the formation of a new government with many new young faces from its private sector. These were important political reform measures taken on the foundation of the independent judiciary, a free press, a multiparty political system and a vibrant civil society.
Demographics were the driving force that elevated the political reform process to new thresholds. Fifty-six percent of Egypt's population is 25 years or younger. However, the enabling factor was that Egypt had moved from a centrally managed economy to one in which the private sector generated more that 70 percent of the GDP, thus expanding the number of active stakeholders in its future.
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..., environmental degradation, political system, democratization, and ethnic configuration to the ... in these countries opened up for a multiparty system. However, during the period of one-party sy...
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... is debased to warfare and the political system tends to break down. . * The prevalence of ethnic ... is reflected in the emergence of a multiparty system during periods of electoral politics; as wa...