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Summary In its annual progress report, the Monitoring Committee takes stock of its activities since January 2020 and assesses the progress made by the 11 countries under the Assembly’s full monitoring procedure, and by the 3 countries engaged in a post monitoring dialogue, in honouring their obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. It welcomes progress made and expresses concerns at setbacks and addresses specific recommendations to the countries concerned. In this reporting per...

Under the Act, political parties will be required to, among other directives, divulge their sources and amounts of private and public funding they receive. (Photo: GCIS) The new Political Party Funding Act will provide for more transparency, but cant guarantee that illegal party funding wont continue, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) said. The IEC doesnt have the funds to immediately implement and enforce all the Acts provisions.  It also created a fund to whi...

Ruling bloc meets to discuss electoral code, potential constitutional amendments | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency 16:07, 26 January, 2021 YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, ARMENPRESS. A bill on amending the Electoral Code will be introduced for public discussions in February, the My Step parliamentary faction MP Hamazasp Danielyan told reporters after the ruling bloc held a meeting. He said the ruling bloc lawmakers discussed potential constitutional amendments, a possible self-dissolution of parliament ...

endIndex: Two years after the creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, the people of the Bangsamoro have lost as much as they have won in the process of asserting their rights, if not more. Photo by MARRIAN PIO RODA CHING Editor’s note: Marrian Ching is a writer and editor based in the Bangsamoro. With a feminist lens, she interrogates notions of identity while navigating histories that are either affirmed or erased in the process of nation-building. The opinions in this essay are the ...

Uzbekistan may hold presidential elections in October POLITICS 19:17 / 25.01.2021 477 According to a statement issued by the organization, the issue was discussed at a meeting of factions of political parties in the Lower House. If this report is confirmed, relevant amendments to the Constitution and the Electoral Code will need to be made. Previously, the presidential election was held on the last Sunday of December. President...

18:1715.01.2021 10793 Arriving on the eve of a working visit to Lebap province, President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov held an extended enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers at the Ruhiyet Palace, where some issues of state life were discussed. Initially, the Speaker of the Parliament G. Mammadov briefed on the activities of the National Parliament on the further modernization of the countrys legal and legal framework, which is being carried out in the context of the socially-oriented polic...

Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria will take place on 4 April, announced President Rumen Radev, adding that every Bulgarian’s health and right to vote must be guaranteed and that citizens should be convinced that their votes will be counted correctly.  Radev pointed out that the upcoming elections are crucial, as the institutions have collapsed and lost the people’s trust. The president once again stressed that although it has long been known that a vote will take place during a pandemic,...

12/01/2021 13:56 Discussions are being held with representatives of the civil society, included, regarding the issue of demolishing the walls around the Parliament Palace, Senate President Anca Dragu told an interview for AGERPRES. According to Anca Dragu, this is a larger opening up project, which goes beyond the physicality of the walls demolition. In the interview for AGERPRES, she also spoke about the fact that the senators are to receive tablets, so as not to vote by phone any longe...

YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS. President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian has published an article “on the inevitability of building a substantive state”, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

Armenia’s President Armen Sarkissian on Monday renewed his calls for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian to hand over power to a new and interim government that would hold snap parliamentary elections.