Noticias

The Democratic Front, DF, has quit the ruling coalition in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the government – against the votes of DF ministers – changed the rules on the appointments of new managers for public companies.

The break-up of the ruling coalition has been dragging on for months, marked by personal rows, conflicting statements and short-lived compromises.

Human Rights activists claim that Tunisia is facing a a torture ‘epidemic’ amid fears of a return to a Ben Ali- style police state.

The comments come after it emerged that The Tunisian Organization Against Torture (OCTT) is currently investigating almost 70 torture cases in 2015 with 23 claims submitted in the past month alone.

OCTT chief Mondher Cherni has hit out at the authorities over their ‘reluctance’ to investigate torture claims adequately and the human rights experts believes that Tunisia is at risk of once again becoming a police state.

Por vigésimo cuarta vez el Parlamento libanés no logró nombrar un nuevo presidente para el país, cargo vacante desde el 25 de mayo de 2014 en que terminó su mandato de seis años Michel Suleiman, al persistir las divergencias entre los distintos sectores políticos.

El presidente del organismo legislativo, Nabih Berri, levantó la sesión ante la falta de quórum, y fijó la próxima reunión para el próximo 24 de junio, en un nuevo intento para nominar un nuevo jefe de Estado.

Majority in Albania is seeing the opposition’s proposal for a decriminalization pact, as pure electoral propaganda ahead of the June 21 elections.

In the recent days,  Democratic Party has proposed to the majority to sign a pact between political parties in order to verify the candidates that race for the June 21 elections in the framework of decriminalization and the removal of those candidates with criminal records.

El Parlamento libanés fue incapaz hoy por vigésima cuarta vez de elegir un presidente para el país, puesto vacante desde el 25 de mayo de 2014, por divergencias entre los grupos políticos.

Ante la falta de quórum en la sesión de esta jornada, el presidente de la Cámara, Nabih Berri, fijó la próxima reunión para intentar elegir a un jefe de Estado el 24 de junio.

La primera sesión plenaria tuvo lugar el 23 de abril de 2014, pero ninguno de los candidatos en pugna obtuvo el voto de las dos terceras parte de los diputados (86 de 128).

A petition calling upon Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court to review a controversial protest law was signed by 358 people in two weeks, Khaled Dawoud, spokesperson for the Constitution party said Tuesday during a press conference at the Egypt Freedom Party headquarters.

The new petition calls upon the Supreme Constitutional Court to consider a lawsuit, filed in June 2014 by lawyers Khaled Ali and Tarek El-Awady, that challenges the constitutionality of the protest law.

Albania's Central Election Commission has rejected proposals from the bipartisan Media Monitoring Board to fine seven news television stations for offering unequal amounts of coverage to political parties campaigning for the local elections on June 21.

The Commission ruled by four to three against the proposed fines on Monday in a vote aparently determined by the political affiliations of the board members.

Les trois projets de lois organiques relatifs aux élections ne se verront confrontés à aucune réelle opposition à la Chambre des conseillers. Bien que jouissant du pouvoir légal de rejeter ces textes pour au moins tenter d'affaiblir la majorité, l'opposition n'a apporté aucun amendement.

The opposition forces allied by the Sudan Appeal and the people in Darfur regret the inauguration of Omar Al Bashir as president of the country for another five years.

Sarah Nugdallah, the secretary-general of the National Umma Party (NUP) commented to Radio Dabanga by saying that the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) does not seem to be embarrassed or ashamed for the results of the extremely low voter turnout, “though the Sudanese people have taught them a hard lesson, by boycotting the useless election.”