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BREAKING NEWS Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate, was handed a resounding victory and a mandate to reshape the country

July 1, 2018 By administrator

Andrés Manuel López Obrador campaigned on a narrative of social change, including increased pensions for the elderly, educational grants for Mexico’s youth and additional support for farmers.CreditCarlos Jasso/Reuters

Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the nation’s political establishment and handed him a sweeping mandate to reshape the country.

Mr. López Obrador’s win puts a leftist leader at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for the first time in decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans with hope — and the nation’s elites with trepidation.

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Demirtaş: “Running for president from my prison cell”

June 23, 2018 By administrator

The HDP presidential candidate published a piece in the New York Times.

HDP presidential candidate has published an article in The New York Times. Selahattin Demirtaş writes in the piece: “I am writing from a maximum-security prison in Edirne, a city in northwestern Turkey, near the border with Bulgaria. I was arrested one year and eight months ago while I was a member of the Turkish parliament and the co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, known as the HDP, for which six million people voted in the last election”.

In the article the HDP presidential candidate underlined how “my jailers chose to imprison me here because Edirne is far from my home, family and friends in the southeastern Kurdish region of the country. My cellmate is, like me, an elected member of the parliament”.

Reminding how the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, has turned its back on universal democratic values and pushed the country to the brink of political and economic crisis, Demirtaş writes: “With the exception of President Erdogan, all of my fellow candidates have declared that I should be freed. They cast aside ideological differences and came to my defense because they know the government is holding me for its own political gain and not for any crime I committed. They understand that if I were free, Mr. Erdogan’s chances of winning the elections would be far slimmer”.

Demirtaş writes he is among the tens of thousands of dissidents who have been targeted by punitive measures normalized under the state of emergency. The government has so far started 102 investigations and filed 34 separate court cases against me. If it has its way, I will face 183 years in prison.

“The accusations against me in the indictments by prosecutors – writes the HDP presidential candidate – are based entirely on political speeches and statements that I made”.

Demirtaş states: “My prosecution has been unjust. My arrest was a political decision. I remain a political hostage”.

Recalling he has been deprived of the right to hold rallies or communicate directly with the people during the election campaign, Demirtaş adds: “I reach you and the world beyond the prison walls through messages conveyed by my lawyers. I address the people through social media accounts my advisers help me run”.

Demirtaş says his Twitter account was dormant for a long while after my arrest. “When tweets from my account started appearing again in September 2017, – he writes – prison guards rushed in to inspect my cell. The search was pretty invasive. When I asked them what they were searching for, they replied that they were looking for the source of my tweets.

The only vaguely sophisticated device they found in my cell was the electric kettle I use to boil water. After establishing that I could not have used the kettle to tweet, the guards left”.

For the past three years, the HDP presidential candidate recalls, the AKP has conducted a relentless propaganda campaign with the acquiescence of the media to undermine the HDP.

“Yet – he proudly writes – our voters and supporters have remained steadfast.

The coming elections will shape the future of Turkey, writes Demirtaş. “It is statistically unlikely that any candidate who shuns the support of Turkey’s Kurdish population — around one-fifth of its 81 million people — and their demands for peace can win. An inherently anti-democratic rule in Turkey bars a political party that does not win 10 percent of the national vote from taking its seats in the parliament”.

Despite all obstacles, though, Demirtaş confirms the party is “confident of crossing the steep threshold”, yet he warns that “if we fail to get 10 percent of the vote, around 80 of our parliamentary seats will go to Mr. Erdogan’s party, which would deliver him a comfortable majority in the parliament and further ease his executive presidency”.

In essence, the AKP rule will be unjustly secured through the votes of millions of disenfranchised Kurdish citizens.

Turkey, Demirtaş says in the closing lines of his article, “now understands that the collective punishment of the Kurds on the southeastern periphery affects freedoms and democratic culture across the country. What was limited to the Kurds has become the norm for Mr. Erdogan’s opponents elsewhere too. The only hope for a liberal, democratic future lies in our coming together to defeat the authoritarian regime”.

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Lebanon: Journalist Paula Yacoubian candidate for legislative elections in Beirut

January 31, 2018 By administrator

Paula Yacoubian candidate

Paula Yacoubian candidate

Lebanese journalist Paula Yacoubian told the pan-Arab daily al-Chark al-Awsat that she was a candidate in the legislative elections planned for May 6th.

Yacoubian, who worked for Future TV (affiliated to Prime Minister Saad Hariri), yesterday announced her resignation. She will be part of a list of candidates from civil society in the district of Beirut I. “There is a major electoral program in preparation. We are waiting to make this program public before deciding on our chances of winning, “Paula Yacoubian told the newspaper.

Yacoubian was the only journalist to interview Saad Hariri, who was in Saudi Arabia after announcing his resignation on Nov. 4 in Riyadh, amid tensions with Hezbollah and Iran. The prime minister has since returned to his resignation on 4 December.

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Germany: Greens size up coalition possibilities, choose election candidate

January 8, 2017 By administrator

Germany’s Greens are electing candidates for September’s parliamentary elections. With the previously unthinkable idea of a Red-Red-Green coalition gaining traction, the choice is being watched carefully.

Four politicians gave their final pitches at a party meeting in Berlin on Saturday, with party chairwoman Katrin Göring-Eckardt already assured a place on the party’s ticket.

She will be joined by one of the following: co-chair Cem Özdemir (R), a Swabian with Turkish roots; Anton Hofreiter (L), a biologist from Bavaria, the parliamentary party chief and the only representative of the left of the party; and the writer Robert Habeck, Environment Minister and Deputy Premier of Schleswig-Holstein.

The results of the party primaries will be announced on January 18, after the party’s 60,800 members have cast their votes.

SPD to jump horses?

As the junior partner since 2013 in the so-called Grand Coalition, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democrats (SPD) are now expected to choose their party chairman, Sigmar Gabriel, to run against Merkel in the election, senior party sources said. Gabriel also serves as German Vice Chancellor and is thus currently Merkel’s deputy.

Gabriel previously told “Der Spiegel” magazine that his party would consider forming a three-way coalition with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP). A former major player in German politics, the FDP surprisingly failed to gain a single seat in the Bundestag in the 2013 elections for the first time in its seven-decade history. The classical liberal stalwarts may, however, be poised for a comeback in 2017.

The option would be an alternative to an SPD coalition with the Greens and the Left party – the so-called Red-Red-Green coalition – an option favored by the SPD’s left wing.

While not ruling out a coalition with the Left Party – a part of which is made up of the reformed successor to former East Germany’s Marxist-Leninist SED party – Gabriel questioned whether such a formation would result in a stable government.

“They have to decide whether they want to govern or remain firmly in opposition,” he said.

Combined, the Red-Red-Green parties have 320 seats in the Bundestag, compared with 311 for Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc.

A poll by Infratest Dimap and German broadcaster ARD showed the SPD currently standing with 20 percent of the vote, compared to 37 percent for Merkel’s conservative bloc. The Greens and the Left are both hovering at around ten percent.

Changing electoral configurations

In December, the SPD won control of Berlin’s city government at the head of a three-way coalition that involves the Left and the Green party. The rise of the rightwing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) could push the parties to put their differences aside in order to combat its appeal.

The Berlin government is the second Red-Red-Green coalition to have ruled one of Germany’s 16 regions. The first – in Thuringia in 2014 – is led by the Left rather than the SPD and is seen as such as less of a national precedent than the coalition in Berlin.

With the AfD expected to enter parliament for the first time in 2017 and the FDP likely to return, there could be seven parties in parliament instead of the current five, making a Red-Red-Green majority less likely.

The Greens also pose problems for the SPD with promises to phase out fossil fuels – a bone of contention with the SPD, which has support in coal-mining regions.

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An Armenian journalist of Syrian TV, Erato Krikorian, candidate for the parliamentary elections in Syria

March 17, 2016 By administrator

arton123294-480x233An Armenian journalist working for state television Syria, Erato Krikorian who lives in the capital Damascus is a candidate in the parliamentary elections in Syria to be held on 13 April. In an interview with Armenian newspaper site “Arévélk” Erato Krikorian told the reasons for his commitment to be an MP and his chances of victory. “In these tragic and difficult times facing the country, I have decided to support at all costs the Syrian homeland” she told “Arévélk”. She is an independent candidate and has large chances of being elected MP. It also commissioned a twenty members of the Armenian community of Syria will be candidates for the parliamentary elections, five of Damascus and Aleppo fifteen.

Krikor Amirzayan

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FRANCE Regional 2015 1st Round: Franco-Armenian candidates

December 8, 2015 By administrator

arton119569-480x476In the image of the company, the French Armenian origin participate in regional developments hexagonal landscape. Some of them have committed themselves to the left and right and the extreme right, ensuring their presence in the favorite fiefdoms. In this regional elections, only the PC, Greens and the Left Front are neglected.

PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D’AZUR

List Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (FN 40.55%)
- Bouches-du-Rhône: Stéphane Abrahamian

List Christian Estrosi (LR-UDI 26.48%)
- Alpes Maritimes: Magali Altounian

List Christophe Castaner (PS 16.59%)
- Bouches-du-Rhône: Yannick Ohanessian

List Jean-Marc Governatori (Ecolo 4.05%)
- Bouches-du-Rhône: Marc Ovanessian

List Chuisano Christmas (France Arise 1.95%)
- Bouches-du-Rhône: Robert Zarikian – Michel Papazian
- Var: Marcel Garmirian

AUVERGNE RHONE-ALPS

List Laurent Wauquiez (LR-UDI 31.73%)
- Drôme: Annie Koulaksezian-Romy
- Lyon Metropole: Freddy-Agop Sabuncu
- Isère: Joseph Aslanian
- Loire: Aline Mouseghian

List Christophe Boudot (FN 25.52%)
- Isère: George Manoukian
- New Rhône: Daniel Chimchirian
- Lyon Metropole: Norbert Hekimian – Sophie Dervahanian

List Jean-Jack Queyranne (PS 23.93%)
- Lyon Metropole: Meguerditch Makhsiyan
- Lyon Metropole: Yeriché Gorizian

ISLE OF FRANCE

List Valérie Pécresse (LR-UDI 30.51%)
- Val-de-Marne: Deborah Zaboudian

List Claude Bartolone (PS-PRG 25.19%)
- Seine-Saint-Denis: Armen Papazian

List Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (6.57% DLF)
- Haut-de-Seine: Arman Eranian

Languedoc-Roussillon / MIDI-PYRÉNÉES

List Dominique Reynié (LR-UDI 18.84%)
- Hérault: Béatrice Tamzarian

On this point photograph of the political spectrum, it should be noted that the French candidate of Armenian origin are located predominantly on the right (11). 5 Left and the extreme Right 5. Independent Écolos 1. Curiously, lean participation in Île de France (Alfortville, Issy-les-Moulineaus, Sarcelles …).

Jean Eckian

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Armenian Selina Doğan again proposed as MP candidate in Turkey

September 18, 2015 By administrator

Selina Ozuzun

Selina Ozuzun

Turkish Armenian lawyer Selina Özuzun Doğan has again been proposed as an MP candidate by Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).

To take part in the country’s snap elections to be held on November 1, CHP submitted its list of MP candidates with the Supreme Election Council.

Selina Özuzun, who won the elections of June 7, again heads the list.

Born in 1977, Özuzun is married and has two children. She works at a law firm. Besides Armenian and Turkish, she also speaks English and French.

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Imprisoned Armenian linguist proposed as MP candidate in Turkey

September 17, 2015 By administrator

Armenian linguist

Armenian linguist

Famous Istanbul-Armenian linguist Sevan Nişanyan has been proposed as an MP candidate by the Liberal Democratic Party for the upcoming elections in Turkey.

Nişanyan wrote on his Twitter page that he has accepted the proposal to become an MP, since the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party has offered him the first place. The linguist also wrote that he chose exactly that party, since its leader is an organized and decent man.

Sevan Nişanyan has always voiced the issue of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey and is eminent for his courageous behavior.

Several court rulings have been made against Nişanyan on charges of illegal construction. Currently Nişanyan is in jail, being sentenced to overall 11 years in prison.

Source:NEWS.am

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