Tag: Democracy
Islamism uses liberal democracy against… liberal democracy! By Abnousse Shalmani
Replicas, Alain Finkielkraut’s weekly program on France Culture, is one of the few to honor public service in the name of adversarial debate. The first of the school year brought…
An association for local democracy
Just three months after writing an open letter to the President of the Republic denouncing the despotic management of certain mayors, Solène Le Monnier, local councilor in Berric (56), and…
“Ghost MPs”, voters in exile: in Ukraine, a democracy to rebuild
Plates, cups, tea, packet of sugar… Oleksandr Salizhenko does not receive us in his kitchen, but in the archives of his organization Chesno, which campaigns against corruption in politics. In…
The US Supreme Court ruled in a historic case – this is a lawsuit that was feared to destroy democracy
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA The whole world should be worried, but few even realize what is happening. So said a law professor at the University of North Carolina Gene Nichol described…
Critical election in Greece! New Democracy, led by Mitsotakis, is ahead in the 2nd round
After the first round in neighboring Greece, which did not conclude on May 21, there was once again the excitement of the election. The general elections in Greece were left…
In Russia, the specter of a “Potemkin democracy”
Each kilometer, each village gained is a victory. Announced for months, the Ukrainian counter-offensive carries all the hopes of kyiv and its allies. A rout would deal a severe blow…
Identitarianism: this peril that threatens our democracy, by Chloé Morin
A new cleavage is literally invading the political debate before our eyes: the one that opposes identitarians to those who maintain a universalist and republican conception of citizenship. The escalation…
In Latvia, participatory democracy at work with the online platform Manabalss
In Latvia, the Manabalss website has just received the democratic technology prize. The award was given by the Institute for Innovation in Politics. Since its creation in 2011, this site…
In Hong Kong, you can even end up in prison for playing the theme music of the democracy movement – activist Kacey Wong tells what her job is like
TAIPEI, TAIWAN Artist and democracy activist Kacey Wong is one of the many Hongkongers who have fled abroad after China suppressed the autonomous region’s democracy movement with a heavy hand.…
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler: “The Brotherhood is a theocratic movement that fights against democracy”
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, doctor in anthropology, researcher at the CNRS, author of a book on the Muslim Brotherhood, “Le frerisme et ses networks. The investigation” (Ed. Odile Jacob), is this May…