Elections in Tunisia on Oct. 25 will likely see Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who abolished term limits, stay in power. Such a manipulation of the constitution is not unusual in Africa. FRANCE 24 has compiled a list of examples.
Is democracy slowly being dismantled, piece by piece, in the very heart of the European Union? It may sound dramatic, but a growing chorus of critics - both at home and abroad – says that's exactly what's happening in Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his centre-right Fidesz party. Balázs Denes of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union gives us his point of view.
This time last year, Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, kicked off his country's six-month EU presidency on the defensive, as he struck back at EU criticism that Hungary's new media law was a threat to press freedom. A year later, the list of EU complaints about Orban has grown longer, as Brussels accuses him of consolidating power at the expense of democracy. Zoltán Kovács gives us his reaction.
What’s Europe going to do about Hungary’s curbs on the media and its sweeping constitutional reform? Brussels seems to find it easier to keep tabs on candidates who want to join than on nations that are already EU members.
What’s Europe going to do about Hungary’s curbs on the media and its sweeping constitutional reform? Brussels seems to find it easier to keep tabs on candidates who want to join than on nations that are already EU members.
Tens of thousands of people protested in Budapest on Monday against the centre-right government's new Basic Law, which they view as a move by the ruling party to undermine democratic institutions.
Hungary’s parliament has adopted a set of controversial laws increasing political influence over the judiciary and the nation’s central bank, prompting critics to warn that the country is drifting towards a “more authoritarian political system”.
Thousands of Islamist supporters traded insults with liberals rallying against extremism on Saturday as a new constitution was being drafted in Tunis. Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party holds the most seats on the constitutional assembly.
Morocco has held its first parliamentary elections since a new constitution was approved by a referendum in July. Meanwhile, in Libya, Misrata remembers its dead with the opening of a new museum to highlight the brutality of Muammar Gaddafi. Finally, we head to Ouarzazate in Morocco where we discover North Africa’s answer to Hollywood.
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has vowed to hold parliamentary elections soon, though without specifying when, as pro-democracy activists press for further reform in the wake of the July 1 constitutional referendum.
