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| Philippines
A view on the developments and prospects in the Philippines todayIt all started with the issue of opening of an envelope (so it seemed) in an impeachment trial in the Philippine Senate against the then President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. But it ended the latter’s term in a very inglorious manner. -> read article... |
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| Britain
New Labour: a government with no mandateBy the kind permission of Britain’s grossly undemocratic electoral system new Labour won a ’landslide victory’ in the general election. This bizarre result was achieved with the support of just 42% of those who voted and a mere 25% of those entitled to vote. Labour’s vote went down by nearly 3 million from the 1997 election. -> read article... |
| Poland
The strange death of SolidarnoscThe results of the Polish parliamentary elections of September 23, 2001 have profoundly restructured the country’s political landscape. Polish observers are generally agreed that what has happened amounts to a genuine earthquake, albeit a limited one, in three respects. -> read article... |