No, you mean that conservatives were undermining democracy for their own petty whims? I am shocked, absolutely rattled. Truly nobody could have ever expected them to do what people like them do all the fucking time.
Legend.
“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” Biden said in a statement issuing a “full and unconditional pardon.”
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” Biden said in his statement. “There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
Where was this “no more high road” attitude in the last four years? Why only now?
There was an obscure event called the 2024 Presidential Election.
@LandirtHome so what happens if they pass a no-confidence against the minority government? Do they just elect a new Prime Minister or do they organize new early elections?
Yeah but I think more people would have voted for the Democrats if they showed a little more spine and some more balls.
Well at the end of the day, he’s still his son. Even if he stayed in the race and won the election I believe he would’ve done it anyway. Not that I blame him to be honest.
I guess it is but I do want to see how the Trumpers handle this.
OK so it turns out the answer is: poorly. But the mental gymnastics are Cirque Du Soliel level, real accomplished stuff. They are doing things the IOC say are so dangerous they won’t give you points for it anymore.
Frankly, Biden should just give mass, blanket pardons for everyone Trump and Co. want to go after, from birth to present. Not only will they be protected from his nonsense at the federal level, he won’t be able to do anything to them for state-level things that they can’t be pardoned for. He should just do it and really fuck with Trump’s so-called mind.
Neither.
France is a presidential system. We don’t elect our Prime Minister, neither does the legislature, the President nominates them. And the National Assembly dismisses them, or they resign.
So a new one would be sought to be nominated, and charged to create a new government.
It must be done to a working majority/working coalition at the National Assembly.
Though a confidence vote isn’t required. (yes in essence it allows for a Schroedinger government, The current one is one)
In the meantime the outgoing government would be put on “affaires courantes” until a new one. For however long it takes.
As for a new election of the National Assembly. It’s either every five years, second week of June (next 2029) or after a dissolution.
Dissolution are a presidential power but cannot happen less than a year after the last one. (Art.12 of the Constitution). The last one was in June 2024, in response to the European election.
So the current National Assembly will hold to at least June 2025.
Now we have another far right, religion crazy, Georgescu supporting, EU / NATO hating party
I don’t have have faith in this country and it’s people. Fuck 'em, fuck us and fuck me. Please force all Romanians abroad that voted with Pro-Russians, West haters back home.
South Korean President appears to be making a power play to seize power.
Some context, from this September:
A political storm has erupted in South Korea after allegations from the opposition that President Yoon Suk-yeol would impose martial law, unheard of in the country since 1987.
The liberal opposition parties controlling the National Assembly accused the unpopular conservative president earlier this week of gearing up to use martial law to avoid being impeached for alleged abuse of power.
Since taking office in May 2022, Yoon has been at odds with the opposition, repeatedly using his veto power to block numerous parliamentary bills aimed at launching special investigations into allegations of corruption and power abuse involving him and his wife.
The Assmebly held an emergency session in which 190 members were present. All voted in favor of lifting martial law. Lifting martial law requires a simple majority vote from the legislature. Reason why the military was attempting to block them from entering the building. Whether or not the military follows the legislature or the President is up in the air.
EDIT: Martial law forces and police are starting to leave the parliament. Assuming they are following the legislatures will then President Yoon’s plan has failed. I’d imagine impeachment will probably quickly be following next because his own party has begun calling for his removal as well.
Well I guess Biden won’t be pulling something similar anytime soon. Thanks for the test run, Suk Yeol. Enjoy prison.
Or maybe Yoon would be re-elected by a landslide next election. Flip of a coin.
Yoon can’t be reelected. Due to South Korea’s history of military dictators the current Constitution only allow a single 5 year term with no possibility to seek reelection. The next election was in 2027 but I guess Yoon wanted to speed run ending his political career even sooner.
Turns out Yoon is kind of an incel fuckwad. As are a lot of Korean men, apparently.
Conservative former prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol will be South Korea’s next president, for a five year term. His narrow victory earlier this month followed a campaign that pandered to widening gender and generational fissures in Korean society but also pledged more support for art and culture. The societal divisions will echo in the art world even as the international profile of Korean art rises ahead of the launch of the Frieze art fair in Seoul and the recent influx of foreign galleries.
Yoon, from the People Power Party (PPP), won with 48.56% of the electorate, beating out Lee Jae-myung from incumbent Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party, who garnered 47.83%. In what many call Korea’s “incel election”, Yoon cultivated a base of disaffected young men who blame growing competition from women for their economic stagnation—a strategy formulated by the young Harvard-educated PPP leader and “men’s rights” activist Lee Jun-seok. Yoon drew around two-thirds of Korean male voters in their 20s, but one-third of women that age. He pledges to dissolve the national Ministry of Gender Equality and Family upon taking office in May, and asserts that Korea has no structural gender discrimination, despite having a gender pay gap of 31.5%, the highest among OECD nations. While the Korean art world has a strong feminist streak, it also grapples with society’s entrenched patriarchal parochialism.
“As an artist, the most worrying thing about Yoon’s policies is that the current progress of the women’s rights and gender equality movements is framed as a conflict between genders,” says Choi In-sook, a photographer and the president of the Korean Women’s Photographers Association. “He created a misogynistic stance during the election in order to ultimately restore the patriarchal, capital-dominated society favoured by the wealthy,” with “conglomerate-friendly policies.” He has also promised increased militancy towards North Korea.
Yoon’s wife Kim Kun-hee is the president and chief executive officer of Covana Contents, an exhibition company she founded in 2007 that has organised shows for artists like Van Gogh, Giacometti, Chagall and Rothko. Kim is under investigation from the anti-corruption authority for charges of accepting bribes disguised as art sponsorships in 2019 and of stock manipulation. She majored in painting at Kyonggi University and has a master’s degree in art education and a doctorate in digital design. Given Kim’s background, Joo says, “we can expect the presidential couple to have a personal interest in art. While this in itself is a very positive thing, the presidential couple should be wary of being an inadvertent player in the art world due to their social status and power.”
Joo hopes President-elect Yoon will pragmatically support policies “expanding Korea’s art market size in order to secure its competitiveness in the international art market,” such as through the “wise and timely implementation” of an art transfer tax. “Given its pledges and visions about serving the public, the new government must particularly take note of the recent entry into Korea of international galleries such as Pace, Ropac, Lehman Maupin, Konig and Gladstone and the opening of the top level art fair, Freeze Seoul; it could provide active support at the government level to elevate Seoul to one of the art capitals of the world.”
One supporter, a 15-year-old middle school student named Kim Ha-jin, is one young mind that’s been drawn in by Yoon’s rhetoric. Kim isn’t even old enough to vote, but he’s left with little doubt about whom he’ll back when he’s able.
“If I were a voter, I would vote for Yoon,” he told VICE World News. “This is because his pledge of abolishing the women ministry is what I have been waiting for. I think the ministry has done nothing and wasted our national budget.”
The previous presidential election, held in 2017 following the impeachment and dismissal of embattled female leader Park Geun-hye over a massive corruption scandal, saw a turnout of more than 32 million people, accounting for 77% of those eligible to vote. But this year, turnout is predicted to be the highest ever, with more than 44 million registered voters.
At least some of that can be accounted for by the mobilization of angry young men.
“Yoon listens and speaks to us,” said a 28-year-old male voter named Im Je-in. “His campaign promises have been the loudest and the strongest so he has my vote.”
“Also, we had a female president [Park] in power for years, who turned out to be one of our worst leaders in history.”
New Man On Solidarity, one of South Korea’s most active anti-feminist groups, has thrown its support behind Yoon. The group’s official YouTube channel, which draws close to 500,000 subscribers, regularly features the populist.
“Korean feminists ridicule and degrade men and treat [us] like potential criminals,” Seong Bong-cheol, an ardent follower of the group on Instagram, told VICE World News.
“I would vote for Yoon. He was the only candidate who said he would abolish the women’s ministry and I got interested in him because of the pledge.”
President Yoon Suk Yeol announced he’ll lift martial law. Meanwhile the parliament has begun drafting articles of impeachment which has the support of all political parties including some members of President Yoon’s PPP. South Korean democracy lives another day and Yoon’s political career is pretty much dead now.