Czech Republic Experiences Constitutional Crisis
Nearly two weeks since national elections in the Czech Republic, Czechs still have minimal clarity regarding who will lead the country when the Country’s Parliament meets again in November.
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German Election Results Likely Mean Social Democrat-Led Coalition
Former German minister of Finance Olaf Scholz is likely to be the next German Chancellor after this year’s election in Germany, marking an end to Angela Merkel’s 16 year run as Chancellor. Scholz and his party, the center-left Social Democrats (S.P.D.), emerged victorious in the Sep. 26 election, winning 25.7% of the total vote, compared to 24.1% for Merkel’s party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which suffered the worst defeat for the party since its founding in the years after World War II. Merkel, however, opted not to run for reelection, marking the first time a sitting chancellor has done so in the postwar era.
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Spanish Hopes of Extraditing Puigdemont Are Dashed
Carles Puigdemont, founder of the separatist movement Together for Catalonia, faced a court hearing on October 4 following his arrest on September 23. He was arrested in Sardinia, Italy due to a, “warrant seeking his return to Spain for trial over a failed independence bid he led four years ago.”
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Mexican Abortion Ruling Lays Groundwork for Legalization
On September 7th the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional, and established a legal precedent that could lay the groundwork for legalizing abortion across the country. The specific case heard by the court concerned a challenge to the criminalization of abortion in the State of Coahuila, immediately reversing the law in that state and providing the possibility to do the same across the country.
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Canadian Election Results in Status Quo
On Monday night Justin Trudeau held his position as Prime Minister after Canadian broadcasters predicted that his minority government would hold. Depending heavily on Quebec, Ontario, and the British Columbia, Prime Minister Trudeau saw his party repeat almost the exact same results from the 2019 federal election.
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