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Fiftieth Anniversary Of Portugal s Revolution, Not To Be Confused With Spain s Transition To Democracy – Analysis – Eurasia Review

Fiftieth Anniversary Of Portugal s Revolution, Not To Be Confused With Spain s Transition To Democracy – Analysis – Eurasia Review
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Recalling the Event that Triggered Democracy s Third Wave

A bloodless army coup in Lisbon fifty years ago changed the world as much as it reshaped Portugal. The Carnation Revolution triggered, what Samuel Huntington calls, the “third wave of democratisation”

Dark Victory … the consulta | The Mex Files

Sunday’s “consulta”… even with its confused wording that only opened the POSSIBILITY of maybe, possibly, digging into the darker secrets of the past 30 years…. passed overwhelmingly (by close to 95%) but… as mentioned yesterday, the turnout was dismally low, 7% of the electorate, when at least a 40% turnout was required for the consulta to be bindig on the legislature. That was by design, writes Jornada’s Enrique Galván Ochoa. Under legislation passed during the Peña Nieto administration (and Peña Nieto being one of the primary targets of this consulta), to even send a question to the voters requires either support of the President and a third of Congress, or a petition signed by two percent of registered voters (which, in Mexico, is basically every citizen over 18)… meaning gathering signatures from around two millio people. And, even then, the actual mechanics of the consulta are in the hands of the (politically appointed) Elections Commission, which sets the

AMLO: What is the cost of belonging to López Obrador s intelligentsia ? | USA

The writer Jorge Volpi argues that collective manifestos carry less and less weight these days, and now have practically no influence or relevance in political terms. “The discrediting of the figure of authority as a whole […] further erodes the idea that they might serve some purpose,” he said in December during a graduation ceremony at New York University (NYU). Perhaps the strength of the “signed hereunder” no longer carries the importance it once did or has the ability to mobilize voters, but leaflets and manifestos signed by numerous hands have the capacity to stimulate discussion and at the same time to feed the eternal debate between what is published and what is public.

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