Divisions in Bosnia and Herzegovina have become more pronounced during the pandemic because of attempts by local politicians to score political points in the present situation, High Representative for BiH Valentin Inzko told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
Submitting his regular semi-annual report, Inzko said the pandemic had highlighted the country’s weaknesses and that local politicians had used this to their advantage.
“BiH citizens have directly suffered the consequences because the state has failed to secure a coordinated approach to dealing with the challenges of the pandemic, including vaccine procurement,” he said.
Inzko said the government and the national parliament function poorly, do not pass any new laws and do not implement reforms. The country’s two entities have taken unilateral and uncoordinated measures, which has resulted in different parts of the country adopting different solutions, he said.
Albania post-election outlook: brittle bipolarity and state capture - Vienneast Compass Author Marcus How Edi Rama; Source: Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative
On 25 April, Albania held elections for its unicameral chamber of parliament, which is comprised of 140 seats. The breakdown of the vote for the parties that secured representation is as follows:
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Opposition: Social Democratic Party (PSD) – 2.25%, 3 seats (+2)
The result reinforces the position of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government, which won its third consecutive term while also safeguarding the absolute majority it secured in 2017. This is likely to be strengthened further by PSD, which won two additional seats, but whose US-blacklisted leader Tom Doshi immediately resigned his mandate in order to facilitate cooperation with PS.
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Voters in Kyrgyzstan granted sweeping powers to President Sadyr Japarov on Sunday (11 April) in a constitutional referendum that will also allow him to run for re-election, preliminary results showed.
Japarov, a 52-year-old populist, has brushed aside political opponents since coming to power on the back of a political crisis last October in the poor Central Asian country.
The EU on Tuesday (6 October) said it has “taken note” of the declaration made the same day by the Central Electoral Commission that the results of the elections held on Sunday are not valid.
A disputed parliamentary vote saw Japarov’s predecessor, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, become the third Kyrgyz president to resign during a political crisis since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 as Japarov won backing to lead from the political elite.
Voters in Kyrgyzstan went to polls on Sunday for a constitutional referendum widely expected to see President Sadyr Japarov’s powers expanded while allowing him to run for office a second time.
Japarov, a 52-year-old populist, has brushed aside political opponents since coming to power on the back of an October political crisis in which he was first released from jail by supporters, beginning a dizzying rise to the leadership.
He confirmed his dominance by posting a landslide victory in a presidential election in January. In a parallel poll, voters also indicated a preference for presidential over parliamentary rule, boosting his drive to overhaul the constitution.