The General Secretary of
the ruling National Democracy Congress (NDC) recently came under strong criticisms for suggesting that government should fall on the country's Heritage Fund to help in reducing the current economic crisis.
Not exact matches
They thus are more in the character of medieval debts to Europe's kings and princes than
national debts to which the people are committed to repay under the
rules of parliamentary
democracy.
But even so, PAN («
National Action Party») gets at most 14 percent of regional votes, and its token seats in the legislature serve more to prove the
ruling party operates a
democracy.
The
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has charged members of the party to do all within their powers to save this
democracy and rescue Nigeria from the
ruling All Progressives Congress APC.
The Volta Region is widely known as the world bank of the
ruling National Democratic Congress since inception of 1992 constitutional
democracy.
«The Kenyan people, by this vote, have moved to strengthen the frontiers of their
democracy, and it is my hope that, regardless of the decision taken by Kenya's Supreme Court, the delivery of progress and prosperity to the Kenyan people will continue in a process of
national reconciliation and in conditions of freedom and the
rule of law to the benefit of the welfare and stability of the Kenyan nation.»
Irked by the development, a group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Justice and Equity, petitioned the
National Assembly, urging it to intervene in order «to save our
democracy and insist on
rule of law.»
In the statement by his media office, Atiku stated that it was imperative for the
national leadership of the party to respect internal
democracy and democratic tenets, warning that «you can not break your own
rules without creating problems.»
That an NEA group would try to block
rules designed to combat the hiding of donors until after the election isn't terribly surprising: The
national union's Executive Director was recently appointed Chairman of the left - wing money clearinghouse
Democracy Alliance's board.
Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the
rule of law, participatory
democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and
national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.
Panel Discussion Juan Carlos Botero Executive Director, World Justice Project Mondli Makhanya Editor at Large, City Press & Former Chairman, South African
National Editors» Forum (SANEF) Marwan Muasher Vice President for Studies and Director of the Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Rachel Kleinfeld (Moderator) Senior Associate,
Democracy and
Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Livestream: The launch will be publicly livestreamed with opportunities for online viewers to participate.
[75] Another powerful judicial voice defending the
rule of law against erosion from threats to
national security is that of President Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel, who stated in Public Committee Against Torture v. Israel (1994), HCJ 5100/94, that it is «the destiny of
democracy... not [to] see all means as acceptable»: at para. 39.