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The postponement of the introduction of the budget to 12th March, it is going to be the most crucial point for the survival of the grand coalition in South Africa. mg.co.za/news/2025-02...

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For the first time since 1994, the presentation of the national budget is postponed without a date in South Africa. This has never happened under the party dominance system. New coalition dynamics. Speaker announcement: No agreement of parties in executive m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0yl...

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South Africa's Parliament shows a substantial institutionalization, in which specialized committees have jurisdiction over government departments. Nevertheless, a disciplined parliamentary majority has limited the Parliament's ability to constrain the government. More👇🏾 doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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When parliamentary budgets have been weaponized against coalition governments in Spain or France.The first coalition government in South Africa will start its budget debate and pass after the introduction of finance minister next week🧵.1/2

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Spotlight with lessons from previous South African legislatures on executive-legislative relations. Would the new government coalition in place since mid-2024 in South Africa force a shift in south african party behaviour in parliament? doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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The correlation suggesting that institutionalized parliaments possess greater capability to restrain the executive branch than less institutionalized parliaments is not supported in the South African case.👇🏾 doi.org/10.1017/S104...

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Have legislatures become more assertive in confronting executive power? Hot topic discussed by colleagues of @ipsa.org Research Committee in the Spotlight section of the last issue of @pspolisci.bsky.social with case studies from countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.

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IPSA Research Committee of Legislative Specialists will address several key questions at the 28th World Congress of Political Science, hosted in Seoul, South Korea: Has executive power increased relative to legislative power? Have legislatures become more assertive in confronting executive power?

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In France: LFI and RN "must both assume their place within their respective coalitions and face the difficult test of power." However, populists tend toward a zero-sum game challenging any long-term coalition arrangements. www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...

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The South African Economic Freedom Fighters Party (EFF) has recently concluded its third National People's Assembly and published its political report covering 2019-2024, which states that EFF Parliament action: 🧵

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A technocratic PM choice to overcome parliamentary impasse in 🇫🇷 could fuel narratives like Rep US senator Mike Lee:"we, American people, take back control from unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who've been running our government like it’s their personal sandbox, treating us like their subjects."

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The NPP's candidate conceded defeat to opposition leader and former president Dramani Mahama before the official results were announced. This election marks a historic first for Ghana, as the vice president-elect, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, is a woman. www.africanews.com/2024/12/09/g...

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"The United States needs to stop talking about China and demonstrate its interest by showing up. Showing up means engaging much more frequently at a high political level" The same applies to the European Union.

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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia's ruling Swapo party has elected president (won 57% of votes), the country's first female leader. Swapo has ruled the country since its independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990🧵

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While waiting for the official release of the Namibian national election results from November 27, the electoral commission is under scrutiny because of concerns about the credibility and trustworthiness of the process. www.namibian.com.na/namibias-ele...

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2024 Africa day lecturer of Prof Abdoulaye Bathily, former UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Mali and Central Africa: "The colonial patern of relationship with Africa remains very much the same... m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEo...

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Can the global commons, post-war multilateral institutions to the principles of international law, serve a neutral and unbiased role in a time of geopolitical rivalry? Can the G20, BRICS, and other regional organisations deliver better results with a wide consensus? www.youtube.com/live/A9jy_YH...

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"Western donors – nowadays often called “international partners” – largely continue to apply technocratic templates to political problems.[..] those scourges are often either superficial or absent from policy."

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Is it feasible to establish stable legislatures with parties that employ populist tactics in parliamentary affairs? In South Africa, the dominant party for 30 years, the ANC, said no.

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Le Pen's party, RN, follows populist party behaviour in parliaments: open confrontation dynamics and responsiveness over responsibility.

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Determination to exercise the suffrage right of Namibian citizens. Patient and quiet voters waited in long queues late at night. Turnout data in this election could be a key variable to examine shifts in voter behaviour in Namibian democracy. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrWE...

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Bremen is one of Germany's few cities providing data to track spatial inequality in voter turnout over a long time span. In the 1980s, turnout varied little by neighborhood class composition. More than 30 years later, historic working-class neighborhoods now exhibit markedly lower turnout rates. 👇

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Today, Namibia's national elections to elect the President and the National Assembly. Will SWAPO continue its dominance despite the economic crisis, high levels of unemployment, and various corruption cases within the administration?

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"Umbrella parties" in consociational democracies, such as South Africa, have played a benign role in stabilizing emerging democracies with highly fragmented societies as shows my study on the consolidation of the RSA under a dominant party system, but at the expense of eroding accountability

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In a move to enhance ongoing public accountability, transparency, and openness during this 7th term of Parliament, South African Parliament launched today its Weekly Committee Cluster Media Briefings programme www.youtube.com/live/NTH2UTx...

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