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   | | | | Politics this week Aug 12th 2010 From The Economist print edition
Kenyans endorsed a new constitution by a margin of more than two to one in a referendum. A presidential system will continue, but with more checks and balances and a dose of devolution. The vote split largely on ethnic lines, with the Luo and Kikuyu groups saying yes and the Kalenjin, who prospered under a former president, Daniel arap Moi, saying no. See article Early results of an election in Rwanda on August 9th suggested that the incumbent president, Paul Kagame, would win more than 90% of the votes in his bid for a second seven-year term. His opponents said he had made it hard, if not impossible, for them to compete properly. After discussions with George Mitchell, the United States envoy to the Middle East, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, said that direct talks between his side and the Israelis might soon resume after a hiatus of almost two years. In an unusual move, Barack Obama sent a letter to Iraq’s leading cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, asking him to use his influence to persuade his country’s rival parties to forge a coalition government before the departure of American combat troops at the end of this month. Since an inconclusive election in March, Iraq’s politicians have failed to establish a new government. Moscow’s health chief said high temperatures and poor air quality caused by wildfires raging across western Russia had led to a doubling of the death rate in the city. In all, 53 people died, a military base was destroyed and the fires reached land contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Officials said there was no cause for panic. See article Ahead of negotiations over the European Union budget, the budget commissioner, Janusz Lewandowski, floated the idea of the EU raising funds directly through taxes on financial transactions, air travel and other things. Not likely, said Britain, France and Germany. Bronislaw Komorowski was sworn in as Poland’s president. The event was overshadowed by a row over the authorities’ wish to remove a cross placed in front of the presidential palace to commemorate the death of Lech Kaczynski, the previous president, in an air crash in April. Russia announced that it had deployed an air-defence system in Abkhazia, a breakaway territory of Georgia that declared independence after the Russia-Georgia war of 2008. The Georgian government urged NATO to take notice.
Mudslides in north-western China killed more than 1,000 people, after a river burst its banks, toppling buildings and burying three villages in Zhouqu county. The worst rains in a decade have pummelled 28 Chinese provinces and regions this year. Police in Indonesia arrested Abu Bakar Basyir for the third time. Mr Basyir is seen as the spiritual leader of the banned Jemaah Islamiah movement, which took responsibility for the 2002 bombings in Bali that killed more than 200 people. He is accused of collaborating in a plan to assassinate the president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. See article The floods in Pakistan have now displaced or otherwise affected some 14m people and killed more than 1,600. The floodwaters, previously in the north of the country, reached the southern province of Sindh. The army took command of relief work and some foreign aid money arrived. The UN said it was the worst disaster ever to hit Pakistan and warned of more deaths from disease and hunger. See article India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, told a conference of political parties in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir that India would consider granting “autonomy” to the state “within the ambit of the constitution”. Kashmir’s pro-India party was quick to interpret the offer as a great prize, while separatist parties rejected it outright. In Colorado’s Republican primary for governor Dan Maes, the tea-party candidate, narrowly beat Scott McInnis, a former six-term congressman. The victory confirmed the rise of the tea-party movement in national politics. Elena Kagan was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, two days after the Senate confirmed her appointment in a largely partisan vote. Ms Kagan is the fourth woman to serve on the court, which is now made up of six Catholic and three Jewish justices. Robert Gates, America’s defence secretary, proposed deep spending cuts. They include shutting down the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, which will mean the loss of around 6,000 jobs. See article Ted Stevens was killed in a plane crash in Alaska. Mr Stevens was a senator for 40 years before he was narrowly defeated in 2008. He brought billions of federal dollars to his state, earning himself the nickname “Uncle Ted”, but was caught up in a corruption scandal late in his career. See article Barack Obama lost another economic adviser when Christina Romer announced that she would step down as head of the Council of Economic Advisers. The White House dismissed reports that she was resigning because of tensions with Larry Summers, the director of the National Economic Council.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez restored diplomatic relations with Colombia after he met its new president, Juan Manuel Santos. Mr Chávez broke ties after Colombia’s outgoing government accused him of sheltering some 1,500 guerrillas. In his inaugural address Mr Santos promised to prioritise jobs and land reform and to take a tough line on security. See article Vicente Fox, a former president of Mexico, called for the legalisation of the sale and consumption of all illegal drugs. He was responding to a call by the current president, Felipe Calderón, for a public debate on legalisation, which comes as public support for the government’s crackdown on drug gangs is flagging. See article More than a week after 33 miners were trapped when the entrance to a copper mine in Chile collapsed, hopes of their rescue were receding. A spokesman for Fernando Lugo, Paraguay’s president, said that he would continue in office despite being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Customer service To change your subscription settings or to unsubscribe please click here, (you may need to log in) and select the newsletters you wish to unsubscribe from. As a registered user of The Economist online, you can sign up for additional newsletters or change your e-mail address by amending your details. If you received this newsletter from a friend and you would like to subscribe to The Economist online's wide range of newsletters, please go to the The Economist online registration page and fill out the registration form. This mail has been sent to: eleccion@yahoogroup
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