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    | | | | Politics this week Jun 24th 2010 From The Economist print edition
General Stanley McChrystal was relieved of his command of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan after Rolling Stone published an article in which the general and his aides openly disparaged the Obama administration and America’s civilian leadership in Kabul. Although the general was picked by Barack Obama for command in Afghanistan, there have been skirmishes in the past between him and the White House over operations. Mr Obama said he welcomed debate but “won’t tolerate division” and that “war is bigger than any one man”. General David Petraeus, who has led coalition forces in Iraq, was handed the Afghan job. See article It emerged that Peter Orszag is to step down as Barack Obama’s top budget adviser. He will be the first senior member of the president’s economic team to leave office. See article Nikki Haley won the Republican nomination for governor in South Carolina’s primary run-offs. Ms Haley’s parents are immigrants from India, which will make her the first Indian-American female governor in America should she be elected in November, as seems likely. The Republicans also chose Tim Scott as their congressional candidate in a district that includes Charleston. Mr Scott will be the first black Republican to sit in Congress since 2002 if he wins in the mid-terms. His opponent in the run-off was Paul Thurmond, the son of the late Senator Strom Thurmond, once a prominent segregationist. Insurgents thought to be linked to al-Qaeda attacked the Baghdad headquarters of the state-owned Trade Bank of Iraq, killing at least 26 people. The assault followed the storming a week earlier of the country’s central bank, leaving at least 18 dead. Recent bombings elsewhere showed that the insurgency is far from over. Meanwhile, Iraq’s minister for electricity resigned after protests against the patchy supply of energy amid temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). Many towns had electricity for less than three hours a day. Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundullah, a Sunni guerrilla group that has carried out bombings in Iran’s south-eastern provinces of Baluchistan and Sistan, was hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison after being convicted of terrorism. His followers promised to retaliate. A former head of Rwanda’s army, Lieutenant-General Kayumba Nyamwasa, who fell out with President Paul Kagame earlier this year, was said to be in a stable condition after being shot in Johannesburg. His wife accused Rwanda’s government of trying to assassinate him, a charge it described as “preposterous”. South African police arrested six suspects. See article
Kyrgyzstan’s interim president, Roza Otunbayeva, said that as many as 2,000 people may have died in clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks in the south of the country earlier this month. An estimated 400,000 people had been displaced, perhaps a quarter of whom crossed the border into Uzbekistan. The Kyrgyzstani government still plans to hold a referendum on June 27th, to approve a new constitution. See article Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister. She took over from Kevin Rudd after successfully challenging him for the leadership of the ruling Labor Party, which has been doing badly in opinion polls of late. See article Sri Lanka’s government expressed concern about a decision by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, to set up a panel to look into alleged human-rights abuses in the final months last year of Sri Lanka’s civil war. The first round of Poland’s presidential election was won by Bronislaw Komorowski, candidate of the governing Civic Platform party. His opponent, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of the late president, performed better than many had expected. A run-off vote will be held on July 4th. Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister of France, launched a new centre-right political party. Some expect him to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency in 2012. George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer, unveiled an “emergency” budget, aimed at eliminating Britain’s large budget deficit within five years. Headline measures included a rise in value-added tax, to 20% from 17.5%, and a freeze in child benefit. The coalition government claimed that its budget was “progressive”, but the widely regarded Institute for Fiscal Studies said this was “debatable”. See article Spain’s parliament passed a labour-reform package that it hopes will bring down the close to 20% unemployment rate by reducing the costs of hiring and firing. A minor gas war broke out between Russia and Belarus. Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly, accused Belarus of not paying its debts and began reducing supplies. Three days later Belarus said it had paid the debt in full. See article Juan Manuel Santos won the run-off in Colombia’s presidential election, taking 69% of the vote. He is expected to maintain the policies of his predecessor, Álvaro Uribe, including confrontation with the FARC guerrillas and close ties to the United States. See article Argentina closed the second round of its debt restructuring with a 66% acceptance rate, bringing the total share of its defaulted bonds that have been exchanged to 92%. However, investors who did not participate say they will continue legal action to prevent the government from accessing capital markets. Flooding from heavy rains killed 44 people and left over 600 missing in north-east Brazil. Around 70,000 have been displaced. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime published its annual narcotics report. It found that Peru may have overtaken Colombia as the world’s biggest grower of coca leaf. See article
Jamaican police arrested Christopher Coke, an alleged drug-trafficker and gang leader. He was on his way to surrender at the embassy of the United States, which has requested his extradition. Last month 73 civilians were killed when the government launched a house-to-house search for Mr Coke.   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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