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    | | | | Politics this week Jul 1st 2010 From The Economist print edition China and Taiwan signed one of their most significant agreements since 1949: a deal designed to liberalise trade and investment across the Taiwan strait. Hundreds of tariffs will be reduced in both directions. Both governments are eager to convince Taiwan’s voters that they will benefit from stronger ties with the mainland. See article The Philippines inaugurated its new president. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is the son of the late Corazon Aquino, who led the “people power” revolution against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. In his first speech as president, Mr Aquino pledged to stamp out corruption. See article Nepal’s prime minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal, announced his resignation, just in time to avoid what might have been a messy confrontation during a budget session. His departure comes as part of a deal with the Maoist party, which wants its own leader at the head of government. Only two weeks after horrific rioting in Kyrgyzstan killed perhaps 2,000 people and drove hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uzbeks from their homes, the interim government held a nationwide referendum. International monitors praised the polling, in which an overwhelming majority voted in favour of devolving power from the presidency to the parliament. See article Australia’s new deputy prime minister held days of closed-door negotiations with the bosses of big mining companies, in an effort to resolve a heated dispute over the imposition of a proposed “super profits” tax. In a huge setback for advocates of gun control, America’s Supreme Court ruled by 5-4 that local- and state-government restrictions on owning handguns were unconstitutional, extending the remit of a decision in 2008 which applied to federal curbs on guns. This case concerned a ban on handguns in Chicago. See article In another 5-4 decision the Court also decreed that student clubs which seek recognition at public universities must adhere to requirements that they offer admission to all students, regardless of background. A Christian society at the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco lost the case. It has been told it cannot exclude gay students.
The Senate held confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan, Barack Obama’s choice to replace John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Republicans focused on Ms Kagan’s lack of experience as a judge (she was an academic before being appointed solicitor-general) Legislators in Congress moved to cut almost $4 billion in aid to Afghanistan after a newspaper exposé of corruption in the country. The FBI claimed to have uncovered a Russian spy ring. The agency spent a decade infiltrating the cadre of undercover Russians, who lived as normal suburban Americans but were allegedly gathering policy information. Ten people were arrested in America, but are not charged with espionage. Another man was detained in Cyprus and granted bail; he then disappeared. See article Robert Byrd died at the age of 92. The longest-serving senator in American history was first elected to the Senate to represent West Virginia in 1958. Mr Byrd’s coffin was brought to the Senate and laid on the same catafalque that was used at Abraham Lincoln’s state funeral. See article Turkey closed its airspace to Israeli military flights, a month after Israel’s deadly raid on a flotilla to Gaza in which nine Turks were killed. Nonetheless, an Israeli envoy held secret talks with the Turkish foreign minister to begin restoring frayed ties between the former allies. Voting took place in Guinea to elect a new president. Sekouba Konate, the military ruler, promised not to stand for any office and to return the country to civilian rule, which was suspended after the army seized power in 2008. As no candidate is likely to win the first round of voting outright, there will be a run-off. The East African Community came into force on July 1st. The member states of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda hope their common market will promote freer movement of labour, money and services, and maybe eventually the adoption of a common currency. But observers are not expecting the countries’ lucrative customs posts to be dismantled. America’s Congress approved tougher sanctions on Iran, targeting foreign companies that supply the Revolutionary Guards or deal with the country’s energy sector. Two brothers who allegedly hired a hit man to kill Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer in Guatemala, handed themselves in to authorities. The country was plunged into a deep political crisis when Mr Rosenberg recorded a video accusing the president of ordering his murder, and then supposedly arranged it himself. Haiti scheduled its presidential election for November 28th. The vote was postponed after the country’s devastating earthquake in January.
Rodolfo Torre, the leading candidate to be governor of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico, was shot dead in his motorcade six days before the election. He had promised to fight drug-trafficking gangs. The election for a new president of Germany, a largely ceremonial role, had to go to a third round of voting in the Reichstag after Angela Merkel’s pick, Christian Wulff, failed to secure the outright support of legislators in two previous rounds. Mrs Merkel is under pressure from some of her coalition partners over the government’s austerity measures and support for a euro-zone bail-out. See article There were riots in Greece as parliament debated pension reform and cuts to public debt that are being demanded by the IMF and European Union in return for a rescue package. In Spain workers on the Madrid Metro caused disruption when they went on strike over government budget cuts.
A statue of Joseph Stalin that had stood in his hometown in Georgia since the 1950s was quietly removed to a museum overnight by the authorities. Gori is to get a replacement commemorating “the victims of Russian aggression” in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.   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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