Afrobarometer Survey: A fragile democracy returns to Mali (French Edition)
This is the French edition of work Afrobarometer has been doing in Mali.
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Co founder of Direct Democracy Ireland on Southeast Radio 15th May 2014.
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Democracy 3 - Ep. 8 Extremism DLC
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gestures while speaking during a public rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Democracy activists joined Suu Kyi for the first time calling for an amendment to Myanmar's constitution, a move she says is necessary if next year's general elections are to be free and fair. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)The Associated Press
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gestures while speaking during a public rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Democracy activists joined Suu Kyi for the first time calling for an amendment to Myanmar's constitution, a move she says is necessary if next year's general elections are to be free and fair. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)The Associated Press
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and pro-democracy activist Min Ko Naing clap hands during a public rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Democracy activists joined Suu Kyi for the first time calling for an amendment to Myanmar's constitution, a move she says is necessary if next year's general elections are to be free and fair. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)The Associated Press
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets Buddhist monks during a public rally in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Democracy activists joined Suu Kyi for the first time calling for an amendment to Myanmar's constitution, a move she says is necessary if next year's general elections are to be free and fair.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)The Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar Democracy activists in Myanmar have joined opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time in calling for constitutional amendments ahead of next year's general elections.
Thousands of party supporters and leaders of prominent student activist groups turned out at the rally Saturday in the main city of Yangon.
Suu Kyi says that the current constitution needs to be amended for elections to be free and fair.
Currently, the law says that the charter cannot be changed without more than 75 percent approval from the parliament. With the military holding 25 seats, they can veto any such move and prevent Suu Kyi from becoming president because her sons are British nationals.
An article says anyone whose spouse or children owes allegiance to a foreign power cannot hold top office.
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Dominique de Villepin says democracy cannot be imposed on a country Photo: AFP
Democracy is most likely to be achieved through diplomacy not by force or by war, saysthe former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin.
Mr de Villepin, speaking at the 14th Doha Forum last week, said that history had proved there was a link between democracy being imposed on a country and the deterioration and destruction of that country.
Mr de Villepin cited Iraq in 2003 as an example in which the western world thought through force they can create democracy that not only builds democratic and stable institutions but also leads to peace, he said.
But he said history had shown military intervention had been a failure. For politicians, it is easier to go to war than implement peace because the military people follow orders but democracy is more complex than politics, he said.
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...I would like to see more Western democracies send more professors, doctors and lawmakers rather than their armies to all the countries of the world and this is the only way to further democracy.
The forum is organised annually by the Qatari government to discuss issues regarding democracy, development and free trade in the Middle-East and the world.
More than 600 delegates from 80 countries were flown into Qatar at the expense of Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take part in the three-day talks this year which discussed the crisis in Syria, human rights, building democracies and extremist religious and sectarian conflicts.
Mr de Villepin told the forum that Second Age Democracy was something that was not imposed but shared through procedures that allow countries to evolve through a historical phase.
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Diplomacy, nor war, the way to democracy, says former French PM Dominique de Villepin