Rodrigo Duterte hopes to outlast his term as Philippine president
RODRIGO DUTERTE seemed determined not to appear like a man about to retire. “This is by no means my swansong,” the Philippines’ president told congress in his final speech on the state of the nation on July 26th, presenting legislators with a list of laws to pass in the 11 months that remain of his…
Tunisia’s democracy totters as the president suspends parliament
Jul 26th 2021SOME CHEERED it as a necessary intervention into a broken political system. Others called it a “coup”, the possible end of Tunisian democracy. No one is playing down the significance of President Kais Saied’s decision to enact Article 80 of the constitution, under which he suspended parliament for 30 days and dismissed the…