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PM ‘trying to undermine democracy to get away with failings’, Labour says

MP Ian Murray said the Prime Minister and his party are ‘unfit to govern’ the UK, adding that defending him only ‘degrades’ democracy.

The Independent UK

Bridgend Council leader says Covid-19 was toughest challenge of last five years

Council leader from 2017, Huw David said he never imagined that he would have to consider whether cemeteries had enough room as part of his tenure

Wales Online

Independent group leader says Bridgend election could go either way

Independent Alliance leader before the 2022 local government elections period, Alex Williams, said more needs to be done to communicate the council's vision to residents

Wales Online

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Plaid Cymru leader in RCT says their business is people ahead of council elections in May

Pauline Jarman spoke about topics such as climate change, coal tip safety, the cost of living crisis, social care and education

Wales Online

Citizen assemblies and ‘taking the Punch and Judy out of politics’: Cardiff’s Lib Dem leader on how the city council should be run

The Liberal Democrats ruled the council a decade ago but currently only have 11 councillors

Wales Online

A divided France and a Germany unsure of its identity threaten Europe’s future

In a time of multiple crises and dangers, the EU needs urgently to recover a sense of common purpose

The Guardian - UK

This is why a leading pollster thinks the Tories haven't had a councillor in Newcastle in 30 years

Local Conservatives blame tactical voting for their failure in recent local elections

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Overcoming Trumpery review: recipes for reform Republicans will never allow

The depth of Trump’s corruption is familiar but still astonishing when presented in the whole. Alas, his party shares it

The Guardian - US

Lords rally to protect independence of UK’s Electoral Commission

Boris Johnson’s government faces new defeat over what critics say is democratic meddling

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk wants to own Twitter to protect his ‘freedom’, not everyone else’s

Billionaires like Musk use their vast fortunes to build a world where they are unconstrained by laws, shareholders, consumers or accountability of any kind

The Guardian - US

Slovenia's populist PM loses election to environmentalist party-election commission

Slovenia's populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa lost a national election on Sunday as the environmentalist Freedom Movement party won more votes than his SDS party, according to preliminary figures from election authorities.

Reuters

My Park Slope Food Coop conspiracy blues

It's easy to fall into conspiratorial thinking, as I learned when my peers thought I had much more power than I did

Salon

Historians to Trump: You're fired!

"The Presidency of Donald J. Trump" offers a wealth of valuable perspectives — but fails to measure the danger

Salon

Maher: "Democracy dies in plain sight"

On "Real Time With Bill Maher," the host talks about democracy as being a luxury many Americans see as unaffordable

Salon

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Salon

Media gets it wrong on Musk and Twitter

Mainstream media largely parrots Musk's mendacious framing — but this fight is about monopoly power, not speech

The Independent UK

Russian mercenaries are Putin's 'coercive tool' in Africa

Russia has engaged in under-the-radar military operations in at least half a dozen countries in Africa in the last five years using a shadowy mercenary force analysts say is loyal to President Vladimir Putin

Chicago Sun-Times

March against antisemitism and all forms of hate

Too often, we have seen extremist elected officials making veiled anti-Jewish statements and pursuing racist policies. We must not become desensitized to these attitudes.

Bangkok Post

Indian politician arrested for anti-Modi tweet

NEW DELHI: A state lawmaker in India was arrested for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter, officials said, raising concerns over freedom of speech in the world’s largest democracy.

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The Guardian - US

‘Democracy in Florida is not functioning.’ Governor’s rigged maps rob Black voters of power

Governor Ron DeSantis’s redistricting gambit means ‘for all intents and purposes, there’s currently … one-man rule’, says one former GOP strategist

Daily Record

Scottish Labour opposition to indyref2 not "viable" says country's top trade unionist

Roz Foyer said there is a “policy difference” between the Labour party and wider Labour movement on a referendum

Bangkok Post

French polls may show support for local control

The problems with these dismal elections are many -- low turnout, moribund public debate, the popularity of politicians running as Putinist populists, and an uninspiring incumbent president, Emmanuel Macron. But at the heart of the French democratic recession is a void where local democracy should be.

The Hindu

Art museums and the craft of democracy

The current regime must check whether its Raisina Hill project meets the obligation of promoting democratic principles

Salon

Trump sabotages McCarthy — and the GOP

Kevin McCarthy's post-insurrection journey reflects the larger anti-democratic shift among GOP voters

Reuters

Brazil opposition party files complaint against Bolsonaro's pardon for ally

An opposition party on Friday filed a constitutional complaint at Brazil's Supreme Court against a pardon granted by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to an ally who the court sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for anti-democratic threats.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson meets India’s PM Narendra Modi for talks in New Delhi amid partygate storm

The Prime Minister noted he would not get the same ‘fantastic welcome’ everywhere as he was greeted with a military ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential residence

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