Monday, November 10, 2014

Presentation notes


    Syria
    • Type of government : Republic under an authoritarian regime
    • Syrians suppress the opposition and lacks human right and freedom elections
    • They are voiced by the government to say what they want
    • Internal opposition is the state of emergency act
    • Bashar al-Assad was born in Damascus on September 11th 1965
    • His father was born into a poor family
    • Syria has had republic under authoritarian regime sine 1941 (73 years)
    • A republic under authoritarian means that the government basically has all the rights but adds the republic to make it look as if they have rights and freedom
    • Ways to get rid of the president is assassination, the country being taken over by another, and revolutionary war
    • Assad won 88.7% of the votes on the election day
    • The supreme constitutional court put turnout at 73.42% of the people that could vote did
    • Most of his votes came from threats that if they didn’t vote for him they would bomb them
    • Assad's voting was rigged was counting wrong on purpose
    • Bashar al-Assad is expected to be in office till at least until 2021


    Germany
    • Government is a federal republic
    • Government has been around since October 3rd 1990
    • After World War II, East and West Germany were separated by the Berlin wall but reunited as a whole country in 1990
    • Germany has two leaders President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel
    • Angela Merkel has been in office since 2000
    • Joachim Gauck has been in office since 2012
    • The Chancellor is more powerful than the President
    • To replace the leaders the people of Germany can impeach Gauck
    • To replace Angela Merkel the people can nominate a new chancellor
    • The Bundestag can kick the chancellor out of office
    • The Bundestag elects only the president and can be taken out of office by the Bundestag
    • People who commit a political crime can not vote
    • People that are 18 and over must live in Germany for 3 months of longer
    • The Social Democratic party has the most people or is most powerful




    United States
    • The leader of the United States is President Barack Obama
    • America has a constitution based federal republic, with a strong democratic tradition
    • Obama will be in power till 2016
    • He can not run for re-election after this term
    • Each term is 4 years and you can have a maximum of 2 terms
    • The first half- African American president
    • Obama has been president for 5 years already
    • The change in leadership can happen through re-election, overthrow Obama or impeachment


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