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Helen Zille: will competence, courage and a dose of arrogance be enough to get her elected as Johannesburg’s mayor?

Love her or loathe her, it is hard to deny that Helen Zille is one of the most remarkable politicians South Africa’s democracy has yet seen. Remarkable because she has served in so many high-profile public roles – as mayor of Cape Town, premier of the Western Cape province, leader…

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Macron slams 'unacceptable' threats to judge after Sarkozy court ruling

French President Emmanuel Macron has joined a chorus of condemnation of threats made against the judge who last week convicted and jailed former president Nicolas Sarkozy on conspiracy charges.

Radio France Internationale

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court

Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

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UK government urged to restore Electoral Commission’s independence to protect democracy

Oversight of watchdog could be abused by a future authoritarian government, report warns

The Guardian - UK

The US government is facing a crisis of legitimacy

As the constitutional order frays, the US could look to Brazil as a demonstration of a functioning democracy

The Guardian - US

Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism

The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” the Open Society Foundations – philanthropies funded by the billionaire George Soros.

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France accused of restricting protests and eroding democracy

France’s human rights record is under fire, with a new report warning that freedoms once taken for granted are being steadily chipped away.

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One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today

The recent death of Robert Redford was a reminder of just how much All the President’s Men unsettled old certainties about American democracy. An exposé of the Watergate scandal of 1972 (when members of the campaign to re-elect Richard Nixon were caught planting secret recording devices at the Democratic National…

The Conversation

A US fascism expert warns: Australia is not immune and undoing the damage is ‘very, very hard’

The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley

The Guardian - AU

I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat

If our nation slides deeper into autocracy, the consequences will reverberate far beyond Turkey’s borders, says Istanbul’s suspended mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu

The Guardian - UK

Viktor Orbán faces toughest challenge in years – but can Hungary’s strongman be unseated?

Orbánism offered Trump and the international populist right a blueprint, but its leader is under pressure at home from economic woes, falling support and Péter Magyar’s rise

The Guardian - UK

'Nobody can tell me whether I'm wanted or not,' publicist Michel Friedman says

Following his controversial disinvite from an event in East Germany, publicist Michel Friedman is now going on the offensive. In an interview with Euronews, he criticises the decision as a "dangerous signal" and the debate about his fee and expenses as an "anti-Semitic stereotype."

Euronews

Kamala Harris blasts ‘tyrant’ Donald Trump for chipping away America’s democracy as those who could (and can) stop him sit silent

Evidently, she is done playing nice.

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Another local election, another low turnout? Syncing local and general elections could be the answer

By now you should have received those familiar orange envelopes containing your local body election papers. Have you opened them? Will you vote? And will you remember to post them back?

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Brazil’s president says in UN speech that democracy can prevail over ‘would-be autocrats’

South American leftist Lula takes indirect swipes at Trump in speech and warns that global threat of ‘anti-democratic forces’ persists

Euronews

Charlie Kirk, Budapest Pride and Palestinian journalists among finalists for EU’s Sakharov Prize

From right-wing icon to banned Pride marches, fearless journalists in conflict zones, and pro-democracy activists facing arrests - who will the European Parliament award its highest gong and claim the €50,000 Sakharov Prize?

The Guardian - US

Legal groups resist Trump authoritarian moves with pro bono work

Groups of lawyers battling to get clients’ jobs back, avoid prosecutions or recoup money that has been illegally blocked

The Independent UK

‘CEO whisperer’ says US business leaders are privately anxious about democracy and state of economy under Trump

Famed Yale business guru Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said America’s top tycoons are freaked out by Trump’s ‘Maoist’ MAGA movement — despite some executives’ ‘Dear Leader’ praise in public

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Guinea votes on new constitution as junta leader eyes presidency

A long-awaited constitutional referendum gets under way in Guinea on Sunday, and is set to test whether the country is moving towards democracy or further entrenching military rule.

The Conversation

Ethiopia’s two bids at democracy have failed: what it will take to succeed

Ethiopia has attempted to transition to democracy twice. First in 1991, when a new government overthrew a dictatorial military regime. Second in 2018, when Abiy Ahmed took over as prime minister after protests against a repressive government.

The Guardian - US

‘The devil is not gonna win’: how Charlie Kirk became a Christian nationalist martyr

The rightwing pundit’s meteoric career was in some ways a microcosm of the rise of Trump-era Christian nationalism

Radio France Internationale

Chad's move to drop presidential term limits slammed as 'burial of democracy'

Chad is a step closer to allowing the president to serve an unlimited number of terms after the lower house of parliament signed off on major constitutional changes this week. Opposition figures told RFI that the move, which could help keep President Mahamat Idriss Déby in power, presents a fundamental…

The Guardian - US

History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begun

Radio France Internationale

Moldova will keep pro-EU course despite Russian threat, Popescu tells RFI

Under mounting pressure from Russian interference, Moldova faces a critical test of its democracy with parliamentary elections on 28 September. RFI spoke to Nicu Popescu, the country’s former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, who is running for parliament on the list of the pro-European Action and Solidarity Party.

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Civility can be your edge in this polarized time, when people have forgotten how to coexist

In a fractured world, the office has become an unexpected civic incubator. And civility is good for the bottom line, not just for democracy and work relationships.

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