In the spotlight: Democratic governor of California remains in office California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom remains in office. © AP / Eric Risberg Text by: Stefanie Schüler Follow 5 mins Advertising Read more California voters have decided to keep their governor in office. Two thirds of those registered voted “no” in the referendum organized by critics of Gavin Newsom to obtain his dis

In the spotlight: Democratic governor of California remains in office

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom remains in office.

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California voters have decided to keep their governor in office. Two thirds of those registered voted “no” in the referendum organized by critics of Gavin Newsom to obtain his dismissal. "

California pushes a sigh of relief,

" headlines

The Los Angeles Times

. “

This result is the best possible for our state. In the midst of a pandemic, it would have been madness to replace a serious leader like Gavin Newsom with one of the inexperienced candidates proposed by the Republicans,

”said the columnist. "

If the conservatives want to end Democratic rule in California, they must come up with a project capable of unifying the voters instead of playing with our system of direct democracy

Writes the

Los Angeles Times

A point of view not shared by the local Sacramento newspaper: “

Gavin Newsom certainly survived the referendum.
But the problems with which it is confronted did not disappear so far

", indeed writes the

Sacramento Bee

, which title:"

Welcome to a California in crisis.
From catastrophic forest fires to staggering increases in housing and electricity prices, Californians now expect more than rhetoric.
They want concrete actions.

Haiti: Total confusion in the investigation into the assassination of the president

The criminal investigation into the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse took a surreal turn on Tuesday when the Government Commissioner

(the equivalent of the prosecutor, Editor's note)

asked the examining magistrate to indict Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the investigation into the president's murder

"because of phone calls he allegedly had with one of the main suspects in the case, reports

The Miami Herald

. “

Bed-Ford Claude
asked the judge to forbid Henry from leaving the country. But there you have it,

”continues the Florida daily,“

when the prosecutor made this request, he had already been dismissed by the Prime Minister for “serious administrative misconduct”.

Indeed, Bed-Ford Claude has no legal framework to request the indictment of the head of the provisional government of Haiti as soon as the case on the assassination is in the hands of the investigating judge.

As the

Miami Herald

notes

, several human rights organizations have expressed alarm over what they call "

political stranglehold on justice

This confusion in the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, coupled with the ongoing battle to decide on the form that the political transition should take, is today causing great concern in the Haitian press.

Le National

speaks of a "

cocktail of crises with the most unforeseeable and irreparable consequences

", and calls on politicians to stop "

the systematic destruction of institutions, a real machine of dehumanization

", according to the daily. For his part, Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of the newspaper

Le Nouvelliste

, signs a very dark editorial: “

More than two months after

(the assassination of the Head of State, Editor's note),

the country becomes aware every day of a new defeat of law and institutions because the entire reign of Jovenel Moïse was only a pretext to undo the instruments that could have protected the country and ensure a regulated transmission of power

», Notes

Le Nouvelliste

bitterly

We are witnessing the liquefaction and liquidation of the rags of the post-dictatorship dream without being able to guess what awaits us

", still considers Frantz Duval, before concluding: "

We are on the eve of a" reset ", a new start.
For better or for worse
?
No one really knows.

Brazil: President attacks democracy, Parliament responds

The Brazilian Senate last night rejected a decree by President Bolsonaro on the moderation of social networks. Jair Bolsonaro wanted to fight the deletion, "

arbitrary

" according to him, of accounts and profiles by major platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Critics of the president saw it as an attempt to hinder the fight against fake news. The Senate therefore opposed it. But according to the

Folha de Sao Paolo

, “

Jair Bolsonaro still achieved his objective, namely to send a message to his electoral base. And too bad if his proposals do not materialize.

According to information from

O Estado

, Jair Bolsonaro is already preparing "

a new attack on Brazilian democracy

". This time, the head of state wants to change the anti-terrorism law. This law has been in existence for five years and entrusts the fight against terrorism to the Brazilian federal police. Jair Bolsonaro, for his part, foresees the creation of a new unit: the ANC, "

National Authority for the fight against terrorism

“

This authority will be headed by a policeman and a soldier, both directly subordinate to the President of the Republic.
But that's not all,

”warns the newspaper.

This new entity would also have unlimited access to information on any citizen or business, as well as explicit permission to kill

In the coming days, this bill is due to pass before a special committee of the Brazilian parliament before being debated in both chambers.

A white dress makes the buzz

This dress is the one worn Monday night by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left wing figure of the Democratic Party, at the MET gala, the famous charity event of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Entrance ticket to this event reserved for wealthy personalities: the modest sum of 35,000 dollars. The elected to the House of Representatives was for her part invited, specifies

The Washington Post

, and chose to wear "

a white evening dress with blood red letters on the back indicating" tax the rich "(" Taxez les riche " )

”.

Hours earlier, Democrats in the House presented a tax reform bill, which includes tax hikes for the wealthiest Americans and big business. On social networks, the conservative camp immediately denounced a form of hypocrisy, "

not only for having worn a designer dress, but also for having agreed to attend the event

", summarizes

Forbes

Critics to which stylist Aurora James, who created the dress and loaned it to the Democrat, responded yesterday on

CNN

: "The

more these ideas are conveyed in popular culture, the more they will be adopted by politicians

Aurora James also insists that fashion is often seen as frivolous, but that her brand and those of other African-American designers are used as a communication tool to demand more inclusion.

Headlines: Democratic governor of California remains in office

In the spotlight: Democratic governor of California remains in office

Haiti: Total confusion in the investigation into the assassination of the president

Brazil: President attacks democracy, Parliament responds

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