Syria:
- Republic under an authoritarian regime
- They don't have many rights that keep them safe from the government
- Bashar al-Assad is the president
- Syria has been a republic under and authoritarian regime for 73 years
- They are a republic but the government still controls everything
- They ways the get rid of the president are assassination, the country being taken over, and a revolutionary war
- The voting for Bashar al-Assad is rigged for him to win
- The leader in Syria serves a term of 7 years
- Bashar al-Assad is expected to be in office until at least 2021
Germany:
- Federal republic
- The government has been in place since 1990
- After world war II, Germany was broken into East Germany and West Germany
- The president is Joachim Gauck who has been in office since 2012
- The chancellor is Angela Merkel and has been in office since 2000
- The President can be impeached or the people can decide not to elect him again
- The chancellor can be re-chosen by the President or the Bundestag can kick the chancellor out of office
- The bundestag elects the president and can kick them out
- The president was first established after World War I
- The chancellor first entered the political world in 1989, after the Berlin wall fell
- Offices in Germany are elected by the Bundestag
- Disabled people aren't allowed to vote
- 18 is the legal voting age
- There are 5 political parties (CDU, SPD, CSU, LINKE, and GRUNE)
The United
States:
- The leader is president Barack Obama
- America has a constitution based federal republic with a strong democratic tradition
- Democrats and Republicans
- Obama won the election in 2008 and can only serve 2 terms of 4 years each
- Obama will be in office for 2 more years
- He is the first African American president
- To change the leadership, we can re-elect, overthrow the leader, impeach the leader, or assasinate him
- Impeachable offenses include treason, bribery, and more
Russia:
- They have a federation
- The official name for Russia is Russian Federation
- Russia became Russian Federation in 1991
- Used to be the Soviet Union (USSR)
- Vladimir Putin has been president since 2012
- He was the Prime Minister from 1999-2000
- They have 6 year terms
- Vladimir is not allowed to serve another term or be re-elected
- Russians like Putin as the president
- He's in the United Russia party
- Used to be in the KGB
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