Monday, November 10, 2014

Syria, Germany, The US, and Russia

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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