April 5, 2016 (2016-04-05) (Tuesday)
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International relations
Law and crime
Politics and elections
- Panama Papers
- 2016 United States presidential election
- 2016 Queensland term length referendum
- The South African Parliament debates a minority motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma following last week's Constitutional Court judgment that Zuma had violated the constitution in a spending scandal involving the president's private home. The African National Congress has a 249–151 majority, making this motion's chance of gaining a two-thirds majority unlikely. (AP via The Washington Post) (Reuters)
- 2015–16 protests in Brazil
- 2016 Peruvian general election
- Peruvians protest in five cities, including the capital Lima, against the presidential candidacy of Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who exactly 24 years ago this day carried out a coup by shutting down Congress and taking over the courts with the support of the military. Keiko Fujimori is the front runner in Sunday's April 10, 2016, election. Yesterday, Fujimori committed to respect democratic liberties and the rule of law, and to work against corruption, which some opponents have rejected. The Organization of American States says the election could lack credibility unless two recently disqualified candidates are allowed to run. (NBC News) (AP via The Washington Post) (Prensa Latina)
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