Portées par la politique «corona-sceptique» du président brésilien d’extrême droite Jair Bolsonaro, écrit Marie-Lorraine Tresca, des voix religieuses, à l’instar de celle du très influent pasteur Silas Malafaia, assimilaient fin mars les mesures de confinement à «une stratégie du diable»: «Mes amis, ne vous inquiétez pas à cause du coronavirus. C’est une tactique de Satan, il s’alimente de la peur», assurait-il, avant d’être contraint par le parquet de Rio à suspendre ses cultes.

As Miguel Lago puts it, "Since the 1970s, people are — what they dream about is getting vaccines."
 
So people simply value vaccines too much to put stock in doubt-mongering.
 
For many Brazilians the danger of going without vaccines also feels more immediate: In Brazil people are much more likely to get serious infectious diseases like dengue and yellow fever, whereas in the U.S. the threat from viruses can feel more abstract.

Le président du TSE, Alexandre de Moraes, a répondu à la plainte en expliquant que ces modèles d’urnes avaient été utilisés non seulement au second tour, mais également au premier, le 2 octobre. Il demande donc que la plainte « concerne les deux tours », sous peine d’être rejetée sans être analysée.
 
Mais une annulation d’une partie des voix obtenues le 2 octobre aurait également un impact sur les législatives, qui ont eu lieu le même jour, avec les mêmes urnes. Or celles-ci ont donné au PL une belle victoire. Il est devenu le premier parti au Congrès avec quatre-vingt-dix-neuf députés et quatorze sénateurs. Remettre en cause le premier tour du scrutin reviendrait donc à mettre en péril l’élection de nombreux parlementaires du PL.

Des partisans de Bolsonaro tentent de communiquer avec les extraterrestres pour les aider à renverser Lula

La Vice-présidente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a été reconnue coupable de corruption. Elle a été condamnée à 6 ans de prison et inéligibilité à vie.

Le président péruvien Pedro Castillo avait ordonné mercredi après-midi la dissolution du Parlement quelques heures seulement avant que celui-ci ne se réunisse pour débattre d'une motion visant à le destituer, et annoncé l'établissement d'un "gouvernement d'exception".

Il avait également annoncé "convoquer dans les plus brefs délais un nouveau Congrès doté de pouvoirs constituants pour rédiger une nouvelle Constitution dans un délai ne dépassant pas neuf mois". Jusqu'à l'établissement du nouveau Parlement, "le gouvernement sera régi par un décret-loi", avait-il poursuivi, annonçant également un "couvre-feu national à partir d'aujourd'hui" entre 22h00 et 04h00.

le Parlement péruvien, dominé par l'opposition, a voté la destitution du président de gauche Pedro Castillo, ignorant l'annonce de sa dissolution et l'instauration de l'état d'urgence. Sa destitution pour "incapacité morale", retransmise en direct à la télévision, a été approuvée par 101 des 130 parlementaires, dont 80 dans l'opposition.

Sa vice-présidente, Dina Boluarte, a été investie, mercredi 7 décembre, à la tête du pays, peu après la destitution par le Parlement du président Pedro Castillo. "J'assume [le pouvoir] conformément à la Constitution du Pérou, à partir de ce moment et jusqu'au 26 juillet 2026", a déclaré devant le Parlement cette avocate de 60 ans, première femme à diriger le Pérou.

(Washington, DC) – Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to modify the constitution to overhaul the country’s electoral system could seriously undermine electoral authorities’ independence, putting free, fair elections at risk, Human Rights Watch said today. Legislators should reject the proposed constitutional changes, which would contravene international human rights standards.

The president’s proposal would eliminate many of the safeguards intended to preserve the independence of the two national authorities it would charge with overseeing all elections. Congress is expected to discuss and vote on the proposal before the current legislative session ends on December 15, 2022.

“President López Obrador’s proposed changes to the electoral system would make it much easier for whichever party holds power to co-opt the country’s electoral institutions to stay in power,” said Tyler Mattiace, Mexico researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Given Mexico’s long history of one-party rule maintained through questionable elections, it is extremely problematic that legislators would consider a highly regressive proposal that would weaken the independence of the elections authority.”

Under President López Obrador’s proposal, all state electoral institutes and state electoral tribunals – the independent authorities that administer most state and local elections, enforce campaign rules, and resolve electoral disputes – would be eliminated. Their responsibilities would be transferred to the National Electoral Institute and the Federal Electoral Tribunal, which would become the sole arbiters of all elections in Mexico.

The proposal would also change the way the governing members of the National Electoral Institute and the Federal Electoral Tribunal are appointed, eliminating safeguards intended to ensure their independence from the government. The proposal would shorten and unify the members’ terms so that all governing members of both electoral authorities would be appointed at once, in the same process, during each six-year presidential term. Currently, these officials serve staggered, nine-year terms and are appointed in separate selection processes by different officials in different years.

Reducing the number of authorities responsible for administering elections and making it possible to name all electoral official at once would make it much easier for the government to influence the selection process, which could undermine electoral authorities’ independence, Human Rights Watch said.

Mexico’s current electoral system, which includes many safeguards to protect the independence of electoral authorities, is the result of decades of reforms that began with the creation of the electoral institute in 1990 and led to the end of one-party rule in 2000. For most of the 20th century, one political party controlled nearly every public institution in Mexico. The government organized regular elections, which were widely considered to be neither free nor fair, and nearly always maintained power.

The president’s proposal would also eliminate the constitutional mandate for the independent National Electoral Institute, rather than the government, to administer the electoral registry, the official list of registered voters. During most of the years of one-party rule in Mexico, the government administered electoral registry.

The possibility that the electoral registry could be transferred to the control of the government could contravene Mexican law and international standards for protecting personal data. These standards bar organizations that hold personal information, such as names, photos, and fingerprints, from sharing that information without the express permission of the people whose data might be transferred.

Each country is required under international law, to protect citizens’ right to vote and participate in the conduct of public affairs by ensuring that there is an independent electoral authority that can supervise elections fairly and impartially. While international law does not prescribe any particular electoral system, states should not put in place measures that could weaken the independence or impartiality of electoral authorities.

Article 117

During his term of office, the President of the Republic may only be charged with:
committing high treason; preventing presidential, congressional, regional, or municipal
elections; dissolving Congress, except in cases as set forth in article 134 of the
Constitution; and preventing the meeting or operation of Congress, the National
Election Board, or other bodies of the election system.

Article 134

The President of the Republic has the power to dissolve Congress if it has censured or
denied its confidence to two Cabinets.

The dissolution decree shall contain a call for the election of a new Congress. Such
elections shall be held within four months of the dissolution of Congress, without any
alteration of the existing electoral system.

Congress may not be dissolved during the last year of its term. Once Congress is
dissolved, the Permanent Assembly, which may not be dissolved, continues exercising
its functions.

There is no other form to revoke the parliamentary mandate.

Under a state of siege, Congress may not be dissolved.

Castillo, who was removed from power on Wednesday after he attempted to dissolve Peru’s Congress and call for new elections, was arrested while allegedly traveling to the Mexican Embassy, according to Peruvian prosecutors.

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard later said that Castillo requested for asylum, and Mexican President Lopez Obrador criticized Peruvian elites, calling for the protection of the ousted president’s human rights.

Lopez Obrado also said he had directed Ambassador Pablo Monroy to “open the embassy’s door” to Castillo. Monroy reportedly met with Castillo on Thursday.

‘I request that you consider granting asylum’
In his tweet, Ebrard shared a copy of the letter apparently signed by Castillo’s lawyer on Thursday.

“I have the high honor of addressing you, and in light of the latest political events that have occurred in this country, which you are aware of in great detail, I request that you consider granting asylum to citizen Pedro José Castillo Terrones,” the letter read.

Ebrard said his government has “started consultations with the Peruvian authorities,” and confirmed that Monroy had met with Castillo.

“He found him physically well and in the company of his lawyer,” Ebrard said.

The same day, Mexico’s leftist President Obrador told journalists that Castillo tried to go to the Mexican embassy in Lima to request asylum.

“I contacted Marcelo Ebrard and I informed him. I asked him to talk to the ambassador (Monroy) and to open the embassy’s door according to our asylum tradition,” the President told journalists. “We ask to respect his human rights.”

“We are very sorry about what happened because since Pedro Castillo won, legally, legitimately, he was the victim of harassment, of confrontation, his adversaries, especially the economic and political elites of that country, did not accept that he governed, among other things, and that is what I regret the most,” he added.

Les gouvernements de gauche du Mexique, d'Argentine, de la Colombie et de Bolivie ont apporté leur soutien au président péruvien destitué Pedro Castillo, alors que se poursuivent des manifestations de soutien au président déchu au Pérou.

«Le président Castillo Terrones, depuis le jour de son élection, a été victime d'un mouvement hostile, antidémocratique et en violation de la Convention américaine des droits humains», affirme un communiqué signé par les quatre pays, et rendu public lundi 12 décembre par le ministère colombien des Affaires étrangères. «Nous exhortons tous ceux qui sont partie prenante des institutions de s'abstenir de remettre en cause la volonté populaire exprimée lors d'une élection libre», ajoutent ces pays.