News of constitution

PRO says it won’t support Milei’s Supreme Court push

27-02-2025 19:50 Former president Mauricio Macri – who in 2015 attempted to impose Supreme Court justices by decree before backtracking – says his PRO party will not support appointment by decree.

Constitutional Reform

Maduro sets 'public debate' on constitutional reform

29-01-2025 11:40 Days after his swearing-in for a third term in office amid allegations of electoral fraud, President Nicolás Maduro pledges to "integrate the popular power" into Venezuela's constitution.

POLITICS

Formosa lawmakers seek ‘express’ reform to allow governor’s ninth term

25-10-2024 12:47 Lawmakers in Formosa vote for “express reform” of the provincial constitution, a move that could pave the way for a ninth consecutive election of its longstanding governor Gildo Insfrán.

GUEST COLUMN

Special organic laws and presidential vetoes

23-10-2024 11:20 The total or partial veto of a law should never be used as a tool for conflict, it should only to be understood as an exceptional instrument permitting evidently unconstitutional situations in approved laws to be corrected.

by Andrés Gil Domínguez

Abortion rights

Abortion protection in French Constitution is 'message of hope' for other nations

05-03-2024 12:41 France's new "guaranteed freedom" to have an abortion may transcend borders and "give a boost to the recognition of this fundamental right" in the world, experts and activists argue.

Abortion rights

France enshrines abortion as constitutional right in world first

04-03-2024 16:39 Lawmakers in Versailles vote to anchor the right to abortion in the constitution, making France the first country in the world to enshrine explicit protection for terminating a pregnancy in basic law.

IN FOCUS

How El Salvador's Bukele became Latin America's most popular leader

31-01-2024 10:43 Despite accusations of human rights abuses and constitutional overstepping, Nayib Bukele's crackdown on drug gangs has won him approval ratings around 90%, according to numerous polls.

CHILEAN POLITICS

Chile to vote on new, more conservative constitution

16-12-2023 16:51 Chileans to vote in a second referendum aimed at replacing the country's dictatorship-era constitution, with analysts saying the new proposal is even more conservative than the existing charter.

RISE OF THE RIGHT

Chile's far right re-emerges after presidential defeat

11-05-2023 09:26 Led by conservative lawyer José Antonio Kast, an apologist for deceased military dictator Augusto Pinochet, Chile's Partido Republicano remains an enduring force.

CHILEAN CONSTITUTION

Far-right wins most seats on Chile's constitution rewrite body

08-05-2023 10:58 Chile's far-right Republican Party finished in first place Sunday in a nationwide vote to choose the 50 members of a committee that will draft a replacement to the country's dictatorship-era constitution.

News of constitution

PRO says it won’t support Milei’s Supreme Court push

Maduro sets 'public debate' on constitutional reform

Formosa lawmakers seek ‘express’ reform to allow governor’s ninth term

Special organic laws and presidential vetoes

Abortion protection in French Constitution is 'message of hope' for other nations

France enshrines abortion as constitutional right in world first

How El Salvador's Bukele became Latin America's most popular leader

Chile to vote on new, more conservative constitution

Chile's far right re-emerges after presidential defeat

Far-right wins most seats on Chile's constitution rewrite body

Argentina declares national mourning as flood death toll hits 16

Argentina’s annual wine exports near US$1-billion mark

'Too soon' to discuss pope's return home, says Vatican source

Milei says IMF deal will wipe out inflation in Argentina

Bahía Blanca 'destroyed' by massive rainstorm – 13 dead, hundreds evacuated

Federico Sturzenegger anunció medidas para impulsar el uso de casas rodantes en el país

Bullrich anunció que tomará "medidas especiales" con los hinchas de fútbol que marcharán con los jubilados

Alerta naranja por lluvias y fuertes vientos: qué provincias estarán afectadas este lunes 10 de marzo

Francos, sobre la inundación en Bahía Blanca: "La reconstrucción es un tema del municipio y la provincia"

Majul se quebró en vivo y Bullrich aseguró que el grupo que la insultó era “violento, politizado y del Polo Obrero”