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USA : Towards a constitutional crisis in the United States?

 


The US president has once again reiterated that he cannot guarantee a peaceful transfer of power in the event of a defeat in the presidential election, according to the "New York Times".

Donald Trump is causing a new controversy. The US president has once again reiterated that he cannot guarantee a peaceful transfer of power in the event of a defeat in the presidential election, according to the New York Times. This is what he had already said the day before which had prompted reactions from his camp in an attempt to reassure the Americans. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, considered an ally of the president, for example did not hesitate to contradict Donald Trump by saying that the result of the election would be respected and that an orderly transition would be made. But Donald Trump is sticking with it. According to him, it will certainly be the Supreme Court that will have the last word, which is against the rules recalls the New York daily.


The Washington Post now says it fears an institutional crisis due to the repeated attacks by Donald Trump. The newspaper recalls that for months now the president has continued to discredit the November 3 election and that he will certainly not admit a defeat to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Hence the rush to appoint a judge to the Supreme Court. A possibility for which the attorneys general of the Democratic States are preparing, according to the Washington Post, since they are in the process of developing a common strategy to know what to do if by chance Donald Trump refuses to accept the result .


Peaceful protest despite curfew in Louisville, Kentucky


Another night of demonstration despite the curfew imposed the day before and which begins at 9 p.m. About a thousand protesters gathered and marched towards a church in the city center, local daily Courier Journal reports. A church that had decided to open its doors for the occasion. At 9:00 p.m. peaceful protesters, the newspaper said, entered the building as law enforcement personnel were deployed in the street and around the church.


After two hours of discussions, the police finally let the demonstrators leave and return home. This is the image we will retain of this new evening of demonstration. According to the authorities, 84 people were still arrested because they refused to disperse. A figure far from the more than 120 arrests that had been recorded the day before, specifies the daily.


New blunder sparks outrage in Colombia


The death of a transsexual killed by the military while traveling with her companion on a road in the southwest of the country made the front page of the Colombian press on Friday. A new blunder, this time on the part of the military, a few weeks after the death of Jorge Ordoñez, a lawyer who died in Bogota following a police blunder which had provoked unprecedented demonstrations. According to an account by Juliana Giraldo's companion, which can be read in the pages of El Tiempo, the couple were driving on a road when soldiers appeared at the crossroads of another path.


They stopped as the military told them to, which did not prevent a soldier from opening fire, killing Juliana. The soldier in question has been taken into custody and an investigation is open. Juliana Ordoñez was the best thing that ever happened to me, explains her companion. Another example of violence against transsexuals, denounces Semana magazine. A community which has seen acts of violence on the increase in recent years.


In Brazil: no parades in the Sambodrome de Rio in 2021


The 2021 edition of the famous Rio de Janeiro carnival parade in the Sambodrome, scheduled for February, has been postponed indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “We have come to the conclusion that the event should be postponed. We just can't do it in February. The samba schools will not have the time, the financial and organizational resources to prepare everything. " This is how the news was announced on Thursday by the president of the Independent League of Samba Schools in Rio de Janeiro, according to Correio de Manha.


But all is not yet lost, details G1. For now, only the parade in the Sambodrome has been canceled; authorities in Rio have not yet decided whether they will allow the festivities in the streets. As a reminder: the last time the world's most famous carnival was canceled,that was in 1912, over a century ago.