{"id":457,"date":"2016-08-08T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnkgas.gr\/idc\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/the-centrist-democratic-international-condemns-the-political-situation-in-nicaragua-and-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:22:07","slug":"the-centrist-democratic-international-condemns-the-political-situation-in-nicaragua-and-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/the-centrist-democratic-international-condemns-the-political-situation-in-nicaragua-and-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"The Centrist Democratic International condemns the political situation in Nicaragua and Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brussels, 8 August 2016.\u00a0<\/strong>The Centrist Democratic International (IDC-CDI), chaired by former President of Colombia Andr\u00e9s Pastrana, has today condemned the political situations and lack of civil and democratic freedoms in Nicaragua and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>In its Resolution, the IDC-CDI warns of \u201cnew kinds of authoritarianism\u201d exerted by some leaders who, acting on a mandate of \u201cinitial legitimacy\u201d, manipulate the rule of law and civil institutions to \u201cremain in power without respecting the principle of democratic transition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pastrana has declared that \u201cthe defence of fundamental freedoms and democratic values are at the heart of the IDC-CDI; therefore, we are deeply concerned about both the political situation and the reduction of public freedom in Venezuela as well as the alarming authoritarian shift in Nicaragua.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call for a firm defense of democracy in view of the threat of populism globally. These two countries are already suffering the consequences of these kind of regimes\u201d, affirmed the IDC-CDI president.<a class=\"page-title-action\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idc-cdi.com\/wp-admin\/post-new.php\">Add New<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resolution asks international organisations and the countries that comply with them to adopt measures guaranteeing the rule of law and transparency; it also calls for the restoration of democratic participation and the respect for human rights and freedoms in both Venezuela and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>The Centrist Democratic International (IDC-CDI) is a centre-right organisation gathering 85 political parties from 67 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<br \/>\nPilar Santamar\u00eda<br \/>\n+32486981899<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, 8 August 2016.\u00a0The Centrist Democratic International (IDC-CDI), chaired by former President of Colombia Andr\u00e9s Pastrana, has today condemned the political situations and lack of civil and democratic freedoms in Nicaragua and Venezuela. In its Resolution, the IDC-CDI warns of \u201cnew kinds of authoritarianism\u201d exerted by some leaders who, acting on a mandate of \u201cinitial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-ct"],"acf":{"pdf_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idc-cdi.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}