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LB 4 months ago Banking Secrecy Reform Law
Amended Lebanon's 1956 banking secrecy law to allow government authorities access to bank records as a precondition for IMF rescue talks.
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IQ 4 months ago Personal Status Law Amendment (2025)
Amendment empowering Iraq's Shia and Sunni religious endowments to handle personal-status matters (marriage, custody) — moving family law away from the 1959 unified civil code.
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TN 4 months ago Code of Personal Status (Majalla)
Promulgated on 13 August 1956, months after independence, by Habib Bourguiba's Neo-Destour government. In a single instrument it abolished polygamy, replaced repudiation with judicial divorce availabl
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2002 Constitutional Referendum (abolition of presidential term limits)
Constitutional referendum held on 26 May 2002 under Ben Ali's RCD that abolished the three-term limit on the presidency and raised the maximum age of a sitting president from 70 to 75, while creating
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EG 4 months ago 2007 Constitutional Amendments (Articles 5, 88, 179)
Package of ~34 constitutional amendments pushed through by Mubarak's NDP and approved in a 26 March 2007 referendum (official 75.9% yes amid an opposition boycott and very low turnout). Article 5 bann
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MA 4 months ago Press and Publications Code (Law 88.13)
Morocco's first press code with no prison terms for peaceful speech offences, adopted 26 July 2016 by parliament under the PJD-led Benkirane government as part of a three-law package (the press code,
- Bill new LB 4 months ago
Parliamentary Elections Law No. 44 of 2017 (proportional representation)
Lebanon's first electoral law based on proportional representation, approved by parliament on 16 June 2017 and promulgated the next day, ending reliance on the majoritarian "winner-take-all" system. I
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IL 4 months ago Shabbat "Minimarket Law" (Amendment to the Business Licensing Law)
Amendment to the Business Licensing Law passed 58–57 on 9 January 2018 after a ~15-hour opposition filibuster, granting the interior minister authority to review and reject municipal bylaws that allow
- Bill new IL 4 months ago
Basic Law: Israel — the Nation State of the Jewish People
Declares Israel "the nation state of the Jewish People" and national self-determination "exclusive to the Jewish People"; names a complete and united Jerusalem the capital; makes Hebrew the language o
- Bill new MA 4 months ago
Law 13-21 on the Legal Uses of Cannabis
Created the legal framework for cultivating, producing, processing and exporting cannabis for medical, cosmetic and industrial use under a new National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis-Related Ac
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2021–2022 State Budget (first state budget in three and a half years)
After three and a half years without an approved state budget — a paralysis that had repeatedly forced early elections — the Bennett–Lapid "change government" passed the 2021 and 2022 budgets on 4–5 N
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"Deri Law" — Amendment to Basic Law: The Government (minister with a suspended sentence)
Amendment to Basic Law: The Government rushed through the Knesset in December 2022 by the incoming Netanyahu coalition so that Shas leader Aryeh Deri could be appointed minister despite a January 2022
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"Chametz Law" — Amendment authorizing hospitals to bar leavened bread on Passover
Bill sponsored by United Torah Judaism letting hospital administrators bar the entry of leavened food (chametz) during Passover; passed 51–46 on 27 March 2023. It reverses a April 2020 Supreme Court r
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Organic Law 97.15 on the Exercise of the Right to Strike
First organic law to regulate the constitutionally guaranteed right to strike in Morocco, pushed through by the RNI-led Akhannouch government after the dossier had stalled since 2016. Final adoption b
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SY 4 months ago Transitional Constitutional Declaration
Five-year transitional constitution issued by Ahmad al-Sharaa establishing the legal framework for post-Assad Syrian governance. Names Islam as the religion of the head of state and Islamic jurisprude
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PS 4 months ago Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal takes effect
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led factions in Gaza took effect on 19 January 2025, in three 42-day phases mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar. The first phase had Hamas release 33 Israeli hosta
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Ahmad al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president
On 29 January 2025, Ahmad al-Sharaa was named president of Syria for the transitional period at a conference of the factions that toppled Bashar al-Assad. The founder and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,
- Event new IL 4 months ago
Shas founder Aryeh Deri imprisoned for bribery
Aryeh Deri, founding leader of Shas, was convicted in 1999 of taking about $155,000 in bribes, fraud and breach of trust committed while he served as interior minister, and sentenced to three years. H
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PJD forms Morocco's first Islamist-led government (Benkirane I)
After winning a plurality (107 seats) in the 25 November 2011 election — the first under the post-Arab-Spring 2011 constitution — the Justice and Development Party (PJD) provided Morocco's first elect
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PJD government pushes through the contested 2016 pension reform
In mid-2016 the PJD-led Benkirane government enacted a reform of the public-sector pension fund (CMR): the retirement age was raised from 60 to 63 (phased to 2022) and worker/employer contributions we
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FPM founder Michel Aoun elected President of Lebanon, ending a 29-month vacancy
On 31 October 2016, on its 46th attempt to reach quorum, parliament elected FPM founder Michel Aoun president with 83 of 127 votes, ending a presidential vacancy that had lasted since May 2014. His el
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King dismisses PJD's Benkirane after a five-month deadlock, names El Othmani
Though the PJD again won the 7 October 2016 election (125 seats), party leader and incumbent PM Abdelilah Benkirane spent five months unable to assemble a coalition (the "blocage"). On 17 March 2017 K
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YE 4 months ago STC forces seize government headquarters in Aden
Beginning 28 January 2018, armed forces loyal to the STC seized the Yemeni government's headquarters and most of Aden in fighting against forces of the internationally recognized Hadi government — an
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STC declares self-administration over southern Yemen
Citing a stall in implementing the November 2019 Riyadh Agreement, the STC declared self-administration (self-rule) over Aden and southern governorates in April 2020 and imposed a state of emergency.
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US Treasury sanctions FPM leader Gebran Bassil for corruption
On 6 November 2020 the US Treasury's OFAC designated Gebran Bassil — FPM president, MP, and former foreign, energy and telecommunications minister (Aoun's son-in-law) — under the Global Magnitsky prog
- Event new MA 4 months ago
RNI wins the 2021 election and forms the Akhannouch coalition government
The National Rally of Independents (RNI), led by Aziz Akhannouch, won 102 of 395 seats in the 8 September 2021 general election (up from 37). King Mohammed VI appointed Akhannouch head of government o
- Event new IL 4 months ago
Shas and UTJ join the 37th Netanyahu government
The ultra-Orthodox parties Shas (11 seats) and United Torah Judaism (7 seats) entered Israel's 37th government, sworn in on 29 December 2022 — the most right-wing/religious coalition in the country's
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High Court disqualifies Shas leader Deri as minister; Netanyahu dismisses him
On 18 January 2023 an expanded 11-justice panel of the High Court of Justice ruled 10–1 that Aryeh Deri's appointment as interior and health minister was "unreasonable in the extreme," citing his Janu
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Akhannouch government launches the Direct Social Support cash-transfer program
On 28 December 2023 the RNI-led government began disbursing direct cash aid under the Aide Sociale Directe program — a minimum of MAD 500 per family per month plus per-child allowances — to roughly on
- Event new IL 4 months ago
UTJ uses Finance Committee to restore subsidies for draft-age yeshiva men
After the High Court ordered the state to stop funding yeshivas for draft-eligible students who fail to enlist, the Knesset Finance Committee — chaired by UTJ's Moshe Gafni — moved during 2024 to rest
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JO 4 months ago National Charter Party becomes the largest pro-government bloc in Jordan's 2024 election
In Jordan's 10 September 2024 parliamentary election — the first under the 2022 political-parties law that reserved a national party list — the National Charter Party (Hizb al-Mithaq al-Watani), found
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SD 4 months ago Umma Party wins 1986 election; Sadiq al-Mahdi becomes prime minister
After the 1985 popular uprising toppled Jaafar Nimeiry, the Umma Party won the largest share in Sudan's 1986 multiparty election and its leader Sadiq al-Mahdi — great-grandson of the Mahdi — became pr
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Bashir's coup overthrows the elected Umma-led government
On 30 June 1989 Colonel Omar al-Bashir, in alliance with Hassan al-Turabi's National Islamic Front, seized power in a coup that ousted Sadiq al-Mahdi's elected Umma-led government and established the
- Event new MA 4 months ago
USFP leads Morocco's "alternance" government — first opposition-led cabinet
After the USFP won the most seats in the November 1997 election, King Hassan II appointed its leader, veteran socialist Abderrahmane Youssoufi, prime minister on 4 February 1998; the "alternance conse
- Event new YE 4 months ago
Southern Transitional Council founded under Aidarus al-Zoubaidi
On 11 May 2017 Aidarus al-Zoubaidi — days after President Hadi dismissed him as governor of Aden — announced the formation of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a UAE-backed body seeking self-ru
- Event new IQ 4 months ago
Ammar al-Hakim leaves ISCI to found the National Wisdom Movement (al-Hikma)
In July 2017 Ammar al-Hakim announced he was leaving the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), which he had led since 2009, to found a new "national" movement, the National Wisdom Movement (Tayyar a
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Al-Hikma wins 19 seats in its first election and enters government
Contesting the 12 May 2018 parliamentary election as a new party, al-Hikma won 19 seats while its former parent ISCI collapsed to three. Al-Hikma joined the Islah (Reform) alliance and the government
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Sadr's Sairoon alliance wins the most seats in Iraq's 2018 election
In the 12 May 2018 parliamentary election, Muqtada al-Sadr's cross-ideological Sairoon ("On the Move") alliance — pairing the Sadrist movement with the Iraqi Communist Party and secular activists on a
- Event new IL 4 months ago
Lieberman resigns as defense minister over the Gaza ceasefire
On 14 November 2018 Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman resigned as defense minister in protest at the Netanyahu government's ceasefire with Hamas after a major escalation in Gaza, calling it "c
- Event new IL 4 months ago
Yisrael Beiteinu joins the Bennett–Lapid "change government"
On 13 June 2021 Yisrael Beiteinu entered the eight-party Bennett–Lapid "change government" that ended Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister. Party leader Avigdor Lieberman took the financ
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Sadrist bloc wins 73 seats — the single largest — in the 2021 election
In the 10 October 2021 early election (called after the 2019 Tishreen protests), the Sadrist movement won 73 of 329 seats, its best-ever result and the largest single bloc. Sadr sought to form a major
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STC joins Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council; Zoubaidi made vice-president
When President Hadi transferred his powers to a new eight-member Presidential Leadership Council on 7 April 2022, the STC was formally incorporated into Yemen's governing body and its leader Aidarus a
- Event new IQ 4 months ago
Sadr orders all 73 of his MPs to resign from parliament
After eight months of deadlock in which he could not form a government, on 12–13 June 2022 Muqtada al-Sadr ordered all 73 Sadrist MPs to resign en masse from parliament. The seats passed to runners-up
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MR 4 months ago El Insaf wins a parliamentary majority in Mauritania's 2023 election
In the 13 May 2023 National Assembly election (first round; run-off 27 May), the ruling El Insaf (Equity) party, de facto led by President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, won an outright majority —
- Event new LB 4 months ago
Walid Jumblatt hands PSP leadership to his son Taymour
After leading the Progressive Socialist Party for 46 years, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt announced his resignation as party chief on 25 May 2023; at the PSP general conference in Ain Zhalta his son, MP
- Event new YE 4 months ago
Islah founded in newly unified Yemen
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (al-Islah) was founded on 13 September 1990 in Sana'a — months after Yemeni unification — by tribal paramount sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar together with Muslim Brotherho
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DZ 4 months ago RND founded as a pro-presidential party and sweeps the 1997 election
The Democratic National Rally (RND) was created in February 1997 by figures close to President Liamine Zéroual and the security establishment; only months later it won the June 1997 legislative electi
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BH 4 months ago Asalah wins 7 seats in Bahrain's first parliamentary election, becoming the main Salafi bloc
In Bahrain's October 2002 election — the first for the restored Council of Representatives under the new constitution — the Salafi Islamic Asalah Society won seven seats, its best-ever result, establi
- Event new SD 4 months ago
ICC issues arrest warrant for NCP leader Bashir over Darfur
On 4 March 2009 the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, adding genocide charges in July 2010 — the
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Asalah's parliamentary presence shrinks to 3 seats in the 2010 election
Asalah's representation in the Council of Representatives declined steadily — 7 seats (2002), 4 (2006), 3 (2010) and 2 (2014) — as it remained a loyalist Sunni Salafi bloc backing the government again
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