News About Democratic Processes 05-NOV-09 en-us Berlin (UPI) Nov 2, 2009 - Helmut Kohl, Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush met this weekend in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.]]> Tegucigalpa, Honduras (UPI) Oct 30, 2009 - Most Hondurans want both ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti to make way for a third person in the Nov. 29 presidential election, results of an opinion poll in La Prensa newspaper showed.]]> Maputo (AFP) Oct 29, 2009 - Mozambique's ruling party has taken a commanding early lead in the southern African country's election, according to official returns released Thursday.]]> Tegucigalpa, Honduras (UPI) Oct 28, 2009 - Honduran interim government authorities are preparing for the arrival of an Obama administration mediation team amid fears a prolonged stalemate will pile up pressure on the economy and deepen the effects of aid suspension and diplomatic isolation.]]> Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2009 - A top Chinese prosecutor has vowed to step up a crackdown on official graft, state press said Tuesday as a leading local lawmaker in the southwest went on trial for links to organised crime.]]> Vienna (UPI) Oct 27, 2009 - Europe's far right is on the move again. A new coalition of the anti-immigration and strongly nationalist parties of Europe has been forged to increase their separate weight in the European Parliament. ]]> Tunis (AFP) Oct 26, 2009 - Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali won plaudits from his peers Monday after being re-elected with 89.6 percent of the vote for a fifth term after two decades in power.]]> Jakarta (AFP) Oct 21, 2009 - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono unveiled a rainbow cabinet Wednesday stacked with party-political appointees to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy for the next five years.]]> Jakarta (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was sworn in for a second five-year term Tuesday, is a dictator's loyal soldier turned leader of a thriving but messy democracy.]]> Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (UPI) Oct 12, 2009 - Democracy groups have condemned the latest sentencing of activists by Hanoi's mostly closed-session "kangaroo" courts, saying the fight for free speech goes on.]]>