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Mario Cuomo Was "voice of Liberal Democracy"
Political experts say former New York Governor Mario Cuomo will be remembered as a liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians to turn to public service and a man with humble beginnings...
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The global Chinese community is abuzz about an unusual event: A Tiananmen rebel exiled in Taiwan, renowned for his courage, charisma and extraordinary personal narrative, has declared his candidacy for a seat as an independent in the island democracys parliament called the Legislative Yuan.
There is a reason for such passionate responses to the seemingly mundane event, for the candidate is none other than Wuer Kaixi, the biggest celebrity to emerge from the momentous 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement that was brutally repressed by the Chinese communist government.
On his Facebook page, Mr. Wuers profile aptly describes him and his colorful, unusual background as a Chinese dissident, an ethnic Uighur, democracy activist, one of the Tiananmen student movement leaders, now lives in exile in Taiwan.
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Yet, if you call him and his life colorful, he would protest vociferously because his primary motive to enter the parliamentary race is to get rid of color politics in Taiwan, which he sees as the biggest obstacle holding back the islands boisterous democracy.
Michael Jackson had a song I liked very much, he told Inside China, Its called Black or White, which has my favorite words, Im not going to spend my life being a color.
Almost everyone in todays Taiwan society has an identifying color, being blue or green, Mr. Wuer said. The two largest political parties are the ruling KMT party, popularly known as the Blue, and the main opposition, the Democratic and Progressive Party (DPP), or the Green.
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The colors in Taiwan are not on our skins, but are indelibly attached to our political identifications we talk, think, vote, either willingly or passively, solely based upon the Blue/Green color line, Mr. Wuer noted.
He bemoans the polarization which has turned Taiwanese politics into a highly partisan battleground where opposing colors attack and demonize each other with little tolerance or mercy.
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Thousands of Hungarians took to the streets in downtown Budapest, rallying against what they call anti-democratic measures by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The crowd filled up Andrassy Avenue today in front of the opera house, carrying signs demanding democracy and a new republic, and chanting Orban get out!
We must offer an alternative to the current system, Gabor Vago, a former lawmaker who left the environmentalist LMP Party after serving in parliament, told the crowd. Vago called on protesters to be active in new political organizations.
Orban, re-elected for a second term in April, has drawn criticism from the European Union and the U.S. over the erosion of democratic values. The premier defended his drive to centralize power, claiming in a Dec. 15 interview that Hungarians welcomed a system he calls illiberal democracy.
Since coming to power in 2010, Orban has weakened independent institutions designed to limit the premiers authority. The premier, who wields a two-thirds majority in parliament, has used his position to pass a constitution over opposition protests and appoint allies, often members of his party, to head independent institutions such as courts, the media authority, the prosecutors office and the central bank.
In September, U.S. President Barack Obama called out Hungary and Egypt in comments about government intimidation of non-governmental organizations. In October, the U.S. imposed travel bans on six Hungarians on allegations of corruption, charges that Orbans government rejected.
We believe that Orban and his system must go, Bori Takacs, one of the organizers of todays rally, told the crowd.
Organizers of todays protest are staging the next rally for Feb. 1, a day ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkels visit to Budapest, Takacs said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Edith Balazs in Budapest at ebalazs1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: James M. Gomez at jagomez@bloomberg.net Andrea Snyder, Ben Holland
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