Lucy Steigerwald has this full-length article on Congressman Justin Amash, libertarian ideas, the libertarian movement, and the Libertarian Party. It appears in The New Republic.
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The Arkansas Secretary of State has determined that the Libertarian Party petition has more than 10,000 valid signatures. However, the notice from the Secretary of State warns the party that he is still trying to persuade the federal courts that the statutory law requiring 26,745 valid signatures should be enforced.
Leonid Bershidsky has this story in Bloomberg Opinion, on how all the opposition candidates for city council of Moscow, Russia, were kept off the ballot in the upcoming September 2019 election. The signatures were labeled forgeries.
The national Green Party meeting in Salem, Massachusetts, has just ended on Sunday, July 28. The party raised almost $10,000 at the fundraiser. When more news about the meeting comes in, this post will be expanded.
Ukraine held a parliamentary election on Sunday, July 21. Nine parties won seats, under the proportional representation system. However, the new political party that supports President Volodymyr Zolensky won an absolute majority. This is the first time any party has won a majority since Ukraine became independent in 1991.
The new party is “Servant of the People”, the same name as the television show that made a star out of President Zelensky. He was an actor in that series and he played the president of Ukraine. Then, earlier this year, in the actual presidential election, Zelensky became a real-life candidate and became the actual president.
The Servant of the People Party did not have any nominees for Parliament who were incumbent members of the Parliament. The party is pro-European Union and has strong libertarian tendencies. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.