BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s embattled currency could cost the ruling Peronist party an election – and its key majority in the Senate. FILE PHOTO: A man stands next to dairy products in a supermarket in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina…
Read MoreJapan PM's nuclear push faces resistance ahead of election
KASHIWAZAKI, Japan (Reuters) – Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s push to restart Japanese nuclear power plants idled after the Fukushima disaster faces stiff opposition ahead of a general election on Sunday, where his future as leader hangs in the balance if…
Read MoreGerman election: A mood of optimism tempered by anxiety – the social democrats edge ahead in exit polls
The German social democrats have had a miserable time in recent years, consistently beaten at the polls by Angela Merkel’s election-winning machine, and cast as the party that time forgot. But now, it seems, the SPD is back. Certainly, there…
Read MoreFrance election: Female challengers launch bids to become country’s first women president
Two politicians have thrown their hats into the ring in a bid to become France’s first woman president after next year’s election. Paris’s socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo and Marine Le Pen of the far right National Rally have both formally…
Read MoreTrump-backed candidate on ballot in U.S. House runoff in Texas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Voters in Texas will provide another measure of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s influence over Republicans when they choose whether to replace a congressman who died of COVID-19 with his Trump-backed widow or a former fighter pilot….
Read MoreSamoan election: Swearing in ceremony for FAST party being held despite locked Parliament
KEY POINTS: The FAST party which has a majority of seats was locked out of Parliament this morning. Today's sitting was to swear in MPs after the April 9 election. Under the constitution Parliament must sit within 45 days of…
Read MoreElection results: ‘We’re staking the claim to become England’s third party’, say Greens
The Green Party are aiming to replace the Liberal Democrats as England’s third party after significant gains in the local elections. They won 88 more seats, compared to the Lib Dems’ increase of seven. Yet the Greens are far from…
Read MoreElection results: Party should get in touch if they need me – Labours Andy Burnham does not dismiss future leadership bid
Andy Burnham has not dismissed suggestions he could mount a bid for the Labour leadership in the future, telling Sky News the party should “get in touch” if it were “ever to feel it needed me”. He was speaking after…
Read MoreElection results: Five problems for Keir Starmer as Hartlepool defeat puts party in crisis
After 11 years of Tories in Downing Street, today’s by-election and local elections are a remarkable disaster for the opposition, showing Labour still going backwards. Sir Keir Starmer’s first electoral test has not yet yielded any positive news, with the…
Read MoreUS election: Trump to leave Washington before Biden’s inauguration
US President Donald Trump will leave Washington DC next Wednesday morning (Thursday NZT), just before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration the following day, to begin his post-presidential life in Florida. He will be sent off with a departure ceremony at Joint…
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