Labour leader Tony Blair arriving in Downing Street after his election victory with crowds waving flags in the background, 2nd May 1997. Jeff Overs | BBC News & Current Affairs | Getty Images LONDON — The U.K. is less than six weeks away from a General Election in which polls suggest the center-left Labour Party … Read more
Poland’s former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki from the conservative PiS party in the ECR has also left the door open to a big tie-up on the right, and there is wide speculation that Hungary’s Viktor Orbán will affiliate his Fidesz party there after the election. All of these mergers and reconfigurations are complex and vulnerable … Read more
A voter turnout of 61.41 per cent was recorded till the end of polling in the four Lok Sabha constituencies in Jharkhand at 5 pm on Saturday, officials said. Voting, which commenced in Giridih, Dhanbad, Ranchi and Jamshedpur constituencies at 7am as part of the third phase of elections in the eastern state and sixth … Read more
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his family cast their vote in Delhi during the sixth phase of the general elections. The Delhi CM was accompanied by her wife Sunita Kejriwal and his children.Arvind Kejriwal was seen helping his ailing father to the polling station. Earlier, AAP leaders like Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj, and … Read more
The groups are behind the European Citizens’ Initiative “My Voice, My Choice,” which asks the European Commission to establish a fund to help women access abortion care in countries with more liberal laws. They are calling for political participation to ensure that the next EU representatives will stand behind their initiative. “We need to elect … Read more
Anantnag/Rajouri (JK): With the threat of cross-border shelling in some border areas and satellite phones and special runners in place to deal with contingencies, all is in readiness for elections in the controversially redrawn Anantnag-Rajouri constituency from where PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is contesting. Contesting against Mehbooba Mufti, working to revive her party’s fortunes following … Read more
Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, … Read more
South African-born cricketer Kevin Pietersen – who left the country to play for England – has urged citizens to “vote for change” in the upcoming elections. The retired star also commented how his country of birth had “reached rock bottom.” Kevin, who was born to an Afrikaaner father and a British mother, left SA at … Read more
TikTok on Thursday said it was putting restrictions on state-backed media to counter acts of foreign influence on the platform during an important election year in multiple countries. The move comes after the United States handed TikTok an ultimatum to divest from its Chinese owners or face a potential ban in the US market, based … Read more
At a debate between candidates for the next Commission presidency on Thursday, von der Leyen voiced support for the leaders’ statement: “We have to have a common air defense shield for all of Europe, like it was proposed by Mitsotakis and Tusk,” she said. With the two-week countdown to the EU election on, von der … Read more
