Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged Saturday to make Japan “more prosperous and safer, including through tougher immigration screening, in a final appeal to voters on the eve of snap elections. Opinion polls suggest that Takaichi’s ruling bloc, led by the Liberal Democratic Party, could romp home in Sunday’s vote and secure a two-thirds majority in […]
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Georgia runoff Senate vote a new test for Biden
Washington: Choosing between a pastor and a former football star, voters in Georgia will decide Tuesday on a seat in the US Senate in an election with high stakes for Joe Biden‘s presidency. Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker, who is backed by former president Donald Trump, will clash in a […]
Israelis vote as Netanyahu seeks return to power
JERUSALEM: Israelis are voting today (Tuesday) in their fifth election in less than four years, with the hawkish ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu campaigning for a comeback alongside far-right allies. The latest ballot follows the collapse of the so-called “change” coalition, which united eight disparate parties who succeeded in ousting Netanyahu last year after a record […]
Oldest voter registered in Sindh is 142 years old
A voters list have been disclosed aged between 100 and142 years old. Over 20,000 voters registered on ECP ( Election Commission of Pakistan), most probably those people were the eyewitness of the British colonial rule, the World War II and the creation of Pakistan. Door to door reverification of people above the age of 100 […]
Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia’s first leftist president
BOGOTA: Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first-ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election. With all votes counted, Petro the 62-year-old former mayor of Bogota won with 50.4 percent to Hernandez’s 47.3 percent. “As of today, Colombia is changing, a real change […]
UK PM braced for Tory no-confidence vote
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a no-confidence vote Monday among his Conservative MPs after dozens rebelled over a string of scandals that have left the party’s public standing in tatters. The beleaguered leader has spent months battling to maintain his grip on power after the “Partygate” controversy saw him become the first serving […]
Voters oust government in Australian election: media
Sydney: Australians voted Saturday to oust Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government, ending a decade of conservative rule, media projections showed. Labor leader Anthony Albanese is on track to win more seats than the ruling coalition, national broadcaster ABC and other media said, with half of the ballots counted. It was not yet clear if Labor […]
Thousands take part in pro-Bolsonaro rallies in Brazil
Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in several cities Sunday to support far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in protest against the country’s electronic voting system. In Rio, some 3,000 people marched on Copacabana beach, many without face masks and dressed in Brazil’s yellow-and-green flag colors. “What we want is that the votes can be recounted […]
Peru’s new president promises constitution change
Leftist Pedro Castillo was sworn in as Peru’s fifth president in three years Wednesday on the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence, promising an end to corruption and a new constitution. The 51-year-old rural schoolteacher, who has vowed to upend a quarter-century of neo-liberal government, enters the job with a lengthy to-do list: tame the […]
Biden accuses Russia trying to disrupt 2022 elections
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused his Russian counterpart of seeking to disrupt the 2022 congressional elections by spreading “misinformation.” “Look at what Russia is doing already about the 2022 elections and misinformation,” Biden said during a trip to the office of the director of national intelligence near Washington, referring to information he receives […]