In this file photo taken on Jan 12, 2022, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala delivers a speech in the Czech Parliament in Prague. (MICHAL CIZEK / AFP) PRAGUE – The Czech government survived an opposition attempt to overthrow it in a no-confidence vote, a widely expected outcome of the motion which the cabinet had called […]
Motorcyclists drive past banners of the Republican Bloc party in Abomey Calavi, Benin on Jan 6, 2023. (YANICK FOLLY / AFP) COTONOU – Voters in Benin go to the polls on Sunday for a parliamentary election seen as a test of democracy as opposition parties are back on the ballot after boycotting or being excluded […]
Peru's President Pedro Castillo (right) talks with then prime minister Anibal Torres as they attend a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Lima, Peru, Oct 11, 2022. (MARTIN MEJIA / AP) LIMA – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has accepted the resignation of his prime minister and will reshuffle his Cabinet once again, he said […]
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a press conference in Edinburgh on Nov 23, 2022 after the UK Supreme Court blocked a new vote on independence. The UK Supreme Court rejected a bid by the devolved Scottish government in Edinburgh to hold a new referendum on independence without the consent of London. (ANDY BUCHANAN / […]
Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gestures as she adresses the parliament, ahead of a confidence vote at Montecitirio palace in Rome on October 25, 2022. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP) ROME – The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won the confidence of the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, with 235 […]
(From left to right) The co-leader of the Greens Party Omid Nouripour, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Finance Minister and Free Democrats Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner and Germany's Social Democratic SPD party co-leader Saskia Esken address a press conference on the government coalition's relief plan to cope with soaring energy costs, on Sept 4, 2022 […]
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks in Edinburgh on Dec 13, 2019. (ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP) LONDON – The battle to hold a second Scottish independence referendum moves to Britain's top court next week when it hears arguments for allowing a secession vote in a year's time without approval […]
A man walks past a campaign poster at the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola party headquarters in Luanda on Aug 26, 2022. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP) LISBON – Angola's Constitutional Court made a final ruling on Thursday to dismiss a complaint filed by the runner-up in the Aug 24 election seeking to annul […]
A man casts his vote for legislative elections, at a polling station in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, July 31, 2022. (LEO CORREA / AP PHOTO) "This gives us an unquestionable majority. Aminata Toure, Former prime minister DAKAR – Senegal President Macky Sall's ruling coalition said on Monday it has won 30 of the country's 46 administrative […]
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures to supporters during a rally to launch his reelection bid, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 24, 2022. (BRUNA PRAD / AP PHOTO) According to the latest data released by Datafolha poll in June, Lula takes the lead with 47 percent of the vote, followed by Bolsonaro with 28 […]
Judges gather on the steps of the Palace of Justice during a protest against Tunisian President Kais Saied in Tunis, Tunisia, June 23, 2022. (HASSENE DRIDI / AP) TUNIS – Tunisians vote on Monday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics of President Kais Saied fear will maul the democracy that emerged from […]
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi reacts during the debate on the government crisis following his resignation the week before, at the Senate in Rome on July 20, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – Italy's government crumbled on Wednesday when three of Prime Minister Mario Draghi's main coalition partners snubbed a confidence vote he had […]
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi speaks during the inauguration of the Business Forum at the International Conference Center in Algiers on July 18, 2022. (AFP) ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will address the upper house Senate on Wednesday on a political crisis that could bring down his government and trigger early elections at […]
President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (center) reads the results of the vote in the Senate hall after a vote of confidence to the prime minister at Palazzo Madama in Rome on July 14, 2022. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's coalition government appeared on the brink […]
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne speaks during a debate on a motion of censure filed by the New Popular Ecological and Social Union party at the French national assembly in Paris on July 11, 2022. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) PARIS – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Monday comfortably survived a motion of no-confidence brought […]