Issued on: 26/02/2021 – 19:24Modified: 26/02/2021 – 19:22 Advertising Read more Moscow (AFP) Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin halted a vote Friday on whether to restore a statue of Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky outside the domestic intelligence headquarters in the Russian capital. The vote, which kicked off Thursday and was set to last a […]
In this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks at the popularity of the Democrats’ COVID-19 relief plan and how both Democrats and Republicans are thinking about its provisions. They also track the latest voting restrictions introduced by Georgia Republicans and ask whether a recent survey of Americans’ attitudes about secession is a […]
Reports from eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina suggest that many Bosniaks boycotted a repeat election in the city of Srebrenica on February 21 after local authorities claimed fraud in November voting. The results were almost certain to be challenged and exacerbate already high political tensions in the area. Ethnic Serbs dominated the balloting in November. But Bosnia’s Central […]
Issued on: 14/02/2021 – 03:18 Advertising Read more Barcelona (AFP) Catalonia goes to the polls Sunday for an election Madrid hopes will unseat the region’s ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain. But the vote could see a high level of abstentions as Spain battles a third […]
The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm Antony Blinken as the new secretary of state in a vote scheduled for January 26. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat-New York) set the vote for President Joe Biden’s nominee after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 15-3 in favor of his appointment on January 25. Blinken is […]
SKOPJE — North Macedonia’s lawmakers have passed a bill that could pave the way for the Balkan country to hold this spring its first census in almost 20 years. The bill on Population Census and Households was adopted by a slim majority of 62 lawmakers in the 120-member legislature, with the right-wing opposition VMRO-DPMNE party […]
Nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov will look to cement his hold on power in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election on January 10, just three months after a popular uprising over a disputed parliamentary vote sent the country into political chaos. The Central Asian country of some 6.5 million will also vote on January 10 in a simultaneous referendum […]
BISHKEK — Kyrgyzstan’s Central Election Commission (BShK) has launched a probe after an NGO reported that residents in one district said they were threatened with violence if they didn’t vote for Sadyr Japarov in the upcoming early presidential poll. The BShK said it was acting on a report by the group Jalpy Ish (Common Case) […]
Advertising Read more Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) Voters in the Central African Republic head to the polls on Sunday, with incumbent President Faustin Archange Touadera on course to win a second term in an impoverished country haunted by violence. In the week before voting day, Touadera accused his predecessor Francois Bozize of plotting a […]
Kosovo’s highest court has ruled that the parliamentary vote electing a new government in June was unconstitutional, sending the country into fresh nationwide elections. The Constitutional Court of Kosovo ruled on December 21 the election of the government of Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti was illegal because one member of parliament who voted for the government […]