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Article content Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss the case accusing President-elect Donald Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, citing longstanding Justice Department policy shielding presidents from prosecution while in office. The move announced in court papers marks the end of the Justice Department’s landmark effort to […]
Starmer dismisses online petition calling for general election, saying it’s driven by people who never backed Labour anyway This is what Keir Starmer told ITV’s Good Morning Britain when asked about the online petition signed by 2 million people calling for an election on the grounds that “the current Labour government have gone back on […]
Yamandu Orsi, the candidate for the left-wing Broad Front coalition, is projected to emerge victorious in Uruguay’s run-off election for the presidency. He bested Alvaro Delgado of the ruling National Party to win the tightly fought race, though public opinion polls showed the two candidates in a dead heat in the lead-up to Sunday’s vote. […]
Center-left candidate Yamandu Orsi from the Broad Front party won Uruguay’s Presidential election following a second round run-off vote, official results showed. Orsi’s party defeated Alvaro Delgado, the candidate from the current ruling center-right government party, the National Party. Delgado conceded as around 95% of the votes were counted, which saw nearly 90% of voters turn out, […]
Former history teacher Yamandu Orsi of the Frente Amplio leftist alliance defeated Alvaro Delgado of the National Party, part of the ruling Republican Coalition, in Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday. A victory for Orsi sees Uruguay shift left after five years of center-right rule. Source link
The petition, began yesterday, has over 1.25 million signatures on the UK government website. Source link
General election candidate Philip Sutcliffe has quit the Independent Ireland party, with his resignation coming before a meeting to discuss his support for Conor McGregor. The Dublin city councillor was previously Mr McGregor’s boxing coach, and he accompanied Mr McGregor to his High Court hearing on Friday, where a jury found he had assaulted Nikita […]
Our columnist looks at politics closer to home this week and says we have seen campaigns ramp up a little now in the last couple of days. Source link
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said that people of Maharashtra have given Mahayuti an “unprecedented victory” and there “will be no dispute on CM face”. “The people of Maharashtra have given us an unprecedented victory. This shows that people are with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In line with the slogan he gave […]
An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount. So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations […]