Monday, March 18, 2024

#RUSSIA: Putin Wins Fifth Term in "Landslide"

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Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all rubber-stamped by the Kremlin.

But when election officials said results gave him more than 87% of the vote, he said Russia's democracy was more transparent than many in the West.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

#THENETHERLANDS: Wilders Says He Doesn't Have Support To Be PM... Yet

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Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islam, anti-immigration rhetoric swept his Party for Freedom to a stunning victory in the November election, said earlier this week that he doesn’t have the support of his prospective coalition partners to become the next Dutch prime minister.

Wilders took to X, formerly Twitter, to say that “I can only become premier if ALL parties in the coalition support that. That wasn’t the case.” Later, however, he took to X to say that one day, he will have enough support.

His coalition consists of 88 seats in the 150-seat parliament. His Freedom Party continues to gain support in the polls.

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Friday, March 15, 2024

USA: Sen. Schumer's Anti-Netanyahu Speech Stuns Israel

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) speech calling for a new government in Israel landed like an earthquake Thursday, delivering a huge shock to the already tense U.S.-Israel relationship.

In addition to being the most senior Jewish elected official in the country, Schumer has had one of the longest and closest relationships with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of any U.S. politician.

Schumer's speech, calling for new elections in Israel, stunned officials and observers in both Washington and Jerusalem because he has been the Democratic Party's most avid supporter of Israel in decades.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

#CROATIA: Parliament Dissolved Ahead of National Election

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 Croatia's parliament has been dissolved to pave the way for a parliamentary election later this year.

All 143 of a total of 151 lawmakers who were present at the session voted in favor of the move.

The date of the election is yet to be set. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has suggested it should be held before the vote for the European Parliament, which will be held on June 6-9.


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Sunday, March 10, 2024

#IRELAND: Voters Reject 2 Referenda Questions In Defeat for PM

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Voters in the Republic of Ireland have overwhelmingly voted against amending the Irish Constitution.

Proposals to alter wording in the constitution to include families which are not based on marriage were defeated with 67.7% voting 'no'.

A second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home was defeated by a higher margin with 73.9% of voters rejecting it.

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Monday, March 04, 2024

#SWITZERLAND: Voters Approve Pension Raise

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Swiss voters backed a plan to raise pensions, the first time in the country’s history that social benefits got an increase via plebiscite.

The proposal to introduce a 13th annual payout to pensioners was supported by 58.2% of the electorate and also met the additional requirement of being passed in the majority of Switzerland’s cantons. A second initiative to raise the retirement age — and subsequently tie it to life expectancy — was rejected, garnering only 25.3% of votes.

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Saturday, March 02, 2024

IRAN: Low Turnout In Parliamentary Election

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Iranians are voting for a new parliament in an election marred by frustration over economic woes and restrictions on political and social freedoms.

The election on Friday is the first formal measure of public opinion since antigovernment protests in 2022-2023 spiralled into some of the worst political turmoil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

#SOUTHAFRICA: Politician Says Rivals Selling Nation To Jewa

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A politician in South Africa has accused rival politicians of trying to turn part of South Africa into a ‘Zionist’ state by supporting Israel in the face of Hamas aggression on October 7.

In a debate after the country’s State Of The Nation speech from President Cyril Ramphosa, South African Member of Parliament Ahmed Munzoor Shaik Emam accused the moderate opposition party the Democratic Alliance Party of handing Cape Town to “Zionists.”

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

#GERMANY: Parliament Committees Hearing Marajuana Bill

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At least eight parliamentary committees in Germany are set to take up a bill to legalize marijuana this week, setting the stage for expected votes on final passage on the floor of the Bundestag on Friday.

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#ELSALVADOR: Bukale Won Congressional Supermaoritu, Vote Shows

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After a painstaking vote count that Opposition parties say had irregularities, it's become clear that Pres. Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas Party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday.

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