#ARMENIA: Opposition Leaders Stripped Of Parliamentary Posts

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Armenia’s parliament controlled by the ruling Civil Contract Party voted on Friday to dismiss one of its deputy speakers and the chairman of its economic committee affiliated with the main opposition Hayastan bloc.

The bloc condemned the decision and said it will give up other leadership positions in the National Assembly in protest.

Speaking before the vote, Civil Contract lawmakers again said that deputy speaker Ishkhan Saghatelyan and the committee chairman, Vahe Hakobyan, must be dismissed because of boycotting sessions of the parliament and its standing committees.

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#CANADA: Oppo. Leader O'Toole Names Shadow Cabinet Critics

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The list of who will sit on the Opposition front benches as the critics for the Liberal government ministries is a mix of those who backed O'Toole in his leadership campaign, those who backed his rivals and several key players in the party who had remained entirely neutral in the race.

Among them: his predecessor Andrew Scheer, who will serve as infrastructure critic; Ontario's Pierre Poilievre, who remains as finance critic; and Alberta MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who will take on the health portfolio.

Ontario MP Michael Chong is taking a big step up to become the Conservatives' critic for foreign affairs, considered one of the most high-profile portfolios.

That was the portfolio O'Toole himself was granted in 2017 after he lost the leadership race that year to Scheer.

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#UK: Sir Keir Starmer Wins Labour Party Leadership Election

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Sir Keir Starmer won in the first round of the UK Labour Party's leadership Election, with more than 50% of the votes. He has become Leader of the Opposition, succeeeding Jeremy Corbyn, who announced he was stepping down after the general election in December.

The shadow Brexit secretary and former director of public prosecutions is viewed as more of a centrist than the 'Corbyn' candidate. He had been an advocate for a second referendum on Brexit.

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#IRELAND: Opposition Sinn Féin Party Proposes New Wealth Tax, €3.4 Billion In New Spending

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The opposition Sinn Féin Party has proposed a battery of new taxes including a wealth tax and a high income tax in its alternative budget which proposes to spend €3.4 billion more than the € 2.8 billion of the government.

In a clear signal the party is positioning itself firmly to the left, the budget  document argues for new taxes on high earners and high net worth individuals in a package that would increase revenue by €2 billion. The party’s finance spokesman, Pearse Doherty, said its budget would be balanced and "Brexit-ready."

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#JAPAN: Two Major Opposition Parties To Form Joint Group To Challenge Abe's Ruling Liberal Democrats

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Japan's two largest opposition parties will form a joint group in both houses of the Diet in an attempt to challenge the ruling bloc's dominance.

Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano and Yuichiro Tamaki, who heads the Democratic Party for the People, agreed on the plan during a meeting roughly one month after an upper house election that saw the ruling bloc secure a solid win.

Pictured: Yukio Edano, Leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan

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#CURACAO: Opposition Leader Cannot Remain Member of Parliament While In Prison, Says High Court

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Gerrit Schotte, the leader of Movementu Futuro Kòrsou, the official opposition party in the Caribbean nation of Curacao, cannot continue to serve as a member of parliament from prison, the nation's supreme court has ruled. It means the next MP on the party's April, 2017 election list, Juniël Carolina, will become an MP in his place. Schotte, who was elected the nation's first prime minister when Curacao became a nation in 2010, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2017 for official bribery, forgery, and money laundering.

Pictured: MP Juniël Carolina

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#SPAIN: Two Women Get Into Race To Lead Popular Party In Opposition After Rajoy Resigns From Politics

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The race to lead Spain's graft-tainted conservative Popular Party gathered pace Tuesday, as two women who were heavyweight ministers in Mariano Rajoy's ousted government announced their candidacy. Former deputy prime minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, 47, and ex-defence minister Maria Dolores de Cospedal, 52, both threw their hats into the ring to replace Rajoy, who withdrew from politics after his government was toppled last month in a parliamentary confidence vote. Also running are former foreign minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo, 73, and Pablo Casado, a 37-year-old party spokesman and rising star. The first round of voting will be held on July 5.

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