#FRANCE: Pres.Macron Dissolves Parliament After Right-Leaning Party Gains In EU Election

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French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the French Parliament and called snap elections in the wake of European election results. Exit polls show Marine Le Pen's National Rally are set to trounce Macron's party in a historic win for the party. 

French parliamentary elections will be held on 30 June and 7 July. Right-leaning parties have also reportedly made substantial gains in Austria and Germany, exit polls say.

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#SPAIN: Snap Vote On Sunday Will Decide If Socialist Stay In Power

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Madrid, Spain – Spanish voters will head to the polls next Sunday, deciding whether to keep Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s minority Socialist government in power, or give the mandate to the main right-wing Partido Popular [PP] party.

In almost all public opinion surveys, the PP are currently favourites to win Spain’s first general elections since 2019, brought forward by Sanchez after the Socialists’ stinging defeat in early May’s regional and local polls.

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#GREECE: PM Disolves Parliament, Sets May 21st Election

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Greece’s president approved a request by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday to dissolve parliament and hold elections on May 21, as the country gears for a vote that is unlikely to produce an outright winner.

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#KAZAKHSTAN: Snap Election May Consolidate President's Power

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Kazakhstan holds snap parliamentary elections Sunday as the leader of the Central Asian country pushes political reforms that critics say are designed to consolidate power one year after deadly protests.

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#PERU: Parliament Calls Early Election Amid Turmoil

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Peru has been gripped by nationwide unrest since the impeachment and arrest of President Pedro Castillo on December 7. The demonstrators protest against Castillo's disempowerment and demand the resignation of his successor Boluarte.

They are also demanding that Parliament be dissolved and that new elections be held immediately. More than 20 people were killed during the protests. The snap elections now scheduled by parliament for May, 2024 are an attempt to contain the crisis.

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#DENMARK: Embattled PM Calls New Elections

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Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called Wednesday for general elections in Denmark, an expected move from the leader of the Social Democratic Party only days ahead of a vote of no confidence against her, driven by a loss of political faith in Frederiksen from her main supporters, the Danish Social Liberal Party, over the government's handling of its mink scandal.

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#ISRAEL: Knesset Dissolved, New Elections Planned, As Coalition Fails

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Israel is heading to its fifth election in three and a half years, after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid gave up Monday on their efforts to stabilize the coalition. 

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#JAPAN: PM Dissolves Parliament For Oct 31 Snap Election

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dissolved parliament Thursday for a general election on Oct. 31, as the lower house comes to the end of its four-year term. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, are seeking to maintain their dominance in the Diet despite political headwinds.

Kishida, elected as LDP leader last month, has said that the goal of the coalition is to retain a simple majority. While it may lose seats, the party hopes a fresh face will lift the party's public support even as the economy remains sluggish amid the COVID pandemic.

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#CANADA: Trudeau Re-Elected, Will Lead Minority Gov't

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Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a third straight election on Monday, but fell short of the majority they sought in the snap vote and will return to government with what will effectively be a status quo Parliament.

The Liberal victory left Erin O’Toole’s leadership of the Conservative Party in jeopardy. The Tory leader rose to the helm of the party last year promising to deliver in seat-rich Ontario but he struggled in the campaign with questions on how he would handle the pandemic and wavered on key platform pledges.

The People's Party of Maxime Vernier also failed to take off, despite crippling lockdowns that angered many Canadians.

As of Tuesday morning, the Liberals were leading or elected in 158 ridings, the Conservatives were at 119, the Bloc Québécois at 34, the NDP at 25 and the Green Party was at two seats.

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#TURKEY: Ruling Party Chair Rejects "Pipe Dream" Of Early Election

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Turkey's ruling Nationalist Movement Party Chairman Devlet Bahçeli dismissed early election request from the opposition party, stressing that Turkey’s elections would be held on the designated date in 2023.

Speaking at his parliamentary group meeting in the capital Ankara, Bahçeli said the opposition People Alliance’s requests for snap polls are nothing but a pipe dream.

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#KOSOVO: Left Easily Wins Parliamentary Elections

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As expected, the Left-leaning Self-Determination Movement Party (LVV) has easily won Parliamentary elections in Kosovo, taking around 48% of the vote in Sunday’s snap poll, according to the election commission.

The party's triumph nearly doubled its last electoral showing in 2019, while Kosovo’s two traditional parties suffered historic lows. 

Sunday’s election saw the outgoing centrist Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) — a party of former rebels—drop down to 13 and 17 per cent respectively.

Polling before the election had shown the LVV well ahead of the LDK.

The October 2019 parliamentary elections saw opposition Self-Determination Movement Party emerge as the largest faction in parliament, finishing just ahead of the Democratic League of Kosovo. 

The snap election was made necessary after the nation's Constitutional Court ruled that the parliamentary vote electing a new government in June, 2020 was unconstitutional.

The Constitutional Court ruled December 21 that the election of the government of Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti was illegal because one member of parliament who voted for the government had previously served time in prison. 

That member had been the 61st vote for Hoti, and 61 votes in the 120-member body is necessary to form a government, throwing the country's electoral system into chaos.

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#ISRAEL: Fourth Election In Two Years Called After Coalition Collapses

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On Tuesday night, the deadline to approve a national budget expired, sending Israelis to the polls for the fourth time in less than two years. Elections were automatically called for 90 days from now, namely March 23, 2021, though that date could be changed.

The failure to pass a budget came just seven months after the swearing-in of the “unity government” between Likud and Blue and White. The two parties, which had fought each other bitterly in three indecisive elections, agreed to form a power-sharing government with a rotating premiership between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz in May.

Netanyahu promised a huge win, but polls suggest tough race, with the main threat coming from parties to his right

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#CANADA: PM Trudeau Threatens Snap Election If Conservative Motion To Form COVID Committee Passes

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will call an election that “nobody wants” this week if the House of Commons passes a Conservative Party motion that he says will confirm it has lost confidence in his minority government.

The prime minister was responding to a high-stakes motion introduced earlier in the day by Conservative Pary Leader Erin O’Toole that calls for a new parliamentary committee to investigate alleged misuse of public money on COVID-19 relief programs, including the WE Charity controversy. 

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#SRILANKA: President Dissolves Parliament, Calls For April Election (Six Months Early)

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Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament and called for new parliamentary elections for April, six months early.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was elected in November, made use of his constitutional powers to dissolve parliament and called for elections on April 25.

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#ITALY: Prime Minister Conte Resigns, Blames Coalition Partner Salvini

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned following a blistering attack on coalition partner Matteo Salvini.

Conte said Salvini had been "irresponsible" in creating a new political crisis for Italy for "personal and party interests."

Salvini, the leader of the populist League Party, had tabled a no confidence motion against Conte, and earlier said his party could no longer work with Five Star.

The League and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement formed a coalition to govern just 14 months ago with Conte as an independent as prime minister.
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#UK: Corbyn Appeals To Oppo. Parties, Cons. Rebels, For "No Confidence" Vote In Johnson Gov't

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Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged the leaders of the other opposition parties and Tory rebels to install him as caretaker PM in order to stop a no-deal Brexit.

If he wins a no confidence vote in the government, the Labour leader plans to delay Brexit, call a snap election and campaign for another referendum.

But Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said she would not support making Corbyn prime minister.
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#ITALY: Dep. PM Salvini Will Call Snap Election After Differences With FIve Star Party Partners

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Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's League Party, has called for a snap election, citing differences with coalition partners over taxation and other issues

A failed attempt by the Five Star Movement to derail plans for a high-speed rail link was the final straw showing that the coalition could no longer govern together,  said Salvini, Italy's Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. He compared the differences to a marriage, and called for a quick separation, "without slapping, for the children," he joked, at a party rally.

Salvini's right-leaning wing party is well ahead in opinion polls, due mainly to his stance against illegal immigration.

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#UKRAINE: Pres. Dissolves Parliament, Calls For July Elections

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Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has signed a decree disbanding the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament and calling for new elections.

Zelensky, a TV actor who was overwhelmingly elected on an anti-establishment platform, said he used the "extremely low trust" in parliament by the public- 4% in polling - as the "main argument" for dissolving the body.

Under the document, the early parliamentary elections shall be held on Sunday, July 21, 2019

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#AUSTRIA: Chancellor Calls For New Elections After Corruption Scandal

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Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has announced fresh elections after explosive revelations from a hidden camera sting forced his deputy, far-right leader Heinz-Christian Strache, to resign, bringing an end to his coalition.

“I have suggested to the president of the republic that new elections be carried out, at the earliest possible date,” said Kurz.

Media reports emerged on Friday alleging that Strache promised public contracts in return for campaign help from a fake Russian backer he met on the island of Ibiza a few months before 2017’s parliamentary elections in Austria.

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#SPAIN: PM Sanchez Calls For Snap Election In April After Budget Fails In Parliament; Third Election In Four Years

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Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday called an early general election for April 28, the third in less than four years, after his draft budget was rejected in parliament. The Socialist Party leader took power just over eight months ago after he ousted his conservative rival in a dramatic parliamentary no-confidence vote, but it has been a turbulent term.

At the head of a fragile minority government, the 46-year-old had to rely on the support of unlikely bedfellows in parliament, including the far-left Podemos party, Basque nationalist lawmakers and crucially, 17 Catalan separatist MPs. They withdrew their backing of the government, and voted against the budget, to protest separatist leaders being put on trial for their role in a 2017 attempt to break Catalonia from Spain.

The campaign is set to begin April 13.

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