Alice Weidel: The far-right leader shaping Germany’s AfD
On January 29, MPs from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) clustered around 46-year-old party leader Alice Weidel in parliament ...
Tag: Elections
German frontrunner pledges to lead in Europe before key election
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz appeal to voters in the run-up to Sunday’s election.German politicians made ...
Uncertainty grows among refugees and migrants as Germany heads to the polls
Berlin/Cottbus, Germany – Germany is preparing for high-stakes elections, amid fears that far-right sentiment rising while migration policies sit at ...
Debt brake: How this fiscal rule could shape Germany’s election
As Germans prepare to vote on Sunday, their country’s sluggish economic growth will be top of their minds along with ...
Fake flight tickets target migrants ahead of German election
Fake tickets for a one-way flight out of Germany for undocumented migrants have been handed out by the far-right AfD. ...
Far right set to make strides in a German election dominated by immigration
Germans would be hard-pressed to find a time when their political landscape was as fragmented as it is days ahead ...
Prosecutors in Brazil charge ex-President Bolsonaro over alleged coup plot
Jair Bolsonaro and dozens of others have been charged over an alleged plot to violently overturn his 2022 election loss.Brazilian ...
Ecuador set for run-off in presidential election dominated by security
Surge in support sees left-wing challenger Luisa Gonzalez neck and neck with incumbent President Daniel Noboa.Hard-right incumbent President Daniel Noboa ...
Ecuador votes in presidential election led by Daniel Noboa, Luisa Gonzalez
Incumbent Daniel Noboa seeks re-election, with Luisa Gonzalez seen as his main rival.Voters in Ecuador are set to pick their ...
‘BJP has system sewn up’: Kejriwal’s AAP loses Delhi in assembly elections
New Delhi, India – Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have stunningly lost the Delhi assembly election in ...
Seeking re-election, President Daniel Noboa centres Ecuador’s crime wave
Noboa has continued to weather controversy about the limits of his authority through the end of his latest campaign. Ecuador’s ...
Trump fires Democratic Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub
President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move the Democratic official claims is illegal. ...
A referendum on crime? What to know about Ecuador’s presidential election
It was just 18 months ago that Daniel Noboa, 37, won Ecuador’s presidency, becoming the youngest man ever elected to ...
Echoing Trump, Ecuador announces 27-percent tariffs on Mexican goods
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has unveiled a series of dramatic policy moves as he seeks to project a strong image ...
Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform Party leads in UK poll for first time
If a general election were held tomorrow, 25 percent of British voters would choose Reform, YouGov poll suggests.Nigel Farage’s right-wing ...
German parliament rejects opposition migration bill backed by far-right AfD
Bill calling for tougher rules on migration widely criticised for undermining ‘firewall’ against working with the far right.The German parliament ...
Four years after coup, Myanmar regime prepares for ‘violent, messy’ polls
Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious – and deadly – ever conducted. Enumerators and their heavily armed ...
Orange County Democrats say focus on affordability will win back voters – Orange County Register
With President Donald Trump‘s 2024 gains in Orange County still fresh, Democrats are retooling their message to connect with voters ...
Alexander Lukashenko wins seventh straight term in ‘sham’ Belarus election
Election officials say Lukashenko received 86.8 percent of the vote amid accusations that the vote was neither free nor fair.Longtime ...
Elon Musk tells far-right AfD party it is ‘the best hope for the future of Germany’ as election nears
AfD is polling at around 20% ahead of the Feb. 23 legislative election, and the mainstream conservative CDU/CSU alliance has ...
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