Some 14 million Ecuadorians began to vote this Sunday to choose the next president, in a country bled for the violence of drug trafficking, indebted and divided between the return of the left or the continuity of the current president Daniel Noboa. The first suffragants came to droppers and warm by the cold of the […]
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Elections in Venezuela: only 70 Venezuelans have registered to vote in Peru
Darwin Izaguirre, coordinator of the electoral area of the Con Venezuela command in Peru, announced that 70 Venezuelan citizens had managed to register to vote vote in these electionsadding up to 659 in total. According to him, Venezuelan citizens who are eligible to vote in the commission are those who have a valid passport and […]
Why should the Venezuelan elections matter to the rest of the world?
The future of Venezuela is at stake. Voters will decide on Sunday whether to re-elect President Nicolas Madurowhose 11 years in power have been marred by crises, or whether they give the opposition a chance to make good on its promise to reverse ruling party policies that caused an economic collapse and forced millions to […]
Starmer, the sober man of law who returned power to Labour
Keir Starmer has arrived at Downing Street as if he had never really foreseen it. This sober man of law, a prosecutor turned politician, remains an enigma to the United Kingdomeven though he has managed to get Labour out of its long journey through the desert. Sober is valid as boring, hermetic, dull and constrained. […]
From success to uncertainty, can the left govern in France?
The coalition of left New Popular Front (NFP) gave the surprise on Sunday by winning the elections legislative in France, but far from an absolute majority in an Assembly (lower house) with a strengthened right. Will he be able to govern? The NFP’s various tendencies – socialists, ecologists, communists and radical left – together won […]
The unexpected defeat of the extreme right in France by three points
Its leaders denounced a “alliance of dishonor” between the left and the government to snatch victory from them in the legislative elections in FranceBut the far right also showed its lack of preparation, with controversial candidates and measures. Alone against everyone The far-right National Rally (RN) party appeared to be the big favourite to win […]
French electoral campaign ends with Le Pen’s margin of victory unknown
The campaign for the first round of the French legislative elections next Sunday ends today with the country in suspense over the foreseeable victory of the far right of Marine Le Pen and pending whether it will be able to achieve an absolute majority in the second round. It was a whirlwind campaign that began […]
Fairy tales and other electoral promises in Eastern Europe
From eternal life to absolute happiness, passing through the legalization of corruption to subject it to taxes. The crazy electoral promises, between pure humor, political satire and populism, are abundant in the community countries in Central Europe and from the East facing the European Championships on June 9. Eternal life, along with something more prosaic […]
Xóchitl Gálvez assures that “he already won” but asks to count “every last vote” in Mexico
The opposition presidential candidate Xóchitl Gálvez affirmed this Sunday that “she already won,” the elections in Mexico but he asked to “count every last vote,” because he is “competing against authoritarianism and power and they are capable of anything.” “I had told them for months that we were going to win these elections despite all […]
Concerns that will mark elections in South Africa: inequality, crime and corruption
South Africamost industrialized country Africa, will hold general elections this Wednesday involved in an electoral debate in which citizen concerns such as inequality, criminality, corruption or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can condition the result. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) of the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been in power since Nelson Mandela ended the racist […]