Tag: Vote
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Islamic party becomes surprise kingmaker after Israel vote
Jerusalem, (24th March, 2021, 08:10 pm) (AFP/APP):Israel’s election brought a surprise when a conservative Islamic party crossed the threshold to enter parliament and its leader emerged Wednesday as a possible kingmaker. Mansour Abbas and his Raam party — unlike other Arab political groups before it — have not ruled out joining an Israeli government. “We…
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Gaza rocket hits southern Israel on election day: army
Jerusalem, (23rd March, 2021, 11:40 pm) (AFP/APP):Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a rocket at southern Israel on Tuesday, the army said, shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the region on election day. “A short while ago, a projectile was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. As a result, an alert was…
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Congo’s Sassou Nguesso re-elected with 88.57% of vote
Brazzaville, (23rd March, 2021, 11:10 pm) (AFP/APP):The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His…
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Dutch Vote in ‘COVID Election’ as Rutte Aims for Fourth Term
The Dutch are voting in the ‘COVID election’ as Rutte aims for a fourth term.
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Abbas rival accuses president of failing Palestinians
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, March 17 (AFP/APP):Mohammed Dahlan, a former top Palestinian official exiled in the United Arab Emirates, branded his rival president Mahmud Abbas a failed leader in an interview Wednesday ahead of Palestinian elections. Speaking to Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabiya channel, the Gaza-born Dahlan did not announce his candidacy to replace Abbas but voiced…
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Dutch vote in Covid-dominated election
The Hague, March 15 (AFP/APP):The Netherlands began three days of socially-distanced voting Monday in one of the first major tests of a European government’s coronavirus policies, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte expected to win another term in office. Bike-through voting centres and polling booths in railway stations and even a miniature theme park opened to…
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Merkel party suffers losses in two German state elections: exit polls
Stuttgart, Germany, March 14 (AFP/APP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party suffered heavy losses in two key regional elections Sunday, early estimates showed, as voters vented anger over pandemic setbacks and a face-mask procurement scandal. In the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Merkel’s centre-right CDU was set for its worst-ever result at 23 percent, according to exit…
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Thousands protest in Algiers after election date announced
Algiers, March 12 (AFP/APP):Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak pro-democracy movement gain momentum. Protesters defied a coronavirus-related ban on gatherings to rally from different parts of the capital, converging on the central post office, the Hirak movement’s emblematic rallying point,…
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Biden signs order aimed at making voting easier
Washington, March 7 (AFP/APP):US President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at making it easier for Americans to vote at a time when new limits on their right to do so are pending in statehouses across the country. He announced the order in a pretaped speech marking the anniversary of the 1965…
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Swiss approve Indonesia free trade deal
Geneva, March 7 (AFP/APP):Swiss voters on Sunday narrowly backed a free trade deal signed with Indonesia, opening up a vast potential market with the world’s fourth most populous country. Controversy surrounding the importation of Indonesian palm oil and its sustainability fuelled enough concern in Switzerland to trigger a public vote on the agreement. But the…