Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is Europe’s longest-serving ruler and the 65-year-old former Soviet collective farm chairman now wants a sixth term as president. But in the run-up to the 9 August presidential election he has faced the biggest opposition protests for a decade. “An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have…
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Borrell urges Belarus to respect political rights
The presidential elections in Belarus will take place this Sunday, 9 August, and early voting has already started. “During the electoral campaign, the Belarusian people have shown unprecedented political mobilisation in favour of free elections and democracy. The peaceful mobilisation of the society has been met so far with unacceptable further restrictions on freedoms of…
EU regrets Babaryka «arbitrary» exclusion
On 14 July, the Belarusian Central Electoral Commission announced that Siarhei Cherachen, Andrei Dzmitryev, Hanna Kanapatskaya, Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya were registered to stand in the Belarusian Presidential elections on 9 August. However, Viktar Babaryka was denied registration on the grounds that inconsistencies were allegedly found in his income and property declaration, and Valery…
EU on Serbia elections
Serbia held parliamentary, provincial and local elections on 21 June; one of the first elections held in Europe since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Serbia held elections yesterday. We look forward to the @osce_odihr final report and recommendations. We encourage the new parliament and the Serbian leadership to continue their engagement with the EU…
Fine Gael looking for coalition
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said a coalition between his center-right Fine Gael party and left-wing nationalists Sinn Fein is not an option as the parties’ policies are “not compatible”. (Image: archive) Irish PM Varadkar says coalition with Sinn Fein is not an option https://t.co/4E2AkVHTcT pic.twitter.com/E5heQzGMk8 — Reuters (@Reuters) February 9, 2020 “For us coalition…
Baku clarifies position towards MEPs
Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement attributed to the spokesperson Leyla Abdullayeva who commented on the information of the European Parliament declining to send an observer mission to Azerbaijan for the parliamentary elections, news Agency Trend reports. MFA talks European Parliament's statement regarding parliamentary elections in #Azerbaijan https://t.co/w61Yke4I7J — Trend News Agency (@trend_en)…
Brexit happens in weeks
Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the decisive election victory that will end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union within weeks. The Article 50 procedure represents a substantial political and economic challenge for the United Kingdom after half a century of integration into the bloc (1973). UK PM Boris…
Russians demand fair elections
Around 50 thousands of Moscovites expressed their solidarity with rejected the access to elections opposition politicians participating in a demonstration “For Freedom and Justice” . The last five weeks the demands for fair elections and inclusion of independent candidates in upcoming municipal ballot united people from different views and backgrounds. Thousands gather at sanctioned #Moscow rally…
EU expects release of Moscow protesters
Tbe European Union expects an “immediate release” of over 600 peaceful protesters, detained by police in Moscow, the spokesperson of the European External Action Service wrote in her Twitter micro blog. 🇷🇺 #Russia: Right to freedom of assembly & expression are fundamental to democracy, without any attempts to silence opposition representatives. 🇪🇺expects immediate release of…
Zelensky party wins absolute majority
President Vladimir Zelensky‘s ‘Servant of People‘ party is winning the snap parliamentary election in Ukraine with 43.16% of the votes, the Central Election Commission (CEC) informed after all 100% of the ballots have been counted. Results of #Ukraine's 2019 parliamentary #elections: unprecedented single-party majority (w/"Servant of the People"taking 254 out of 225 necessary seats); @ua_parliament…
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