The election of a future President of France has started overseas. Overseas France (France d’outre-mer) consists of all the French administered territories outside of the Euroepan continent. Présidentielle: le vote pour le premier tour a débuté outremer https://t.co/9Mh8uBs1BO #Presidentielle2017 pic.twitter.com/cOe5H8489C — Présidentielle 2022 (@_elections) April 22, 2017 The front-runners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are…
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General elections – Dutch vote
Reportedly Dutch votes went to ballot-boxes in unprecedented numbers. 13 million voters began casting ballots at polling stations across the country that will close at 2000 GMT. The vote is considered to be decisive for the future of the country, and its membership in the EU. The convincing victory of Party for Freedom led by…
Wilders enters elections race
Today Dutch leader of Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders launches his election campaign, based on protection of European values, intention to ban Muslim mass migration, and close all the mosques in the Netherlands as entities incompatible with democracy and human rights, especially gender equality. Married to a Hungarian diplomat, Wilders is a consequent defender…
Towards Turkmenistan elections
A Presidential election was held in Turkmenistan on Sunday 12 February 2017. It is a positive sign that the OSCE/ODIHR was invited by the authorities of Turkmenistan to observe the election, and deployed an Election Assessment Mission in the country. For the first time, candidates from political parties other than from the Democratic Party of…
Cabinda vs Angola over elections
Separatist rebels from Cabinda have called to boycott parliamentary elections in Angola in August that are likely to be the most closely watched in decades as President Jose Eduardo dos Santos ends 38 years in power, as announced on radio last year. The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), which…
EP: Tajani – Berlusconi's loyalist elected president
Antonio Tajani (63) (EPP, Italy), Silvio Berlusconi loyalist is to lead the European Parliament for the next two and a half years, being elected in an elaborate, but highly symbolical procedure in the fourth round by simple majority. The European People’s party (EPP) claimed the seat after the agreement was broken by the Socialists, who prolonged…
#Trump's triumph reflects on #EU
Anna van Densky OPINION #Trump’s triumph has a direct and powerful impact on Europe’s political life – the upcoming elections 2017 in the #EU key countries, namely Dutch in March and French in May. Both unsystemic candidates Geert Wilders (PvV) and Marine Le Pen (FN) have sensed that their victory as ‘anti-establishment’ politicians can…
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