Venezuela’s presidential election to replace late leader Hugo Chavez will be held on April 14, the country’s electoral commission has said. The announcement follows the appointment of Hugo Chavez’s favored successor, Nicolas Maduro, as acting president. Hugo Chavez died on March 5 after a long battle with cancer. Nicolas Maduro will run as the governing [...]
Nicos Anastasiades has won the Cypriot presidential election with 57.5% of the vote. It was a comfortable victory of the centre-right leader over Communist-backed Stavros Malas on 42.5%. Stavros Malas has conceded victory. Nicos Anastasiades takes power as Cyprus stands on the brink of bankruptcy, hit by the knock-on effect of Greece’s economic woes. He [...]
Rafael Correa has been re-elected for a third term as Ecuador’s president with more than 50% of the vote. His main challenger, Guillermo Lasso, has admitted defeat. Addressing his supporters in the capital, Quito, Rafael Correa, 49, called for “another four years of revolution”. First elected in 2007, the socialist leader is widely credited with [...]
Nate Silver, a New York Times blogger and celebrity numbers wiz, is set to make millions for his spot-on election prediction. Nate Silver, the 34-year-old statistician who developed his own formula for predicting presidential outcomes, bet MSNB morning host Joe Scarborough $2,000 that Barack Obama would win the election on November 6. Both men agreed [...]
As the East Coast tries to get back on its feet after the damage from Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey has announced that residents can vote by email in the upcoming presidential election. Flooding, damaged roads and power outages have forced many Jerseyites from their homes and the electronic option will allow first responders who are [...]
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are heading into the final two days of campaigning with the outcome still too close to call. Republican Mitt Romney will campaign in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, while Barack Obama heads for New Hampshire, Florida, Ohio and Colorado. Both candidates addressed large rallies on Saturday in key swing states. [...]
When President Barack Obama flew to Chicago to cast his vote early in Chicago on Thursday, he became one of over 8 million Americans to have already made their decision for the November election. And now with the election just ten days away, early results from those polls are giving both Barack Obama and Mitt [...]
Romanians are voting in a referendum on whether to impeach President Traian Basescu. Traian Basescu has already been suspended by parliament in a series of moves that have caused alarm among Romania’s EU partners because of the speed of the process. The government accuses Traian Basescu of exceeding his authority and of meddling in government [...]
Tens of thousands of people in Mexico City are marching against the result of the presidential election, which was won by Enrique Pena Nieto. The demonstrators, who are not necessarily linked to any particular party, say the vote was not fair. They accuse Enrique Pena Nieto’s party, the PRI, of buying votes; some carried banners [...]
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the second-placed candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, has said he will mount a legal challenge to the result. He said he would prove that illicit money was used to buy votes and secure the victory of centrist candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, who denies this. Enrique Pena Nieto was confirmed the winner [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security announces that illegal immigrants who came to America as children may be eligible for work permits and will not be deported. Under a new plan, those aged between 16 and 30 who have lived in the US continuously for five years would be eligible for amnesty from deportation. Eligible [...]
France is prepared for the second round of presidential election that could see a socialist winner for the first time since 1988. In the first round socialist Francois Hollande won 28.6% of the vote, ahead of incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on 26.2%. Rising unemployment and the euro crisis have dominated the campaign. Nicolas Sarkozy says he [...]
President Nicolas Sarkozy faces an uphill struggle in the second round of the French presidential election, after coming second in Sunday’s first vote. Nicolas Sarkozy won 27.1% of the vote, while his Socialist rival Francois Hollande took 28.6%, the first time a sitting president has lost in the first round. Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy [...]
Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of France’s presidential election, early estimates say. Francois Hollande got 28.4% of votes, according to projections based on partial results, against 25.5% for centre-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande will face each other in a second-round run-off on 6 May. The [...]
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