Elections
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Millions in Britain began to cast their votes in the general election on Thursday, as around 40,000 polling stations across the country opened at 7 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). Voters in 650 constituencies will elect members of the House of Commons, the lower chamber of parliament. A party must win at least 326 seats…
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The next guest on tonight’s edition of Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge is Christine Jardine, the Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson. Asked who she thinks is going to win tonight’s debate, she replies that “the biggest danger tonight is that the public doesn’t really like anything that they see”. She says people want something “different” from what…
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The decision paves the way for Mr Zuma to run for president on behalf of the new uMkhonto weSizwe Party. South Africa’s Electoral Court on Tuesday ruled that former president Jacob Zuma can run for office in the upcoming election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls. The decision paves…
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A New York Appeal Court has slashed former United States President Donald Trump’s bond payment, ordering him to pay $175 million within the next 10 days. MEZIESBLOG reports that Trump had previously faced a Monday deadline to pay a $464 million bond payment that came as a result of civil fraud allegations from New York…
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With the Republican presidential primary behind him, former President Donald Trump said he vows to take a tough fight to his critics, political persecutors, and justice weaponizers in the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. “I will always be nice; I will always be respectful; but when they hit you, you have to hit them…
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Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in on Monday, three weeks after the Feb. 8 elections. President Arif Alvi administered the oath to Shehbaz at a ceremony at the President’s Office. Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and president of his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N, was elected to…
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Jailed former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has claimed victory for his supporters in the country’s general election – via a video generated using artificial intelligence (AI). The clip of the former cricket star was uploaded on social media on Friday just hours after his rival Nawaz Sharif also claimed to have won despite vote counting continuing. Many…
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The caretaker prime minister of Pakistan has told reporters there is no attempt to “target a specific party or group” amid claims of pre-poll rigging and candidate harassment. Speaking on the eve of the election, Anwaar ul Haq Kakar did acknowledge they couldn’t totally guarantee free and fair elections. “Absolute is a very relative term…
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Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis both hold leads over President Joe Biden in hypothetical election matchups, according to Rasmussen Reports. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, though, trails Biden by two percentage points in another hypothetical 2024 presidential matchup, a new Rasmussen Reports survey found. In a Trump vs. Biden scenario, the current…
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait during a meeting with a senior Chinese diplomat on Friday, as the Biden administration seeks to mitigate tensions over Taiwan while the island holds its presidential election. Blinken sat down with Liu Jianchao, the Chinese Communist Party’s international minister.…
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Running for political office in Taiwan was never the plan for 72-year-old Hong Kong immigrant Chui Pak-tai, but the former pro-democracy district councilor in the former British colony hopes to put the Hong Kong issue back onto the Taiwan public agenda. During Taiwan’s last presidential election, in 2020, protests against the Hong Kong government’s proposal…
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A senior leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan’s main opposition party, is in China for meetings with the Taiwanese community, his party said Thursday, a highly sensitive visit one month before elections on the island. The trip of KMT Vice Chairman Andrew Hsia, a former Taiwanese diplomat and onetime head of Taiwan’s China-policy making Mainland…
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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State has rejected the Appeal Court judgment on the state’s governorship election. The party said it would challenge the judgement at the apex court. The APC said in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Barrister Valentine Onojeghuo that it was confident that the mandate given to it by…
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, accusing it of being partisan. Justice K. I. Amadi said this while delivering the lead judgment in the case involving the Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly. According to the Appeal Court, it was awkward for the Commission…
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The trial set for early 2024 will decide whether Georgia’s electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws, which potentially violated voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes and have them accurately counted. As part of a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who said the state should abandon its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked…
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The Court of Appeal on Thursday in Abuja sacked Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State. It declared inconclusive, the March 18 Governorship election which produced Lawal as the elected governor. A 3-man panel of Justices of the Court in a unanimous judgment voided and set aside the declaration of Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
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