Presidential elections
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Ahead of Poland’s presidential elections in May, the country’s government unveiled the ‘Election Umbrella’ program – with the goal of protecting the nation’s cybersecurity from Russian influence. The Polish government announced a new program to protect national cybersecurity ahead of presidential elections in May. The “Election Umbrella” program was unveiled by the country’s deputy Prime…
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Ebonyi State-born preacher and prophet, His Holiness, Spirit Emmanuel Chukwudi, on Thursday, prophesied that Mr Peter Obi would eventually become president of Nigeria. Earlier this week, Primate Ayodele claimed that he had seen that Obi would never become president. He advised him to go and rest. But in a prophecy he made available to DAILY…
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In a primetime address Sunday from the Oval Office, one day after what the FBI described as an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, President Biden delivered a message that sought to cool the heated political rhetoric of the 2024 campaign. “My fellow Americans,” Biden began his address, “I want to speak to you tonight…
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Derek Muller, an election law expert at Notre Dame Law School who filed a neutral brief that offered analysis of key legal questions, said after the hearing that the justices are likely to put Donald Trump back on the ballot in Colorado. “The justices seemed concerned that one state could affect the entire presidential election process, and…
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Russians living abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming presidential election, Moscow has announced. This includes those in countries deemed “unfriendly states” by the Kremlin, according to foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Several countries have imposed sanctions on Russia or supplied weapons to Ukraine to fight Moscow’s troops, earning the frustration of the…
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The Senegalese Constitutional Council has approved the final list of 20 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25, but two opposition leaders, Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade, have been excluded. According to the final list released late Saturday, which left out the names of the two main…
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Donald Trump has appeared in court as he tries to dismiss a federal criminal case where he faces charges he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Mr Trump’s lawyers argued in front of appeal judges in Washington DC that he was immune from prosecution because he was president at the time of…
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Omokri said Wike would have ensured victory for PDP in the presidential election by winning Oyo, Abia, Rivers, Enugu, and Benue states. MEZIESBLOG recalls that President Bola Tinubu defeated PDP’s Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi to emerge as the winner of the presidential election. Omokri posted on X: “The biggest mistake we…
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More than 50 politically left-of-centre groups in the United States have signed a letter to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, warning he could lose Black voters’ support unless he commits to more transformative policing reforms. Biden’s criminal justice agenda has drawn renewed attention following weeks of nationwide protests since George Floyd, an unarmed Black man,…
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Congo’s electoral commission on Thursday declared opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi the surprise winner of last month’s presidential election, a result that sets the stage for the country’s first democratic transfer of power. The outcome of the disorganized and contentious Dec. 30 poll is being contested by another opposition leader, Martin Fayulu. Vote tallies by…
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The Peoples Democratic Party says the national honor proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Chief MKO Abiola, by President Muhammadu Buhari, smacks of hypocrisy and political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election. PDP said that President Buhari’s action merely sought to use the name and person of Abiola to…
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The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party predicted Saturday that voters who backed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the past would “side with democracy” instead of a “dictatorship” during the next elections in June. Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said he is confident of ousting Erdogan from office by winning the snap parliamentary and…
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Early results and an exit poll showed that Vladimir Putin handily won a fourth term as Russia’s president Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world’s largest country for all of the 21st century. Image: Vladimir Putin The vote was tainted by widespread reports of ballot-box stuffing and forced voting,…
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Arsene Wenger has sent congratulatory messages to George Oppong Weah, who once dreamt of leading Liberia as its president despite setbacks from stronger oppositions during the 2005 presidential elections which he lost to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Image: George Oppon Weah Weah, 51, has been a senator since 14 January, 2015 serving with Geraldine Doe-Sherif for…
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