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Portuguese voted on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election with no clear winner in sight and uncertainty increased by potentially low turnout amid record coronavirus infections. A late surge by the opposition centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD) clawed away the ruling Socialists’ once comfortable poll lead, with the two sides in a statistical tie according […]
Arizona’s state House of Representatives has proposed a mammoth overhaul of the state’s voting procedures that would allow legislators to overturn the results of a primary or general election after months of unfounded allegations and partisan audits. The bill, introduced by state Rep. John Fillmore (R), would substantially change the way Arizonans vote by eliminating […]
Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) claimed victory in the federal election, telling the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel it should no longer be in power. SPD leader Olaf Scholz said he had a clear mandate to form a government, while his conservative rival Armin Laschet remains determined to fight on. The two parties have […]
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she will run for president in next year’s election, joining a growing list of challengers to centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron. The 62-year-old daughter of Spanish immigrants who fled Francisco Franco’s dictatorship is the hot favourite to win the nomination of the Socialist party. But the first female […]
Nepal’s president dissolved its parliament on Sunday at the request of the 68-year-old Prime Minister K.P.Sharma Oli and announced general elections would be held more than a year ahead of schedule, prompting about a dozen petitions in the country’s top court. Police detained about a dozen protesters near Oli’s office to prevent large-scale rallies against him. […]
Thousands of Donald Trump supporters alleging electoral fraud protested in several US cities and there were isolated scuffles with counter-demonstrators. In Washington DC, more than 20 people were arrested and four people were stabbed, police said. Mr Trump lost the November 3 election but is yet to concede. The Electoral College, the system which elects […]
US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will ask Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in office to curtail the spread of coronavirus. In an interview to CNN Biden said he believed there would be a “significant reduction” in Covid-19 cases if every American wore a face covering. Mr Biden also said […]
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday began a new phase in his transition to the White House after the Trump administration gave the Democrat access to critical resources that will enable him to take the reins of power in January. The General Services Administration’s announcement on Monday that it would formally recognize Biden’s transition came after […]
Joe Biden won the recount of Georgia as legal efforts by Donald Trump’s allies to challenge his defeat were dismissed in three states. Biden defeated Trump by 12,284 votes, according to the audit required by state law. The recount found the error rate was no greater than 0.73% in any county. During the audit this […]
Donald Trump backtracked after appearing on Sunday to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the November 3 presidential elections, saying he conceded “nothing” and repeating his unfounded claims of widespread voting fraud. Biden defeated Trump by winning a series of battleground states that the Republican incumbent had won in 2016. The Democratic […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time on Friday, putting him on the verge of winning the White House. Three days after polls closed, Biden has a 253 to 214 lead in the state-by-state Electoral College vote that […]