As City and Chelsea square off in the FA Cup quarterfinals Palmer has the
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in Ondo State. The outcome of the exercise was officially announced in Akure by the Chairman of the election committee and Governor of Kogi State, Usman Ododo, following the collation of results from 17 out of the 18 Local […]
Voters back President Mohamed Muizzu’s tilt towards China and away from traditional ally IndiaMaldives voters have backed President Mohamed Muizzu’s tilt towards China and away from traditional benefactor India, with his party winning control of parliament in an election landslide.Muizzu’s People’s National Congress (PNC) won 66 of the first 86 seats declared, according to the Elections Commission of Maldives, already more than enough for a super-majority in the 93-member parliament. Continue...
Ms Rayner could be in the enviable position of having three homes at her disposal, in addition to the properties she has in London and her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
Prior to the New Labour general election landslide of 1997, I learned through reliable City sources that the party's Chancellor-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, were planning a tax grab on Britain's pension funds.
Before New Labor's landslide victory in the 1997 general election, I learned from reliable City sources that the party's future chancellor, Gordon Brown, and his economic adviser Ed Balls were planning a tax seizure of Britain's pension funds.Working secretly with the now-defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen, they worked on a law that would repeal the tax breaks that British companies enjoyed on dividend payments into company pension schemes.The estimated £5 billion a year the government...
The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump and the Republican Party: An effort to win […]
Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...
For Giovanna Lewis, a local councillor in Dorset, a combination of Labour’s stance on Palestine, climate activism, refugees, and a lack of democracy led her to resign from the party. “I was holding on for a long time,” she explained. “I wanted to stay and try to push for Carralyn Parkes, who is on the […]
Attacks on elections have become more multifaceted over the past decade, but fears of a hacked election — real or perceived — remain one of the biggest threats.
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo's National Coalition Party (NCP) and the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) could each gain a seat in the European Parliament.