In Cyprus, voters will have to decide between two diplomats in the second round of the presidential election. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 2018 to 2022, Nikos Christodoulides, supported by the centrist parties, indeed came first in the first round on Sunday, ahead of another diplomat supported by the Communist Party.With 32.04% of the vote, Nikos Christodoulides will face in the second round on February 12 Andreas Mavroyiannis, who won 29.58% of the vote. Averof Neofytou, 61, comes...
EU island republic Presidential election in Cyprus will be decided in a run-off Presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides will stand in a run-off next Sunday. photo © Petros Karadjias/AP/dpa Cyprus has been divided for almost 50 years. Hopes of overcoming this problem are fading. A new president is now to be elected in a run-off election. In the presidential election in the small EU island republic of Cyprus, there will be a runoff in a week (February 12). Former Foreign Minister...
House of Representatives Survey: CDU is clearly ahead a week before the Berlin elections The Red Town Hall is the seat of the Governing Mayor and the Senate of Berlin. photo © Philipp Znidar/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa The repeat election will take place in Berlin in a week. However, the polls paint a very different picture than in the 2021 election. A week before the parliamentary elections are repeated in Berlin, the CDU is still well ahead of the Greens and SPD, according...
Berlin:"Nobody cheers here because someone comes from the CDU"February 4, 2023 at 8:30 p.mReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewSmile, wedding ring, open shirt: This is how CDU politician Burkard Dregger is campaigning for votes in his Reinickendorf 1 constituency. (Photo: Jürgen Ritter/Imago)Tolerance, diversity, traffic change and expropriations - Berlin's capital city politics is considered to be particularly progressive. Where are the conservatives? On an election campaign tour with the CDU candidate Burkard Dregger.From Jan Heidtmann, BerlinlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackFriedrich Merz visits Berlin-Neukölln on...
Berlin:"Nobody cheers here because someone comes from the CDU"Feb 4, 2023 at 5:28 p.mReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewSmile, wedding ring, open shirt: This is how CDU politician Burkard Dregger is campaigning for votes in his Reinickendorf 1 constituency. (Photo: Jürgen Ritter/Imago)Tolerance, diversity, traffic change and expropriations - Berlin's capital city politics is considered to be particularly progressive. Where are the conservatives? On an election campaign tour with the CDU candidate Burkhard Dregger.From Jan Heidtmann, BerlinlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackFriedrich Merz visits Berlin-Neukölln on...
When MP Meyer Habib, in the middle of a visit to France by his friend Benyamin Netanyahu, learns of the invalidation of his election at the Palais-BourbonThe worldLegislative: the Constitutional Council cancels the election of deputy Meyer Habib for "irregularities" and "manoeuvres"franceinfo“Mazel Tov!” : the Insoumise Clémentine Autain backpedals after a tweet deemed anti-Semitic on Meyer HabibLe FigaroThe election of deputy Meyer Habib canceled by the Constitutional CouncilThe worldClémentine Autain justifies herself after her tweet in Hebrew on Meyer Habibyahoo...
Status: 02/04/2023 01:49 am Donald Trump had imagined the start of his renewed US presidential candidacy differently. First his candidates failed in the midterms. And now the intra-party competition is growing stronger than Turmp himself probably expected. By Sebastian Hesse, ARD Studio Washington "There has only been one President who has ever challenged the entire Washington establishment!" With these words, Donald Trump recommended himself for the renewed candidacy last weekend at the start of his election campaign in South Carolina....
state election Federal Minister of the Interior is Hesse's SPD top candidate Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is the first woman in the history of the Federal Republic to head the Federal Ministry of the Interior. photo © Hannes P. Albert/dpa Nancy Faeser is the top candidate of the Hesse SPD for the state elections in October. The three most prominent political heads in the country are thus competing against each other in the election campaign. The Hessian SPD has...
The Hesse summit of the SPD traditionally takes place in Friedewald, just before the border with Thuringia. A former general secretary was looking for a place where there was otherwise little going on. This year, however, 30 journalists and cameramen are sitting in the knight's hall of the castle hotel, several have registered late last week, and instead of 90 members, as usual, 190 have come, which is why not only the hotel in town is fully booked, but also...
analysis Status: 03.02.2023 05:02 Hesse's SPD wants to nominate the interior minister as the top candidate. For Faeser this is almost no risk, there will hardly be a "Röttgen scenario". But a victory would also be a problem for the chancellor. By Moritz Rödle, ARD Capital Studio Nancy Faeser's candidacy for the job of prime minister in Hesse is a story that is often discussed from the end in political Berlin. "What happens if you lose?" is likely to be...
