Kazakhstan's President Tokayev is up for re-election. He promises reforms and less corruption - but there are doubts.During her recent visit to Kazakhstan, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock extended her hand to the leadership of the resource-rich country; probably also with a view to the presidential election there. She offered Germany, where many immigrants from the ex-Soviet republic live, as an alternative for cooperation away from powerful neighbors China and Russia.It is true that she did not meet President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev...
Published on : 16/11/2022 - 02:42 Ignoring calls from part of his camp to withdraw from the game, former Republican President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 US presidential election on Tuesday evening in Florida. donald trump launched Tuesday, November 15 in the race for the White House, engaging a campaign that promises to be merciless in his Republican camp, bruised and divided by the disappointment of the recent elections."I am announcing my candidacy for the presidential election,"...
All sorts of candidates are lining up to defeat incumbent Van der Bellen on Sunday: right-wing populists, a conspiracy believer, the founder of the Beer Party. About a partly abstruse election campaign.Of Catherine Kahlweit, ViennaThe word of the year 2016 in Austria had to be divided into several sections in order to be able to understand it at all: "Federal President's runoff re-election postponement" it said. And it meant the following: Two candidates for the office of Federal President, the...
WLike in 2017, Emmanuel Macron won the run-off election against Marine Le Pen and thus remains French President. However, this time the result was a little tighter: According to the first forecast, Macron received 58.8 percent of the votes and Le Pen 41.2 percent. In 2017, Macron won 66:34. According to the first forecast, turnout in the runoff was 71.8 percent, around three percentage points lower than in the 2017 vote. It was also slightly higher in the first ballot...
The RN mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot replies to the Minister of Education that “the far right is residual” in France and in no way corresponds to his party. Three days before the debate between the two rounds, the duels between supporters ofEmmanuel Macron and of Marine Le Pen are continuing. Guests of Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI On Sunday, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, and the RN mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, put forward radically different visions of...
The former US President accuses Hillary Clinton and her team of lying and falsifying evidence during the 2016 election campaign. Specifically, it is about an investigation into Trump's connections to Russia. Ex US President donald trump has his former opponent Hillary Clinton and other Democratic Party politicians are being sued for alleged defamation in connection with the so-called Russia affair. In the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, Clinton "and her followers conspired out of sheer malice to spin...
Absorbed by intense diplomatic activity, Emmanuel Macron could declare himself a candidate as close as possible to the deadline set for March 4. Preside "until the last quarter of an hour" : Emmanuel Macron, who is increasing consultations on Ukraine, should postpone the question of his candidacy as close as possible to the deadline set by the Constitutional Council on March 4, a deadline which worries several of his competitors. On Sunday, the President of the Republic spoke again by...
Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected as Federal President in the first ballot and thus has a second five-year term ahead of him. He received 1,045 of the 1,437 votes cast in the Federal Assembly on Sunday. This was announced by Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD).In his speech after the re-election, Steinmeier clearly assigned responsibility for the escalation in the Ukraine conflict to Vladimir Putin. He addressed the words of the Russian President: "Don't underestimate the power of democracy!" At the same...
As expected, Frank-Walter Steinmeier received an overwhelming majority in the Federal Assembly, and the Federal President is now starting his second term in office. Of course, a comparison to its predecessors cannot really be drawn halfway. Germany has mostly been lucky with its federal presidents. Very important ones like the SPD's Gustav Heinemann, the Christian Democrat Richard von Weizsäcker and the East German pastor Joachim Gauck faced much criticism during their tenure; What German democracy really had in them only...
On Sunday afternoon one could briefly get the impression that Max Otte had changed his mind after all. When the President of the Bundestag Bärbel Bas read out the names of the candidates for the office of the highest state office in the Paul-Löbe-Haus at the beginning of the Federal Assembly, one of the four prepared candidate places in the gallery remained empty. The cameras in the Bundestag searched in vain for the fund manager who ran for the AfD...
