After months of growing scandal around suspicions he had accepted money from US financier Morris Talansky to fund elections campaigns and a lavish lifestyle in the 13 years before he became premier in 2006, Ehud...
President Leonel Fernandez has been re-elected in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes defeat."Miguel Vargas Maldonado conceded after early results confirmed exit poll predictions giving the president...
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Continuing signs of Sarkozy's troubles in the polls."Candidates looked to cut deals with adversaries in a bid for victory in next week's second round of French municipal elections after a first vote that sent a...
"MAINSTREAM editorialists like to praise President Bush's immigration initiative as an expression of his pragmatic, bipartisan, "compassionate conservative" side, in presumed contrast to the inflexible, ideological approach that produced the invasion of Iraq. But far from...
French citizens swarm the polls, eager to have their say in who makes it through to the runoff election next month. More than one million newly-registered voters should be turning up today, and they are likely to be...
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"Third Way" a centrist foreign policy outfit gaining some influence inside DC's Beltway, may be undermining progressive efforts. The article is long but worth the read."An organization has emerged in Washington, D.C., Third Way, which claims to be both centrist and...
Right-leaning presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is going after Francois Bayrou's supporters to shore up his slight lead over left-leaning Segolene Royal.Earlier coverage can be found here, thanks to our...
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This guy is like a boy band: so many records get sold, but nobody openly admits to being a fan. Untranationalists prey on opinions and emotions that voters like to keep hidden: racism, entitlement, xenophobia. His...
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PARIS (Reuters) - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy has seized a strong
lead over Socialist Segolene Royal in the first round of France's
presidential election and must now woo centrist voters if he is to win
the run-off...