The last polls just days before Israel’s election show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party trailing behind the center-left opposition. Poll results in the Yediot Ahronot newspaper on Friday gave the Zionist Union, comprised of labor and a center-left party, 26 seats over 22 for Netanyahu’s hawkish Likud party. It[…]
Some 5,800,000 Israelis are eligible to vote in Tuesday’s election, out of a population of about 8.3 million people. Jews comprise 75 per cent of all Israelis while Arabs make up about 20 per cent. The Arab sector is divided among several religions, including Muslims, Christians and Druze, with some[…]
The party of Lesotho’s prime minister on Sunday led in initial results from an election in the mountain kingdom, which held an early vote in an attempt to overcome tension among political factions. Lesotho’s election commission said Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s All Basotho Convention party was ahead with wins in[…]
Edgar Lungu was sworn in as Zambia’s new president Sunday. “I am humbled eternally and debted to you all, my fellow citizens,” said Lungu at the inauguration ceremony. “The bottom line is that we want the country to go foward and to banish poverty in our midst.” Zimbabwean President Robert[…]
Patriotic Front candidate Edgar Lungu took an early lead on Thursday against his rival Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia’s second presidential election in three years. From the 80 constituencies verified and declared by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ), Lungu had garnered 521,003 votes against Hichilema’s 469,414, a Sapa correspondent reported.[…]
President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday congratulated newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the department of international relations said. “The president of the Republic of South Africa… Jacob Zuma wishes to congratulate the president-elect of the Republic of Tunisia, Mr Beji Caid Essebsi on his victory following the presidential runoff[…]
India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made significant election gains in the state of Jammu and Kashmir but is going to fall well short of a majority, according to partial results. BJP had tried to wrest power for the first time ever in the divided Himalayan region, where armed[…]
Beji Caid Essebsi has won Tunisia’s presidential run-off vote, seen as the last step in a shift to full democracy four years after an uprising toppled long-time leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Essebsi, an 88-year-old former parliament speaker under Ben Ali, defeated Moncef Marzouki, the incumbent president, with 55.68[…]
Former prime minister Beji Caid Essibsi is poised to win Tunisia’s presidential elections, exit polls showed late Sunday. The polling firm Sigma Conseil said that Essibsi is set to win 55.5 per cent of the vote, while his rival, outgoing President Moncef Marzouki is to garner 44.5 per cent. The[…]
Most Israelis would like to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced after March elections but, paradoxically, he is seen as most suitable for the job, an opinion poll said Thursday. Israelis go to the polls on March 17, just over two years after Netanyahu’s right-leaning coalition took office and following[…]
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