Former President Barack Obama will run for the first time this week in his former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign for the US presidential election. Obama is coming to Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, according to the Biden campaign. Obama has mostly stayed away from the […]
More than 3.8 million Americans have already cast their votes in the presidential election through the mail. That’s a significantly higher number than in the previous election in 2016. At that time, 75,000 voters had voted by mail, says U.S. Elections Project that keeps track of the votes. It […]
US President Donald Trump has encouraged voters in the state of North Carolina to vote twice: by mail and in person. This way, he says, they can check whether their vote has been counted. “Let them send it in and then vote,” the president told WECT-TV in Wilmington, North […]
According to local media, the Japanese ruling party LDP will probably hold a party election on 14 September to choose the successor of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. He is resigning due to health problems but has announced that he will remain in his post until it is clear who […]
Left-wing radical Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in her short speech at the Democratic party congress that she supports Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate. She spoke for barely a minute and a half and was virtually the only one from the left wing to talk on Tuesday. She didn’t mention […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has postponed the country’s upcoming elections by four weeks. That decision was taken because of a new outbreak of the coronavirus in the country. Elections are now scheduled for October 17. They were initially planned to be held on September 19. “This decision […]
The British government has turned a blind eye to possible Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. This is reported by a British parliamentary committee when presenting a long-awaited ‘Russia report’. The publication of the report took more than a year to complete. That delay led to speculation, according to […]
The Surinamese parliament meets on Monday for the election of the president and vice president. This will be a formality because it is already clear that the opposition parties have not proposed candidates. This means that VHP chairman Chan Santokhi will be elected as president and ABOP chairman Ronnie […]
A second cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been elected leader of a small political party. Roman Putin hopes for seats in the parliamentary elections in Russia next year. Roman Putin, son of a cousin of the president, was elected captain at a conference of the People’s Day […]
Venezuela will hold parliamentary elections on Sunday, December 6. The Electoral Council announced this on Wednesday evening (local time). Far more seats will be allocated in the elections than before. The new parliament is expanded from 167 to 277 seats. The term of office will be five years, from […]
