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Fewer than four in 10 registered voters took part after a summer in which ministers from the outgoing coalition restated Rabat's claim to the Spanish city.
The governing CDU-Green coalition would still have a majority. No other two-party deal without AfD would work.
A separate corruption inquiry is examining possible vote-buying, while Sweden’s Election Review Board can assess the validity of the result without waiting for…
Krings acknowledged "crafting errors" in the federal government and said he was "not satisfied with all aspects of the government reshuffle".
Senior Christian Democrats have backed the Chancellor at a crisis meeting in Berlin while conceding the party must change as Alternative for Germany surges in the…
Issa Remmo was “pleased about Die Linke,” that he felt supported by a German party for the first time.
A Just Russia was on course to drop out of parliament after falling below the 5 per cent threshold, according to partial results.
The Christian Democrats have failed to win seats in a German State parliament for the first time in their history.
The far-left party has doubled its support in the German capital and could lead a new city government with the Greens and the Social Democrats.
The right-wing party has topped the poll in the northeastern German state for the first time, ending almost three decades of Social Democrat dominance.
A string of recent surveys place the SPÖ well below its result at the September 2024 National Council election, when it took 21.1 per cent.
About 50,000 votes separated the two blocs in a country of 10.6 million. Turnout was 84.8 per cent.
The total population could nevertheless continue to increase, potentially reaching around 20 million by the middle of the century.
The Washington Capitals captain was filmed among Kremlin figures placed under European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
The National Rally leader used her first major speech of the 2027 race to promise French citizens preferential access to social housing and a cut in energy VAT.
Statistics Sweden put the two blocs level among voters of Swedish background and 37 percentage points apart among voters of foreign background.
Magdalena Andersson's bloc is three seats ahead in the preliminary count, though ballots cast abroad and tallied from September 16 could still overturn it.
President Iliana Iotova has vowed to keep Sofia out of the war in Ukraine while her main rival, Andrey Gyurov, has pledged to anchor the country firmly in Europe.
If a general election were held now, NMS’s voting model for daily Sme would give PS 21.6 per cent, Smer 16.2 per cent and Republika 15.6 per cent.
Wagenknecht's party could hold the key to a historic vote in the eastern German state, putting Berlin’s long-standing political consensus under renewed pressure.
The US President called the winners "the Populist Party" and signed off with MGGA, a German version of his own campaign slogan.
Critics warn that the push could amount to an attempt to suppress a political rival that the CDU has failed to defeat at the ballot box.
Messages of congratulation reached Magdeburg from Madrid, Lisbon, Rome, The Hague and Budapest within hours of the first projections.
The party has taken more than double the vote of the governing Christian Democrats in a landslide without precedent in its history.
Both readings place it behind only Brothers of Italy, the Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement.
The President, whose mandate ran out in 2024, has once more ruled out the ballot his ousted defence minister is demanding.
Philippe remains one of Mélenchon's closest competitors. With Attal absent from the race, Mélenchon and Philippe are both projected at 17 per cent.
Icelanders decide on August 29 whether to restart accession talks frozen in 2013, in a ballot the European Commission hopes will revive its stalled enlargement drive.
"I have the justified concern that parts of the CDU are betraying and selling this country and their own party to the Left," Prange wrote.
The Serbian President has said the ballot will pit his ruling party against a single bloc of everyone else, though he has still not set a date for his own resignation.
