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Spain Socialists Face Suddenly Tough Election

Vote next month will be world's first big test of credit crunch fallout

(Newser) - The Socialist Zapatero government is facing an unexpected hitch in its re-election plans: a downtrodden Spanish economy. The vote March 9 is the first in a big nation in the wake of the world credit crunch, the Economist reports, and it will test the political fallout of a burst housing...

Musharraf Courts Wary Europeans
Musharraf Courts Wary Europeans
Jan 22, 2008 12:32 PM CST

Musharraf Courts Wary Europeans

Pledges free elections, nuclear security, no coddling Al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Pervez Musharraf visited Brussels yesterday and Paris today, reassuring leaders that Pakistan will hold fair elections and promising complete security for the nation's nuclear arsenal. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana warned the Pakistani president that future cooperation between the EU and his government is contingent on those criteria, reports...

Super Tuesday May Be Super Confused
Super Tuesday May Be Super Confused
Jan 21, 2008 7:01 PM CST

Super Tuesday May Be Super Confused

40% of voters will pick, but race could stay muddled

(Newser) - Some 70 million voters in 24 states will make their presidential primary picks in two weeks, but pundits doubt whether Super Tuesday will resolve 2008's muddled race in either party, McClatchy Newspapers report. "No one has ever seen anything like this," said one Bush-Cheney adviser. A political science...

Hillary Praises MLK, Gets Tepid Response

Hopeful rouses little excitement at event honoring King

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton faced a smattering of applause, scattered boos, and a few walkouts at a Martin Luther King, Jr. event in New York today, ABC reports. "Each of us, no matter who we are and where we started from, is a beneficiary of Dr. King," she told the...

Musharraf Says He'd Consider Stepping Down

'On the day people don't want me, I will leave,' he tells Der Spiegel

(Newser) - Pervez Musharraf will consider resigning if his public approval continues to erode, Der Spiegel reports in a wide-ranging interview to be published tomorrow. "On the day I think the people, the majority, don't want me anymore and the day I have no contribution to make to this country, I...

Rudy's Camp Beseeches Donors
Rudy's Camp Beseeches Donors
Jan 13, 2008 12:16 PM CST

Rudy's Camp Beseeches Donors

Campaign reportedly low on funds after Florida advertising spree

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's campaign is urgently requesting funds, the New York Daily News reports, seemingly contradicting the camp’s denials of financial hardship. While staffers are going without paychecks this month—voluntarily, they say—Giuliani’s campaign manager emailed a plea to prospective donors yesterday. “I am asking you to...

African Union Can't Resolve Kenya Crisis

Delegation led by Kofi Annan will take next crack

(Newser) - An attempt to broker an end to the Kenyan crisis failed today when an African Union mission couldn't get opposing sides to agree on how to end the violence, Reuters reports. AU head John Kufuor pressed opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki to settle; after talks disintegrated into...

Georgians Want New Vote, Plan Hunger Strike

Opposition alleges fraud after Saakashvili reelection

(Newser) - Opposition leaders in Georgia have vowed to go on a hunger strike after the country's election committee declared Mikheil Saakashvili the winner of last week's presidential election. The Independent reports that Saakashvili won 52% of the ballots, and although international observers have said the voting was largely fair, the opposition...

Merkel Trades Compromise For Hard Line

Chancellor backs right-wing colleague in strategy shift

(Newser) - Ahead of a regional election later this month, Angela Merkel has left behind the conciliatory tone of her first 2 years and come out swinging. The German chancellor gave her strongest backing to the minister-president of Hesse, who is running for reelection on a harsh anti-immigrant platform. In an interview...

Georgia Prez 'Confident' He's Won
Georgia Prez 'Confident'
He's Won
Jan 5, 2008 5:48 PM CST

Georgia Prez 'Confident' He's Won

Opposition cries foul over exit polls, urges mass protest

(Newser) - Exit polls in Georgia's national election are giving pro-Western President Mikhail Saakashvili 57% of the vote, enough to win, but the opposition calls the survey a "big lie," the BBC reports. Candidate Levan Gachechiladze, who scored 28% in the poll, accuses the president of rigging the ballot and...

Kenya Prez: 'I'm Ready to Talk'
Kenya Prez: 'I'm Ready to Talk'
Jan 3, 2008 2:48 PM CST

Kenya Prez: 'I'm Ready to Talk'

Clashes force opposition to move rally to tomorrow

(Newser) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said today he's ready for talks with political opponents "once the nation is calm," Reuters reports. After three days of rioting and burning slums, in the wake of a hotly contested election, opposition leader Raila Odinga postponed until tomorrow a rally scheduled for a...

Kenya Spirals Toward Ethnic War
Kenya Spirals Toward Ethnic War
Jan 2, 2008 9:58 PM CST

Kenya Spirals Toward Ethnic War

Contested election result turns into tribal violence

(Newser) - The tribal violence gripping Kenya could reach a bloody climax tomorrow, Time reports, when an opposition leader has urged supporters to converge on a park in Nairobi to protest the results of last month's general election. Raila Odinga blames a rigged vote-count for re-electing President Mwai Kibaki, igniting disarray that...

Kenyan Prez Kibaki Declared Victor, Sworn In

News sparks riots as late vote count upsets challenger's lead

(Newser) - Kenya today declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner of Thursday's election, igniting riots in Nairobi as protesters accused the Kibaki government of election fraud and demanded a recount, reports the BBC. At least 10 people have been killed. Kibaki was sworn into a second 5-year term immediately after the announcement...

China Allows Hong Kong to Vote in 2017

Enraged by delay, democracy activists condemn decision

(Newser) - Reacting to years of pro-democracy rallies in Hong Kong, China agreed today to let the territory elect a leader in 2017 and a legislature in 2020, BBC reports. Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang had lobbied Beijing for elections by 2012, but hailed today's news as a "hard-earned opportunity....

Kenya's Prez Appears Defeated
Kenya's Prez Appears Defeated
Dec 28, 2007 9:57 AM CST

Kenya's Prez Appears Defeated

Challenger vows to spread wealth more equitably

(Newser) - A populist challenger appears to be winning Kenya's presidential election, the New York Times reports. Raila Odinga, a businessman who promises to spread Kenya's growing wealth more equitably, has a 57%-40% lead over incumbent Mwai Kibaki in early results, while many in Kibaki's inner circle, including the vice president and...

Violence as Kenyan Vote Nears
Violence as Kenyan Vote Nears
Dec 25, 2007 10:00 AM CST

Violence as Kenyan Vote Nears

Too close to call 48 hours before poll in key East African nation

(Newser) - Kenya's presidential election remains too close to call with 48 hours to go, writes the Mail and Guardian. President Mwai Kibaki is seeking a second term but facing a stiff challenge from former ally Raila Odinga for the leadership of East Africa's bellwether nation. Yesterday police fired teargas at supporters...

Party of Ousted Prime Minister Wins Thai Races

Polarizing figure booted in coup may return from exile

(Newser) - Deposed former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is poised to return from exile now that the party supporting him won the most seats in parliament in today's elections, according to exit polls. It was unclear, however, whether the pro-Thaksin People Power party gained an absolute majority. If not, opposition parties...

Campaign Ad Spending Sticks With Local TV, Ignores Web

70% of $3B spend will still go to television

(Newser) - This cycle's presidential candidates may have embraced grassroots web campaigns, but they have yet to spend significant sums on web advertising, the Wall Street Journal reports. Instead, they are sticking to local network television ads, which will account for 70% of an estimated $3 billion in advertising dollars. Evan Tracey,...

Republicans Keep Seats In Special Elections

Democrats concede Ohio, Virginia races

(Newser) - Republican candidates won two congressional seats in special elections yesterday. The spots, in Ohio and Virginia, were left vacant by the deaths of representatives, both Republicans. They were in districts that have long favored Republicans, but Democrats had hoped that the low turnout typical of special elections would help them...

Law Firm's Lobbying Dogs Giuliani
Law Firm's Lobbying
Dogs Giuliani
Dec 4, 2007 1:49 PM CST

Law Firm's Lobbying Dogs Giuliani

Company pushed law Bush opposed on anti-terror grounds

(Newser) - Rudy Giuliani's law firm lobbied Congress last year in favor of a law the White House said would undermine the war on terror, the New York Times reports. The firm represented Ethiopian political parties pushing for legislation to withhold American aid if their government doesn't share power. The administration supports...

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