The 28-year-old left Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the Bronx gave a resounding surprise in Democratic primaries in New York. She defeated the 56-year-old veteran Joe Crowley, who has been in the House of Representatives in Washington since 1999.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan expects a high turnout in the presidential and parliamentary elections in his country Sunday. 'The participation looks good,' he said immediately after he had his own vote in Istanbul.
The parties of the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and spiritual leader Moqtada al-Sadr will form an alliance. At a press conference, Sadr and Abadi said they wanted to cross sectarian and ethnic lines with their alliance.
In a stadium where Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa held a campaign meeting on Saturday, an explosion has occurred. A spokesman for the president said that Mnangagwa was not injured and brought to safety. The Zimbabwean newspaper The Herald reported that a few other people have been injured.
Shortly before the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections, the leader of the largest opposition party, Muharrem Ince of the CHP (Republican People's Party), attracted an estimated 2.5 million people in the western city of Izmir. The CHP itself talks about 3 million supporters on Thursday evening.
In Turkey, fourteen suspects were arrested who, on behalf of the terrorist movement, wanted to attack Islamic State on the election day, next Sunday, in Turkey. This was reported by the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
30,000 Syrians who have been granted Turkish citizenship are allowed to vote for the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. That is what Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday, reports the broadcaster NTV.
The power of the Turkish president Erdogan, who has been ruling since 2002, appears to be eroded. The Turkish opposition finally hopes to end its long period. The tension in Turkey is increasing for the crucial parliamentary and presidential elections. Polls contradict each other.
The end of the political stalemate in the Czech Republic seems to be a step closer. Members of the Social Democratic Party voted in an internal referendum for the formation of a government with the ANO movement of Prime Minister Andrei Babis.
The nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc surprisingly won the parliamentary elections in Iraq, has reached agreement on cooperation with militia leader Hadi al-Amiri. That was announced on Tuesday in the Shia holy city of Najaf. This agreement is a first step towards the formation of a government coalition, although both leaders also keep the door open to other partners.
An Iraqi warehouse with cast votes from the recent parliamentary elections has been set on fire. The Ministry of Defense announced that all ballot boxes and ballots were destroyed at the Baghdad depot.
The Czech multi-billionaire Andrej Babis gets a second chance to form a government more than seven months after the election in his country. President Milos Zeman sworn in to Babis for the second time as prime minister.
In Slovenia, the polling stations were opened for parliamentary elections on Sunday. About 1.7 million Slovenians are allowed to vote.
The Czech president Milos Zeman will swear Andrej Babis, the leader of the national populist protest movement ANO, Wednesday as the government leader. That is what Babis said on Thursday after consultation with Zeman. The multi-billionaire, controversial by a fraud complaint, became prime minister after the election victory in October 2017. In January he lost the confidence of the parliament in a vote.
Zimbabweans can go to the polls for the first national election since the departure of President Robert Mugabe this summer. His successor Emmerson Mnangagwa (75) announced on Wednesday that the presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on 30 July.
Rival groups in Libya have agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in December. That was what a prime minister Fayez Seraj told a conference in Paris, where the influential General Khalifa Haftar was also present. Haftar and Seraj are seen as key figures in the divided country.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will once again apologize on Tuesday for the role of his company in the abuse of private data of users in the scandal around Cambridge Analytica. Facebook has taken insufficient responsibility for user data, fake news and foreign influencing of elections, Zuckerberg will explain later in the day in the European Parliament, where there is a lot of outrage about the issue.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday at 6 pm to explain the misuse of personal data from some 2.7 million Facebook users in the EU. The American is received by President Antonio Tajani.
Almost three months after the Italian parliamentary elections, Italy is likely to hear Monday who will be the prime minister of a new coalition cabinet. The leaders of the Protest Party M5S (Five Star Movement) and of the right-wing populist Lega Nord, Luigi di Maio and Matteo Salvini (past 17.30 and 18.00) pass President Sergio Mattarella. According to Italian media, they tell him who will become the leader of their Eurosceptic government coalition.
The conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament can be seen on Tuesday for the public. Parliament President Antonio Tajani announced that on Twitter.
This weekend, the Five Star Movement and the Lega on squares throughout Italy will announce the content of the coalition agreement that they have established together. The people can then let them know by means of a vote whether or not they agree with the agreement.
The conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament is still open to the public on Tuesday. Five of the eight political groups in parliament want the session to be followed via a livestream, reports Guy Verhofstadt, chairman of the Liberal Group.
The talk between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and parliamentary leaders of the European Parliament will take place on Tuesday at 5.45 pm. The subject is the abuse of personal data from millions of users collected by the British company Cambridge Analytica to be used in election campaigns.
Several polling stations in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk were besieged by armed men on Wednesday evening, four days after the parliamentary elections. That said the head of the election committee in Iraq.
The party of the influential Shiite clergyman Moqtada al-Sadr is almost certainly on his way to victory in the parliamentary elections of Iraq. The election committee said Monday, after 91 percent of the votes had been counted in sixteen of the eighteen Iraqi provinces.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's alliance has, for the time being, received the most votes in the parliamentary elections in Iraq. This has been reported by sources within the electoral commission and an employee of the security service on the basis of the votes that have been counted so far.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may, according to the Italian media, hope for an early return to politics. 'Berlusconi has been rehabilitated', headlined the newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday, relying on a court decision in Milan. On this basis, the 81-year-old veteran can again stand for election and hold a political office.
The first hours of the parliamentary elections in Iraq went quietly. Staatsmedia reported that no major incidents occurred until noon.
The opposition surprisingly won the elections in Malaysia. The official result shows that the opponents of Prime Minister Najib Razak can count on at least 112 of the 222 seats in parliament. With this, the opposition parties have a parliamentary majority in their hands.
The UN Human Rights Chief urged Turkey on Wednesday to immediately lift the state of emergency to pave the way for credible elections.
