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Slovaks have voted for a pro-Western career diplomat over a close ally of the country's populist leader Robert Fico in the first round of a presidential election. Former Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok bagged 42.13% of the votes late Sunday, with nearly all polling stations counted. Peter Pellegrini was in second with 37.28%. However, because no candidate won an outright majority, the two will face off in a second round on 6 April. The winner will replace Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia's first-ever female president and a staunch backer of neighbouring Ukraine. Korčok, who firmly supports his country's...
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Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court on Monday that he can't post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment. The announcement suggests the former president's legal losses have put him in a serious cash crunch. Trump's lawyers wrote in a court filing that “obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount” of the judgment “is not possible under the circumstances presented." Trump claimed last year that he has “fairly substantially over $400 million in cash,” but back-to-back courtroom defeats have pushed his legal debt north of a half-billion dollars. Tr...
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Russians crowded outside polling stations at midday on Sunday on the last day of a presidential election, apparently heeding an opposition call to protest against President Vladimir Putin in a vote that offered them no real alternatives after he ruthlessly cracked down on dissent. Shortly after the last polls closed in Russia, early returns pointed to the conclusion everyone expected: that Putin would extend his nearly quarter-century grip on power for six more years. According to Russia’s Central Election Commission, Putin had 87.9% of the vote with half of precincts counted, as of earlier th...
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It is always difficult for Russian voters to express their opinion publicly, for fear of punishment for speaking their mind. But a Czech TV station asked Russians to give their opinion on the presidential election, expected to end this Sunday, with a triumphant re-election for President Vladimir Putin. Young people interviewed are often quite complimentary about the head of the Kremlin. Here are two examples: Pavel Kipriyanov, freelance actor: "If we talk in general about the path chosen by my country and my government, well, I understand it perfectly, I accept it, except for certain things th...
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Voters across Russia cast ballots on Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalise six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule. The election comes against the backdrop of a ruthless crackdown that has stifled independent media and prominent rights groups. Putin’s fiercest foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic prison in February, and other critics are either in jail or in exile. The 71-year-old Putin faces three token rivals from Kremlin-friendly parties, who have refrained...
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A liberal candidate on Wednesday lost another appeal against the decision of election officials to bar him from running in Russia's upcoming elections. Boris Nadezhdin had made halting the war in Ukraine his main campaign slogan, ahead of next month's presidential election which Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win. Authorities' refusal to register him for the race underlines the Kremlin's refusal to allow public opposition to its actions. After a day of deliberations, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to reject Nadezhdin’s appeal against the Central Election Commission's decision to bar him fr...
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Finns head to the polls on Sunday to choose between two seasoned politicians bidding to be their next head of state. Former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, 55, from the centre-right National Coalition Party will take on former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto, 65, from the left-leaning Green League. The successful candidate will steer the country's foreign and security policy after it recently became a member of the NATO alliance, historically abandoning its position of neutrality. Both hopefuls share a hard line towards Moscow, support strengthening ties with Washington, and vow to continue ba...
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Senegal's parliament voted Monday to delay the country's presidential poll until December 15, sparking violent protests and international concern over the erosion of democracy in the West African country. The bill was approved almost unanimously in a chaotic vote that saw several opposition lawmakers forcibly removed from the chamber by security forces. President Macky Sall had announced his unprecedented decision to postpone the presidential election, initially scheduled for February 25, on Saturday. The bill, backed by 105 members of the 165-seat chamber, significantly extends Sall’s tenure,...
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Vladimir Putin has been officially registered by Russia’s election commission as a candidate in the country’s incoming presidential election, where the incumbent is very likely to secure another six-year term in office. Putin, who’s kept a grip on power for the past 24 years, is running as an independent candidate for the second time after 2018. He was first elected president in 2012 as the United Russia party’s nominee, but his popularity has since exceeded that of the party, which is widely seen as part of the Kremlin-controlled state bureaucracy. Putin, whose approval rating currently hover...
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Finnish public broadcaster YLE also projected that Parliamentary Speaker Jussi Halla-aho came in third place with 18.6%. The projected result will push the race into a runoff on Feb. 11 between Stubb and Haavisto, because none of the candidates received more than half of the votes. YLE’s prediction, highly accurate in previous elections, is a mathematical model calculated on the basis of advance votes and a certain number of Sunday’s votes under official data provided by the Legal Register Centre. Exit polls aren't generally used in Finland. Stubb, 55, and Haavisto, 65, were the main contender...
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