Voting
Voters in Finland will choose between two experienced politicians to be their next president on Sunday. The winner's main task will be to guide the new NATO member's foreign and security policy amid Russia's grinding invasion of Ukraine. Former prime minister Alexander Stubb from the centre-right faces former foreign minister Pekka Haavisto of the green left. The pair largely agree on Finland’s foreign policy and security priorities. These include maintaining a hard line toward Russia - which shares a sprawling 1,340 km border with Finland - strengthening security ties with the US Washington a...
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The Serbia Against Violence group - a coalition of opposition political parties - has accused President Aleksandar Vučić's populist government of orchestrating a fraud in the 17 December parliamentary and local elections, particularly in the capital Belgrade. Vučić has denied the accusations levelled against him. The state election commission has declared Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party the election winner and rejected the opposition's complaints. The Constitutional Court is yet to rule on the dispute. Opposition politician Radomir Lazovic said "this is a battle of all of us, everyone loses ...
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Voters concerned about climate change could shape the outcome of the upcoming European elections, according to a new report. The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) carried out polling in 11 European countries - nine EU nations that represent 75 per cent of the bloc’s population plus Great Britain and Switzerland. The report argues that Europe’s voters are split into five ‘crisis tribes’: climate change, global economic turmoil, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine. And those who are part of the climate change ‘crisis tribe’ could make up almost 74 million vo...
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Finns head to the polls this week with advance voting open in the presidential election, while the main ballot takes place at the end of the month. Voting patterns suggest a third of voters at home and abroad could cast their ballots ahead of 28 January, with Finns overseas also eligible to vote during this period. From a field of nine candidates, two have emerged as clear favourites to go through to a second round of voting in mid-February, although a late surge from the far-right candidate could still be a surprise upset. Two former foreign ministers, Alex Stubb from the ruling right-wing Na...
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Columbus (AFP) - As the clock ticks down on a high-stakes vote in the US state of Ohio, activists are out in force urging voters to decide whether to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution. It is a fraught, emotional issue and passions run high for the Tuesday vote -- partly because the decision may prove a bellwether of sentiment on the issue in national elections that are one year away. Some Ohio residents have been voting in advance for weeks but activists on both sides of the issue are canvassing to the last minute. On a sunny morning, 27-year-old Summer McLain...
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Atlanta (AFP) - Under slate gray skies in an African American neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Atlanta, Mardie Hill knocks on doors, her easy charm an antidote to an unusually frigid late spring afternoon. The 64-year-old grandmother has been going door-to-door for more than 15 years to encourage residents who may otherwise slip through the net to exercise their hard-won right to vote. The Deep South state of Georgia is poised to become ground zero for both parties in November's midterm elections, with broad implications for Joe Biden's presidency and the US Congress. But casting...
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Washington (AFP) - US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Faced with a blockade from Republicans complaining of federal overreach, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed by the House of Representatives last week. "I am profoundly disappointed that the Senate has failed to stand up for our democracy. I am disappointed -- but I am not deterred," Biden sai...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Senate was set to vote Wednesday on a seemingly futile push to shore up voting rights as Republican-led states introduce a raft of restrictions that Democrats say has hit racial minorities hardest. The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House of Representatives last week but are all but guaranteed to fail in the upper chamber, with Republicans united in opposition to what they frame as a partisan power grab. Democrats and voting rights activists have championed the measures as a necessary response to Republican efforts to ...
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Washington (AFP) - US Democrats began debate Tuesday on an almost certainly doomed effort to enact sweeping voting rights reforms they argue would protect democracy against threats posed by Republicans. President Joe Biden is pressing Congress to pass two major bills broadening access to the ballot box, placing more onerous conditions on states attempting to change voting laws and protecting election officials from undue influence. The Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act passed the House last week in a package that has majority support among senators. But neit...
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Washington (AFP) - Members of Martin Luther King Jr's family joined marchers Monday in Washington urging Congress to pass voting rights reform as the United States marked the holiday commemorating the slain civil rights leader. King's son Martin Luther King III spoke at the march, warning that many states "have passed laws that make it harder to vote" more than half a century after the activism of his father. The march's message was aimed at boosting support for the Freedom to Vote Act currently before the Senate, and which passed in the House of Representatives last week. But the bill faces a...
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