South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new Cabinet on Monday, confirming the handover of 12 ministerial posts to opposition parties in a televised speech. The largest opposition party, the economically liberal Democratic Alliance (DA), will take on six positions with DA party leader, John Steenhuisen, named to head the Ministry of Agriculture, Ramaphosa said. […]
Dozens of Iowans gathered in front of the Iowa Capitol Friday night to decry the Iowa Supreme Court’s “fetal heartbeat” ruling, paving the way for enforcement of a ban on most abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy. “Today, June 28th, is going to go down as a tragic day in Iowa history,” Iowa Senate […]
The News Rahul Gandhi will assume office this week as leader of the opposition in India’s Parliament, the Lok Sabha, filling a post that has lain vacant for the entirety of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade-long tenure. As leader of the opposition, Gandhi will get various perks including a government bungalow and an increased salary, […]
(Bloomberg) — India’s opposition is gearing up to play a bigger role in the parliament, naming Rahul Gandhi into a key position and fielding its own candidate for speaker of the house in a rare contest for the post. Most Read from Bloomberg Gandhi was selected leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, the […]
(Bloomberg) — Mexico’s opposition failed to stop Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena party from keeping hold of the presidency and making massive gains in elections earlier this month. Now the battered and tenuous coalition is facing an even steeper challenge: How to prevent him from approving his controversial slate of sweeping constitutional reforms before leaving […]
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Opposition politicians who were arrested in a crackdown in Mali were sent to prisons across the country this week, their families said, in a move rights groups decried as another step back for the country where the ruling junta has suspended all political activities. Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was appointed Tuesday to lead India’s opposition in parliament, a key post that has been vacant for a decade. Congress party general secretary K. C. Venugopal said Gandhi would be “a bold voice for the common people of India” and ensure the government “is held firmly accountable at […]
(Bloomberg) — President Emmanuel Macron said the agendas of the far-right and far-left blocs in France’s upcoming legislative elections pit the country’s people against each other, going so far as to say that “extreme” parties could spark a “civil war.” Most Read from Bloomberg The far-right National Rally’s plan to deal with crime and insecurity […]
(Bloomberg) — Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi will lead the opposition New Democratic Party in Canada’s oil-rich province Alberta, the party announced in a live-streamed meeting on Saturday. Most Read from Bloomberg Nenshi’s task now is to recapture the popularity the NDP achieved under Rachel Notley, who won provincial power in 2015 and ended a […]
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has urged the Polish government not to shut down border crossing points between the two countries. “Keeping Belarusians connected to Europe is crucial,” she said in a post on X, adding that people could not be left “behind a new iron curtain”. Earlier on Sunday, Poland’s foreign minister said […]
(Bloomberg) — A Malaysian opposition party is seeking by-elections in six parliamentary constituencies held by its former members in a move that risks support for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s planned reforms. Most Read from Bloomberg The pro-Malay Bersatu party submitted a notice to parliament on Thursday informing that the six lawmakers were no longer party […]
(Bloomberg) — Venezuela’s opposition refused to seal a pact proposed by President Nicolás Maduro to force candidates to recognize the results of the July 28 presidential election, raising tensions between the parties ahead of the vote. Most Read from Bloomberg Maduro endorsed on Thursday the agreement with seven little-known candidates. Opposition’s hopeful Edmundo González had […]