BOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA—Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history. Petro, 62, beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of more than 700,000 votes. Petro, a former mayor of…
Macron, Le Pen Head for French Election Runoff: Projections
PARIS—Polling agency projections show President Emmanuel Macron and rival Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of France’s presidential election. If borne out by official results, the two will advance to a presidential runoff on April 24 with strong echoes of their last face-off in the 2017 election. Macron garnered 28.1–29.5 percent of votes…
France’s Macron and Le Pen Head for April 24 Election Runoff
PARIS—French leader Emmanuel Macron and his strongest challenger, Marine Le Pen, qualified on April 10 for a presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic left-wing liberal against a right-wing nationalist. Ifop pollsters predicted a tight runoff, with 51 percent for Macron and 49 percent for Le Pen. In 2017, he won with…
Conservative Ex-Top Prosecutor Elected South Korean President
SEOUL—A conservative former top prosecutor was elected South Korea’s new president in one of the closest fought races in recent history, which will shape Asia’s fourth-largest economy for the next five years. Yoon Suk-yeol, 60, from the main opposition People Power Party, edged out the ruling Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung with 48.6 percent of the…
South Korean Conservative Presidential Candidate Gains Popularity With Tough Stance on China
November 1, 2021
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South Korean presidential candidate Hong Joon-pyo on Oct. 27 made a series of pledges to transform South Korean diplomacy if elected, as as the country gears up for its presidential election in March 2022. Hong pledged “Korea First” policies, such as building a nuclear sharing program between South Korea and the United States, abolishing the…
Gen. Milley’s Secret Calls to China: Smart or Dangerous?
Commentary The recent revelation that U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley telephoned and reassured his Chinese counterpart of no U.S. attack during and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election has raised critical questions about how both countries consider execute security policies. For example, how and why would China’s leaders come to have…
Arizona Woman Charged With Voter Fraud in 2020 Presidential Election
July 13, 2021
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An Arizona woman was indicted by a state grand jury on charges alleging that she cast a ballot in the 2020 Presidential election in the name of her deceased mother. Tracey Kay McKee was charged with illegal voting and perjury on May 4, following an investigation by the Elections Integrity Unit (EIU), Arizona Attorney General…
US Senators Say Mongolia’s Democracy Is Under Threat
May 10, 2021
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U.S. senators have expressed concern about the current political situation in Mongolia, writing to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken last week, urging the State Department to make its voice heard. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Budget Allocation Committee, wrote in the…
Uganda’s Wine Withdraws Election Result Challenge, Alleges Bias
KAMPALA—Opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday he was dropping a legal challenge to Uganda’s presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, saying Supreme Court justices hearing the case were biased. Museveni, a former guerrilla leader who has led the East African country since 1986, was declared winner of the Jan. 14…
Ugandan Opposition Say 3,000 of Their Supporters Seized Since November
KAMPALA—Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3,000 of his supporters had been detained or abducted by state agents since November, when protests flared over his arrest during a presidential election campaign. The police said they were investigating all reports of disappearances. They have previously said they arrested nearly…
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