Robert Fico’s Slovak Social Democracy is set to emerge as the largest party in a snap election on Saturday. Fico has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and promised that not “a single round” of ammunition would be sent to Kiev if he were prime minister. Fico’s party is currently …
Read More »Financial woes rising in EU following sanctions on Russia – polls
New polling suggests an increasingly bleak state of personal finance for Germans in the face of sanctions against Russia. The trend is echoed, albeit less severely, in France and Spain as the EU struggles to rearrange its economy in order to punish Moscow. More than half of Germans say they …
Read More »Macron leads in presidential race – exit polls
Exit polls after the second round of voting in the French election on Sunday indicate that centrist President Emmanuel Macron will win with 58.2% of the vote, while Le Pen gained 41.8%. The official results will not be published until Monday. Macron is on the way to becoming the first …
Read More »Polls open in French presidential election
The second round of the presidential election kicked off in France on Sunday. Just like five years ago, voters are choosing between current President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the former longtime leader of the right-wing National Rally party, in a runoff. In the first round on April 10, …
Read More »Trump team’s polls hint at 2024 strategy – media
Trump’s team is focusing on the five states he lost to Biden in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, according to polls conducted by Fabrizio, Lee & Associates and obtained by Politico on Tuesday. Winning these states would easily hand him the electoral college victory that eluded him in …
Read More »Americans disapprove of Biden’s plan to pay compensation to migrant families – polls
A new Rasmussen poll found that 57% of respondents believe the government should not be paying settlements to thousands of suing migrant families. Last week, The Washington Post reported that the DOJ was considering payments of $450,000 to each member of families separated at the border. Thousands of migrants have …
Read More »Polls close in Russia’s parliamentary election after last ballots cast in westernmost Kaliningrad region
The last polling stations closed at 20:00 local time (6pm GMT) in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia’s westernmost enclave territory on the Baltic Sea. A total of 14 parties contested the parliamentary race, including the four political powerhouses that made up the previous convocation of the State Duma – United Russia, …
Read More »A viral dance video, a best-selling book and a lead in the polls: Meet the firebrand poised to be Italy’s first female PM
When sisters Giorgia and Arianna Meloni competed as children for their grandfather’s affections by singing the schmaltzy Neapolitan ballad, Parlami d’amore Mariu (Speak to Me of Love, Mariu) over and over, neither dreamt that one of them would one day achieve gold record status… let alone a bestselling book and …
Read More »‘I’m a numbers guy’: Andrew Yang concedes New York mayoral race after primary polls show lagging support
“You all know I am a numbers guy. I am someone who traffics in what’s happening by the numbers, and I am not going to be the next mayor of New York City based on the numbers that have come in tonight,” Yang told his supporters during a brief presser …
Read More »How’s that unity going? Even normally sympathetic polls think Biden has made the US more divided
The first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency have passed, and a glut of polls show the Democrat enjoying majority support. Furthermore, Biden’s address to Congress last week, in which he pushed liberal police reform, gun control and immigration bills, was rated positively by 85% of viewers. However, these polls don’t …
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