A sign of change. Right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri, well-known owner of the Boca Juniors soccer team, is the recognized favorite in the Buenos Aires mayoral elections coming up Sunday. The 48-year-old Macri, son of Franco Macri, chief of a financial empire, is running against the current Minister of Education in the Kirchner government, Daniel Filmus, who began the campaign with a twenty-point advantage. continue...
Given his position on key issues, it’s no wonder Fred Thompson is popular with conservative American voters. He supports the war in Iraq and cutting taxes; he’s against gun control, abortion, and easy immigration. He’s second in the polls among Republican candidates, behind ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, which is no small feat considering that he hasn’t yet officially announced his candidacy. continue...
Algeria's congressional elections will take place on Thursday May 17. Approximately 19 million Algerians will go to the polls to choose 389 representatives of the National People's assembly. It will be the third such election since 1991, when a first-round victory by the Islamic Salvation Front, a coalition of Islamic parties, led to a reaction by the country's generals, who nullified the results and arrested ISF leaders. continue...
The impression he gives is that he would never have done it, if he had not been a coloured politician. But Senator Barack Obama, candidate to the Presidency of the United States for the Democrats, says he simply made public an issue that is privately discussed, in the African American community, with great frankness. And he must have had a great dose of frankness yesterday when he delivered his accusations. Affectionate, continue...
Written by Federico Frigerio Without opposition: Pat Utomi, candidate for the African Democratic Congress party (ADC), has referred to the election results as “a global fraud which cannot be tolerated”. The defeated are not the only ones complaining – departing President Olusegun Obasanjo admitted that the elections “have been unfair”, adding that there will not be a new vote. Everyone takes to the streets. continue...
Polls don’t always get it right, so proceed with caution. But the results of a recent poll conducted by the University of Birzeit of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank seem worth noticing: if elections were held today, Fatah would get 45 percent of the vote, Hamas 33 percent. Polls tell a story. continue...
Attacks on cars in full daylight, thefts, bank robberies: a wave of violence has struck the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, claiming more than 50 victims in the last three months, among whom two Americans and well known personalities of the local scientific world. But what seemed to be a fresh outbreak of activity in the gangs that control the city might be revealed as a much more worrisome phenomenon. continue...
