Vice President Constantino Chiwenga — who was among those injured in Saturday’s attack — said the first parliamentary and presidential polls of the post-Robert Mugabe era would go ahead as scheduled on July 30. “Let me be very clear, nothing will stop the election in Zimbabwe, nothing at all,” Chiwenga told a rally of the … Read more
A 41-year-old senator, Duque will face his leftist rival, former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, in the run-off on June 17. With most of the vote counted, Duque had polled 39.7 per cent of the votes, compared to Petro’s 24.8 per cent. Petro beat off a late challenge from former Medellin mayor Sergio Fajardo to narrowly take … Read more
The three-day-old HD Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka won a vote of confidence without a contest, with the BJP MLAs walking out of the Assembly before the floor test, bringing an end to the 10-day high-voltage political drama. Earlier BJP decided to honour the parliamentary tradition that the presiding officer should be chosen unanimously and pulled … Read more
