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‘Huge incentives to kill’: Mexico crime groups target election candidates
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Tuesday started off like any other day on the campaign trail for José Alberto Alonso, a union leader running for mayor in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco: he kissed his family goodbye, boarded his Nissan Extreme ...
‘We’ve had lots of switchers’: Labour candidates optimistic in Worthing
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'Normaalweg, I can go either way, but I don’t like what’s going on in the Conservative party,” says Dawn Gibbs, standing on her doorstep in the seaside town of Worthing. “At the last general [verkiesing] I did vote Conser...
Alarm as Trump backs ‘big lie’ candidates for key election posts in Michigan
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Donald Trump has endorsed rightwing Republican candidates who support his baseless claims of a stolen election for key posts in Michigan, raising the prospect of a Trumpist take over of how the key battleground state ...
Swart kandidate vir die Amerikaanse Senaat verpletter fondsinsamelingsrekords vir 2022 middeltermyn
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Afro-Amerikaanse kandidate wat vir die Amerikaanse Senaat gehardloop het, het die afgelope drie maande veldtog-fondsinsamelingsrekords verpletter, hoop om 'n liggaam te transformeer wat oorweldigend wit bly. Daar was net 11 Bl...
Chile: candidates battle for moderate votes as presidential race nears end
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Chile’s presidential race is hurtling towards its conclusion with the two remaining candidates battling to secure moderate votes in a deeply divided political landscape. Far-right candidate José Antonio Kast secured a...
Chilean presidential candidate’s father was member of Nazi party
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The German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was a member of the Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document – revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s ow...
Dragons, Nazis and Putin: children put German candidates through wringer
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When Germany elects a new government on 26 September the average voter age may be over 50, but a week and a half before polling day it is children who are asking the hard questions of the candidates who want to fill A...
Far-right candidates perform dismally across UK elections
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Anti-fascist campaigners have been celebrating a dismal performance by far-right candidates in elections around the UK, from Scotland to council polls in England. Their disastrous showing was also attributed to what t...
Federal Liberals select nine election candidates in NSW seats despite legal challenge
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A special committee of the federal Liberal party has forged ahead with appointing election candidates in New South Wales, despite a legal challenge now before the NSW court of appeal about the validity of the committe...
France’s divided leftwing candidates called on to back ‘people’s primary’
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A group of political activists will make one desperate last attempt this month to save the bitterly divided French left from an electoral catastrophe in the presidential election with a “people’s primary” to designate...
Germany coalition candidates united on lowering voting age to 16
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The three parties on track to form Germany’s next coalition government have been locked in tense negotiations over the future of Europe’s powerhouse. But regarding one seemingly radical issue, they are united – loweri...
Hard-left and far-right presidential candidates meet in French TV ‘cockfight’
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Two men; two completely different visions for France. In a debate that lasted more than two hours, the hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the hard-right Éric Zemmour, expected to be a presidential...
Liberal candidates accused of ‘plagiarising’ South Australian Labor premier’s campaign ads
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Two Liberal party candidates for the forthcoming federal election have been accused of “plagiarising” ads from the recent successful state campaign of South Australia’s Labor premier, Peter Malinauskas. Assistant trea...
Macron v Le Pen: who are the candidates in the French election runoff?
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Centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen are through to the second round of the French presidential election. Who are they and what do they stand for? Macron, 44, came to power in 2017 as France’s youn...
Maryland Democrat’s leaked email casts doubt over Black candidates’ electability
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Doubts about the electability of Black candidates “should have no place in America in 2022”, a contender for the Democratic nomination for governor in Maryland said, after an email from a party official and donor expr...
New York mayoral candidates clash on policing in Democratic debate
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The New York City mayoral race exploded into life on Wednesday night, as the Democratic primary debate saw candidates clash over whether to rein in or bolster the city’s beleaguered police force, and the two centrist ...