Neo-Liberal French Government Survives No-Confidence Vote Launched by Leftist Bloc
The attempt by the left-wing New Popular Front bloc failed to bring down French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s recently installed government.
The attempt by the left-wing New Popular Front bloc failed to bring down French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s recently installed government.
Emmanuel Macron has decided to accept the resignation of his prime minister, leaving the France without a government able to actually govern.
An Antifa leader on France’s national security watchlist has been elected to the National Assembly as a member of the New Popular Front.
Marine Le Pen celebrated the “rising tide” after winning the most seats in the National Assembly in the history of her populist party.
Former French President François Hollande will run as a National Assembly candidate for the far-left-led “New Popular Front” alliance.
In a stunning development, the head of the centre-right Les Républicans party backed an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally.
Allies of French President Emmanuel Macron have reportedly dubbed his deicision to call for a snap election “suicidal”.
A poll found that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally could win an outright majority in the National Assembly if snap elections were called.
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced it will join with the Sunni Ittehad Council party (SIC) in a bid to form a government.
Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party (DP), was hospitalized on Monday due to deteriorating health from a hunger strike he began almost three weeks ago.
Confidence in French President Macron has fallen to its lowest level since the 2018 Yellow Vest protests, as Marine Le Pen’s right-wing populists surge.
The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.
With 72 votes in favor, 23 against, and nine abstentions, members of the Venezuelan opposition National Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Thursday to dissolve the nation’s legitimate interim government led by Juan Guaidó.
560,000 French people are set to lose their coronavirus passport if they have not yet had a third coronavirus jab.
It has now been two years since the start of the new chapter in Venezuela’s ongoing political crisis.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro issued an extended diatribe on Thursday night in which he repeatedly referred to American President Donald Trump as a murderer and claimed the “poor rural whites” who attacked the U.S. Capitol this week had also invaded Iran and Afghanistan.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of attempting to “sabotage” upcoming legislative elections, which Maduro convened for December despite not legally being president of Venezuela for over a year.
Socialist gangs loyal to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro attacked a convoy of opposition lawmakers outside the country’s National Assembly in Caracas on Wednesday, consequently preventing them from entering the building for the second time this month.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro proposed pushing forward National Assembly elections on Monday, a move that would allow his socialist regime to steal control of the country’s last democratically elected lawmaking body.
Socialists still loyal to deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Tuesday they would freeze Interim President Juan Guaidó’s bank assets and ban him from leaving the country.
Socialist government agents reportedly assaulted and harassed three opposition Congressmen as they walked out the legislature in Venezuela on Tuesday, a day before a scheduled rally to end dictator Nicolás Maduro’s rule.
Members of Venezuela’s National Bolivarian Intelligence Agency (Sebin), the nation’s secret police, arrested National Assembly President Juan Guaidó on Sunday on the way to a rally in Vargas state, which he represents in the legitimate legislator.
Emmanuel Macron is “in panic” over next year’s EU Parliament elections, Marine Le Pen has said, after the President issued an urgent warning against voting for populists.
The French National Assembly passed two bills this week concerning the censorship of “fake news” that have been sharply criticized as an attack on freedom of the press and the imposition of an “official truth.”
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has postponed the installation of the “national constituents’ assembly” (ANC), a fabricated socialist lawmaking body meant to usurp the power of the National Assembly, following an election widely believed to be fraudulent.
More than three months into a wave of daily anti-socialist protests, Reuters reports that the government of Venezuela has arrested at least 123 armed forces servicemen for a variety of crimes, including traditional crime like larceny and political crimes like “treason.”
Socialist chavista gangs known as “colectivos” stormed Venezuela’s National Assembly Wednesday – the nation’s Independence Day – and kept hundreds of legislators and journalists hostage for eight hours, according to people who were later released.
Venezuela’s National Assembly will begin proceedings Tuesday to remove all justices of the nation’s Supreme Court, following that body’s ruling last week attempting to usurp legislative authority away from the opposition-controlled parliament to itself.
Members of Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition took the streets of the nation this weekend to protest a move by the Supreme Court to usurp federal legislative power, nullifying the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
The political crisis in South Korea has come to a head, as President Park Geun-hye announced she would allow her country’s National Assembly to decide how long she remains in office, and she will resign at once if asked. Opposition lawmakers declared on Wednesday they would proceed with impeachment despite her offer.
The recently sworn-in opposition legislature of Venezuela will investigate a number of government enterprises for links to drug trafficking operations, the head of the National Assembly’s Oversight Commission confirmed Monday.
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has replaced his Minister of Urban Agriculture – a position created two weeks ago – as part of renewed efforts to convince Venezuelans to grow their own food, because import shortages are not going away anytime soon.
The Venezuela Pharmaceutical Federation is making demands for socialist President Nicolás Maduro to declare a “humanitarian emergency” due to the extreme shortages of drugs throughout the country, as medications ranging from simple antibiotics to cancer and AIDS drugs are nowhere to be found.
Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, has announced an “economic state of emergency,” allowing him to rule by decree, in yet another attempt to diminish the power of the nation’s legislature ruled by the opposition anti-socialist party for the first time in 17 years.
A mob of socialists protesting across from Venezuela’s National Assembly pelted journalists with rotten tomatoes and set off fireworks in protest of the new opposition-controlled legislature.