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  • Scandals pile pressure on Spain’s Sánchez to call early election

    10/05/2018 9:42:43 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Reuters ^ | October 5, 2018 7:19 AM | Belén Carreño
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faces growing pressure from within his Socialist Party to call an early election, before scandals besetting his four-month-old minority government undermine a surge in voter support. Riding high in the polls, Sánchez aims to serve a full term to mid-2020 as he focuses on approving next year’s budget and countering renewed independence moves in the Catalonia region. But last week, his science minister was forced to deny media reports he cheated on his taxes, days after a recording emerged of the justice minister using a homophobic slur. Two other ministers have already been pushed out,...
  • Netanyahu holding elections so he is free to deal with Iran in September-October

    05/04/2012 11:45:42 AM PDT · by Hojczyk · 14 replies
    The Times of Isreal ^ | May 4, 2012 | Times of Isreal Staff
    I srael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling early elections so that he and his government will be free to deal with Iran’s nuclear program this September-October, one of Israel’s best-informed political commentators said on Friday night. Netanyahu is set on Sunday to announce that he is dissolving parliament and calling elections for September 4 — a year ahead of schedule. In the weeks immediately after that vote, said well-connected commentator Amnon Abramovich on the top-rated Channel 2 news, Netanyahu will head a transition government at home and have no need to worry about voter sentiment, and he knows that...