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Boris Johnson Under Pressure After Crushing UK Election Defeats
Date: June 24, 2022
By Alistair Smout, Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON/KIGALI (Reuters) -Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost two parliamentary seats on Friday, a new blow to Britain’s prime minister who then lost a close ally with the surprise resignation of his party’s chairman and faced renewed calls to quit. In Rwanda for a meeting of Commonwealth nations, Johnson...
Pressure Mounts on UK’s Boris Johnson After Crushing Election Defeats
Date: June 24, 2022
By Alistair Smout, Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON/KIGALI (Reuters) -Boris Johnson’s Conservatives lost two parliamentary seats on Friday, a crushing blow to the governing party that prompted the resignation of its chairman and intensified doubts about the future of Britain’s prime minister. In Rwanda for a meeting of Commonwealth nations, Johnson was defiant, pledging...
UK PM Johnson Rejects Resignation Talk Before Elections
Date: June 23, 2022
KIGALI (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dismissed as “crazy” the suggestion he might resign if he loses two parliamentary seats at elections on Thursday. The polls will be voters’ first chance to give their verdict on Johnson since a damning government report last month detailed a series of illegal lockdown-breaking parties at his...
Macron Allies Divided Over Far-Right Role in New Parliament
Date: June 22, 2022
By Myriam Rivet and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – Divisions emerged among Emmanuel Macron’s allies on whether his centrist alliance should rule out any deal at all with far-right MPs or could work with them on an ad hoc basis as the French president seeks an elusive majority following an election upset. Some of Macron’s...
Bulgarian Government Faces No-Confidence Vote and Political Turmoil
Date: June 22, 2022
By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) – A no-confidence vote on Wednesday threatens to topple Bulgaria’s government and Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, who pledged to tackle corruption and took an unusually strong stance against Russia. Petkov’s four-party coalition took office six months ago only to disintegrate earlier this month over disagreements on budget spending and whether...
Macron’s Camp Seeks Allies, Says ‘it’s Going to Be Complicated’ After Election Rout
Date: June 20, 2022
By Ingrid Melander and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist camp scrambled on Monday to secure support from rivals to salvage some of its reform agenda after weekend elections delivered a fragmented parliament that leaves France at risk of political paralysis. The loss of his Ensemble alliance’s absolute majority is a bitter setback...