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ELECTION

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2018
Italy's election was actually quite traditional
The nation's voters favor weak central governments for a reason.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 6, 2018
Italy's Five Star rebels must now negotiate with the establishment
The anti-establishment Five Star Movement has emerged as the big winner in Italian elections, but now it faces very tough choices that will probably involve working together with the establishment.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 6, 2018
Italy migrants fear future after populists surge in election
Ibrahim, a 35-year-old Moroccan who hawks bracelets weaved out of multi-colored fabric in front of Milan's cathedral, teared up when he spoke of the family he left behind who rely on the money he sends home.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 5, 2018
Weakened Merkel tasked with performing delicate balancing act to keep coalition intact
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have bought Chancellor Angela Merkel time with their vote to join her conservatives in another coalition, but she risks losing her long grip on power if she fails to balance the awkward allies' conflicting demands.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2018
Russian operatives compromised election systems in seven U.S. states in 2016: report
U.S. intelligence had evidence that voter registration systems or websites in seven states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin — were compromised by Russian-backed operatives before the 2016 election but never told the states, NBC News reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2018
Thai junta chief now says election to be held no later than February 2019
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said Tuesday that a general election he had promised to hold in November would take place "no later" than February 2019, the latest delay to anger critics of the government.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 26, 2018
New deputy leader for Australia after sex scandal forces party shake-up
The junior partner in Australia's coalition government elected as its new leader on Monday a former newspaper editor who takes over as deputy prime minister after an embarrassing sex scandal threatened a decades-old conservative alliance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2018
The future of Putin's illusion
How Russia's president will prepare for 2024, when he will be constitutionally barred from running again?
WORLD / Politics
Feb 22, 2018
U.S. Democrats want $300 million to fight possible Russia election tampering
U.S. Democratic leaders called on Congress on Wednesday to give the FBI $300 million to fight Russian efforts to interfere in congressional and state elections in November.
EDITORIALS
Feb 21, 2018
LDP's proposed electoral system amendment
The LDP's proposed electoral system amendment won't solve the vote-value disparity problem and may conflict with the Constitution's Article 43.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2018
Japan donates ballot boxes worth $7.5 million to Cambodia despite global condemnation over crackdown on democracy
Japan donated over 10,000 ballot boxes for Cambodia's 2018 election on Wednesday, the first international aid for the vote after the European Union and United States withdrew their support following the dissolution of the main opposition party.
WORLD
Feb 21, 2018
German newspaper gets dog registered as a Social Democrat
Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) were forced on Tuesday to declare that a 3-year-old dog called Lima would not be allowed to vote with party members on a coalition deal with Angela Merkel's conservatives, despite joining the party.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2018
Democrats hijack the anti-Trump resistance
Leftists want to change the world. They want peace, equal income, equal wealth, equal rights for everybody.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 13, 2018
Hong Kong court rules pro-independence stance must bar standing for election
Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of barring a pro-independence activist from standing in an election, saying it is "fundamental" for lawmakers to accept the city as an inalienable part of China.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2018
As Trump attacks U.S. law enforcement, another top official quits
The U.S. Justice Department's third-ranking official, Rachel Brand, will resign and take a senior job at Walmart Inc., with sources familiar with her decision saying on Friday that she had grown increasingly uncomfortable with President Donald Trump's attacks on her department and the FBI.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 6, 2018
Trump's lawyers want him to refuse Mueller interview request: New York Times
Several of U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers have advised him not to sit down for an interview with a special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2018
Election victory in Nago seen as LDP win but new mayor may prove tough to crack
Sunday's victory in the Nago mayoral election by a candidate who appears to favor the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the city's Henoko district is widely seen as a political victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a defeat for anti-base advocates in Okinawa, starting with Gov....

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