Magdalena Andersson, November 24, 2021, in Stockholm. PONTUS LUNDAHL / TT / AP So this time is the right one. After an incredible election-resignation in the space of seven hours last week, Swedish Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson was re-elected prime minister on Monday November 29 by Parliament and will be able to officially become … Read more
Ali Rabeh, mayor of Trappes (Yvelines), February 17, 2021. SADAK SOUICI / LE PICTORIAL /MAXPPP Ali Rabeh can be satisfied. Two months after seeing his 2020 election invalidated by the Council of State, this former chief of staff of Benoît Hamon was reelected mayor of Trappes (Yvelines) on Sunday October 10, from the first round … Read more
Chamber PS is the big winner of the elections in Paredes. Alexandre Almeida is re-elected for a second term and reinforces the voting in relation to 2017. The PS elects two more councilors – seven in total – and conquers an overwhelming absolute majority that relegates the PSD/CDS to just two terms in the executive … Read more
DR . Photo Castro Marim’s PSD won the City Council with 56.18% of the votes and guarantees three terms in the executive. The PSD also won the Municipal Assembly and the four parishes: Azinhal, Odeleite, Aljezur and Castro Marim. The current president of the municipality, Francisco Amaral, thus achieves a new electoral victory and conquers … Read more
Roch Wamytan, in Noumea, New Caledonia, October 30, 2018. THEO ROUBY / AFP The independentist Roch Wamytan was reelected on Wednesday July 28 as president of the Congress of New Caledonia, taking advantage of divisions among the loyalists and a few months before the last referendum on independence on December 12, Agence France noted. Hurry. … Read more
Speech by Marine Le Pen during the second day of the RN congress, in Perpignan, July 4, 2021. CYRIL BITTON Reelected unsurprisingly Sunday, July 4 at the head of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen beat the recall of her activists gathered in congress in Perpignan for the presidential election, after a defeat in … Read more
Laurent Wauquiez, outgoing LR president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, after his victory in the regional elections. BRUNO AMSELLEM / DIVERGENCE FOR “THE WORLD” Laurent Wauquiez, 46, was re-elected to cheers and unsurprisingly president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council, Friday morning July 2 in Lyon. The outgoing president (Les Républicains, LR) obtained 134 votes from the 204 regional … Read more
Jean Rottner, in Strasbourg, on June 27. FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP We take the same, and we continue … In the Grand-Est, regional elections end on the same balance of power as that displayed in the first round, if not the bonus won by the majority list. It allows the outgoing President Les Républicains (LR), … Read more
Xavier Bertrand, reelected at the head of Hauts-de-France, in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), Sunday June 27, 2021. AIMÉE THIRION FOR “THE WORLD” Outgoing president Xavier Bertrand was re-elected with 53% of the vote, according to estimates from Ipsos-Sopra Steria for France Télévisions, Radio France, LCP and Public Senate, in a context of high abstention (67.2%) for a … Read more