•Japan PM, Sanae Takaichi Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dissolved parliament today ahead of a snap election on February 8, counting on her cabinet’s high poll numbers to steer her otherwise unpopular ruling party to victory. The country’s first woman premier had announced her intentions on Monday, seeking public backing for measures t...
•Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla A daughter of South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma has resigned from parliament after claims she was involved in recruiting men to join Russian mercenaries in the Ukraine war, her party said today. Police last week said they were investigating allegations that Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, an MP in her father’s Umkhonto we ...
•President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina today dissolved the national assembly, pre-empting an opposition-led vote to force him out of office over the island nation’s spiralling political crisis. Rajoelina has faced over two weeks of deadly street clashes, led largely by young demonstrators furious with t...
•People celebrate after France’s prime minister failed to win a confidence vote in parliament France’s parliament today ousted the government of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou after just nine months in office, leaving President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a successor and plunging the country into a new political crisis. Bayrou, who has ...
The United Kingdom branch of the Commonwealth Parliament Association, today, called for special seats for women at the National and State Houses of Assembly in Nigeria in the ongoing constitution amendment process. The leader of the delegation, Kate Ofunne Osamor, who pushed for consideration and passage of a Bill seeking special seats for wom...
•President Akufo-Addo President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s last State of the Nation address in parliament yesterday was disrupted by the collapse of his aide-de-camp (ADC). In a viral video, the ADC, identified by Ghana Web as Colonel Isaac Amponsah, fell midway into Mr Akufo-Addo’s address before the Ghana parliament. Before he collapsed, ...
•German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament today and confirmed the expected February date for an early general election after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s government last month. Scholz’s coalition was brought down by internal fights over how to revive Europe’s largest economy, but a...
•Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol South Korean lawmakers today impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid, with the opposition declaring a “victory of the people”. The vote took place as hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Seoul in rival rallies for and against Yoon, who launched a failed attempt […]...
•Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo Ghana’s parliament adjourned indefinitely yesterday following a legal dispute over the speaker’s decision to declare four parliamentary seats vacant. The decision, announced by speaker Alban Bagbin, effectively halts all legislative activity less than two months before the country’s general elections and could ...
•Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe disrupts proceedings as Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a Parliamentary reception at Parliament House today Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe shouted anti-colonial slogans at King Charles during his visit to the Australian parliament today, shocking assembled lawmakers and other dignitaries. “...
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