Tag: elections

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentine province of Salta holds local elections under sanitary protocols

  

  The Argentine province of Salta Sunday held local elections of provincial and municipal lawmakers through an electronic ballot system and amid special covid-19 protection measures.

• Friday, February 5th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Uruguay, one the very few “full democracies” in the world, The Economist

  

  Uruguay leads as one of four full democracies in the Americas, according to the Democracy Index 2020, published by The Economist. Uruguay scored 8,61 points out of a possible 10 and ranked fifteenth at world level, while the other “full” democracies in the region are Costa Rica, 8,16; Chile, 8,28 and Canada with 9,24 points.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Bolsonaro allies expected to win control of both houses in Congress

  

  Brazil’s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro sponsored candidates are expected to win control of Congress next month, politicians and analysts said on Monday, despite controversy of the management of the pandemic.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Bolivia's military and police called on political leaders to dialogue and lift blockades

  

  Bolivia's top military and police chiefs on Monday called on political leaders to hold a dialogue to ease tensions and lift a week-long blockade over postponed elections.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:36 UTC

  Winner of March presidential election takes office in oil-rich Guyana

  

  Guyana's elections commission on Sunday declared opposition presidential candidate Irfaan Ali the winner of a disputed Mar 2 election, paving the way for a change in power in the newly oil-producing South American country.

• Wednesday, July 29th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  US warns Maduro that Venezuela's December elections would be deeply fraudulent

  

  The United States warned on Tuesday that elections planned in Venezuela later this year would be deeply fraudulent, accusing leftist leader Nicolas Maduro of seeking to manipulate the outcome.

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  “Mobilizations” anticipated in Bolivia as election date was pushed back to October

  

  Bolivia's general election will be pushed back until October 18 as the coronavirus pandemic grips the South American nation, which is forecasted to fan tensions between the interim conservative government and the socialist party of former President Evo Morales.

• Saturday, July 18th 2020 - 07:27 UTC

  UK and US warn Guyana to respect election results and “avoid frustrating the will of the people”

  

  United Kingdom expressed disappointment with the current authorities of Guyana which so far have not recognized the results of elections held four months ago, frustrating the will of the people.

• Monday, July 13th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Galicia and Basques vote with face masks and hand sanitizers in regional elections

  

  Voters in northern Spain wore face masks and used hand sanitizer gel before entering polling stations on Sunday as Galicia and the Basque Country held regional elections while fighting localized outbreaks of COVID-19.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:16 UTC

  OAS Electoral Mission in the Dominican Republic asked to remain until 15 March

  

  The Electoral Observation Mission (MOE) of the Organization of American States (OAS) is considering extending its stay in the Dominican Republic for the elections of March 15, due to the requests it has received from all political sectors of the country.