Tag: Left

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 21:54 UTC

  Uruguay Sunday’s general election: To a second ballotage and without parliamentary majority

  

  On Sunday, October 27, in Uruguay, a new president, and Parliament will be elected. According to pollsters, the same parties as in 2014, the official Frente Amplio (FA, Broad Front) and the conservative National Party, will go on second ballotage in November. However, the novelty is that the Legislature will be made up of a minimum of six parties (a historical record) and a maximum of nine.

• Thursday, December 13th 2018 - 21:19 UTC

  Socialist Pablo Iglesias regrets about Venezuela: “The political and economic situation is disastrous”

  

  The Spanish Socialist leader, Pablo Iglesias, appeared before the Spanish Senate on Thursday over the alleged illegal financing that his political coalition, Podemos, could have received from Venezuela and Iran. In a tense debate with a senator from the Popular Party (PP), Iglesias said that the situation in the South American country “is disastrous” and that he regrets things he has said in the past.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazilian equities and currency slump on Tuesday on latest opinion polls

  

  Brazilian equities and currencies slumped on Tuesday after an opinion poll on the presidential election showed leftist candidates gaining ground while market-friendly centrists did not.

• Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 10:11 UTC

  López Obrador closes his campaign with an anticipated victory

  

  The candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador closed his electoral campaign last Wednesday ahead the presidential elections on Sunday filling the largest stadium in the world on a working day. The only leftist candidate steals public attention in Mexico and leads the polls with an anti-system and reforming discourse.