MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling Morena party and its allies control 83 seats in the Senate, the party's national president Mario Delgado said on Sunday, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
However, in the 500-member lower house of Congress, the ruling leftist coalition will have 372 seats, meeting the super-majority threshold, Delgado said in a post on social media platform X.
... (continue reading...)(Reuters) - The far-right was on course to score big gains in Sunday's European Parliament elections, exit polls showed, as France and Germany joined the Netherlands in offering the first signs that a rightwards shift in the balance of power is under way.
Here are some quotes from across the bloc:
JORDAN BARDELLA, LEAD CANDIDATE, FRANCE'S FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY PARTY
"Emmanuel Macron is a weakened president, already... (continue reading...)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced on Sunday that he was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emergency unity government formed shortly after the Hamas Oct 7. attack on Israel.
His departure still leaves Netanyahu's nationalist-religious coalition in control of parliament with a 64-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset.
Gantz, a former armed forces chief and defence minister, heads the... (continue reading...)
By Mark Trevelyan
(Reuters) - A large crowd protested in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Sunday against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, led by a Christian cleric who announced the start of four days of rallies to seek to drive him from office.
Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is seeking to tap into popular anger over military defeats and territorial concessions to Azerbaijan, but Pashinyan has so far withstood the pressure.
"For... (continue reading...)
By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel
PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron suffered a heavy defeat in European Parliament elections on Sunday, with Marine Le Pen's far-right party sealing a definitive win that underlines her credentials as frontrunner for France's 2027 presidential vote.
Le Pen's National Rally (RN) party, led by telegenic 28-year-old Jordan Bardella, won around 32% of the vote, more than double the Macron ticket's... (continue reading...)
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