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6 Apr 2019 Analysis – Will Pete Buttigieg’s boom last? The Mayor Pete boomlet is real. The question is whether he’s on the edge of a breakthrough in the Democratic race—or likely… 4 Apr 2019 Brexit should serve as a lesson how internal issues in a single party can swell into a global problem – Pedro Sanchez Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez said lessons needed to be learned from Brexit – not least how internal differences in a single… 4 Apr 2019 French government Twitter campaign encouraging people to vote in EP elections blocked by France’s new fake news law A campaign by the French government encouraging people to register to vote in the European Parliament elections has been blocked on Twitter,… 2 Apr 2019 Changes in Spanish Mediterranean rescue operations in view of upcoming elections An overhaul of Spain’s operations in the Mediterranean has sparked fears among activists that Madrid is quietly gutting a civilian search-and-rescue agency… Brexit · 31 Mar 2019 Labour can only win Britain’s next election, if the party embraces the fact that a Brexit decision is given back to the people in a second referendum – Party’s Deputy Leader Labour can win the next election with a pledge to put Brexit back to the people in a referendum, said the party's… 31 Mar 2019 49 Populist-related parties or coalitions set to take third of European Parliament seats Around a third of the seats in the next European Parliament could be taken by candidates from populist parties or coalitions if… 31 Mar 2019 Snap elections would lead to Conservative party annihilation Theresa May must not be allowed to lead the Conservatives into a snap election, senior Tories have warned. The Telegraph reports that… 29 Mar 2019 Video : Pete Buttigieg, soaring in popularity, but… how to pronounce his Maltese origin surname … Maltese-American presidential aspirant Pete Buttigieg is stealing US airwaves with his bid for the Democratic nomination for president. Buttigieg, 37, is the… 19 Mar 2019 Election Watch: The challenges faced by Robert Biedron – Poland’s ‘Macron’ A new party called Wiosna, which means "spring" in Polish, was launched last month by Robert Biedroń — one of the country’s… 17 Mar 2019 Colorado passes act that would award state’s electoral college to candidate who wins national popular vote Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill that would award the state’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who… Poland · 15 Mar 2019 LGBT rights set to be Poland’s electoral battlefront Poland's ruling The Law and Justice Party (PiS) has condemned a new school sex education programme planned in Poland's opposition-ruled capital Warsaw,… 12 Mar 2019 “How would he allow himself to become the cheerleader for the porn star presidency? – Pete Buttigieg on VP Mike Pence Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is on the older cusp of the millennial generation. But almost 20 years…