By Ian Tennant, Fleishman-Hillard Public Affairs, London
In December 2009, the leaders of the main UK parties finally struck a deal with the BBC, ITV and Sky to air three televised live debates during the 2010 General Election campaign. Televised debates have been on the agenda for decades, but Prime Minister after Prime Minister – including the very telegenic Tony Blair turned them down time and again. Thei…
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By Rebecca Lury, Fleishman-Hillard Public Affairs
The Speaker’s conference recently concluded its investigation into parliamentary representation. What they found may not have been revolutionary: the UK needs more women, black and minority ethnic, and disabled people in parliament. But its conclusions only reinforce that action is needed now.
The report considered the introduction of quotas for women and…
A Presidential Election Devoid of New Ideas
The Concertación (C)—the Concert of Parties for Democracy—the broad electoral coalition of center-left parties that defeated the military regime in Chile in a plebiscite called in 1987 by strongman Augusto Pinochet to determine whether or not he should remain in power, is in serious trouble of losing La Moneda in the December 13th elections as a result of three undeniable reasons: 1) the unappealing candidacy of…
That German Charm
On the eve of the second round of presidential elections in Romania, the New York Times dedicates the article “Grim Romanians Brighten Over a German Connection” to the presumptive next prime-minister, Klaus Johannis, the mayor of Sibiu, a mid-sized Transylvanian city that has enjoyed an unlikely era of prosperity under his two successive mandates. Johannis is actually not German, but a Translylva…
Romanians Vote in High Numbers for Presidential Election
At 8 p.m. local Romanian time, after 99,81% of the voting ballots have been counted, the results of the first round of the race for Romanian Presidency are the following: incumbent President Basescu (Democratic Liberal Party) 32,43%, Mircea Geoana (Social Democrat Party) 31,16% and Crin Antonescu (National Liberal Party) 20,02%. The other runners are not even worth mentioning, as all of them scored under 4%.
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