Drei Kandidat*innen-Teams nahmen im ersten Wahlgang an der Mitgliederbefragung teil:
Jana Bertels und Kian Niroomand: 3020 Stimmen (36,11%)
Nicola Böcker-Giannini und Martin Hikel: 4034 Stimmen (48,24%)
Luise Lehmann und Raed Saleh: 1309 Stimmen (15,65%)
Damit kommt es zu einer Stichwahl zwischen den beiden bestplatzierten Teams.
Reports suggest that an #Israeli delegation had arrived in #Ethiopia to attend the ongoing summit but was denied participation.
@EbbaKalondo emphasises that the State of #Israel was not invited to last year‘s Summit and it‘s officials entered with fraudulent papers obtained in collaboration with other states.
(10.01.2024)
„There is a need to re-organize [our] relationship [with Washington] so that it is not a target or justification for any party, internal or foreign, to tamper with stability in Iraq and the region,“ Sudani said, partly in reference to attacks by the Iraqi resistance on US bases.
The Iraqi prime minister has repeatedly said that Baghdad will neither accept foreign troops nor armed factions operating on its soil.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Ending the mission of the United States-led global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq will be achieved during the current cabinet, said a government spokesperson on Sunday, noting that the process has already been set in motion.
Various opposition parties, including left-wing bloc GroenLinks and PvdA and far-right PVV, have announced their intention to submit or support a motion of no confidence against Rutte during the parliamentary debate today. Should the motion pass, Rutte would have to step down immediately.
Rutte IV collapsed 543 days after being sworn in by the King. The Rutte III Cabinet also ended in a collapse, that one over the childcare allowance scandal in which the Tax Authority unjustly accused thousands of parents of fraud and left many in financial difficulties by revoking their benefits.
Er werde sich nach der Neuwahl im November aus der Politik zurückziehen, kündigte der dienstälteste Regierungschef in der Geschichte des Landes heute an.
Der 56-jährige Rutte hatte zuvor noch erklärt, er wolle gerne erneut kandidieren, das hänge aber von seiner konservativen Partei VVD ab.
“So I’ve asked Leader Schumer to ask the Senate to allow another Democratic senator to temporarily serve until I’m able to resume my committee work.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, said that Mr. Schumer would make that request of the Senate next week.
Ms Sturgeon insisted her resignation was not in response to the „latest period of pressure“, which has included controversies over gender reforms, trans prisoners and the strategy on independence.
European markets opened broadly lower, tracking the performance of Asian shares. The FTSE 100 (UKX) dropped 0.7%, the CAC 40 (CAC40) fell 0.6%, and the DAX (DAX) was down 0.5%.
Earlier, Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng (HSI) Index had finished the day 1.6% lower, after paring some losses.
China’s climbing COVID caseload and expanding lockdown measures, which prompted rare public protests over the weekend, highlight the risk of an unplanned and chaotic exit from the country’s tough COVID-zero policies, predicts Goldman Sachs.
In the early stages of the campaign, when parties could still merge with others, Lapid begged Merav Michaeli, the leader of Labor, to join forces with Meretz. Even the James Webb telescope would fail to find ideological differences between the two parties. Michaeli, whatever her reasons may have truly been, shot down the idea. Now she could enter history books as the first Labor leader to remain beneath the threshold, and outside the Knesset.
(Streamed live 9 hours ago)
President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating.
(01.07.2022)
Seven in 10 Americans say they do not want President Biden to run for a second term, according to a new poll that comes as Biden’s approval numbers remain low and his party braces for losses this November.
Der italienische Ministerpräsident Draghi hat noch für heute Abend seinen Rücktritt angekündigt. Zuvor hatte er eine Vertrauensabstimmung im Senat zwar gewonnen. Die mitregierende Fünf-Sterne-Bewegung blieb dem Votum aber fern.
Der britische Premierminister Boris Johnson tritt als Chef seiner Konservativen Partei zurück. Er wolle aber als Regierungschef weitermachen, bis ein Nachfolger gewählt ist, sagte Johnson am Donnerstag in London.
– Boris Johnson makes 372-second resignation speech in Downing Street
– He confirms he will stand down as Prime Minister once new Tory leader elected
– He says he is ‚sad‘ to be ‚giving up the best job in the world‘ and blasts rebel MPs
BORIS Johnson has today told the nation he is resigning as Prime Minister and clearing the stage for a new Tory leader by the autumn.
In an address outside No10, the defeated PM said he was so „sad“ to be forced out of the job he loves but conceded: „Them‘s the breaks.“
Democrats knew the first midterm election of President Biden’s tenure in office would be a challenge.
But the cascade of catastrophe that has so dented what little American optimism remained in the waning days of the pandemic and the associated economic recovery has even the most optimistic Democratic Party strategists and pollsters staring into an unprecedented abyss. Their standing, about five months before voters head to the polls, is worse than it has been for any president in modern times, by almost any indicator.
(January 25, 2022)
Richard Nephew, the State Department’s deputy special envoy for Iran who pushed for a tougher approach, has not been part of the talks in Vienna since early December, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. A State Department spokesman told Reuters late Monday that Nephew was no longer in the envoy role, though he was still at the department.
Two other unidentified team members have stepped back from the dialogue because they also sought a tougher stance toward Iran, according to the Journal.
(22.11.2021)
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks for permission to be excused from the remainder of the testimony of Nir Hefetz, his former aide-turned-state’s witness, in his criminal trial.
(18.11.2021)
Oskar Lafontaine will seine politische Karriere beenden. Bei der Landtagswahl im kommenden März trete er nicht mehr an, sagte der saarländische Linksfraktionschef im Fernsehsender „Welt“. Er dementierte Gerüchte darüber, dass er sich mit einer eigenen Liste zur Wahl stellen wolle.
(22.10.2021)
Well-sealed windows. No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows.’ That was Angela Merkel’s answer when, more than a decade ago, a journalist asked her what she most associated with her native land.
Five hours before the official deadline for the departure of Benjamin Netanyahu and his family from the Prime Minister’s Residence on Balfour Street, the final episode in the “Balfour” national reality show refused to come to an end. The huddle of protesters, which dwindled as night fell, exchanged recent photos among themselves of moving vans and other vehicles leaving the residence, trying to figure out whether the Netanyahus had finally vacated the premises or whether maybe someone was still hiding inside, or about to return for a final visit…
Bei ihrer voraussichtlich letzten Reise nach Großbritannien als Bundeskanzlerin trifft Angela Merkel heute die britische Königin Elizabeth II. und Premierminister Boris Johnson. Es gehe um eine Vertiefung der deutsch-britischen Beziehungen, hieß es aus dem britischen Regierungssitz.
Two decades of war in Afghanistan have helped transform the spy agency into a paramilitary organization: It carries out hundreds of drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, trains Afghan commando units and maintains a large presence of C.I.A. officers in a string of bases along the border with Pakistan. At one point during President Barack Obama’s first term, the agency had several hundred officers in Afghanistan, its largest surge of personnel to a country since the Vietnam War.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is on its way towards the opposition, Likud whip MK Miki Zohar stated after the faction was defeated in a Knesset (Israel Parliament) vote on the formation of a key committee.
„We understand and we adopt the idea that we are headed in the direction of the opposition,“ he said during a meeting of the Knesset’s Arrangements Committee.
Die ersten 30 Reisenden befinden seit dem 10. April in Quarantäne, um in der Zeit der Pandemie einen sicheren Auftakt zu ermöglichen. Anfang Mai werden, laut aktuellen Informationen, sieben Zapatistas per Segelschiff nach Europa aufbrechen. Damit soll die europäische Kolonialisierung Lateinamerikas „symbolisch konterkariert“ werden.
Die PD ist nach der Fünf-Sterne-Bewegung die zweitstärkste Gruppierung in der Koalition, die die seit zwei Wochen amtierende Regierung um Premier Draghi unterstützt. Die Sozialdemokraten hatten mit der Fünf-Sterne-Bewegung auch die Vorgängerregierung um Giuseppe Conte unterstützt.
Der Wechsel als Chefankläger erfolgt in einer kritischen Zeit für das Gericht. Es steht unter großem politischen Druck wegen geplanter Ermittlungsverfahren zu Kriegsverbrechen in Palästina und in Afghanistan. Dadurch wären auch Prozesse gegen Militärs aus Israel oder den USA möglich.
„Es ging um die Seele unserer Partei“, sagt sie auf dem digitalen Parteitag der CDU über die turbulenten Tage nach der Wahl in Thüringen vor knapp einem Jahr. Die Wahl des FDP-Politikers Thomas Kemmerich mit den Stimmen von CDU, FDP und AfD brachte die Partei in eine, wie Kramp-Karrenbauer nun selbst sagt, „existenzielle schwierige Situation“.
(29.12.2020)
The Blue and White party’s No. 2, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, is set to announce in the coming days that he is leaving the party and will likely take a break from politics, Hebrew media reports said Tuesday.
Ashkenazi will declare that he is not running in the coming March elections by Wednesday, according to Channel 12 news and Haaretz.
The massive defense bill that President Donald Trump is threatening to veto contains provisions for increased cybersecurity, which has taken on significantly more importance in the wake of a massive cyberattack on federal agencies at the hands of suspected Russian hackers.
The National Defense Authorization Act includes pay raises for America‘s soldiers, modernizations for equipment and provisions to require more scrutiny before troops are withdrawn from Germany or Afghanistan.
(14.06.2018)
Die Bundeswehr bekommt aus Israel die Drohne Heron TP. Zunächst nur in der Aufklärungsvariante, doch die Drohne kann auch bewaffnet werden und dann als Kampfdrohne fungieren.
Trotz wiederholter Forderungen von Verteidigungsministerin Kramp-Karrenbauer stellt sich die SPD gegen die Bewaffnung von »Heron TP«-Drohnen. Der verteidigungspolitische Sprecher der Partei war dafür – und tritt nun zurück.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Monday that she would step down from the top Democratic spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, following sharp criticism from liberal activists over her handling of the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Feinstein, 87, said she would „increase“ her „attention“ on the wildfire and drought crisis in California …
She is expected to leave her post at the end of the year, according to a government source who said her contract ran until January 2021 and she had always intended to leave at that point.
“I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (unanimously confirmed by the Senate), will be Acting Secretary of Defense, effective immediately,” the president said in a post.
Aber warum hat auch die Bankenaufsicht Bafin nichts gemerkt? Die ist immerhin seinem Haus, dem Bundesfinanzministerium, unterstellt? Hier verweist Scholz auf „Reformen“, die schon laufen – und regt sich nicht weiter auf. Wie überhaupt die demonstrative Gelassenheit des Vizekanzlers seinen Angreifern den Wind aus den Segeln nimmt – es geht eher ruhig als lebhaft im Bundestag zu.
Kurz nach einem Telefonat zwischen Olearius und Scholz hatte die Finanzbehörde eine Rückforderung von 47 Millionen Euro fallen lassen. „Wie überall in Deutschland entscheiden die Finanzämter in Hamburg eigenständig nach Recht und Gesetz“, sagte dazu Scholz auf Fragen von Abgeordneten.
Es sei an der Zeit, nach dem Bundesparteitag im Herbst etwas Neues zu beginnen, schrieb Kipping demnach, ohne ihre Pläne konkreter zu benennen.
Wie das ZDF erfuhr, stellt auch Co-Chef Bernd Riexinger sein Amt zur Verfügung.
The president was referring to the contested argument that the US remains a „participant“ in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — despite Trump‘s withdrawal from it — and therefore can force a return to sanctions if it sees Iran as being in violation of its terms.
Im Zuge des Teilabzugs verlegen die US-Streitkräfte ihr Europa-Hauptquartier von Stuttgart nach Belgien. Das US European Command (Eucom) werde ins belgische Mons ziehen, sagte US-General Tod Wolters bei der Pressekonferenz mit Esper.
Bisher hatte die US-Regierung von einem Abzug von rund 10.000 der etwa 36.000 Soldaten in Deutschland gesprochen. Trump wirft der Regierung in Berlin erneut vor, ihren NATO-Verpflichtungen nicht nachzukommen.