LISBON, Portugal — A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand on the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SYDNEY — Almost six weeks after its general election, New Zealand finally has a government. Leaders of three conservative parties announced Friday that they had reached a coalition agreement, ending weeks of closed-door negotiations and cementing the nation’s shift to the right — although it will be … Read more
Comment on this storyComment SYDNEY — New Zealand moved sharply to the right on Saturday with the National Party, led by businessman-turned-politician Christopher Luxon, poised to form a coalition with the libertarian ACT Party and make good on promises to cut government spending and taxes. The general election result was a sharp rebuke to the … Read more
ATHENS, Greece — It was probably the most tantalizing of victories. Regardless of inflicting the heaviest defeat in half a century on the opposition, Greece’s center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is anticipated Monday to hunt a second nationwide election inside weeks to safe the bulk in Parliament he wants to manipulate alone. With 99.65% of … Read more