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Caretaker French PM Lecornu: possibility of parliament dissolution looks more remote
PARIS (Reuters) -Caretaker French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that the possibility of a dissolution of parliament looked remote, after he held rounds of talks with different political parties.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, freshly reappointed late on Friday just days after resigning, faces a race against the clock to deliver a 2026 budget bill by Monday and attempt to sway a
Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the leftist firebrand who stormed to power on an anti-austerity agenda at the peak of Greece's debt crisis in 2015, resigned as a parliamentary deputy on Monday,
France's new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announces he will not use special constitutional powers to force his budget through parliament
François Bayrou lost a motion of no confidence in France's National Assembly as lawmakers on the left and the right rejected his plans for stinging budget cuts.
The Armenian parliament on Wednesday failed to discuss the prime minister's resignation demanded by thousands of protesters over a ceasefire that secured territorial advances for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Georgia's prime minister says protesters want to topple his government and vows a further crackdown
TBILISI, Georgia -- TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Sunday accused the opposition of trying to topple his government and vowed a further crackdown on dissent, hours after the ruling party claimed a landslide win in local elections snubbed by its main rivals.
Anger had been mounting for years against a Nepali political elite viewed as corrupt and out of touch, and it exploded Tuesday with sudden ferocity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison became Australia's first leader on Monday to make an appearance before parliament by video link, as he spends time in quarantine following a recent trip to Japan.
French left-wing political leaders left a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron disappointed Friday, just hours before he was set to appoint a premier to pull the country out of crisis.