Raphaël Glucksmann has been nominated as the presidential candidate of the French Social Democrats and is running against Marine Le Pen, while excluding collaboration with the leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon. #Glucksmann #MarineLePen #Sozialdemokraten (translated)
In the Senate election in the Czech Republic, the liberal and conservative opposition achieved a surprising impressive success with five candidates who won an absolute majority in the first round of voting, thus securing their Senate majority. #Tschechien #Senatswahl #Opposition (translated)
The high diesel prices put pressure on both truckers and Republicans in the run-up to the Congressional elections, with Republican candidates fearing that rising costs will cause them electoral damage. #Dieselprijzen #Republikeinen #Congresverkiezingen (translated)
BrennpunktUA hypothetically played through a scenario in which Zelensky resigned and there were new elections in Ukraine. He named Zaluzhny and Budanov as the only candidates with realistic chances of success, both of whom would adopt an even tougher stance toward Russia. #Ukraine #Russland #Politik (translated)
US President Donald Trump rejects all current candidates for the position of UN Secretary-General and instead favors candidates who support his reform-oriented agenda, while the UN faces financial and structural challenges. #Trump #UN #Infantino (translated)
The Saxony-Anhalt CDU is under pressure following the unexpected electoral success of an AfD candidate, as well as internal conflicts and a failed election campaign, while former Minister-President Reiner Haseloff failed to address the problems within the party in a timely manner. #CDU #SachsenAnhalt #Wahlkampf (translated)
The new SPÖ duo Eva-Maria Holzleitner and Philip Kucher emphasize the necessity of ending internal disputes at their first press conference and aim to present Markus Marterbauer as the only candidate for the party leadership at an extraordinary party congress in 2027. #SPÖ #Parteispitze #Einigkeit (translated)
Markus Frohnmaier wrote that Dennis Radtke from the CDU is calling for party members to be excluded if it becomes known that they voted for an AfD candidate in Saxony-Anhalt. Frohnmaier referred to the secret ballot and called the action a witch hunt that exposes the CDU. He also predicted that even more voters would switch to the AfD as a result. #CDU #AfD #Wahlen (translated)
The chairman of the Eurozone finance ministers group, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, asked the 21 Eurozone countries on Thursday evening to nominate candidates for the position of the German by October 28. #EZB #IsabelSchnabel #Eurozone (translated)
The Eurozone is called upon to propose candidates by October 28 for the successor to outgoing ECB Director Isabel Schnabel, as her term ends in early 2027 and she is moving to the International Monetary Fund. #EZB #IsabelSchnabel #Eurozone (translated)
The transitional chairpersons of the SPÖ, Eva-Maria Holzleitner and Philip Kucher, hope for a single candidate for the party chairmanship, which is to be elected at a party conference in the spring, while a change in the party statutes is not planned for the time being. #SPÖ #Parteitag #Einigkeit (translated)
287 candidates, including Donald Trump, are in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize, while the relevance of the prize is increasingly being questioned, especially given the geopolitical implications and controversial winners from the past. #NobelprijsVoorDeVrede #MaríaCorinaMachado #DonaldTrump (translated)
If it turns out that CDU representatives have elected the AfD candidate as the President of the State Parliament, I expect the party to initiate an expulsion procedure against them. The head of the CDU's employee wing (CDA), Dennis Radtke, has now called for consequences if this is the case. #CDU #AfD #Landtagspräsident (translated)
After the election of the AfD politician Tobias Rausch as President of the State Parliament in Saxony-Anhalt, Dennis Radtke, head of the CDU's labor wing, demands a party exclusion procedure in the case of CDU deviants in order to set clear consequences for any votes by CDU deputies for the AfD candidate. #CDU #AfD #Landtagspräsident (translated)
Markus Frohnmaier criticized Lars Klingbeil for having called the election of an AfD politician as the president of the state parliament in Saxony-Anhalt, while the SPD candidate lost, as irresponsible. The SPD has allowed AfD candidates to repeatedly fail for the position of deputy president of the state parliament in parliaments nationwide for years, wrote Frohnmaier. Klingbeil must now endure the same treatment, he added. #Satire #Politik #AfD (translated)
_horizont_ quoted Dennis Radtke (CDU) as saying he expects a party expulsion procedure against CDU members if it turns out that they voted for the AfD candidate for the President of the State Parliament. In addition, _horizont_ stated that Radtke had voted for the chat control. https://t.co/Y18HifVvW7 #CDU #AfD #Politik (translated)
The article by Claus Hecking highlights Donald Trump's radical candidates for the midterms in the USA, who stand out due to conspiracy myths and controversial statements, and provides a forecast of their chances. #Midterms2026 #TrumpKandidaten #USAWahlen (translated)
Jonas Zuschke wrote that AfD had elected its first ever state parliament president with a broad and secure majority. He claimed that the party's political firewall had been broken, as both BSW, which he said had promised to vote for the AfD candidate Rausch, and others had voted for him. Zuschke described the election as the beginning of a patriotic wave from eastern Germany, which in his assessment would spread to the rest of the country and Europe. #Tyskland #AfD #Politik (translated)
Apollo News wrote that the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt is in disarray after some of its representatives allegedly adhered to democratic practices and elected an AfD candidate as the president of the state parliament. The party is thereby predicted to ultimately undermine itself in the medium term, Apollo News forecasted. https://t.co/RoRNwNPDwH #CDU #SachsenAnhalt #Politik (translated)
Before the Midterms, Republican candidates are coming under pressure even in their strongholds, as Donald Trump's presence is increasingly seen as a burden. #Republikaner #DonaldTrump #Midterms (translated)
