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Duterte on prospect of Robredo being President: “Hindi niya kaya”

President lauds leadership skills of Chiz Escudero, Bongbong Marcos instead (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Aug. 14, appeared to belittle Vice President Leni Robredo’s leadership abilities, saying she cannot handle the country’s problems. In the same speech, the President instead appeared to express support for the leadership skills of Chiz Escudero and Bongbong Marcos, who both ran against Robredo in the 2016 elections, but lost. Marcos has filed an electoral protest against […]

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Paraguay to have its first woman president

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AFP) — Paraguay will have a woman president for the first time in its history, at least temporarily, after outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down Monday ahead of schedule. Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will complete Cartes’s mandate after he resigned to become a senator. On August 15, fellow conservative Mario Abdo Benitez, elected in April 22 polls, will begin his five-year term as president of one of Latin America’s poorest countries. The parliament […]

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Staunch Suu Kyi ally elected Myanmar president

  NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP)  —  Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday elected a staunch ally of Aung San Suu Kyi as the country’s new president, allowing her to maintain a tight grip on top-level decision-making. Win Myint, 66, had been tipped for the role after former president Htin Kyaw suddenly stepped down last week, citing the need for rest. Suu Kyi is barred by the military-drafted constitution from the presidency because she was married to a foreigner […]

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Catalan parliament to vote on new president: speaker

  BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Catalonia’s parliament is to hold a debate and vote Thursday on a new candidate for regional president, Jordi Turull, who risks being disqualified from holding office over his role in the region’s separatist drive. “I will propose to the chamber that Jordi Turull be candidate for president,” Catalan parliament speaker Roger Torrent told reporters late Wednesday, just hours after Turull was summoned to appear in court on Friday. Turull, a former […]

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Myanmar president and Suu Kyi confidant Htin Kyaw resigns

  by Richard Sargent Agence France Presse YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — Myanmar’s President Htin Kyaw resigned suddenly on Wednesday leaving the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi without a close confidant and political ally as she faces rising international opprobrium over the Rakhine crisis. The president, an old school friend of Suu Kyi, served as her proxy in an office she was barred from occupying under Myanmar’s military-drafted constitution. His role was largely […]

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Anti-gay marriage lawmaker ahead in Costa Rica vote for next president

by Marco Sibaja Agence France-Presse SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AFP) — A conservative, evangelical lawmaker who fiercely opposes gay marriage emerged as the frontrunner to become Costa Rica’s next president, according to partial results from a first round election Sunday. Fabricio Alvarado of the right-wing National Restoration Party received 26 percent of the vote, according to a count of over half the ballots, according to the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal. That placed him in the […]

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70% of Filipinos believe Duterte performed better as president than Aquino — SWS survey

  (Eagle News) – Up to 70 percent of Filipinos nationwide believe that President Rodrigo Duterte performed better as the country’s president, so far in the past one year and a half that he is in office, compared to former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s full six year term. This was according to the latest survey of the Social Weather Station based on a poll conducted from December 8, 2017 to December 16, 2017. Based […]

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UN chief congratulates Liberia’s next president

New York, United States | AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday congratulated George Weah on his victory in Liberia’s presidential election and praised the peaceful conduct of the vote. Guterres “applauds all Liberians for the successful completion of the elections process, which was conducted in a peaceful environment,” a statement from the UN chief’s spokesman said. Liberia’s election board certified Weah as the winner of the election on Friday, marking the country’s first peaceful transfer of power after […]

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Chile votes in what could be a close presidential run-off

SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Chilean voters will decide their next president on Sunday in a run-off election whose outcome is far from certain after an unexpectedly strong surge for the left. Sebastian Pinera, a conservative billionaire former president who ruled from 2010-2014, is trying for a comeback to succeed center-left incumbent leader Michelle Bachelet, who is constitutionally excluded from standing again. But his plan could be upset by Alejandro Guillier, a senator and veteran TV presenter who […]

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Honduran leader declares himself election winner

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez declared himself the winner of elections before official results were announced — and his top rival did the same. “I’m very content, happy, because I’ve been seeing… a huge number of exit polls and real-time processing of the ballots and the result is more than clear: we won this election,” Hernandez told a crowd that cheered him in the capital. Shortly after his announcement, Salvador Nasralla […]

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Nephew says Mugabe accepts ousting and is ‘quite jovial’

by Susan NJANJI / Ben SHEPPARD Agence France Presse HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Robert Mugabe’s nephew said Sunday the ousted Zimbabwean president was in good health and “quite jovial” after being forced to resign when a military takeover ended his 37 years in power. Leo Mugabe however declined to discuss the $10-million retirement bonus reportedly granted to the 93-year-old former president as part of a deal that finally persuaded him to resign on Tuesday. “He […]

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Mnangagwa to be sworn in as Zimbabwe president

by Reagan Mashavave Agence France Presse HARARE, Zimbabwe (AFP) — Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa was set to be sworn in as president on Friday, marking the final chapter of a political drama that toppled his predecessor Robert Mugabe after a military takeover. Mnangagwa, until recently one of Mugabe’s closest allies, will take the oath of office at the national sports stadium on the outskirts of Harare before thousands of supporters, dignitaries and foreign diplomats. Mugabe, who […]

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