France’s leftist New Popular Front, which won the most seats in high-stakes legislative elections earlier this month, said Tuesday it has selected Lucie Castets, a civil servant unknown to the public, as their candidate to be the new French prime minister. The announcement came shortly before President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to appear in a nationally broadcast televised interview Tuesday evening, in hopes of ending weeks of political deadlock. Castets, a senior civil servant, graduated from Sciences Po, the London School of Economics, and the École Nationale d’ Administration. She…
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Gone and back again: Caught in Akali faction war, bypoll candidate who switched parties twice in a day | Political Pulse News
An Akali Dal candidate in the morning, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader soon afterwards, and back in the Akali Dal by evening. For Surjit Kaur, Tuesday was one whirlwind of a back-and-forth journey across the aisle as she attempted to negotiate the tricky political terrain ahead of the Jalandhar West Assembly bypoll scheduled on July 10. As an internal struggle continued in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Kaur, a two-time councillor, filed nomination papers as the party’s candidate, getting its symbol “takdi (scale)” even as the party officially said…
met Mamata Pawar; Yechury says NCP chief didn’t ask to be opposition candidate for presidential election
[ad_1] Chief Minister of West Bengal love of a mother Banerjee and Left leaders meet NCP chief autumn Pawar Separately on Tuesday, trying to persuade the veteran leader as a joint opposition candidate for the presidential election. However, Pawar refused CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram. Yechury Said after meeting Pawar meets Yechury, CPI General Secretary D Raja and NCP leaders Praful Patel and PC Chacko in Delhi and apprised him of his decision of not contesting the elections. Yechury said, “I have been told that Pawar will not be the face…
Rajya Sabha elections: Rajasthan BSP whip asks 6 of its MLAs who have merged with Congress to vote for independent candidate Subhash Chandra
[ad_1] Rajasthan BSP on Saturday issued a whip asking six MLAs who had won as BSP candidates but later merged. Congress Only to vote for independent candidate Subhash Chandra who is in fray for Rajya Sabha elections on June 10.Issuing the whip, BSP state president Bhagwan Singh Baba said that the six MLAs had won their seats on the BSP’s symbol in the 2018 state elections and “are bound to act as per the party whip”. “BSP does not agree with the policies of Congress and BJP, and hence opposes…