Yes, there will be the more predictable elements: a full-scale model of the Oval Office, videos of election nights and mannequins wearing the first lady’s dresses. But the Obama Presidential Center, which officially opens on the South Side of Chicago in June, will also have a feature rarely — if ever — prominent in past…
Nairobi — Former Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo has urged President William Ruto to forgo the 2027 presidential race and instead back his bid, arguing it would be a reciprocal gesture for his support in 2022. Speaking on Chamgei FM, Owalo said he is ready to serve a single term focused…
Shorouk Express Sinn Féin leaders are meeting Monday in the Dublin suburb of Dún Laoghaire to discuss, behind closed doors, who — if anyone — should be their candidate. Ahead of that meeting, McDonald told RTÉ radio it wouldn’t be her — and stressed the party wouldn’t announce its decision until a final Sept. 20…
Shorouk Express The debate closed out a two-day conference organized by France’s largest employers’ association, MEDEF, at which Bayrou spoke earlier in the day. Bardella accused various governments under Macron of bringing France to the precipice of “bankruptcy,” while Bompard maintained the only way to “stop the chaos” was to bring down Bayrou’s government. Even…
Shorouk Express “My priority now is my health. Given that the election is in a short couple of months, I do not believe that I have the strength to give the campaign my all,” McGuinness said in a statement issued by her political party, Fine Gael. Her withdrawal means the centrist Fine Gael party, a…
Shorouk Express The presidential race will have a big say on whether Poland plays in the EU’s big league or if it retreats back into isolation alongside other populist-governed countries in Central Europe like Hungary and Slovakia. During PiS’s eight years in power it got into fights with the EU and other allies over efforts…
Shorouk Express In theory, his political pedigree gives him a broad voter base, as well as party machinery and regional bastions that could prove a formidable force. “Together, [the PNL and PSD] have more than 75 percent of the mayors in Romania,” said Remus Ștefureac, a political analyst and director of polling company Inscop Research….
Shorouk Express Trzaskowski mostly held firm, but faltered when Hołownia — whose party is part of Tusk’s ruling coalition — criticized his offer to meet Nawrocki one-on-one. In a clumsy stunt, Nawrocki handed Trzaskowski a rainbow flag, suggesting it was closer to Trzaskowski’s heart than Poland’s white-and-red banner. Trzaskowski’s awkward decision to tuck the flag…
Shorouk Express PARIS — France’s constitutional court ruled Friday that it is constitutional to remove an elected official from office as punishment for a crime before the individual has exhausted the appeals process. While the case concerns a little-known former local representative from the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, legal scholars have followed…
Shorouk Express Scores of Georgescu supporters who had gathered in front of the bureau briefly tried to enter the building on learning of the decision, but were held back by riot police, Digi24 reported. Protesters later broke off pieces of pavement and threw them at the officers, Bucharest police said. Georgescu came out of nowhere…
