Justin Trudeau has been elected Prime minister of Canada, this night, getting 183 out of 338 seats. The liberal leader is going to lead a majority government and allows his party to come back to power after nine years of opposition. Trudeau is succeeding Stephen Harper who recognized his defeat and should step down as …
I do not have a real opinion regarding Jeremy Corbyn’s huge victory to be the new leader of the Labour Party. Yesterday, he was elected with near 57% of the activists’ polls after the campaign he apparently dominated. I say apparently because I did not pay attention to the Labour Party internal campaign. But by …
Jean-Marie Le Pen can be happy, once again. Justice ruled positively regarding the conflict with his daughter, Marine Le Pen who is organizing a special congress to remove the honorary chairmanship occupied by the ex far right leader so far. This decision should not change anything for Marine Le Pen and her lieutenants. For the …
The day after the quake. Greek people hugely voted against bailout plan proposed by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission, approving Alexis Tsipras who has now a new legitimacy to negotiate with his partners. On their side, EU partners are waiting for Athens makes new proposals to get the country out of the …
There is no ambiguity. Greek voters reject bailout agreement draft proposed by the Troika by 61% of the polls against 39% only. Radical left activists and nationalist parties’ members in Greek and throughout the rest of Europe are likely to celebrate what they consider as a complete victory on the IMF but also a European …
Is Greece leaving the Eurozone by the end of the next week? On my previous article, I was quite optimistic on a negotiated solution about Greece’s financial situation and bailout. According to some EU and national civil servants and negotiators from the Eurogroup, an agreement was near and everything should have been on tracks again. … Continue reading
Will Greece still be part of the Eurozone by the end of the year? Apparently yes, an agreement should be found by the next EU Council extraordinary session and members are quite optimistic. Moreover, Athenian people were gathered near the Vouli (Greek parliament) to express their will to stay in the Eurozone and in the … Continue reading
Marine Le Pen got her challenge: she announced she formed a new political group in the European Parliament. This group, named Europe of the Nations and freedoms (ENF) should be entered into force very soon (maybe by the next parliamentary session in July) and chaired by the Front national leader Nobody, within the EU-bubble, reacted … Continue reading
When I started to follow Canada and Quebec politics, I wanted to know a little bit more about political history and current political situation naturally. I started to know the main political parties and their leaders, former and current. Jacques Parizeau was one of these leaders you don’t forget. He was an impressive man, quite … Continue reading
Two days ago, Polish voters elected Andrzej Duda as new president of the Republic. The PiS (conservative) and Eurosceptic candidate defeated the incumbent and outgoing liberal Bronislaw Komorovski by 53% vs. 47. If this election has no direct impact on Poland’s political life (the Polish head of state has no real powers in the Poland’s … Continue reading
Parti Quebécois has a new leader, Pierre-Karl Péladeau. Former Quebecor’s CEO was elected by 58% of the votes vs. 26% for Alexandre Cloutier and 13% for Martine Ouellet. Some of Quebecois political leaders promptly reacted to PKP’s victory between hope and fear. Indeed, according to his supporters, the PQ’s leader elect is the man who … Continue reading
Is Great Britain leaving the EU by 2017? Nobody can predict it yet but everybody seems to be concerned by the coming situation. In 2012, David Cameron announced he would hold a referendum regarding the future of UK in the EU if he wins the next general elections. Three years later, the Tories leader got … Continue reading
It is a total surprise nobody predicted. David Cameron, outgoing PM and Tories’ leader, largely won the UK 2015 elections with an absolute majority in the House of Commons. Labor Party only got 239 seats and Liberal-democrats almost disappeared with 8 seats. Some hours after the results, Ed Miliband, the Labor leader, Nick Clegg, outgoing … Continue reading
French Front national really changed, it is so obvious and Marine Le Pen keeps claiming it. The far right movement female leader keeps saying to anybody who wants to believe her, her party is clean and got rid of parasites who tarnished her new image, as her father and FN co-founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, recently. … Continue reading
Is Bart de Wever actually the real boss for Belgium? According to a great survey ordered by Le Soir, the main Belgian French daily and RTL-TVI, the first commercial TV channel of the kingdom, more 60% of the polled people think the Flemish nationalist leader is ruling Belgium actually and Charles Michel, current Prime minister, … Continue reading
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