The Austrian government has announced that re-run of the country’s presidential election will take place on 2nd of October. Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka suggested this date ahead of a government meeting.Repeat of voting is necessary, because of the recent cancellation of the second round by the Constitutional Court. Recall that it happened after a legal challenge from the far-right Freedom Party. The FPOe referred to the "massive irregularities". The prosecution assumes that tens of thousands of votes has been opened earlier than the time it intended, and that the votes were counted by the unauthorized persons. It also argued that postal votes had been illegally and improperly handled cast by mail in 14 districts.
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Australia has been fighting with refugee crisis for a long time. For government, there are to solutions for this problem: forcing to leave the country or they must be sent to third countries. The second solution has been attracted international criticism. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hasn’t supported this policy. At the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, he said that all countries should have found new long-term solutions for refugees. Ban Ki - Moon wanted Australia to take more refugees every year.
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On 1st of July 2016, the European Council prolonged the economic sanctions targeting of the Russian economy until 31st of January 2017.Sanctions against Russia were introduced on 31st of July 2014 in response to the escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. In March 2015, the EU made the lifting of sanctions on the full implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which was to take place by the end of 2015. Since the agreement with Minsk have not been implemented, in January this year sanctions against Russia had been extended to the end of July.
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President Nicolas Maduro announced on Friday that the electricity rationing program, which was launched in April to address the severe drought that crimped the operations of the OPEC nation's hydroelectric generators, will end as of Monday. In a televised broadcast the president said: "Today we can say that Guri has recovered and we have the conditions under which power service can function normally." The programme aimed to alleviate a severe electricity crisis brought on by the country's worst drought in 40 years, brought by the El Nino weather phenomenon. This had a great impact in the country as the 70% of Venezuela’s electricity is produced by the Guri dam.
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Constitutional Court of Austria has announced that the presidential election which were held in May, must be repeated. The court has heard around 90 witnesses during two weeks of public hearings and announce at noon that the election result was valid and that a new vote would be held. The far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) brought a challenge after its candidate Norbert Hofer lost out the election. According to official results, the difference is less than 31 thousand votes with the former leader of the Austrian Greens Alexander Van der Bellen. Austria's Interior Ministry announced that Van der Bellen received 50.35 percent votes.
Read More In May 2016 Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced date of pre-poll voting 2nd of July 2016. It is his idea for reaching stronger mandate for economy reforms. Coalition of Liberals and Nationalists, which ruled in 2013, lost - according to current surveys - advantage over Labour Party. Now vote’s differences between those groups are as liitle as statistical error. Since 2010, Australia has had five prime ministers in six years, beginning with Labor's Kevin Rudd. The previous election took place in September 2013. According to rules, next election should be organise in January 2017. Partys will strive for getting 76 places in Senate and 150 places in House of Representatives.
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The People’s Party (PP) has become the winner of Sunday's repeated elections in Spain. The election result was broadly the same as that of those in December last year. Unexpectedly, the PP and the Socialists (PSOE) performed better than expected. The PP won 137 seats, short of the 176 needed for an outright majority. The Socialist Party became second while Unidos Podemos (United We Can) - which brings together Podemos, the communist United Left (IU) and the greens, came in third. Citizens (CiU) became fourth again. It remains to be seen whether coalition talks will succeed, as they failed after last year's elections, which brought about similar results.
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