Private polling suggests that Liz Truss is only five percentage points ahead of Rishi Sunak in the race to succeed British prime minister Boris Johnson, 48% to 43%, the Times of London reports.
Trump Wanted to Endorse Netanyahu Rival
“Ahead of the Israeli election in March 2020, then-President Trump wanted to publicly endorse former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main political rival Benny Gantz, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and then-senior adviser at the White House, writes in his new book,” Axios reports.
“Kushner’s remarks are further evidence of how bad the relationship between the former U.S. president and the former Israeli prime minister was at the time.”
What to Know About the Showdown in Brazil
“Brazil’s presidential election in October is shaping up to be a riveting head-to-head contest between two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010,” Bloomberg reports.
“While there are 10 other contenders in the race, none has a realistic chance of winning. The election outcome will have profound implications for South America’s biggest and most-populous nation.”
Liz Truss on Track to Be Next British Prime Minister
Politico: “Monday evening’s crucial head-to-head TV clash between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak — the final two contenders in the race to replace Boris Johnson — ended in an effective score draw, leaving Truss in pole position to become Tory leader and U.K. prime minister.”
Bolsonaro Kicks Off Re-Election Bid
“Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made official his bid to run for reelection in October, giving him three months to close a double-digit gap to secure victory,” the AP reports.
“The Liberal Party’s formal approval of Bolsonaro’s candidacy took place at its convention Sunday in a Rio de Janeiro stadium. Support was widely expected and merely symbolic, given that the far-right president has effectively been campaigning for months, crisscrossing the country to drum up support and remind voters why they shouldn’t back his nemesis, leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.”
Said Bolsonaro: “We don’t need another ideology that hasn’t worked anywhere else in the world. We need to improve what we have. Our life wasn’t easy, but one thing comforts me isn’t seeing a communist sitting in that chair of mine.”
Liz Truss Is Tory Favorite for U.K. Prime Minister
A new YouGov poll finds British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss extended her lead over former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak in the race to be the UK’s next prime minister, recording a commanding 24-point polling advantage over her rival, 62% to 38%.
A YouGov poll earlier this week gave Truss a 19-point advantage over Sunak.
Next British Prime Minister Will Be Sunak or Truss
“Rishi Sunak will face off against Liz Truss for the Conservative leadership after Penny Mordaunt was eliminated from the contest,” the Times of London reports.
Politico: “Sunak and Truss will now go on to a wider vote of the Conservative Party’s rank-and-file members, with a spate of recent polls suggesting Sunak could struggle to beat Truss, despite comfortably securing the support of the most Tory lawmakers.”
Bolsonaro Cast Doubt on Brazil’s Elections
“President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil called dozens of foreign diplomats to the presidential palace on Monday to tell them that he believed the country’s voting systems could be rigged, a potential preview of his strategy for an election that is 75 days away and that polls forecast he will lose in a landslide,” the New York Times reports.
Italian President Refuses to Accept Draghi’s Resignation
“Italy’s golden period of stability suddenly seemed on the familiar precipice of chaos on Thursday after Prime Minister Mario Draghi tendered his resignation in response to a revolt by anti-establishment populists within his broad national unity government,” the New York Times reports.
“But in a sign of how traumatic Mr. Draghi’s departure would be for Italy, the country’s president refused to accept his resignation, essentially freezing the political situation in place until next week, when Mr. Draghi will address parliament.”
Italian Premier to Resign
“Italian Premier Mario Draghi has told his Cabinet he will offer his resignation on Thursday evening to the nation’s president, following the refusal of a populist coalition ally to support a key government bill,” the AP reports.
U.K. Prime Minister Race Is Shaken Up by Dark-Horse
“The unpredictable contest to find a new British prime minister has produced a dark horse,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Penny Mordaunt, little known outside Conservative Party circles, is emerging as the biggest threat to former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s campaign to take over as leader of the party. Seen as a long shot only days ago, she became the odds-on favorite Wednesday at betting houses in Britain after several polls showed her topping popularity polls with grass roots Conservative members.”
A new YouGov poll finds Mourdunt the clear leader among Conservative Party members.
Japan’s Ruling Party Heads to Big Victory
“Japan’s governing party and its coalition partner scored a major victory in a parliamentary election Sunday, possibly propelled by sympathy votes in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,” the AP reports.
“Early results in the race for the parliament’s upper house showed Abe’s governing party and its junior coalition partner Komeito securing a majority in the chamber and adding more.”
Sturgeon Sets Out Plan for Scottish Independence Vote
“Scotland’s leader Nicola Sturgeon laid out plans to hold a fresh independence referendum in October 2023, attempting to break a legal logjam on any potential secession by referring the legality of a vote to the U.K.’s Supreme Court,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Her move Tuesday appears set to escalate a long-running standoff with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Mr. Johnson has repeatedly rebuffed Ms. Sturgeon’s requests to authorize a referendum on leaving the U.K. after pro-independence parties secured a majority in elections to Scotland’s parliament last year, saying an earlier referendum in 2014 settled the question. The independence camp lost that vote by 45% to 55%, but Ms. Sturgeon and her supporters say the political landscape has changed since then, notably with Britain’s exit from the European Union, which a large majority of voters in Scotland opposed.”
Netanyahu Plots His Comeback
“Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to engineer his return to power by launching a ‘scorched-earth’ campaign, courting far-right voters and accusing rivals of being beholden to Islamists,” the Times of London reports.
“The former prime minister warned rivals when he was unceremoniously removed from power a year ago that he would return.”
“The collapse of the coalition of eight ideologically diverse parties that replaced him — led by Naftali Bennett, who began his career as Netanyahu’s chief of staff — was largely Netanyahu’s doing.”
Britain’s Conservative Party Chair Resigns
“Oliver Dowden, the chairman of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party, resigned on Friday, saying it could not carry on with business as usual after two crushing by-election defeats and someone had to take responsibility,” Reuters reports.
Electoral Breakthrough Puts Le Pen Back in the Game
“For over a decade Marine Le Pen’s success in pushing her far-right party into France’s political mainstream has revolved around one key yardstick — the presidential election race which she has entered and lost three times while increasing her score with every campaign,” the Financial Times reports.
“Now her Rassemblement National movement has made a breakthrough in the National Assembly. It has increased its number of seats tenfold to 89 after legislative elections, far eclipsing the far-right movement’s previous best return with 35 seats in 1986 and placing the party and Le Pen at the heart of day-to-day politics in France.”
“While still 200 seats from a majority needed to control the 577-strong assembly, the strong result confounded expectations even within Le Pen’s own party, which has tended to fare poorly in the two-round legislative ballot system, and gives it a bigger voice to influence the agenda on issues such as immigration or security.”
Colombia Gets First Leftist President
“For the first time, Colombia will have a leftist president,” the New York Times reports.
“Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country’s economic system, has won Sunday’s election, according to preliminary results, setting the third largest nation in Latin America on a radically new path.”
Emmanuel Macron Set to Lose Majority
“The centrist coalition supporting President Emmanuel Macron of France was projected to come out ahead in crucial parliamentary elections on Sunday, but a strong showing by an alliance of left-wing parties and a far-right surge prevented Mr. Macron’s forces from securing an absolute majority of seats, a setback that could complicate his second term,” the New York Times reports.
“Projections based on preliminary vote counts gave Mr. Macron’s centrist coalition 205 to 250 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, the lower and more powerful house of Parliament — more than any other political group, but less than half of all seats.”
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