Romania's Conservative Party leaves governing coalition
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All members of Romania's Conservative Party resigned from their governmental positions at noon on Monday, depriving the governing coalition of its parliamentary majority.Comment
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BUDAPEST, Hungary  - Moving to end a political crisis with its government coalition partner, the Hungarian Socialist party has announced Prime Minister Medgyessy is no longer head of the government and it plans to nominate his replacement next week.
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BAGHDAD, March 7 -- A small Shiite political party on Wednesday pulled out of the governing Shiite parliamentary bloc that put Iraq's prime minister in power.
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ROME -- Stung by a bruising foreign policy defeat, Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned yesterday, his center-left government collapsing after just nine months in power.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian  Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged  neck-and-neck from the second round of presidential elections  on Sunday, exit polls showed.
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A right-wing party quit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition government on Wednesday, condemning his peace efforts with the Palestinians in a move that still left him with a parliamentary majority.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's biggest party voted  to leave the governing coalition on Sunday in a move that could  complicate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's reform agenda  and pressure him to give the centrist party more Cabinet posts.
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The head of Brazil&#39;s powerful PMDB political party has proposed it leave the ruling Workers&#39; Party coalition government in what would be a serious blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva&#39;s reform agenda.
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A key ally of Premier Romano Prodi pulled his party from the Cabinet on Monday amid a corruption scandal, sending the center-left governing coalition scrambling to keep the administration from falling.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Wednesday, just nine months after winning the closest election in Italy's modern history, when his centre-left coalition suffered a Senate defeat on foreign policy.
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The Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Medgyessy, has resigned following a row with his Socialist party&#39;s liberal coalition partner.
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Romania&#39;s ruling ex-communists scored a wafer-thin victory over opposition centrists in Sunday&#39;s parliamentary vote, according to partial official results.
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Romania's main opposition presidential challenger Theodor Stolojan withdrew from the race citing health reasons Saturday, dealing a severe blow to his alliance ahead of next month's elections.
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Romania&#39;s ruling party appears to have won the presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, but by smaller margins than exit polls had suggested.
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BUDAPEST : Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy resigned, pre-empting a move by his ruling Socialist party to oust him in a no-confidence vote in parliament next month.
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BERNE, Switzerland  - The right-wing Swiss People's Party withdrew from the ruling coalition on Thursday after top party figure Christoph Blocher was ousted from the cabinet and a more moderate party rival took his place.
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The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.