Brazil's Biggest Party Votes to Leave Government
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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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Incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes an early lead after polls close in Brazil's presidential race.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced that he and his centre-right cabinet had submitted their resignations, the day after the nation's socialist president announced he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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An outside challenger Tuesday won the coveted post of speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, handing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers Party their biggest political defeat since he took office in 2003.
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Venezuela's ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of President Hugo Chavez after his landslide re-election.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- More than 125 million Brazilian voters are set to choose a new government today, and polls show they want more of the same, despite more than a year's worth of political scandals.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazil's ruling Workers'  Party (PT) held onto the mayoralty in at least three major  cities in Sunday's municipal vote but will face a tough run-off  contest for the biggest prize, the city of Sao Paulo, according  to early results and an exit poll.
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In its first electoral test since taking power 21 months ago, the party of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerged stronger from nationwide municipal elections but did not win in the country's biggest city, Sao Paulo.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva struggled to avoid a run-off in Sunday's presidential election after public disgust over corrupt politics eroded his support in the final days of campaigning.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilians voted in elections on Sunday with signs that public disgust over sleazy politics might prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from securing the outright victory that seemed a foregone conclusion until a few weeks ago.
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By Carlos A. DeJuana SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva's Workers' Party (PT) won the mayoralty of at least sixstate capitals in Sunday's municipal vote but was forced into arun-off to defend its hold on the race's biggest prize, thecity of Sao Paulo.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, elected to a second four-year term in October, was voted the country's best-ever president, a survey released on Sunday showed.
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Turkey's culture and tourism minister resigned from his position and left Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party Tuesday, the first Cabinet member to leave the government since it took power more than two years ago.
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A vote to oust the far-right justice minister has brought an end to consensus rule in Switzerland.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da  Silva's Workers' Party (PT) won the mayoralty of six state  capitals in Sunday's municipal vote but was forced into a  run-off to defend its hold on the race's biggest prize, the  city of Sao Paulo.
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Two key politicians leave Venezuela's opposition alliance after it failed to unseat President Hugo Chavez.
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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