Far-right leaves Swiss government
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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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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced the resignation of his conservative government.
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Austrian Interior Minister Ernst Strasser, who had repeatedly faced flak over Austria's controversial asylum policy, resigned on Friday and said he would return to the private sector.
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Outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Guy  Verhofstadt tendered his resignation to King Albert II on  Monday after his governing liberals and their socialist  partners suffered big losses in Sunday&#39;s general election.
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A number of famous faces are quitting frontline politics alongside Blair.
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PARIS In a move that could change the face of French politics, Nicolas Sarkozy, the popular finance minister whose personal and ideological differences with President Jacques Chirac are well known, took over the helm of the governing center-right party on
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Exit polls from two German states show Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s ruling Social Democrats lost significant support in Sunday elections to far right and left wing parties.
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Defeated Socialist presidential candidate separates from her partner FranÃ§ois Hollande, the party leader.
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It was a major surprise: after 12 years at the head of the Slovenian government, the left wingers will be giving their place up to the right wing parties after the confirmation of the election results of Sunday 3 October.
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The embattled Prime Minister announces that he will leave office within the year. Now his party must grapple with how to follow him
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Far-right parties made their strongest showing in six years in German state elections on Sunday, as voters reacted against the governing Social Democratic Party after sharp cutbacks in welfare benefits.
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Rightwing party quits ruling Israeli coalition over efforts to start peace talks with Palestinians
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small far-right party that ...
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment
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PARIS -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed yesterday that he will run for president next spring and will quit the government if his ruling center-right party backs his candidacy at a Jan. 14 meeting. Sarkozy could face Socialist Segolene Royal, who is seeking to become the first woman to lead France. But a recent surge by veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie ...
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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his cabinet have resigned, ending weeks of political uncertainty.
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The Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Medgyessy, resigns following  a row with his liberal coalition partner.