Swedish PM admits election defeat
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Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson admitted defeat in legislative elections at the hands of a centre-right coalition headed by 41-year-old Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, pictured in 2006. The parties of the incoming centre-left Dutch government have agreed to grant amnesty for some 30,000 failed asylum seekers who came to the ...Comment
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STOCKHOLM, Dec 30  The final tally of Swedes killed by the Asian tsunami could be more than 1,000, Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson said today.
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Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson has said he has no faith in opinion polls, and with surveys on the eve of the country's general election giving the edge to rivals, he had best hope his doubts are ...
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Denmark's centre-right led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen wins a new term as the opposition admit defeat.
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Swedes began voting in the tightest election race in decades, with voter surveys suggesting a defeat for Prime Minister Goeran Persson at the hands of the centre-right opposition.
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Slovenia's leader  concedes defeat as early results put his centre-left coalition behind the opposition.
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Sweden's new Prime Minister ended 12 years of social democratic rule in Sunday's elections and now looks set to cut short an even older tradition.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia Oct. 4, 2004 - Outgoing President Megawati Sukarnoputri tearfully conceded defeat Tuesday in last month&#39;s elections, clearing the way for the winner to begin forming a new government.
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The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted today that they had failed so far to restore power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants
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The centre-right coalition of Italy's PM Berlusconi suffers a crushing defeat in seven by-elections.
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Megawati Sukarnoputri appeared to accept defeat today in Indonesia&#39;s historic presidential election, telling an audience at a military ceremony that &quot;whoever is chosen in a democratic election has to be accepted, because that is a victory for all of us&quot;.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 Â Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of center-left government today, voting to reject its longtime prime minister, Goran Persson, in favor of a conservative candidate who has pledged to renew the Swedish welfare state.
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Political reporting has 'sapped the country's confidence and self-belief', says the prime minister in one of his final speeches.
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Sweden's centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfeldt names his government, including ex-PM Carl Bildt.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's interim prime minister declared yesterday that the success of the national elections had dealt a major blow to the insurgents, and he predicted they will be defeated within months.
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Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a setback in parliamentary by-elections. The Italian prime minister's coalition lost seven parliamentary by-elections. The centre-left opposition won all of the seats up for ...