Politics

Bloomberg Chile’s presidential election is heading for a hotly contested second round after billionaire Sebastian Pinera took a smaller-than-expected lead in Sunday’s vote. The opposition leader had 36.7 percent of the vote with 89 percent of ballots counted, the electoral service said, short of the 50 percent plus one vote he needed to avoid a run-off. His rival in the ...

e Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron urged European Union leaders to work together to protect living standards and called for financial penalties for those who refuse to play ball. With 27 countries meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, as Angela Merkel tries to broker a coalition agreement at home in Berlin, Macron said that some members have taken advantage of subsidies from ...

Bloomberg Talks aimed at paving the way for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to unite four parties into her next governing coalition were on a knife’s edge as the clock ticked toward a deadline to avert a political crisis in Europe’s biggest economy. Four hours into the latest round in Berlin, there was little sign an agreement was imminent and even ...

Bloomberg The French government’s spokesman, Christophe Casta- ner, took the helm of Emmanuel Macron’s party, after an election in Lyon. The election of Castaner, a junior minister in charge of relations with parliament, could trigger a cabinet reshuffle. His new party role is seen as mostly honorary, as Macron — who created La Republique en Marche in April 2016 as ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader and ordered him to resign as president by midday on Monday or face impeachment. It named Emmerson Mnangagwa as the new party leader and presidential nominee for elections due to be held next year. The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s central committee ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Theresa May is stuck in a Brexit stand-off as European leaders set her a deadl- ine to give ground on the exit bill and the future of the Irish border if talks are to move on to trade before next year. “I made clear to Theresa May that this progress needs to happen at the beginning ...

Bloomberg Catalan separatist voters are standing by their political leaders despite the disappointments and broken promises of the past month, according to pollster Narciso Michavila. After weeks of protests and the decision by more than 2,000 firms to move their legal base from the region, the group led by ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and its two pro-independence allies may ...

Bloomberg North Korea hasn’t secured the key technologies needed to build ballistic missile that can survive a return through the atmosphere, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency. An official from South Korea’s top spy agency told lawmakers that Pyongyang’s missile program still faced the barrier, Yonhap reported, citing a “parliamentary source.” Building a vehicle that can protect warheads from ...

Bloomberg Robert Mugabe’s 37-year grip on political power in Zimbabwe is all but over. The ruling party’s 10 provincial co-coordinating committees resolved to oust the 93-year-old president, a decision that’s set to be ratified by its central executive as early as this weekend. The nation’s parliament is due to reconvene on Tuesday and could impeach him should he refuse to ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is at risk of losing his one-seat parliamentary majority with a new poll showing the ruling Liberal-National coalition running neck and neck with the opposition Labor Party in a by-election in the Bennelong district of Sydney to be held on December 16. The by-election came after incumbent Liberal MP John Alexander resigned because of ...