Tag: election season

Peace-winner Suu Kyi set to retain Myanmar helm in elections

Brew Admin Nov. 08, 2020

Voting underway in Myanmar’s elections on Sunday, with the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favoured to retain power it had wrestled from the powerful military five years ago. More than 90 parties are competing for seats in the lower and upper houses of Parliament, while there are also elections […]

Biden rips into Trump’s ‘never coming back’ claims

Brew Admin Oct. 19, 2020

“Promise?” mocked the Democratic camp’s Biden in a Twitter post, only a week away from the final round of Presidential Debates 2020. While Joe Biden has aggressively attempted to focus on the “wrongs” committed by the Trump Presidency, he has been fighting his own battle consistently keeping Hunter Biden’s presence of the board of a […]

Gotta deliver: NZ’s re-elected Ardern to ‘crack on’ with ‘slow’ reforms after landslide victory

Brew Admin Oct. 18, 2020

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Sunday to “crack on” with delivering her vision following a landslide election victory, after a string of disasters frustrated reform in her first term. Ardern won a historic outright majority in Saturday’s poll — the first since New Zealand adopted proportional voting in 1996 — allowing her to […]

‘Unbelievable’: Facebook shuts down NZ’s conspiracist political party mid-broadcast for COVID lies

The Brew News Team Oct. 15, 2020

Facebook shut down the page of conspiracy-embracing political party Advance New Zealand on Thursday just two days out from a general election, accusing it of spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. “We don’t allow anyone to share misinformation on our platforms about Covid-19 that could lead to imminent physical harm,” a spokesperson for the social media […]

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