Canada, a brand new bipartisanship

A historical change. If the percentage of voting at general elections in Canada have confirmed the predictions of the major polls, in terms of parliamentary seats in the data epoch. First, the country emerges from a stall in which he found himself mired in the past three elections, avendofinalmente got a majority government, which will be led by outgoing Prime Minister, Conservative Stephen Harper, bolstered by about 167 seats, and well above 12 the majority threshold (before he had 143, with an increase in percentage terms by 2% from 37% to 39%) and as many as 24 more seats in the previous elections ..

Nicolas Hulot, French greens struggling with self-presidential candidate

Who is the joker that on Youtube, pretending to throw a few deep-sea complete with helmet and goggles paramilitary jacket, turns out - just widens the camera - a sort of comic edge that runs through the streets of Usuhaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego with a chair attached to the rump? Oui, je suis Nicolas Hulot: the new French Green Party candidate for the Elysee.

Or would be, in view of the presidential election of 2012. The revelation of Nicolas dell'autocandidatura green is mid-April but since then the controversy going crazy. Who did not know him saw him on Youtube play the fool with the chair back, or engaged in some test of courage on the high-altitude aircraft and, at best, a few tropical flower or with a microphone in front of the face in an indigenous endangered.

Germany, the vote buries the future of nuclear energy

In the end the polls proved correct, even the exit polls, there had been no overvaluation of the Greens, as sometimes happened. In Baden-Württemberg, for the first time in German history, the Minister-President, Prime Minister of the Land will be a member of the party Grünen, in alliance with the SPD.

In Rheinland-Pfalz Social Democrat Prime Minister Beck resist, despite losing his party ten points, but still govern in alliance with the Greens in 2006 were not even able to overcome the barrier of 5% and this time the big fall in the regional parliament with more than 15. But when it comes to historic turning point in Germany for Baden-Württemberg, historic Democratic stronghold where two new songs are made simultaneously: the opposition CDU and a Green prime minister.

Germany, Merkel is knocking at the administrative, command Greens in Baden-Wuerttenberg

The first exit polls draw a heavy defeat by the majority coalition led by Chancellor Merkel in Baden-Wuerttenberg Amgela where the Greens would get 25% and the SPD Social Democrats 23.5% against 38% of the CDU and only 5 % of the liberals (FDP) Guido Westerwelle. For the CDU German Chancellor Angela Merkel, today was a historic defeat where the party is in power from 1953 (with an absolute majority from 1972 to 1988).