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Gordon Brown Offers to Step Down—Eventually

Kevin Spak — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:43:12 CDT

Gordon Brown has announced that he's stepping down as the head of the Labour party—some time before the party's next conference this fall—but that he'd like to remain prime minister until then if possible, the Guardian reports. Brown also announced that the Liberal Democrats would begin formal talks...

Cameron, Clegg Scramble to Form UK Government

Kevin Spak — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:50:13 CDT

Britain's winner-less election has left both the Conservatives and the Labour Party furiously negotiating with and sucking up to Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrat party, with papers just as furiously live-blogging the comings and goings. Though they actually lost seats, the Liberal Dems have the power to determine who becomes prime...

UK Will Go to Polls May 6

Will McCahill — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:34:00 CDT

With his Labour Party’s majority under siege, British PM Gordon Brown will call a general election for May 6. Brown must ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament, after which he’ll give a speech that paints the vote as “the big choice,” sources tell the BBC , which notes that “t he...

Hatoyama Confirmed as Japan's New PM

Rob Quinn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:50:16 CDT

Japan's parliament formally voted in Yukio Hatoyama as the country's new prime minister today, ending an almost half-century of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party, CNN reports. The LDP's Taro Aso and his cabinet resigned en masse earlier in the day. Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide election...

New Leader Hails Japanese 'Revolution'

Jason Farago — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:28:30 CDT

Japan's incoming prime minister hailed a democratic "revolution" as more complete results confirmed a sweeping victory for the center-left Democratic Party. Yukio Hatoyama will lead a bloc of more than 300 parliamentary members, more than three times its previous representation, after what the Times of London calls the most decisive...

Japanese Voters Head to Polls to Boot Leaders

Mat Probasco — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:28:14 CDT

Japanese voters began casting ballots today in a general election expected to clean house, reports the Financial Times . The Democratic Party of Japan will almost certainly thump the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the nation 11 months out of the last 54 years.

Defeat All but Certain for Japan's Aso, Ruling Party

Nick McMaster — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:00:00 CDT

Sunday will likely mark a milestone in Japanese politics as voters dump the Liberal Democratic Party after more than a half-century in power, the Washington Post reports. Even senior LDP leaders acknowledge that Yukio Hatoyama will probably trounce incumbent Prime Minister Taro Aso, and polls predict a staggering turnout with...

Japan Faces Historic Change as Election Opens

Jason Farago — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:16:00 CDT

Japanese PM Taro Aso dissolved parliament today to begin a watershed election that could break his party's 50-year grip on power, Reuters reports. In a nationwide TV address, Aso apologized for his shortcomings as a leader and for internal squabbling that cost his conservative party at recent local elections. Opposition...

Japan's Embattled Leader to Meet Obama

Rob Quinn — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:06:06 CST

Taro Aso today becomes the first foreign leader to visit President Obama but it may be the Japanese leader's last summit, Bloomberg reports. The prime minister's popularity has dived amid public dislike of his handling of the economy and his finance minister's resignation over a drinking scandal. Polls show almost...