PARIS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- French Socialist Segolene Royal has re-emerged as a star of her party after losing last year's presidential election to Nicolas Sarkozy.
OTTAWA, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A second poll in as many days Wednesday showed Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative party with a lead weeks before a federal election.
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 20 (UPI) -- The leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia says his group is torn over which of two political parties it should partner to form a coalition government.
MADRID, March 13 (UPI) -- The head of Spain's opposition Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, says he will seek re-election to the conservative party's leadership.
MADRID, March 10 (UPI) -- Spain's re-elected prime minister and his Socialist Party worked Monday to cobble together a ruling coalition with the help of smaller parties.
MADRID, March 9 (UPI) -- The conservative Popular Party conceded defeat Sunday in Spain's general elections, but the Socialist Party failed to win an absolute parliamentary majority.
MADRID, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Spain has decided to dissolve its Parliament and called for elections in March, opening a potentially close race between the ruling party and opposition.
MADRID, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- An explosion in Spain's Basque country following a warning from Basque terrorist group ETA caused no injuries or serious property damage.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 21 (UPI) -- Bulgaria's center-right GERB party, the ruling Socialist Party and the ethnic Turk party placed took the top three places in European parliamentary elections.
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 8 (UPI) -- Serbia's parliament Tuesday elected Tomislav Nikolic, a 55-year-old ultranationalist, as its speaker after 15 hours of heated debate.
ZAGREB, Croatia, April 30 (UPI) -- Reformed communist leader Ivica Racan, who helped improve independent Croatia's ties with Washington and the European Union, has died in Zagreb. He was 63.
TIRANA, Albania, April 10 (UPI) -- An Albanian opposition lawmaker and journalist said an explosion damaged his car in Tirana but nobody was injured, media reported Tuesday.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, April 4 (UPI) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose ruling party won big in local elections, has ruled out any alliance with the main opposition party.
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 19 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Monday warned his political allies to either join his new socialist political party or leave the government. The outspoken leftist Chavez touted his United Socialist Party as the umbrella group for his new leadership.
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun threw another political curve at his Uri party Monday, saying in a letter he had no intention of resigning.
