According to numerous polls, even with growing support for its traditional leftwing support partners – the Green party and Te Pati Māori – Labour would be well short of forming a government.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/tired-broke-and-eager-for-change-new-zealand-expected-to-shift-right-at-coming-election

A leftwing activist is calling for the Holy Bible to be banned in a Utah school district as retribution for conservative efforts to protect children from inappropriate sexual content and radical ideology.

Source: https://www.gopusa.com/banning-the-bible-leftist-claims-bible-is-pornographic/

Attempting to quell the discontent, Boluarte — who served as Castillo’s vice-president and hails from the same leftwing party — has pledged to bring elections forward from 2026 to April 2024.

Source: https://ksusentinel.com/2023/01/16/peru-declares-state-of-emergency-in-lima-protests/

"He is more than ever the president of the rich," said Bastien Lachaud, a deputy for the leftwing LFI party.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/macron-under-fire-for-honouring-bezos-with-top-award/

However, the PSOE and its partners in the leftwing Sumar alliance have been able to muster the necessary backing by promising the amnesty to the two main Catalan pro-independence parties in return for their support.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/protests-spain-amnesty-deal-catalan-separatists-independence

In this scenario, leftwing Congressman Roberto Sánchez said Alejandro Soto's “hours are numbered.”

Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/08/19/peru-congress-speaker-to-be-removed?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss

Just over 64 percent of voters in the picturesque city in central Switzerland were in favor of the restriction tabled by the leftwing Social Democrats.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1742021/swiss-city-lucerne-votes-to-restrict-airbnb-rentals

More than 3,000 police were deployed along the route of what the interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, called a “great civic march”, which ultimately was marred only by minor scuffles as a leftwing Jewish group tried to stop far-right party leaders joining.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/12/bitter-rows-among-french-politicians-over-paris-march-to-condemn-antisemitism

MP Sandro Ruotolo, of the leftwing opposition Democrats, told POLITICO the takeover was “dangerous” and posed “a risk to pluralism and democracy of this country … Rai should be for the governed not the government.”

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-culture-wars-style-giorgia-meloni/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

Neither of the two leftwing parties, Labor and Meretz, is likely to win enough votes to gain seats in the Knesset if there is an election in the next year, she said.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/israel-new-leader-benjamin-netanyahu

Rather than encouraging drilling, leftwing president Gustavo Petro has increased oil taxes and banned new exploration contracts to wean the country off fossil fuels.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/afa423aa-9e28-4f4e-a9eb-f029df0a95a2

To get elected, Lula had to call on a broad front of politicians ranging from leftwing climate justice campaigners to rightwing agribusiness advocates.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/02/lula-climate-leader-cop28-brazil-undermined-by-opec-move

Veteran German leftwing politician Gregor Gysi spoke out a few years ago about his disappointment in the decline of FKK, saying it was the “pornographic gaze” of westerners after reunification that destroyed the pleasure of nude bathing.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/mar/25/berlin-welcomes-topless-female-swimmers-in-victory-for-activists