Lawmakers from Turkey’s ruling AK Party and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party brawled in parliament over the detention and replacement of a DEM Party mayor in southeast Turkey.
The Nicosia municipal swimming pool will not be open to the public until next year, marking a fifth consecutive year without access for residents. The pool has been closed for renovations worth €6.5 million, as the infrastructure was built in the 1980s and has not been seriously upgraded since then.
Fact: A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including both liberal and conservative members, supported a bill that would change the rules allowing corporations wide discretion to choose who gets their online sales taxes, potentially funneling billion in tax kickbacks back to communities across the state.
Claudia Sheinbaum is set to win a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, with provisional results showing her leading with 59% of the vote.
Nearly one hundred million voters in Mexico are preparing to elect the first female president in the country’s history. The UN reports nine to ten femicides per day in Mexico. 25 candidates have been murdered in the pre-election campaign, showcasing the violence from drug cartels in the country. The favorite in the election is Claudia Seinbaum of the center-left coalition, with a 17-point lead in the polls. The election will be the largest ever organized in Mexico, with 99 million registered voters. Over 20,000 positions are at stake in the elections, including the president, governors, and local representatives. Strict security measures, including 27,000 military personnel and National Guard members, will be enforced on election day.
Two different elections will be held simultaneously in Cyprus on June 9, 2024, with voters having to choose between 61 candidates for the European Parliament and 3,232 candidates for various local government positions.
The fact described in the text is that the interior minister is expected to issue decrees mandating that the final say on permits will rest with the technocrats in the district-level organizations, not the elected officials.
The mayors of Nicosia and Strovolos inaugurated the first ‘Library of Things’ in the old town on Liasidou Street in Nicosia. The library, operated by KyklOIKOdromio, offers a variety of items for lending, including DIY tools, garden machinery, kitchen appliances, camping equipment, event equipment, and household items. The initiative promotes sharing, sustainability, and collaborative consumption to reduce consumption and build a sense of community.
Fact: Andreas Christodoulides, President of Zela Aviation, bought and donated the historic Olympic Airways Boeing 727, “Mount Olympus,” to the Municipality of Elliniko after refurbishing and renovating it.
Israel plans to allow more oil tankers to dock at a Red Sea port in Eilat despite environmental risks. The government wants to revoke restrictions on the amount of oil that can be unloaded at a jetty in the city, which sits near a coral reef. The curbs imposed in 2021 were eased temporarily during the Gaza war. EAPC, the state-owned company operating the pipeline, wants to receive more oil, but environmental regulators and Eilat’s mayor oppose the plan. Israel is pushing to ensure energy security amid conflicts with various groups. Netanyahu’s office recommended easing restrictions to include fuel for trade and domestic use. The environment ministry expressed concerns about the risks of more oil deliveries and cited past mishaps. EAPC welcomed the government’s U-turn, emphasizing the strategic importance of the Eilat facility for energy delivery. Israel imports most of its oil through seaborne trade, and the Emirati oil deal could be worth about million a year for EAPC. The Energy Ministry emphasized the need to handle oil deliveries properly to sustain the terminal economically.