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  • Brexit, Boris Johnson calls for early elections on December 12th

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29 October 2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today presents an ordinary law in parliament - whose approval requires a simple majority - to call early elections on 12 December. The move was announced by the head of government after the House of Commons had rejected the motion presented yesterday to call the vote. The motion - with 299 votes against 70 - had not reached the two-thirds majority needed to be approved.

"The Chamber cannot continue to hold this country hostage," said Johnson. A crucial point of the elections concerns the date: Johnson wants them to take place on December 12th, December 9th is the date on which the Scottish Nationalist Party and the Liberal Democrats point instead. The two parties, whose votes are necessary for Johnson to obtain the majority, want to go to the polls before the Brexit agreement is approved. The Labor party abstained during the vote yesterday: Jeremy Corbyn announced that he wanted to "examine" Johnson's new law.