Sentences with phrase «snap election scheduled»

The currency also reacted to domestic political tension as the country approaches a snap election scheduled for later this year.

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Just weeks after Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, surprised the world with a bold plan to inflate Japanese assets and weaken the Japanese yen by buying 80 trillion yen ($ 680 billion) in Japanese bonds, exchange - traded funds and real estate investment trusts, prime minister Shinzō Abe upstaged him by calling a snap election for mid-December, two years ahead of schedule.
Adrian Kavanagh, 19th April 2017 Following an announcement by Theresa May yesterday and a House of Commons vote to confirm this today, a «snap» general election is now scheduled to be held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 8th June 2017.
At that time, Theresa May had not yet announced the snap election which would be held in June 2017, and the next general election was scheduled for 2020.
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