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François Picard is pleased to welcome Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, author, advocate against the death penalty and member of the association "Ensemble contre la peine de mort": Together Against the Death Penalty. She asserts that capital punishment is “really a political agenda, especially in electoral times.”
The left-wing candidate won a narrow victory in a remote district in the Peruvian Andes, exit polls show.
Although Tobias Rausch's role is largely symbolic, opponents have described the result as a watershed moment.
Franz Reindl has been elected president of ice hockey's world governing body. The former forward was a member of West Germany's Olympic bronze medal-winning team.
She fills the vacancy left by Helen Jenner becoming leader on Monday.
Politicians vote against a motion to have a residents' poll on abolishing the post of mayor.
