Dozens of people were injured after a truck hit a bus stop in Israel. The Razem Party left the Left Club. The president of Georgia did not recognize the results of the parliamentary elections and called for taking to the streets after the victory of the pro-Russian party. Here are five things to know on Monday, October 28.
1. The truck hit the bus stop
Dozens of people were injured on Sunday after a truck hit a bus stop at an intersection in the city of Ramat Hasharon, north of Tel Aviv, Israeli services said.
“The circumstances of the accident are under investigation,” the police said in a statement. According to the Times of Israel website, it was probably a terrorist attack.
The driver of the vehicle was killed by armed civilians, police said.
The truck hit a bus stop near Tel AvivReuters
2. Georgia after the elections. “They were neither free nor fair”
Salome Zurabishvili, pro-Western president Georgiaannounced on Sunday evening that it does not recognize the results of Saturday's parliamentary elections. She announced a demonstration in the center of Tbilisi. Imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili he also called on his compatriots to mass protests. The opposition did not recognize the election results, in which the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party won.
Representatives of several European countries and Canada wrote in a joint statement that these elections “were neither free nor fair.”
Controversies after the elections in Georgia. “Cases of vote buying”Andrzej Zaucha/Fakty TVN
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3. Split in the Left
The Congress of the Razem party decided to leave the parliamentary club of the Left and establish a group of the Razem party in the Sejm – informed Razem MP Marta Stożek. She added that the application to establish the group would be submitted in the coming week.
MP Maciej Konieczny explained that – in accordance with the party's statute – there will be five people in the circle. This would mean that the ruling coalition will now have 241 seats.
The chairman of Razem, MP Adrian Zandberg, assessed that the government Donald Tusk he disappointed the voters who voted for changes in the country a year ago. – The government brought a bad, anti-social budget to parliament. (…) This is not the budget we promised, said the party leader.
Adrian Zandberg and Maciej Konieczny about leaving the Left ClubTVN24
4. Possible change of power in Japan
In Japan, elections to the House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament, were held on Sunday. The first poll results indicate that although the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the most seats, it may not create a majority.
The LDP has lost power only twice since its founding in the 1950s, the last time in 2009. Losing power would mean that incumbent Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba would be the shortest-serving prime minister in the country's post-war history.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after the announcement of the poll results of the parliamentary electionsPAP/EPA/TAKASHI AOYAMA / POOL
5. North Korean soldiers are transported to the front in trucks with civilian numbers
Military intelligence in Kiev reported on Sunday that on that day, Russian military police stopped a truck carrying North Korean soldiers at one of the points on the Kursk-Voronezh route. A radio conversation between two officers intercepted and published by Ukrainian intelligence shows that they were surprised by this fact. “The Russians determined that the truck actually belonged to the occupation army and helped transport soldiers from North Korea,” military intelligence in Kiev said.
As South Korean intelligence previously determined, the regime in Pyongyang sent about three thousand soldiers to the Russian Far East, and at least 10,000 are expected to arrive there by the end of this year.
North Korean soldiers in a Russian base. Ukrainians publish the recording Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security of Ukraine
Main photo source: PAP/EPA/ABIR SULTAN