European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke by phone this Thursday with re-elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about strengthening bilateral relations and negotiating a free trade agreement.
On her social network account.
On 17 June 2017, Brussels and New Delhi resumed negotiations on a trade agreement that the European Commission classifies as “balanced, ambitious, comprehensive and mutually beneficial”.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the most votes in India’s general elections and won 240 seats in the lower house of India’s parliament (Lok Sabha), according to results released by the Election Commission on Tuesday after more than 15 hours of counting. .
However, the seats won fell short of the 272 seats needed to form a government alone, meaning that partners from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will be needed to form an executive for the first time.
This will be Narendra Modi’s third consecutive term.
In the world’s most populous country, nearly 970 million voters, more than 10% of the world’s population, took part in the vote, which began on April 19 and took place in seven phases over six weeks.
The participation rate in India’s general elections, which has been described as the world’s biggest democratic event, averaged 66%, representing about 650 million voters, according to official data.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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