UK lawmakers to decide on December election as Brexit extension looks likely

U.K. lawmakers are to vote Monday on whether to approve the government's calls to have an election on December 12.

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Two-thirds of lawmakers would have to back Prime Minister Boris Johnson's motion to hold an early election. The vote comes as Brexit continues to paralyze the U.K.'s Parliament and the EU deliberates on Monday over whether to grant the U.K. more time to leave the bloc, until January 31. If an extension is not approved, the U.K. will leave the block with no deal on Thursday.with the possibility of an earlier exit if Parliament ratifies the divorce deal.

Meanwhile, the main opposition Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have said they will not back an election unless a no-deal Brexit is off the table. An allied party of the government, the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, said it would consider Johnson's call for an election over the weekend.

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