It is uncommon when municipality elections become top stories in the global media, but the recent elections in Georgia have been an exception. On October 2 in Georgia, municipal elections were held and attracted the attention of international media. These local elections became significant for two main reasons: 1- Six months ago, the Georgian Government had promised to hold early ...
By Tunç Akkoç As far as the leadership race is concerned, Germany has just left behind its probably most suspense general elections. The election results confirmed almost completely the polls that were published in the recent weeks. Still, the 2021 elections have brought about developments that will be much debated in the coming times, leading to political changes in German ...
The government front, furrowed by internal contradictions and pressure from the opposition, faces midterm elections after a hard defeat in the primaries. What happened? Defeated in primaries On September 12, mid-term primary elections were held for the 2019-2023 government turn. Definitive elections will be held in November when the government fears a sound defeat. The ruling party is a coalition ...
By Mehmet Kıvanç Libya currently is facing three options: to continue being a war zone, to achieve a peace, or to become a gray area between war and peace. The presidential and parliamentary elections of December 24 constitute a crossroads for the country’s future. The geography, strong local political figures, foreign fighters, the presence of ISIS and Al Qaeda and ...
A schoolteacher and a left-wing union leader will lead the new Peruvian government. The possibility of a future is opening up that incorporates the popular majorities and reverses the extractivist and dependency model. Castillo´s government will have to meet the high demands of the impoverished rural and urban masses that had been mobilized on different conflictive fronts. These conflicts are ...
By Mishelle Muñoz / Mexico City Mexico is going to elections this Sunday, 6th of June. 21,368 positions are at stake. 15 governors of states – Mexico, official name United Mexican States, is a federal state – will be elected. 500 deputies of the Federal Chamber, the Lower House of the bicameral Mexican legislative system will be elected. Additionally 30 ...
In Moldova, which is the most unstable country in Europe, President Maia Sandu last month dissolved the parliament. The early parliamentary elections will be held in July 11th. These elections will have great significance not only on this small country, but also on the balance of power in the whole Eastern Europe. As I mentioned in a previous article titled ...
The United States presidential elections on November 3 has sparked two important outcomes, the first of which was the second largest turnout in US history, 67%, a number only surpassed 120 years earlier. The second major outcome was the high-level of polarization present in the course of the election, some of the most intense ever seen in US history. Terms ...
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka following the November victory of President Gotabay Rajapaksa. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa’s position as Prime Minister has now been officially strengthened. The main struggle took place between Gotabaya’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Party (SLPP) and Sajith Premadasa’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya party. As a result, the People’s Freedom Alliance of Sri Lanka (SLPFA), dominated by ...
It would be easier for Polish voters to skip voting in the second round of the presidential elections in Poland altogether, and simply wait for results of the American elections between Donald Trump and Joe Biden this Autumn instead. They might as well do so, given that the American President also de facto rules the US colonies such as Poland. ...