Elections
Labour Has Won a Landslide. That Does Not Mean Britain Suddenly Became a Labour Country.
Britain has just produced one of the largest parliamentary reversals in its modern political history. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won 411 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons in the 4 July general…
France’s Election Has Become a Test of Whether Blocking the Far Right Is Enough to Keep the Political Centre Alive.
France voted today in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that President Emmanuel Macron called after Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) decisively defeated his coalition in the European Parliament elections earlier this…
Macron Lost One Election and Immediately Called Another. The Gamble Is Whether Giving Voters More Power Can Cost Him His Own.
France is heading towards an election almost nobody expected to be taking place this summer. After Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won roughly 32% of the French vote in the European Parliament election on 9…
Narendra Modi Won a Third Term. Indian Voters Also Took Away His Party’s Majority. Both Facts Matter.
Narendra Modi was sworn in today for a third consecutive term as prime minister of India, but he begins that term under a political structure very different from the one that governed India for the…
The ANC Liberated South Africa. Thirty Years Later, Voters Have Told It That History Is Not a Permanent Mandate.
South Africa has just crossed one of the most important political thresholds since the end of apartheid. In the 29 May general election, the African National Congress fell to roughly 40% of the national vote,…
Iran’s President Has Died. The More Important Question Is Why the Political System Can Continue Without Him.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and several other officials were aboard a helicopter that crashed today in mountainous northwestern Iran while returning from a visit to the border with Azerbaijan. As of…
Nearly One Billion Indians Can Vote. The More Important Question Is Whether the World’s Largest Election Is Also Becoming a Fairer One.
India began voting this week in what is, by scale, the largest democratic exercise in human history. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote across a seven-phase election running from 19 April to 1…
Erdoğan Won Turkey’s Presidency Less Than a Year Ago. His Party Just Suffered Its Worst Local-Election Defeat in Two Decades.
Turkey voted in local elections today, and the emerging result is striking. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party, the AKP, appears to have suffered its worst nationwide local-election result since it came to…
Senegal’s Government Tried to Delay an Election. Its Institutions Pushed Back. That Is What Democratic Resilience Actually Looks Like.
Senegal votes today in one of the most consequential elections in its post-independence history, but the fact that the election is happening at all has become almost as important as who eventually wins it. President…
Russia Held an Election. An Election Without a Real Possibility of Losing Is Something Different.
Russia voted in a presidential election this weekend, and there was never serious uncertainty about who would emerge as president. Vladimir Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for almost a quarter of a century, is…
Haiti Still Has a Government. The Harder Question Is Whether It Still Has a State.
Haiti’s political and security crisis has deteriorated dramatically this week. Armed gangs have launched coordinated attacks across Port-au-Prince, targeting police stations, prisons and strategic infrastructure while Prime Minister Ariel Henry remains outside the country. Thousands…
Indonesia Just Voted for Continuity. The Question Is Whether Continuity Is Becoming a Dynasty.
Indonesia held one of the world’s largest elections on Wednesday, with more than 200 million registered voters choosing a president, national legislators and thousands of regional representatives across an archipelago containing more than 17,000 islands.
