The new Italian government has been sworn in today by President Mattarella. The old is also the new prime minister: Giuseppe...

A few minutes ago, the government of Boris Johnson was defeated. The House of Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the...

With today’s defection of the Tory MP Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no...

In the 2019 Brandenburg state election, the coalition of SPD and The Left was voted out, the populist, right-wing AfD is on the...

On Sunday, September 1, in the regional election in Saxony, the coalition of CDU and SPD lost the majority. 66.6% of the 3.287568...

Dear Republicans, what has happened to the party of free trade and fiscal discipline? Where are the Tea Party people? Trump might...

The Moldovan parliamentary election of February 24, 2019 led to a silent revolution in the tiny Eastern European state with less than 3 million inhabitants; roughly one million Moldovans...

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the Servant of the People party (Sluha Narodu) of President Volodymyr Zelenski...

The results of the Conservative Party leadership contest have been published today. The former foreign secretary and former...

As for the March 31, 2019 mayoral election, for the June 23, 2019 rerun, some 84% of the roughly 10.5 million Istanbul voters...

On 9 June 2019 over 1 million Hong Kong people took to the streets to protest against the attempt by the administration of Carrie...

Amin Saikal is professor of political science, public policy fellow and director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. His 2019 book...

In seven phases from April 11 until May 19, 2019 some 900 million Indian voters had the chance to elect their 543 Lower House...

Currently, in seven phases from April 11 until May 19, 2019 some 900 million Indians are eligible to vote in the parliamentary...

A national exit poll shows that the comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the presidential election in Ukraine. In the second...

On April 9 some 6.34 million voters were asked to cast their vote in the 2019 Israeli legislative election. Voter turnout reached 67.9% (in 2015: 71.8%). With roughly 97% of the votes...

Surprise, surprise. The Turkish opposition is alive. If President Erdogan should really lose the capital Ankara AND his hometurf city of Istanbul, it could signal the beginning of his...

Just a few minutes ago, the House of Commons rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement, negotiated...

The hard Brexiters aka Brexiteers suddenly look weak. Leading Leave supporters such as Boris Johnson changed their view regarding PM Theresa May’s deal and regard it now as the...

Today, March 27, 2019 the House of Commons had the chance to agree on a way forward regarding the Brexit mess. The MPs voted down...