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The Catalan elections on Thursday produced an expected result in an atypical election. The liberal anti-independence party Ciudadanos won the most representatives but the combined vote share of the pro-independence …

On 27 November, the President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto led an event at Los Pinos, the presidential residence and office. There, he publicly accepted the resignation of the Minister …

From the outside, it seems as if nothing has changed. For a brief moment, the world turned its eyes to the German election, noticed Merkel had won and then turned …

The recent gubernatorial elections in Venezuela, in which Nicolas Maduro’s ruling Socialist Party unexpectedly won eighteen out of twenty-three state governorships, has promoted yet another salvo of criticism from domestic …

Author: Quintus Lim One normally associates General Elections (GE) with democracies. However, is it plausible for democratic rights, such as freedom of speech, to be inconsiderable in a GE? This …

Author: Olisa Maduegbuna When all the ecstasy of the Trump phenomenon fades away, when the Donald commits one too many gaffes, one man will be waiting in the wings to …

So, Romania has had its presidential elections, and everything about it was delightfully innovative. Take one tiny (in terms of importance not surface area) poor country, ridden with corruption and …

On the eve of Bonfire Night, the peculiar celebration of the foiling of Guy Fawkes’ plot to blow up British democracy, our American cousins will voluntarily tear apart their own. …

Once again the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) emerges victorious at the 11th General elections of the world’s largest diamond producing country, Botswana. With an outstanding track record of peaceful, free, …