#elections
15 posts tagged elections.
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Colombia's runoff and the Petro reckoning
With De la Espriella leading by 670,000 votes after the first round, Colombia faces a stark verdict on three years of Petro's left-wing experiment — and a referendum on whether Latin America's reformist moment has exhausted itself.
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Ethiopia votes, and the world barely notices
Ethiopia's first elections since the Tigray peace deal matter enormously for Africa's stability, yet the West's attention deficit toward the continent's largest war-to-democracy transition is a strategic failure.
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Colombia votes on Petro's violent legacy
Colombia's first-round election pits a left-wing Petro protégé against a Bukele-style populist, testing whether peace dialogue or crackdown can tame surging guerrilla violence.
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BJP cracks Bengal's thirty-year fortress
The BJP's first-ever West Bengal victory ends fifteen years of Trinamool rule but raises harder questions about democracy's health when the loser won't concede.
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One Nation in Farrer, and the Liberals' lost river
Pauline Hanson's party winning a Coalition seat is not a freak event — it is the Australian leg of the same realignment that just hit Britain, and the Liberals' instinct will be to misdiagnose it.
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Magyar takes Budapest, and the end of an era
Péter Magyar's installation as prime minister closes the Orbán chapter — but the conservative reading is that the West won the wrong argument and may yet lose the longer one.
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Reform's earthquake and the Starmer endgame
Labour's local-election rout and the open leadership challenge are not a mid-term wobble — they are the moment the post-2024 Westminster settlement broke.
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Tennessee's new map and the redistricting arms race
Republicans erasing Memphis's lone Democratic district is bad for democratic legitimacy — and worse for a party that should know better than to invite mirror retaliation.
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Ramaswamy's Ohio nomination and the MAGA succession question
The biotech millionaire's Republican primary win in Ohio reveals how thoroughly the Trump-era GOP has remade itself — and how unsettled the question of who inherits it remains.
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Britain's local elections and the verdict Starmer cannot wave away
Thursday's ballots in England, Scotland and Wales are the biggest test of public opinion since 2024 — and the deeper story is the disintegration of a two-party system Westminster still pretends exists.
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Romania's no-confidence vote and the Bucharest pattern
The ousting of yet another Romanian prime minister is read in Western capitals as instability — but the more honest reading is that Romanian voters are doing exactly what their constitution invites them to do.
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Modi takes Bengal, and the slow death of regional India
The BJP's capture of West Bengal is less a personal triumph for Narendra Modi than the further consolidation of an Indian politics in which regional identity is being absorbed into the national party.
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Mélenchon's fourth run and the French succession problem
With Macron term-limited and Le Pen facing a ban, Jean-Luc Mélenchon's 2027 announcement exposes how thin the bench has become at both ends of French politics.
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Starmer on the brink, and the meaning of a local election
Next week's council ballots will be read as a verdict on the prime minister — but the deeper story is the collapse of the two-party duopoly that has governed Britain since 1945.
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Brazil's election knife-edge and what it means
A poll showing Lula and Bolsonaro tied ahead of the 2026 election signals that Latin America's largest democracy remains dangerously polarised, with no centre left to hold.