Jul 23 Cambodian PM Hun Sen’s ruling party wins election by landslide, with opposition suppressed By Sopheng Cheang, David Rising, Associated Press Counting of ballots began Sunday in Cambodia's general election in which longtime Prime Minister Hun Sen's party is all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition. Continue reading
Jul 09 Zimbabwe police bar opposition party from holding a rally, increasing election tensions By Farai Mutsaka, Associated Press The Citizens Coalition for Change party criticized the move as more evidence of a push by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party to silence the opposition using the police and the courts. Continue reading
Jul 08 Election of 1st far-right candidate since Nazi era in German county raises concern By Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press The election of the first head of a county administration by the far-right Alternative of Germany in a rural eastern region recently has led to concern among opponents of the party. Continue reading
Jun 30 Brazil’s top electoral court bars Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years By Mauricio Savarese, Diane Jeantet, Associated Press A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system. Continue reading
Jun 27 Watch 5:13 Supreme Court rejects legal theory that could have thrown 2024 election into disarray By Geoff Bennett, Saher Khan The Supreme Court rejected a legal theory that state legislatures have almost unlimited power to decide the rules for federal elections and draw partisan congressional maps without interference from state courts. Trump allies raised the theory as part of an… Continue watching
Jun 26 Supreme Court’s biggest decisions of the term are coming. Here’s what to watch By Jessica Gresko, Mark Sherman, Associated Press The last opinions to be released cover some of the most contentious issues the court has wrestled with this term including affirmative action, student loans and gay rights. Continue reading
Jun 25 Greece’s conservative party wins majority in landslide election victory By Elena Becatoros, Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press Greece's conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory Sunday that granted him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second term. Continue reading
Jun 11 Montenegro voters focus on economy, living standards in snap parliamentary election By Predrag Milic, Associated Press A recently formed centrist group that advocates Montenegro joining the European Union was projected to win the small Balkan country's early parliamentary election Sunday, but without enough support to form a government on its own, according to independent vote monitors. Continue reading
May 28 Erdogan claims victory in Turkey’s presidential runoff as challenger calls election ‘unjust’ By Suzan Fraser, Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, according to unofficial results, in a victory that extends his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade. Continue reading
May 23 Judge dismisses Kari Lake’s last challenge in election loss for Arizona governor By Associated Press A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year's race for Arizona governor, affirming the election of Democrat Katie Hobbs. Continue reading