Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro traded accusations of lying and corruption in their first presidential run-off debate on Sunday, exposing the bitter divisions shaping the
India’s sweeping voter-roll revision has triggered a growing political and constitutional controversy, with millions of names reportedly removed from draft electoral lists, opposition lawmakers challenging the Election Commission, and concerns emerging over
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India’s judiciary and Election Commission have survived decades of political conflict, public criticism and institutional pressure. But the campaign against the Chief Election Commissioner over the Special Intensive Revision raises a more
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Brazil votes on Sunday in a presidential and legislative election that has become the third consecutive electoral confrontation between the democratic left represented by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Bolsonaro
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On the last Friday before the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, following a generic order from the State Department regarding ‘security
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Brazil’s presidential election comes amid a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Federal Court, after allegations involving Justice Alexandre de Moraes and financier Daniel Vorcaro have intensified political polarisation. With Lula and
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From once-violent streets in Masaya to nationwide consultations on electoral reform, Nicaragua’s government is presenting its political changes as a defence of popular sovereignty against Washington’s growing involvement in Latin American elections.
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US voters will decide control of Congress and 36 state governorships on November 3, in elections that will determine the balance of power for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has resigned from office ahead of parliamentary elections on October 25, a move that allows him to contest the vote as the leading candidate of his Serbian Progressive
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a five-percentage-point lead over far-right opposition candidate Flavio Bolsonaro six days before the first round of the presidential election, according to a Quaest voting-intention
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A 2025 study found that 41 per cent of respondents across 10 European countries agreed that there is a group “trying to replace the native-born population with immigrants”, with 17.5 per cent
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Brazil’s overseas electorate has reached a record 918,876 registered voters ahead of the country’s presidential election on October 4, according to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The voters, spread across 134 countries,
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Israel’s upcoming election is being closely watched across the Middle East, where neighbouring governments and regional powers expect the result to affect security, diplomacy and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prime
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In May 2026, three United Nations Special Rapporteurs issued a warning to the Indian Government, stating that the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls might endanger democratic participation.
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Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has said she expects a way out of her country’s political crisis “in the coming weeks”, while insisting that Venezuelans inside and outside the country must
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