The Autonomous region of Bougainville comprises a main island (roughly the size of the big island of Hawaii or Puerto Rico) and a few outlying islands over 300 miles East.
Joining St. Helena today is Jamaica, where elections will be held for all 63 single member district parliamentary seats. Andrew Holness, current Prime Minister and leader of the Jamaican Labour.
September is a busy month, electorally, with a number of pretty interesting elections coming up. The month kicks off in Guyana on Monday, where both a presdient and 65-member National.
In late May, Samoan prime minister Afioga Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa's proposed budget failed to pass parliament, leading to her to call for a snap election on Aug. 29th. Mata'afa was.
Two weeks ago, we got unexpectedly good news out of Romania. Against expectations largely created by the ugly first round results, the candidate of Europe, Ukraine, and general sanity defeated.
Two countries to the West of Suriname, a second election is taking place today. Venezuela is holding an election for their national assembly. Unlike Suriname's messy democracy, there's nothing democratic.
The third and final election of the weekend is in Portugal, where all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic are up. Portuguese elections are PR/MMD, with the district.
This weekend is the runoff for presidential election in Romania. I covered the first round here. The outcome was quite grim; right-populist George Simion secured 41% of the vote, with.
