elections
A reader gently prodded me to not ignore Egypt in my election series. I was on the fence about whether the presidential election ending today was interesting enough to warrant.
Give the fractious nature of Dutch politics, Mark Rutte's 13 year, 4 different coalitions run was pretty impressive. It came to an end this summer when his most recent coalition.
The Malagasy Presidential election is taking place on Thursday, maybe. This election was originally scheduled to take place last Thursday, November 9th, but the High Constitutional Court postponed the election.
Argentina isn't the only country with an election today that is likely to see the government shift to the right, although that prospect in Switzerland is considerably less alarming. Switzerland.
European Parliament from EU, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons As the vote count is now nearly done, we can breathe a sigh of relief that Polish exit polls.
Travelling and otherwise engaged the last few days, I have been delinquent in preparing my election coverage. What's going on this weekend? First, New Zealand, yesterday. The outcome was expected.
Today, the citizens of Juneau, Alaska will participate in an election for a number of local offices. There are two openings on the school board, and two of the three.
Today, Slovakia will elect a new parliament. The government that emerged from the 2020 election had been a cobbled-together coalition led by the somewhat incoherent disorganized conservative populist party OL'aNO,.