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Election of the day: Ireland

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On November 28, 2024
Several years ago, sometime in the oughts, at a conference I was discussing Irish politics with a professional colleague who'd moved there for a job 10 years prior, and had just completed or was in the midst of completing the naturalization process. I've often found...

Election of the Day: Namibia

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On November 26, 2024

Before diving in, a few updates from this weekend's elections. In Uruguay, polling proved accurate and the normal, boring center-left candidate defeats the normal, boring center-right candidate by about 4%..

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Attentive readers will by now have noticed that, after nearly a year of covering every national election here, I've fallen off the wagon recently. Some of that was standard end of a busy semester stuff, as well as other life events that have crowded out...
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Election of the Day: Azerbaijan

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On February 6, 2024
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's current term was supposed to extend through 2025, but following the destruction of the Republic of Artsakh and the recapture of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, he called for a snap "victory election," presumably to cash in on this swift and complete...
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Election of the day: Tuvalu

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On January 26, 2024
On September 25, 2008, Kiribati president Anote Tong gave a speech at the United Nations, on the subject of the eventual need to relocate the population of his and other low-lying island nations' populations due to rising sea levels. While he acknowledged that a suitable...
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