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Event On December 13th the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) expelled its former leader of 14 years, Heinz-Christian Strache, on the grounds of behaviour damaging to the party. Analysis The expulsion [...]

Opposition MCAP wins general election There is a new government in Montserrat. The opposition Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP) defeated the incumbent People's Democratic Movement (PDM) in the November [...]

A Kachin political party representative has asked the US to open an official liaison office in Kachin State since China has done the same, KNG reported. The proposal by the [...]

New Zealand enjoys a generally stable political environment, supported by a well-established and transparent political process. The government is led by the prime minister and Labour Party leader, Jacinda Ardern. [...]

Manasseh Sogavare was elected and sworn in as prime minister in April 2019, following the general election held on April 3rd. Mr Sogavare heads the Democratic Coalition for Advancement, a [...]

Event On November 25th the Tribunal Constitucional (TC, the Constitutional Court) revoked a pre-trial detention order that has kept Keiko Fujimori, leader of one of Peru's major political parties, in [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says agreement between the White House and House Democrats on improvements to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is 'imminent.' House Democrats want their enforcement, labor and [...]

Key lines from the third week of the election campaign Farage against the machine 'It's pointless. It doesn't get us out of anything. It doesn't work at any level. It [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh A Delhi Court has temporarily restrained media houses from publishing and telecasting any news, programs etc, which are not based on any 'substantiated and corroborated information' with [...]

This month, we test your trivia skills on everything from tofu to the measurements of horses Round 1: Honour roll 1. What filmmaker, actor and comedian wrote the first version [...]

Youth voter turnout spiked in 2015. Anomaly, or the start of a meaningful trend? Street names at the corner of Fountain and Freshfield streets in Guelph, Ont., summon bucolic imagery [...]

The path to voters' hearts is not paved with promises alone. As the four major party leaders show here, you also have to get real. Caption: ANDREW SCHEER--TORONTO Caption: JAGMEET [...]

Kudos to Maclean's for having the debate and to Paul Wells for a fantastic job moderating it ('We're doing this,' Editorial, October 2019). In my opinion, this debate was better [...]

Kashmir burning What does Narendra Modi want? INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER has a knack for puns. 'Hard work is stronger than Harvard,' he quipped when Amartya Sen, a Nobel prizewinning economist, [...]

Melancholy Mmusi The main opposition party implodes over its approach to race IN SOUTH AFRICAN politics it is a feat to make the African National Congress (ANC) look harmonious. Yet [...]

Event Decisions taken at the federal council meeting of the Democratic Alliance (DA; the official opposition), ending on October 20th, sparked the angry resignation of the DA's Johannesburg mayor, Herman [...]

The prime minister and long-standing leader of the centre-right United Democratic Party (UDP) government, Dean Barrow, is serving a third consecutive term and is constitutionally barred from contesting the next [...]

Byline: Geetanjali Minhas Interview with the Mumbai unit head: The Fadnavis govt has changed the discourse on development Ashish Shelar, 47, is the president of the Mumbai city unit of [...]

Byline: V Shoba You just lost a senior leader, former Speaker Kodela Sivaprasad, to suicide. Was his death avertable? We are paying a price for democracy. I have been in [...]

Byline: PR Ramesh UPON HIS RETURN home from the US after the 'Howdy Modi' jamboree, Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a hero's welcome from party workers and leaders. It sounded [...]

Event Mr Tsipras delivered his first major address since losing the July 2019 election, at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 14th. Analysis The opposition leader's address at Thessaloniki is [...]

Matteo Renzi quits his Democratic Party just after it returns to government THE SWEARING-IN this month of a government yoking the populist Five Star Movement to the centre-left Democratic Party [...]

Why Communist Party bosses love Mazu, a folk goddess of the sea THERE ARE several ways to gauge whether the Communist Party of China approves of an institution. A brass [...]

In 2016 none of the established parties were willing to contemplate a coalition with the nationalist Sinn Fein, which had links to a now disbanded terrorist group, the Irish Republican [...]

Event On September 10th the president, Paul Biya, called for a national dialogue that will focus on the ongoing anglophone crisis in the country. Analysis The inclusive national dialogue will [...]

Event On September 4th the Senate's legal affairs committee (CCJ) approved the core text of the government's pension bill by 18 votes to seven. Analysis The bill now moves to [...]

Support for the opposition is at an all-time high, boosting the main opposition coalition's chances at the next presidential and legislative elections, due in 2020 and in 2021 respectively. The [...]

Event In August state prosecutors searched the homes of several senior members of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), including the former party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, in relation to allegations that [...]

We expect the broad trend of steady institutional and structural reform to continue over the forecast period as Bulgaria proceeds with European integration. Factional conflicts between political parties have the [...]

On June 17, 2016, 15 prominent Democratic Party activists and elected officials gathered in a hotel conference room in downtown Phoenix. Their job was to formulate language for the party [...]

Al-Sayed Al-Badawi, former chairman of Wafd party -- File photo CAIRO - 8 August 2019: Al-Sayed Al-Badawy, former head of New Al-Wafd Party, said he cannot explain current leader of [...]

Byline: Kaveree Bamzai The SP leader's brand of misogyny, so far restricted to Uttar Pradesh, goes national 'LADKE LADKE HAIN, galati ho jaati hai (Boys will be boys, they commit [...]

Should political parties really let anyone run for president? TWENTY-FIVE candidates are running for the Democratic Party's nomination. Twenty of them will take the stage in next week's televised primary [...]

Buckle up, Britain. Boris Johnson promises thrills but is heading for a serious spill 'DO YOU LOOK daunted? Do you feel daunted?' asked Boris Johnson of the crowd of Conservative [...]

Tsai Ing-wen's prospects for re-election have improved FOLLOWING A DISMAL winter you can't count on a good summer, yet Tsai Ing-wen is making hay. Early in the year, Taiwan's president [...]

Byline: Philip Clarke Farm leaders have urged incoming prime minister Boris Johnson to do everything in his power to avoid a no-deal Brexit, warning that failure to do so by [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne UK industry body The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has warned new Conservative Party leader - and soon-to-be Prime Minister - Boris Johnson a no-deal Brexit could [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at New Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court Complex has granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party Leader Arvind Kejriwal and [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore Any Democratic candidate for president really ought to have an explicit agenda for addressing racial inequality in this day and age. African-Americans, in particular, are a sizable [...]

Event On June 28th Nyamko Sabuni was formally appointed as leader of the Liberals. Taking over a divided party with worrying poll ratings, Ms Sabuni is generally regarded as more [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at New Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court Complex has summoned Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party Leader Arvind Kejriwal and deputy CM [...]

Greece's probable next prime minister will have to take on the establishment from which he hails TUCKED INTO a fold in the hills an hour north of Thessaloniki, Serres is [...]

Byline: Aditi Singh The Court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at New Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court Complex today framed charges against the Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party [...]

Event Finland's resurgent anti-immigrant party, The Finns (PS), is striving to rebuild its political infrastructure following its strong electoral performance in the April parliamentary election. Analysis Despite finishing second in [...]

The candidates to be prime minister are throwing away their party's reputation for economic prudence BRITAIN'S CONSERVATIVES like to think they are the party of economic competence. Although they have [...]

Event In late May thousands of supporters of the Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) political party protested and called on the president, José Mario [...]

FILE: Chairman of Al-Wafd Party Bahaa al-Din Abu Shoka CAIRO -- 2 June 2019: Chairman of Al-Wafd Party Bahaa al-Din Abu Shoka has stressed that Human Rights Watch (HRW) relies [...]

Political and economic outlook The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) once again emerged as the largest party (with 62 seats in the parliament) in the recent tripartite elections held in [...]

European stock marked moved broadly higher in the wake of the European Parliament (EP) elections, as support for eurosceptic, populist parties fell short of expectations, while the Green Party was [...]

Early results from India's election, which was carried out in seven stages from mid-April, showed that the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi would remain in power. During the [...]