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Croatia's governing conservatives won a sharply competitive election on Wednesday, according to the official vote count. The ruling right-wing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) defeated a centrist left-wing alliance informally led by populist President Zoran Milanovic and his Social Democratic Party (SDP). However, despite their convincing win, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic's HDZ will need the support of far-right groups to stay in power. The election followed a campaign centred on a bitter rivalry between the country's president and prime minister. With more than 90% of the ballots counted, t...
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The elections for the European Parliament take place 6-9 June 2024. It is the only directly elected institution of the European Union. But how exactly do these elections work? The elections are held every five years, giving the 447 million citizens in the bloc's 27 member states the opportunity to choose who will represent them in the European Parliament. How many MEPs does each country elect? And how are they elected?The European Parliament elections use a proportional representation system, where each member state is allocated a certain number of seats based on its population size. But not a...
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Iran will hold parliamentary elections on Friday amid widespread discontent over the country’s failing economy, but it’s likely that few voters will turn out at the ballot. Iranians will be voting to elect members to the 290-seat Parliament, formally known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly. Terms run for four years, and five seats are reserved for Iran’s religious minorities. Separately, Iranians will vote to fill the Assembly of Experts, whose 88 members serve eight-year terms on a panel that will appoint the country’s next supreme leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who’s now 84. But as ...
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The governing Serbian Progressive party of populist Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić won the 17 December parliamentary and municipal elections, securing 129 seats in the 250-seat assembly. The opposition Serbia Against Violence coalition finished a distant second with 65 seats. A vote-monitoring mission set up by international rights watchdogs said in a preliminary report that the polls were “marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources.” Serious irregularities included alleged cases of vote-buying and ballot box stuffing, ac...
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