Written by For the fourth time this month, South Korea’s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country’s political future. Safeguarding the hard-won rights and freedoms South Koreans have enjoyed for almost four decades is a lofty aim – and supported by the vast majority of voters – but the scenes inside the […]
All the states have adopted four-year maximum parliamentary terms without much fanfare, and yet at a federal level Australia has stayed at three years. Is it time for Australia to just bite the bullet and extend the term? To debate that very question in today’s Friday Fight we have former senator Margaret Reynolds arguing against […]
All the states have adopted four-year maximum parliamentary terms without much fanfare, and yet at a federal level Australia has stayed at three years. Is it time for Australia to just bite the bullet and extend the term? To debate that very question in today’s Friday Fight we have political columnist Rachel Withers arguing in […]
Parliamentary elections come a week after a right-wing candidate won most votes in the first round of the presidential election. Romanians are voting in a parliamentary election a week after the first round of the presidential election saw right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu emerge at the top. Sunday’s vote will elect a new government and prime […]
The legislative election takes place after the collapse of a fragile coalition, with the economy being a top concern. Icelanders are electing a new parliament after disagreements over the economy, immigration, and the fallout from volcanic eruptions forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call an early election. […]
Sri Lankans will cast ballots in a snap parliamentary election on Thursday, months after electing a Marxist-leaning president in the Indian island nation’s first election since the 2022 economic meltdown and political crisis. The election was called by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who won the September election after blaming the country’s traditional ruling elite for […]
WASHINGTON —U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was concerned about what he called Georgia’s democratic backsliding and urged a probe into the country’s recent elections that he said were marred by misuse of resources, coercion and voter intimidation. According to official results, the governing Georgian Dream party won nearly 54% of Saturday’s vote, […]
Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s prime minister and president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), at the party’s headquarters following the lower house election, at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s ruling coalition lost its parliamentary majority, with public broadcaster NHK projecting that the Liberal […]
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Opposition supporters in Georgia planned to hold a protest in the country’s capital on Monday against the official results of a weekend parliamentary election in which the governing party was declared victorious amid voting irregularities and allegations of Russian meddling. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili said Sunday she did not recognize the […]
Voters in Japan head to the polls on Sunday to elect members of their House of Representatives in an election seen as a test for the country’s new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. With Ishiba’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) embroiled in scandals and facing diminishing public support, the vote is expected to present the party […]