Moldova’s pro-EU President Maia Sandu has claimed a second term after a tense election run-off seen as a choice between Europe and Russia. The Moldovan Central Electoral Commission confirmed Sandu’s victory on Monday morning. Sandu won 55% of the vote, … Read More
Protests have erupted in the Venezuelan capital Caracas against President Nicolás Maduro’s claim of victory in the country’s disputed election. Crowds of people have been making their way, by foot, to Miraflores – the presidential palace – in protest. Others … Read More
MEXICO CITY, June 3 (Reuters) – Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and protege of Mexico’s popular outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, won a landslide to become the country’s first female leader, though the scale of her victory sparked jitters … Read More
March 18 (UPI) — Russian election watchdog, the Golos Movement, said the nation’s three-day election that saw Vladimir Putin elected to a new six-year term did not meet the standards of its constitution. Russia’s recent election that saw President Vladimir … Read More
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif changed tack Friday and said he would seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed independent candidates backed by his imprisoned rival, Imran Khan, in parliamentary election results. … Read More
JAKARTA, Feb 08 (Reuters) – Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia’s presidential election next week for a once-feared former special forces commander. She likes him, she says, because he’s cuddly. A doe-eyed … Read More
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, declared himself the winner of a second five-year term in office on Sunday with an overwhelming 85 percent of the vote, declaring the nation’s opposition “pulverized” and El Salvador the world’s first democratic … Read More
Libertarian outsider Javier Milei swept to victory in Argentina’s presidential election Sunday, vowing to halt decades of economic decline in a country reeling from triple-digit inflation. The self-described “anarcho-capitalist” pulled off a massive upset by ousting the populist Peronist coalition … Read More