Spanish conservative government falls, Italian populist government formed
The December 2015 and June 2016 Spanish elections both produced inconclusive results. Neither the right-wing parties (the Popular Party and the new Citizens’ party) nor the left-wing parties (the...
View ArticleUK’s Brexit debacle could lead to Labour landslide; Greens, not far right,...
UK PM Theresa May has done a deal with the European Union regarding the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit). However, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab resigned on November 15 as he disagreed with...
View ArticleLeft wins Danish election; new Israeli election; German Greens surge to tie...
The Danish election was held on June 5. There are 179 parliamentary seats – 175 in Denmark proper, and two each in Faroe Islands and Greenland. All seats are elected by proportional representation...
View ArticleRight wins Greek election; left wins Turkish Istanbul mayoral re-election
In Greek elections, 250 of the 300 parliamentary seats are awarded proportionally with a 3% threshold. The remaining 50 seats are given en bloc to the party winning more votes than any other party....
View ArticleSpain’s Socialists fail to form government; Ukraine landslide for Zelensky’s...
In a rare piece of good news for the left, the Spanish Socialists won the April 28 election. The Socialists won 123 of the 350 seats, the right-wing Popular Party (PP) 66, the right-leaning Citizens...
View ArticleFar-right Salvini loses power in Italy; Israeli polls; far-right surges in...
At the March 2018 Italian election, the anti-establishment populist Five Star Movement won 227 of the 630 lower house seats, with 125 for the far-right populist League, 112 for the centre-left...
View ArticleGreens surge in Switzerland; left retains Bolivia presidency and wins...
Switzerland uses proportional representation by canton (state). At the October 20 election, the right-wing People’s Party won 53 of the 200 lower house seats (down 12), the Social Democrats 39 (down...
View ArticleLeft wins Spanish confidence vote and Croatian presidency; Austria forms...
At the November 10 Spanish election, national left-wing parties won 158 of the 350 lower house seats, and national right-wing parties 151. The remaining 41 seats went to mostly left-wing regionalist...
View ArticleGerman political crisis in Thuringia and Italian regional elections
At the October 2019 Thuringian state election, the far-left Left party won 29 of the 90 seats, the far-right AfD 22, the conservative CDU 21, the centre-left SPD eight, the Greens five and the...
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