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Month: January 2022

Best not to force an early election

Portugal's centre-left prime minister wins a third term, as voters punish the parties that forced the early election.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 2 Comments 31 January 202210 February 2022

Election preview: Portugal

Portugal's centre-left prime minister goes to an early election, without much hope of changing the parliamentary arithmetic.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 1 Comment 28 January 2022

War for Ukraine?

Some of the war talk about Ukraine seems to be coming off the boil. There are good reasons why it should.

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Charles Richardson Europe, War and peace 4 Comments 27 January 2022

Redistribution in the US

The United States continues with the complex process of redrawing electoral boundaries, with results that so far seem to not quite match expectations.

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Charles Richardson Electoral law, Party matters, United States 1 Comment 25 January 202225 January 2022

Three European presidents

Italy's presidential election begins today, with no clear front-runner so far. But Germany and the European parliament have both arrived at a consensus.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Germany, Italy, Party matters 1 Comment 24 January 202226 January 2022

From the archives: the republic referendum

While we're still thinking about an Australian republic, here's a flashback to how the issue looked 22 years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum defeat.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Constitutional law, Political issues, Referenda Leave a comment 21 January 202226 January 2022

Mr Putin’s Ukrainian gambit

Many people who should know better are talking up the chances of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Charles Richardson Europe, United States, War and peace 1 Comment 20 January 202220 January 2022

January electoral roundup

A monthly feature: election news from around the world. This time, Barbados, Northern Cyprus, the Netherlands and North Macedonia.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Middle East, North America (ex-US), Party matters 3 Comments 18 January 2022

Debating the republic, again

Australia's republican movement makes a bid for relevance with a new "model" for how a republic would work. It has some problems.

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Charles Richardson Australia, Constitutional law, Political issues, Referenda 8 Comments 17 January 202226 January 2022

Johnson in extremis

The political obituaries for Boris Johnson are being written following his latest adverse encounter with the Covid rules. But he has survived near-death experiences before.

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Charles Richardson Australia, British Isles, Europe, Party matters 1 Comment 14 January 202226 January 2022

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