Another Trumpist in trouble

Not all incumbents have benefited from Covid-19: Brazil shows that a sufficiently bad performance will eventually turn the tide of public opinion.

Netanyahu on the ropes

After four elections, two months of negotiations and a short war, Israel finally seems on the verge of a change of government.

Cyprus's centre-right president will be hoping that Sunday's election returns a sympathetic legislature for the remainder of his term.

After ten years of civil war, Syria holds what could only generously be described as an election, with predictable results.

A constitutional crisis in Samoa has so far failed to attract much support for democracy from the Australian government.

Belarus's president hijacks a commercial jet to arrest a political opponent, outraging European opinion.

A regular feature. This month, electoral news from Samoa, Ethiopia, Chad and Bulgaria.

A new refugee crisis erupts as a move in a diplomatic battle between Spain and Morocco.

Chile's process of drafting a new constitution takes a step forward, with various shades of left winning a majority in the constitutional convention.

Ten years after rejecting a move to slightly improve its electoral system, Britain is proposing to go backwards.