Elections at the weekend in Bosnia & Herzegovina show that ethnic division is still the overriding reality, despite some obvious public dissatisfaction.
Category: Elections
Economics trumps language in Belgium
Belgium finally gets a new government: a centre-right pro-business coalition held together by economic policy rather than by linguistic consensus.
Election preview: Brazil
Tomorrow sees the first round of an interesting three-way contest for president of Brazil, which seems to have been transformed by a plane crash.
Election preview: French Senate
France's Socialist government is likely to lose its Senate majority on Sunday, but its longer-term future may depend on how well it can exploit internal divisions in the centre-right opposition.
New Zealand sticks with the centre-right
New Zealand prime minister John Key has been comfortably re-elected, but his country's voting system makes the result very different from what we would see in Australia.
Sweden follows the script
Sweden's new government will almost certainly be led by the Social Democrats, but the electorate has given them something less than an enthusiastic endorsement.
Election preview: Sweden
Sweden's Social Democrats are eyeing a likely return to power, but putting together a parliamentary majority may be difficult.
Left, right and centre in central Europe
Slovenia is set to get a new centre-left coalition government, which is becoming something of the norm in central Europe. Hungary remains an outstanding exception.
Ukraine loses a prime minister
Ukraine looks set for parliamentary elections later this year, to complete the political transformation set in train by February's revolution.
Joko’s victory to be made official
Joko Widodo will be the new president of Indonesia, but his rival – with the media's help – has succeeded in sowing doubts about his victory.
The World is Not Enough 