A former guerrilla leader has a wafer-thin lead as El Salvador's presidential election turns out to be a quite unexpected cliffhanger.
Category: Elections
Western Australians get to do it all again
An interesting train of reasoning by the court of disputed returns leads to the conclusion everyone expected: a fresh half-Senate election in Western Australia.
Bangkok and Kiev revisited
The anti-government protests in Thailand and Ukraine continue to throw up interesting similarities while also revealing their underlying differences.
Two runoffs in Central America
Results from El Salvador and Costa Rica show two presidential runoffs on the way, although one is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Thailand goes to the polls – or tries to
The polls have closed in Thailand. Everyone knows who won, but nobody knows what will happen next.
Election preview: Costa Rica and El Salvador
Incumbent parties are favored to win on Sunday in both Costa Rica and El Salvador, but both will be interesting contests.
Another president-for-life looms for Nicaragua
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua doesn't want to give up the job that he first held in the 1980s.
French Socialists have more than sex to worry about
French president François Hollande is trying to put the recent crisis in his personal life behind him, but that's not the source of his political problems.
Italy talks electoral reform
Silvio Berlusconi is back in the news, as Italy's party leaders do deals on electoral reform. Even if they get implemented, the effects might be different to what's intended.
Ukrainian government upsets the applecart
Ukraine's parliament enacts new anti-protest laws, running the risk of reinvigorating a protest movement that was starting to run out of steam.
The World is Not Enough 