Poland's strongman wins re-election, despite the fact that the opposition won more votes.
Category: Electoral law
Election preview: Poland
Poland looks set for a very close election on Sunday, with its right-wing government starting as a narrow favorite.
Brexit: the judges take a hand
Boris Johnson loses big at the supreme court. It's a radical decision, but one with a solid grounding in the peculiarities of British constitutional law.
First Israel, now Spain
Spain's politicians have failed to agree on a new government, sending their country back to the polls. Benjamin Netanyahu could tell them that that's a risky strategy.
More Brexit election numbers
Britain's divided House of Commons is unlikely to survive much longer, but a replacement may not end up making things any clearer.
The Senate faces its enemies, again
Plans are again afoot within the Australian government to try to cripple the democratic nature of the Senate. But there is an alternative direction that reform could take.
A Brexit election – but when?
Britain won't be going to the polls next month, but it still looks as if an election can't be long delayed.
Brandenburg and Saxony
Elections in two German states this weekend provide another opportunity for pundits to fret about the rise of the far right. So far, however, the centre-right is holding firm.
Oh no, not 1975 again!
Britain could be headed for a constitutional crisis that can be likened to that of 1975 in Australia. But the differences are more revealing than the similarities.
Brexit revisits the civil war
Like its Italian counterpart, the British parliament faces big decisions about whether to bring down a government and what to put in its place, but it does so under somewhat different constitutional rules.