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.
Category: Electoral law
Honduras votes against change – sort of
Honduras seems to be set for another disputed election, after the incumbent conservatives lead with less than 35% of the vote in a four-way split.
Election preview: Chile
Chile's presidency is expected to revert to the centre-left, although that probably won't be official until a second round in December.
Maldives: yet another interrupted election
The continuing saga of the attempts to elect a new president in the Maldives.
Election preview: Luxembourg
Luxembourg goes to the polls tomorrow in an early election brought on by a spy scandal. At stake is the traditional dominance of the ruling Christian democrats and their long-serving leader.
If you’re not sick of elections yet …
Germany votes in two weeks time on the fate of Angela Merkel's government. The result will depend in part on a quirk of the country's otherwise very democratic electoral system – a system which, incidentally, would have produced a rather different result last weekend in Australia.
Electoral “reform” in Israel
Israel plans an electoral change that seems superficially fair but in context has a clearly discriminatory intent.
Mr Abe gets both houses
Shinzo Abe's government has won a clear majority in Japan's upper house. That should be good for stable government, but stable government isn't everything.
The Egyptian road back to democracy
Egypt has the makings of a civilian government again, but it's going to be hard work to reassure the Islamists that they will be allowed to play an important role.
July election on again for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is going to the polls on 31 July, despite doubts about whether enough reforms have been made to allow for a truly democratic choice.
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