Election preview: Slovenia

The Trumpist right is expected to top the poll in Slovenia, but it looks like being well short of a majority.

Catalonia gets a government at last

A new separatist premier is elected in Catalonia, by the narrowest of margins. He seems unlikely to win any friends in Madrid.

Karl Marx turns 200, and the debate over his legacy is as lively as ever.

This week's electoral news is from Paraguay, Turkey, Cuba, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Italy's post-election deadlock continues, as obstinacy on the centre-left raises the likelihood of the far right taking power.

Catalonia's fugitive independence leader is free again, but his cause is in as much disarray as ever.

Central Europe's most illiberal leader faces the voters, helped by a voting system designed for his own benefit.

Election news from around the world. This week: Costa Rica, Egypt, Sierra Leone and New Caledonia.

Russia's presidential election, or "election", doesn't require much analysis, but it still raises some interesting issues.