February election roundup

Three elections and a referendum: reports from Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador and Monaco.

Italy, one month out

Uncertainty on several fronts surrounds next month's Italian election, which could be Silvio Berlusconi's most unlikely comeback yet.

Presidents are re-elected in Czechia and Finland – one narrowly, one very comfortably – while Cyprus's election goes to a second round next Sunday.

Czechia's Trumpist president is running neck-and-neck with his challenger.

Germany heads for another grand coalition. It's not a rerun of the 1930s, regardless of what some commentators think.

Catalonia has returned from the Christmas break to find that its constitutional crisis is no nearer a solution.

Czechia, on the front line against Trumpism and Putinism, prepares to pass judgement on its president.

A review of the big elections of the last year and the current state of the "populist" threat.

Catalonia remains deadlocked going into regional elections, with no obvious way forward regardless of who wins.

Labour has a big win in the House of Commons, leaving the British government in a much weakened position for critical talks with the EU.