Elections

Elections · 10 May 2018 New political era in Malaysia Malaysians awoke on Thursday to a new political era, as veteran opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad sealed victory in a historic general election…

Italy · 8 May 2018 Political impasse in Italy sends Government Bond yields rising Following the unsuccessful final round of coalition talks, Italian president Mattarella declared that the process to form a government had failed. Mattarella’s…

Italy · 8 May 2018 22nd July the most probable date for new elections in Italy Italy might have failed to reach the World Cup, but at this stage, the months of June and July seem to be…

Italy · 7 May 2018 Di Maio: “Ready to step back, we choose a premier with Salvini” The League “appreciates” Luigi Di Maio opens to Matteo Salvini in an attempt to give the country a government after more than 60 days. "Ok…

Elections · 6 May 2018 Lebanon votes in first elections since 2009 As the polls opened on Sunday, more than 3.6 million Lebanese eligible voters are to elect the 128 parliament members of Lebanon…

Italy · 4 May 2018 Italy – Bid for a PD-M5s coalition closed chapter – Risk of new elections A bid to form a government between the centre-left Democratic party (PD) and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) is "over" and there…

UK · 4 May 2018 UK – Local council election results (Updated) More than 160,000 candidates spent the night expecting their fate waiting for local election results. A total of 4,371 seats were up…

Elections · 3 May 2018 ISIS claims responsibility for Libyan election commission suicide bombing which killed 12 At least 12 people were killed and seven wounded as two suicide bombers have stormed Libya’s electoral commission in Tripoli. The attack…

Russia · 2 May 2018 Mueller raised possibility of ordering Trump to appear before a Grand Jury – The Washington Post The Washington Post reports that " In a tense meeting in early March with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, President Trump’s…

Italy · 30 Apr 2018 Italy – Renzi rules out coalition with Di Maio Matteo Renzi while interviewed on TV programme "Che tempo che fa" said "Those who lost the election can not go to the…

Russia · 29 Apr 2018 UK – The Sunday Times reveals study showing Russian bots influencing the General Election by promoting Jeremy Corbyn The Sunday Times said an investigation it conducted in conjunction with Swansea University had identified 6,500 Russian accounts tweeting supportive messages for…

Italy · 29 Apr 2018 Di Maio calls for a German style coalition agreement There's something fascinating about the Italian way of doing politics. This applies especially to the narrative and the way it is expressed.…