With most votes tallied, Babis’s ANO party is ahead, but it appears set to fall short of a majority in parliament. Published On 4 Oct 20254 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Billionaire Andrej Babis’s populist ANO party has taken a commanding lead in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, but…
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Sarah Rainsford, Eastern and Southern Europe correspondentIn Chisinau and Paul KirbyEurope digital editor in London Anadolu via Getty Images Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned voters their democracy was young and fragile and Russia endangered it The pro-European party of Moldovan President Maia Sandu is heading for victory and a new majority in parliament in elections…
Malawi’s former President Peter Mutharika has been declared the winner of last week’s elections, in a huge comeback for the 85-year-old. Official results show that he won 57% of the vote, compared to the 33% of President Lazarus Chakwera, 70. Chakwera, a pastor before entering politics, conceded defeat ahead of the final result being declared,…
A right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands erupted into violence and chaos Saturday as rioters clashed with police and vandalized a political party’s office, just weeks before the country holds a general election. Police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse rioters who threw objects at officers and torched a police car. There was no immediate…
Security forces in Guyana say a boat carrying election officials and ballot boxes was shot at “from the Venezuelan shore” in the contested Essequibo region. Police and the Guyana defence force said in a joint statement that the incident occurred on Sunday, ahead of the South American nation’s general election on Monday. The patrol that…
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The far-right, nationalist Reform UK party would be Britain’s largest political party if a general election were held now, a major new poll shows, putting its founder, Nigel Farage, on a potential course to become the country’s next prime minister. Reform would win 271 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, with the…
