Japan votes in snap election as PM Sanae Takaichi takes a gamble BBC Young Voters Can’t Get Enough of Japan’s Conservative Prime Minister The Wall Street Journal Japan’s first female prime minister stakes her future on snap elections NPR Japan’s Voters Set to Deliver Verdict on Takaichi’s Leadership Bloomberg.com Japan’s ultraconservative PM Sanae Takaichi set for a big election … Read more
Slovenia will join several other countries that have legalised the practice, including Australia and Belgium. Slovenia’s parliament has passed a law giving terminally-ill adults the right to end their lives, after a majority of voters backed the move in a referendum. Lawmakers approved the bill on Friday, with 50 votes in favour, 34 against and … Read more
Poland votes in tight presidential election Financial Times What to Know About Poland’s Presidential Runoff Election and Trump’s Involvement The New York Times Poland goes to the polls in second round of close-fought presidential election The Guardian Karol Nawrocki, a possible Polish president with a shadowy past The Economist Pro-EU and MAGA visions clash in Poland’s closely fought presidential … Read more
Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if razor-thin, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England. The result served notice that Mr. Farage, a populist fixture and close ally of President Trump, is again a rising force in British politics. Reform’s candidate, Sarah Pochin, won by just … Read more
Polls show centre-right incumbents Fine Gael and Fianna Fail running neck and neck with leftist-nationalist Sinn Fein. Ireland is going to the polls in a tight election race that has two centre-right coalition parties running neck and neck with the former political wing of a republican parliamentary force. Irish voters began casting their ballots on … Read more
Voters in India have braved soaring temperatures to cast their ballots in the last phase of the country’s staggered elections to decide the fate of 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The polls on Saturday conclude the largest electoral exercise in the world that kicked off on April 19, with some 969 million people eligible … Read more
House of Lords defies Rishi Sunak by voting to delay ratification of treaty with Kigali. The United Kingdom’s upper house of parliament has voted to delay Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda. The vote by the unelected House of Lords on Monday came despite Sunak urging its members … Read more
William Lai Ching-te has won Taiwan’s presidential elections, despite China’s warnings not to vote for him. Lai, from the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), took 40.2 percent of votes cast on Saturday, according to partial results from the Central Election Commission after 98 percent of polling stations closed. Lai promised to stand “on the side … Read more