Vote looks set to be a close competition between three women: former PM Katrin Jakobsdottir; businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir; and Arctic scholar Halla Hrund Logadottir. Voters in Iceland are casting ballots to pick the country’s new president, a largely ceremonial position in the parliamentary republic. The vote on Saturday looks set…
Jorge Huerta Cabrera, who was shot dead in Izucar de Matamoros, is the latest contender to be killed ahead of June 2 polls. A candidate running for local office in Mexico’s central Puebla state has been killed at a political rally two days before the elections, adding to the toll…
New Delhi, India – Daily wage worker Mustagir Qureshi decided to cast his vote early in the morning to avoid queuing up under the scorching sun in Uttar Pradesh state’s Sambhal district in northern India. But as he reached the school-turned-polling station in his native Obri village on May 7…
With more than 97 percent of votes counted, results show the ruling ANC will lose its majority and be forced to seek coalition partners. With more than 97 percent of the ballots counted, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is leading with just over 40 percent share of the national…
Mexico City, Mexico – Such a political turnaround would have been almost unthinkable a decade ago. Since 2009, Alejandra del Moral had been synonymous with the conservative Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI, Mexico’s then-dominant political beast. She was the youngest mayor in the country at the time and the first…
Johannesburg, South Africa – Former President Jacob Zuma, is emerging as the biggest victor of South Africa’s general elections as his new breakaway uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MK Party) appears poised for major gains at the expense of the country’s governing African National Congress. With more than two-thirds of votes…
Indians will cast ballots in the last phase of the country’s staggered elections on June 1 to decide the fate of 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, concluding the largest electoral exercise in the world that kicked off on April 19. Fifty-seven seats across eight states and federally-run territories…
New Delhi, India – In 2019, political consultant Tushar Giri found himself in a room with a distraught veteran leader from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The politician was a five-time legislator and, until a few days before that meeting, had been a chief ministerial candidate…
Michael Mezzatesta is a climate educator based in Los Angeles, California. For the last two years, he’s used TikTok and Instagram as a means to spread the word about climate marches and real-life ways people can get involved and fight to take on climate change. In September 2023, he helped…
In the run-up to the 2016 United States presidential election, a set of mainstream Republicans worried about the rise of Donald Trump kicked off what came to be known as the “Never Trump” movement. In essence, they were making clear that they were so fundamentally opposed to what Trump –…
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