Many Taiwanese love both Tsai, under whom Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and Trump, who has packed American courts with arch-conservatives.

Germans overwhelmingly disapproved of Trump during his tenure, and his four years in the White House have tested the true depth German goodwill for the United States.

In April 2019, Prabowo lost the election with almost 20 million fewer votes than his opponent. Nonetheless, he gave a so-called victory speech in front of his supporters, most of them conservative Muslims. He wasn’t satisfied with claiming victory; he also circulated a rumor about the fraud in the polling station and suspected that there was an effort to frame that he lost the election.

Given our history of emigration, it has been difficult for many people in Ireland to understand how Irish Americans can support Trump’s extreme policies that have separated families, vilified immigrants and threatened undocumented Irish people in the US.

The fact that it took a U.S. Secretary of State 45 years to visit Suriname, which gained independence in 1975, was disappointing to many Surinamese. Pompeo’s rant about Chinese influence has only further alienated them, as many people are grateful for the Chinese investments.

The Zelensky administration has failed to make meaningful strides at tackling corruption; in fact, earlier this year the SoP-controlled parliament dismissed a widely respected Prosecutor General known for tackling graft inside his agency. And while he succeeded in completing several rounds of prisoner exchange with Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, Zelensky has made no other significant diplomatic breakthrough. Crimea remains firmly in Russia’s grasp.

Yesterday as polling stations opened in Tanzania, the Internet was shut down—blocking communication via email, text and social media--and the reality of that has made it hard to file this article. To a certain extent, I blame myself. I gambled on the optimism with which we conduct our public affairs. I was wrong.

Lack of hot water, lack of real communication with citizens, abuse of power, and corruption can change mayors. Last year, aging infrastructure meant that the municipal provider was losing 2000 tons of hot water per hour, or about 170.000 euros ($199,161.67) per day. As a Romanian joke says: sometimes hot water comes; but it’s cold.

Two months since the beginning of immense political protests, a political crisis of a scale not seen since it gained independence in 1991, the Belarusian government and protesters have reached a stalemate.

The results signal longer-term losses for the far right in Austria. Even on its signature issues of migration and integration, voters are starting to turn elsewhere—or, disappointed in their leaders’ conduct, are deciding to sit out elections entirely.

The place—a dump. Gnawed walls, ripped leather chairs…punctured linoleum….Everything is like in a cheap TV series about cops. Sad and shabby

About a month ago, El Présidente launched a joke campaign, the Fédération des Êtres Sensibles et Sincères pour l'Érection de la Société (émergence sociale). Its acronym, FESSES, means “butts” in French.

For the first time in our independent history, a leader of the opposition has officially been named. The position is so new to Singaporean politics that no one really knew what it meant until parliament opened and the details were announced.

When questioned about the low numbers of women in positions of power in Ghana, President Akufo-Addo blamed the Ghanaian women’s movement. It is not surprising that many feminists and activists have rallied behind the opposition ticket.

One question is: how much more of this Magufuli-ism can we take?

Elections without the Internet

I had a discussion with a young Caledonian woman recently who told me that only at 25 did she start to learn about her own country. For a long time, the history taught in school was the history of Gaul, like one might learn in Paris, some 16,000 kilometers away.

Sometime in 2010, the now-defunct consulting firm Cambridge Analytica decided to test out some ideas about polarized publics. They chose one country as a testing ground: Trinidad and Tobago, whose population votes largely along ethnic lines.

Some does and don’ts from elections conducted during COVID-19

The autonomous region of Bougainville, located in the easternmost part of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea, could soon become the newest and one of the smallest states on earth.

Desiré Bouterse–Interpol fugitive, drug trafficker, convicted murderer–has been the protagonist of Suriname’s political history for four decades. In May 2020, the Surinamese people finally voted him out

US-taught courses for police in Myanmar, The Philippines, Vanuatu and Mexico.

Young people have inherited the civil war conflicts from their parents. This is exploited by the country’s major political parties, especially by the Rajapaksa brothers’ Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party.

Here’s what we’ve noticed as our project to cover every 2020 election reaches its halfway point.