This month, Nigerian citizens will go to the polls and elect a new president and vice-president and members of the House of Representatives and Senate. BCI team members have lived and worked in Nigeria and seen previous elections up close, so we’re paying close attention to February 25th!But why should the world pay attention?With 176,846 […]
Ognian Boyadjiev BCI Senior Advisor, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. At the end of this week, the Central Election Commission will formally confirm the names of Bulgaria’s new MPs and next week, President Rumen Radev will announce the date on which he will convene the new parliament’s first session. There is little festivity in the […]
Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Political Party held ⅔ of parliamentary seats since 2010 giving it a ‘super majority’ allowing it the power to change fundamental laws in its favour, most notably the election laws – on April 3rd’s general election they secured yet another supermajority.
Earlier this year, Eszter Kosa wrote about her personal disappointment and sense of betrayal in her country’s democratic decline. Following efforts by Hungary’s opposition parties to engage citizens in reviving their democracy, Eszter and Francesca Binda review the recent primaries process.What’s at stake?Hungary will hold national elections in the spring of 2022. Viktor Orban has […]
Canada’s 2021 elections: wtf?With several votes still to count, and possibly a small change in seat distribution, we wanted to offer some initial thoughts on Monday’s general elections in Canada and provide some key takeaways from this election and the results.Plus ça changeNothing changes — the Trudeau Liberals called an election to improve their seat […]
For some parties, a post mortem in the literal sense By Carlo Binda Vetëvendosje’s victory in yesterday’s national election is not a surprise. For the previously dominant political parties, it was a train wreck in slow motion. The size of Vetëvendosje’s win is a statement by Kosovo’s voters; a rejection of the same old […]
By Carlo Binda, Vice-President of BCI Kosovo voters go to the polls on Sunday, February 14, 2021, to elect the 120 national assembly members who will choose a new government, the third in a year. These snap elections (extraordinary as they are called in Kosovo) resulted from a Constitutional Court ruling that the current government, […]
Voters of Kosovo will vote in a Valentine’s Day poll, February 14th, 2021. These are to be the third successive ‘extraordinary general elections’ in four and a half years. They are considered extraordinary because they fall outside the four-year election cycle. In these four and a half years no government has been able to fulfill […]
,On Sunday, October 6, 2019, Kosovars go to the polls in a general election. Up for grabs are 120 seats in the National Assembly. These are extraordinary elections, precipitated by Ramush Haradinaj leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), the current Prime Minister. The AAK was in coalition with, among others, the […]
Guest post by Patricia Atkinson Canadians head to the polls on October 21, 2019 Up until a few days ago, the leaders were shoring up support in constituencies throughout the country by addressing issues that their parties have determined are pocketbook issues. Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, is promising tax […]