Major political parties in Austria are openly endorsing anti-Islam messages in their campaigns ahead of the country’s elections next month
Amidst political instability and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, voter registration and preparation for elections are being welcomed
After the recent poll result was annulled, some are asking whether a new solution is needed for unity
Three African elections in the coming month are supposed to show these countries are democracies. But that is about more than just voting.
Parties should announce coalitional plans prior to the election so that voters can more properly gauge expected outcomes.
The prime minister is unlikely to get unequivocal backing for the ‘hard’ Brexit she’d envisioned.
Continental Europe could provide a lodestar on whether right-wing populism will continue to find fertile electoral ground.
The doctors of spin are going to have a busy 2017 given the number of polls worldwide, writes Andrew Hammond.
The relegation of politically motivated killings and property destruction to the footnotes underscores our dangerous winner-takes-all approach.
The Afrikaner enclave held its own election this week, buoyed by a vision of growth and prosperity.
The former president’s reasons are corruption in state institutions and because the party lost confidence in him in 2008 and recalled him.
A record 200 parties, 65% more than in 2011, will contest the August 3 elections.
Jacob Zuma addressed commuters at the Uitenhage taxi rank from a small ANC-branded campaign truck parked in a spot used as a makeshift urinal.
High-tech tools such as fingerprint scanners are useful during polls, but a credible vote depends on those who run the system.
The big question is: Will people vote for another party, or will it be protests and strikes as usual?
Slate politics trumped calls for unity at last weekend’s elections for ANC KZN.
With a new Trudeau in the hot seat, the country is expected to resume its role as global boy scout.
The Tories’ social conservativism appeals to many – despite the party’s hardline views on the niqab.
Debating, Survivor style.
I’m sure Winnie is not celebrating our country’s acquisition of Gripen fighter planes we can’t fly or submarines we can’t maintain.
Times are a-changing in Spain as the new office bearers embrace the secular state and do away with cars.
In a bid to smarten its pre-election face, the ruling party wants popular heavyweights in its corner.
The mayoral race is down to a pair of self-styled "little grandmothers" who are poles apart in their politics but equally tenacious and astute.
Anti-poverty activist elected as mayor of Barcelona; the ruling right-wing People’s Party was battered at the ballot box.
Eastern Cape leadership wants the soccer boss as Nelson Mandela Bay’s mayor to retain the key metro and revive its fortunes before 2016 elections.
A shift is taking place in the Democrats, which optimists hope will embrace grassroot Americans. Bernie Sanders is their candidate.
By the time you read this, it will be clear if Britain will have another Tory coalition government. But who really holds the power strings in Britain?
As the Conservatives lag at the polls, the UK prime minister warns of economic doom if Labour wins.
The Joint Arab List, a coalition of Israel’s Arab parties that is now the third-largest group in the Knesset, did not accept Netanyahu’s apology.
Polls suggest that the embattled Israeli leader could lose power in next week’s election.
With elections scheduled for 15 sub-Saharan countries this year, an Africa Check factsheet looks to the polls for leadership in five volatile states.
Bad reporting in and on the country is poisoning its politics ahead of elections.