Somalia launched voter registration in April for the first time in decades, as the country has been struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist insurgency and frequent natural disasters.

The local elections, postponed several times, are a step towards universal suffrage and an end to the complex clan-based indirect voting system that has been in place since 1969.

More than 1,600 candidates are running for 390 local seats in the southeastern Banadir region.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday he was ready to hold new elections in Ukraine, and that he expected to send Washington within a day revised proposals on ending the nearly four-year war with Russia.

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Carney took over as Canada’s leader in March when he replaced deeply unpopular former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who had announced his resignation after almost a decade in office. Despite the Liberal victory — which came following the party trailing in the polls by as many as 25 points before Trudeau’s exit — voters denied them a majority government as returns project the rival Conservatives to score seat gains in the double digits.

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Source: https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/29/canada-election-results-2025/

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Mario Voigt from the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) is set to govern in an unprecedented coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SDP) and the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).

In his first speech as premier in the capital Erfurt, Voigt hailed a “spirit of co-operation and a new political culture.”

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The result marks one of the largest political upheavals Japan has experienced in 15 years, with the yen falling to a three-month low after the coalition’s loss.

The LDP’s defeat was in large part a reaction to lack of public trust due to a major corruption allegations of misappropriated political donations amounting to nearly $4 million in campaign financing slush funds that involved dozens of LDP party members.

Of those accused, 46 candidates who were involved in the scandal ran in the election. Discontent over economic concerns, particularly rising living costs, also took center stage in the election.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/10/28/Japan-Election-LDP/5061730126531/

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Pezeshkian was the leading candidate in the first round of Iran’s sham election on June 28, but he did not clear the 50-percent threshold necessary to win outright. He advanced to Friday’s runoff vote along with hardliner Jalili, leaving onetime favorite Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf behind.

Turnout for the first round hit a record low of 39 percent, as many Iranians have grown disgusted with the regime’s farcical elections and preferred to show their contempt by boycotting the vote.

Many opposition leaders and human rights activists urged the boycott as a means of embarrassing the theocratic regime and depriving it of legitimacy. The opposition also pointed out that even if a “moderate” like Pezeshkian were to win, he would not be able to reform the system very much, since absolute power – and control over most of Iran’s wealth – remains in the hands of the Ayatollah and his senior clerics.

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/07/06/moderate-defeats-hardliner-sham-iranian-presidential-election/

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The Conservative Party suffered a dramatic collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, which saw five different prime ministers run the country. It lost 250 seats over the course of a devastating night.

Rishi Sunak – the outgoing PM – accepted responsibility for the result and apologised to defeated colleagues during a brief statement outside a rainy 10 Downing Street. He said he would resign as party leader in the coming weeks.

In his first speech as prime minister after greeting dozens of jubilant Labour supporters who had lined Downing Street, Sir Keir vowed to run a “government of service” and to kick start a period of “national renewal”.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2v0e074jejo

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Rioters smashed storefront windows, vandalized monuments and set massive bonfires in public squares after the election results revealed the party, headed by nationalist Marine Le Pen, took 33% of the vote in the decisive first round of France’s legislative elections.

Stunning video spread widely online showed mass groups of demonstrators clashing with cops, launching fireworks that at times bathed city streets in an eerie blood-red glow.

Plumes of tear gas smoke wafted throughout the crowds as they battled it out in the streets with riot-gear clad police officers, the wild melee punctuated by the sounds of coughing and shattering glass.

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Source: https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/world-news/leftists-riot-in-france-after-national-rally-party-victory/

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