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What’s next for Bosnia after elections?
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s election strengthened nationalist parties.
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‘Trend reached us’: Nationalists gain ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Results raise the prospect of a new conservative alliance and further political polarisation, analysts say.
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Too young to run, old enough to protest: West Africa’s unfinished democratic bargain
Young people are old enough to vote and old enough to protest but are often told they need experience before they can hold political office.
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Will elections bring change to multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Balkan nation seeks EU membership, but divisions threaten that goal.
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Brazil elections live: Lula faces Bolsonaro in close presidential race
Voting is underway in Brazil as Lula seeks a historic fourth term, facing a strong challenge from Flavio Bolsonaro.
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Bosnia’s elections explained
Bosnia and Herzegovina votes on October 4 in an election that may determine whether it breaks its political deadlock.
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Brazil elections: Can Lula’s anti-poverty record win over voters?
In Brazil, incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth and final term in the presidential election on October 4. In 2022, he made the fight against hunger and poverty a key campaign promise. Between 2023 and 2024, nearly nine million people were lifted out of poverty thanks to the government’s social and economic programs. The decline was particularly sharp in Brazil’s Northeast. A traditional stronghold for Lula, will the progress made in reducing poverty translate into stronger support for the current president? FRANCE 24's team on the ground reports.
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Bosnia elections: Polls overshadowed by exhaustion, exodus and geopolitics as ethnic politics eclipse real problems
Bosnia goes to the polls on October 4 to elect several parliaments and presidents. While voters worry about the economy and emigration, the campaign is focused on ethnicity, exposing the country's political paralysis.
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Equating protest with terrorism: A narrative against dissent
In this month's edition, we dive deep into a narrative used by leaders in the United States and other countries to delegitimize protests.
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What #EndSARS left behind in Nigeria: A generation caught between protest, politics, and departure
The protests strengthened the political consciousness of some young Nigerians and encouraged greater participation in elections, governance and activism. For others, the experience produced fear, distrust and disillusionment.
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‘Shaken faith’: Why are India’s elections under unprecedented scrutiny?
India has long held up its elections as evidence of its democratic credentials. Now their legitimacy is under question.
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India news: Elections 'rigged,' allege Rahul Gandhi and Cockroach party
The Cockroach party has urged India's opposition parties to stop contesting what it calls "rigged" elections and threatened nationwide protests over the Election Commission's voter-list revision. DW has more.
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Morocco’s elections: Fragmentation, disengagement and PJD’s major comeback
PAM leads as the PJD quadruples its seats and turnout hits its second-lowest level under King Mohammed VI.
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Gaza watches Israel’s elections with fear and antipathy
Palestinians are following the campaign, but few feel next month's vote will make their lives any better.
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Venezuela’s Rodriguez pledges elections, path forward in UNGA speech
Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez says her country must abandon the ‘extremism’ of the past.
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Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez promises elections at UN, gives no date
Rodriguez says Venezuela is transitioning to full democracy and has opened dialogue with opposition sectors.
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Elections in Germany: fake fraud, real intoxication
While regional elections took place on Sunday in Germany, Internet users assured, with video rigged in support, that the far right party of AfD had been the victim of fraud. Other manipulative images were used to report alleged irregularities in the election.
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Russian TikTokers wanted to vote for an anti-war agenda. Putin’s farce elections did not allow that.
Elections in Russia are a sham. Yet when someone appears genuinely committed to an anti-war agenda, many had seize that hope as a chance to change, including young TikTokers
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Midterm elections: Trump looms large over 2026 vote as Democrats eye gains
With the US midterm elections now just six weeks away, we’ll speak to our Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson about whether President Donald Trump could help or hurt his party’s chances. Polls have pointed to what some are calling a “blue wave”, with Democrats potentially regaining control of the House, while the Senate race remains more uncertain. Trump has ramped up campaigning, including spending heavily on advertising and proposing $5,000 payments to voters who support Republicans. But with his approval ratings under pressure amid the war in Iran and the Middle East, and rising oil, ga
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Russia's elections had few surprises - but how the Kremlin uses the results will be crucial
Vladimir Putin will likely use the result to claim most Russians back the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.