By Simon Otjes (Leiden University) and Léonie de Jonge (University of Tübingen) On October 29, the Netherlands held a snap election after the fall of the cabinet Schoof, an ill-fated experimental government between the mainstream and the radical right, spearheaded by a non-partisan MP. In the weeks leading up to the election, tensions around immigration [...]

By Vlastimil Havlík (Masaryk University and National Institute SYRI) and Jakub Wondreys (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden and CEVRO University) The Czech general election held last week closed a turbulent four-year period marked by multiple crises. These years tested the surprising winner of the 2021 election - a government formed [...]

By Peter Egge Langsæther (University of Oslo) In the wake of the 2021 elections, the Labour Party, alongside the rural-agrarian Centre Party, formed a minority government, relying on the Socialist Left for parliamentary support. However, this government quickly fell out of favour, with both parties experiencing plummeting poll numbers that plunged Labour to historically low [...]