By Rokas Stabingis (Independent Scholar) The voter turnout seems not to be affected by the COVID-19 In the face of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lithuania has elected its new parliament Seimas of 141 MPs. The voter turnout in the I round on 11 of October was 47 %, i.e insignificantly lower than [...]
Talking about the regulation of foreign donations to political parties and electoral campaigns and how it could be improved at the Committee of Political Affairs and Democracy of the Council of Europe.
Online seminar for "Ruta de la Democracia" (civil society organisation) and the Bolivian Political Science Association. View LINK Watch SEMINAR
By Nemanja Batrićević (University of Montenegro) On 30th of August 2020, Montenegro held its fifth and the most polarizing election since the Referendum in May of 2006. With pre-election polling data showing the predominant Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) at the ‘historical minimum’ (ranging from 35% to 40%), the opposition, organized around three ideologically congruent [...]
Co-director at the 3rd European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Summer School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw. View LINK View PROGRAM
By Liljana Pecova Ilieska (IMPETUS: Center for Internet, Development and Good Governance) In North Macedonia parliamentary elections took place between 13th and 15th July: voting of the Covid-19 patients and those in self-isolation starting on Monday, the sick, weak and convicted people voted on Tuesday, while Wednesday, for all other citizens, 15th of April was [...]
By Antonio Karlović (University of Zagreb) The governing center-right HDZ, led by incumbent PM Andrej Plenković, achieved a landslide victory in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Croatia which will enable them to almost single-handedly form a stable government. A rush to the polls While most countries were postponing or even canceling elections because of the COVID-19 [...]
Interview on the pandemic situation in the United Kingdom. Listen to the INTERVIEW (from minute 16:21)
By Irena Djordjević (Universities of Aveiro and Beira Interior) On Sunday night, 21st of June, there was no unexpected news: Ruling center-right Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) party won the parliamentary, provincial and local elections in Serbia. What should be surprising is that in “parliamentary democracy with competitive multiparty elections” such as Serbia according to Freedom [...]
Member of a PhD. Thesis Committee, together with Prof. Petry Stykow (University of Munich), Prof. Dorothee Bohle and Prof. Stefano Bartolini (EUI) at European University Institute in Florence. The PhD. Thesis, titled “Understanding Post-Soviet Party Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Georgia and Moldova”, was successfully defended by Paulina Sałek. […]
