Keynote Speaker at the Session on the “Political Campaign Finance – What way forward?” (Tbilisi) Speakers: Dr. Marcin Walecki, Head of Democratization Department, OSCE/ODIHR Dr. Fernando Casal Bertoa, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Mr. Anar Mammadli, Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, Azerbaijan Ms. Lena Nazaryan, Member of Parliament Armenia Moderator: Mrs. Nino Lomjaria, First [...]
Presentation at the "Democracy in East Asia in Regional and Historical Perspective" (Seoul National University). Organized by the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) and sponsored by the Journal of Northeast Asian History.
By Shqipe Mjekiqi (R.I.T Kosovo) Early parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 11th June, as the coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) broke out a month ago. Interestingly, this happened even though a parliamentary motion against the Government was raised by the PDK splinter party NISMA, [...]
Post about the 2017 UK general elections. View link
Interview on "The Future of British Politics" for La Razon View LINK
By Grant Mitchell (Keele University) Introduction After weeks of declaring that there would be no general election until 2020, Theresa May surprised the nation by calling for a general election before 2020. Unlike in previous elections, the introduction of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act (2011) removed from the Prime Minister the power to call snap elections [...]
By Roderick Pace (University of Malta) The snap election held in Malta on 3 June 2017 has reconfirmed the incumbent Labour Party in government for the next five years with a resounding popular majority and a projected nine seat majority in the National Parliament. Labour Leader Joseph Muscat took the oath of office as Prime [...]
By Trajche Panov (European University Institute, Florence) Macedonia got the first government after 11 years of political dominance of the conservative populist VMRO DPMNE (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) led by its president and long term Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. This practically closes the era of Nikola Gruevski who created an [...]
By Camille Bedock (Centre for the Study of Politics-CEVIPOL at Free University of Brussels-ULB) Since the election of the new President Macron on the 7th of May, the French media seems quite unanimous: France is experiencing a soft revolution, with a young president breaking the lines, atomizing old parties and old cleavages, and sending home [...]
