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 [...]
Seminar lecture at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City on "The Current Crisis of Political Parties".
Research at the National library and the Mexican parliament (Congreso de la Unión) in Mexico City.
A reflection on the 2017 French presidential elections in one of Galicia's leading newspapers. View LINK
By Dragomir Stoyanov (VUZF University) On March 26, 2017 snap elections were held in Bulgaria. These were the third snap parliamentary elections in the last five years and their results confirmed GERB as the most popular party in Bulgaria. Thus, these were the fourth consecutive national elections in which GERB won parliamentary majority (very unusual [...]
Participation as an international expert at the Meeting of the Liberal International Bureau in Oxford to discuss modifications to the Liberal International Manifesto. View LINK
An analysis on the 2nd April parliamentary elections in Serbia View LINK
Research explicitly quoted by OSCE/ODIHR officials at the Spanish parliament (Madrid). Watch VIDEO
