By Tigran Torosyan (Center for Perspective Research and Initiatives and Russian-Armenian University) Introduction Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on June 7, 2026, the final results of which were announced on June 14. 19 parties submitted documents to participate in the elections, and 58.9 percent of voters chose the composition of the parliament. According to [...]
By Roderick Pace (University of Malta) The Labour Party (Partit Laburista, PL) secured a comfortable parliamentary majority in the general election held on Saturday, 30 May. Prime Minister Robert Abela was sworn in for another term on Monday morning. While the PL finished ahead by just under 22,000 votes, the Nationalist Party (Partit Nazzjonalista, PN) [...]
By Daniel Oross (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy) and Bálint Mikola (CEU Democracy Institute) Since 2010, Hungary has been controlled by the illiberal politics of Viktor Orbán and his party to such an extent that the main issue leading up to the 2026 elections was whether Hungary can still be seen [...]
By Mylen Lyubenov (Sofia University) The eighth parliamentary elections in five years in Bulgaria have led to a political earthquake. The Progressive Bulgaria coalition, led by former President Rumen Radev, won a landslide victory. The new formation received 44.5% of the vote and an absolute majority of 131 deputies in the 240-seat National Assembly. How [...]
By Alenka Krašovec (University of Ljubljana) and Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham) This time it was different. For almost two decades Slovenia has provided plenty of material for scholars of new political parties. The country’s elections always seemed to follow a familiar script. A new party formed a few weeks or months before an election [...]
By Jørgen Elklit (Aarhus University) It was a little surprising that Danish Prime Minister, Ms Mette Frederiksen, in late February called a snap election to the parliament (Folketinget) to be held on March 24th. The four year parliamentary term would only end in late October, and her slim majority coalition government was not doing too [...]
By Kaltrina Beqiri (Independent scholar, graduated at the University of Prishtina) Four years ago, Kosovo appeared poised to enter a more mature phase of its democratic development. Free and competitive elections raised expectations that a new political chapter was unfolding. Today, however, the country finds itself in a state of democratic overdrive—moving restlessly from one [...]
By Marina Gorbatiuc (Moldova State University) For the first decade of post-Soviet independence, Moldova’s fledgling democracy faced challenging conditions. Obstacles include ethno-linguistic tensions especially it is speculated in election campaigns. Recent data on the census (April 8th, 2024) prove multilingual society in Moldova: Moldovan- 49.2%; Romanian- 31.3%; Russian- 11.1%; Gagauz- 3.8%; Ukrainian- 2.9%; Bulgarian- 1.2%; [...]
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 [...]