By Gergő Medve-Bálint (Centre for Social Sciences-Hungarian Academy of Sciences) On 8 April, at 7pm sharp, voting at the 2018 Hungarian general elections officially ended. However, it was not until 10:55pm when the first results were announced by the National Election Office. Millions of voters were anxiously and later angrily waiting for the results that [...]

By Sophia Hunger and Theresa E. Gessler (European University Institute) In September 2017, Germans went to the polls - almost half a year later, Angela Merkel was elected as chancellor governing with another round of the previous grand coalition government. In this post, we discuss how this new-old government came about, why coalition formation took [...]

By Vincenzo Emanuele (Luiss Guido Carli) and Bruno Marino (Scuola Normale Superiore) A new electoral tsunami has hit Italy in the 2018 general election, after the already-astonishing results of the previous general election. As highly expected by many pundits, the election held on the 4th March has ended up in a hung Parliament, with no [...]

By Félicitas Guillot (IE-EI, Nice) Monegasque national elections took place on the 11th of February. The election campaign started quite early, in July 2017, with the announcement of Jean-Louis Grinda as chief candidate for « l’Union Monegasque » (Monegasque Union, center). The second chief candidate was Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo for Horizon Monaco (center-right), declared in September [...]

By Vasiliki Triga (Cyprus University of Technology) On 4 February 2018, the 8th President of the Republic of Cyprus, the incumbent President Anastasiades, was elected for a new term after winning the second round run-off with 55.9% of the vote. In the first round (28 January) President Anastasiades received 35.1% of the vote share against [...]