Nigeria held one of its closest presidential elections in history on February 25. As current president Muhammadu Buhari reached his two-term limit, three main candidates vied for the spot.
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The Bosnian election commission (CIK) has ordered a recount of votes for the presidency of Republika Srpskaafter numerous complaints filed by opposition parties alleged the rigging of ballots by pro-Russia Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, according to Reuters.
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Sergei Valenzuela Staff Writer In the coming months, Keiko Fujimori will face off against Pedro Castillo in Peru’s runoff presidential
Read MoreIn the first round Brazil’s elections on October 7, the right-wing presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, failed to secure the 50 percent majority vote needed for an outright win, so the world must wait for the results of the second round.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has announced his decision to seek a second term in office. The announcement comes from Twitter and marks the end of months of speculation as to whether the 75 year-old politician planned to run for reelection.
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Orban and his Fidesz party won landslide victories across the country with one drawback, losing large swaths of the youth vote, as well as losing in majority the seats of parliament located in the capital, Budapest.
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In light of Russian President, Valdimir Putin’s, aggressive movements towards the centralization of the Russian state, it is little wonder that this upcoming election is distinctly lacking any serious competition.
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Though the election marked a peaceful transition in power, international election observers criticized the high amounts of vote-buying,the Babanov campaign was given three warnings by the Central Elections Committee for violating campaign rules.
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According to Korean law, a new president must be elected within sixty days of the ruling, a unanimous court ruling approved the South Korean National Assembly’s December vote to impeach former President Park Geun-hye.
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Suspected Shabab militants launched a series of attacks on the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, including one in which two mortar rounds fired close to the airport. Somalia issued a traffic ban and sealed off major streets. The travel ban also included a ban on flights flying to and from Mogadishu.
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