The UK government is set to blame China for cyber-attacks on the country’s Electoral Commission. The attacks happened in August 2021, but details only emerged last year. It reportedly saw the personal details of millions of voters accessed. Several MPs and peers
Experts have predicted inheritance tax will become a key election issue as receipts have soared to £5.2 billion. The £400 million year on year increase in the eight months from April 2023 to November 2023 continues the upward trend over the last
The European Union and the United States have jointly called on Serbia to address concerns related to its electoral process. Independent observers identified troubling issues, including vote buying, media bias and improper influence, giving an unfair advantage to the ruling Serbian Progressive
A new lower house of the Dutch parliament was sworn in Wednesday, two weeks after the far-right party of lawmaker Geert Wilders won a general election in a seismic shift that reverberated through Europe. While the newly configured Second Chamber is now
Three magistrates of Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal fled the country Friday, shortly after lawmakers stripped four of them of legal immunity. The move opens the tribunal’s magistrates to prosecution. The whereabouts of the magistrates in question are unknown Three magistrates of Guatemala’s Supreme
A new ‘Party of Islam’ has been rejected by the Electoral Commission over concerns it did not comply with election law, among other reasons. Days after Hamas’ attack on Israel at the start of October, the body responsible for monitoring political parties
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Monday reshuffled his Cabinet after his center-left Labour Party sustained local electoral losses unseen since 1924. Three ministers departed from the Cabinet, while two others were moved to other posts. Among the more notable switch-ups
Guatemala’s prosecutor for electoral crimes has asked the Supreme Court of Justice to strip five magistrates of the country’s top electoral authority of their immunity so they can be investigated on fraud allegations made by the loser of the Aug. 20 presidential
The Conservatives are in “deep electoral trouble” following the by-elections, according to a top pollster. Professor Sir John Curtice said the results as a whole show the Conservatives are 21 percentage points behind, which is comparable to the national polling. The party
Boris Johnson, so the joke goes, will always be remembered as the third prime minister to have been brought down by… Boris Johnson. After bringing down his old rival David Cameron by campaigning for Brexit, and then helping to bring down Theresa May