European Election Law News

The proposed parliamentary programme for 2008 indicates the Government is working towards a November election. ... (more)

Romanians for the first time this Sunday are to elect the country's 35 members of the European Parliament (EP). ... (more)

The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has opened an election observation mission for the 16 December pre-term parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan. ... (more)

Elections for 100 members of Kosovo's parliament as well as councilors and heads of 30 municipalities kicked off in the Serbian breakaway province on Saturday. ... (more)

Voting can be complicated, and on 17 November in Kosovo it will be especially so. Not only is the open list system (allowing voting for specific candidates instead of just for a party) being introduced for the first time, but there will be three types of elections on the same day: mayoral, municipal and elections for the Assembly of Kosovo. ... (more)

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has informed the Russian authorities that the Office will be unable to act upon their invitation to observe the 2 December elections to the Russian State Duma.  ... (more)

Denmark's centre-right government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has won a snap election, securing a third consecutive term in office. ... (more)

Denmark's ruling centre-right government won a record third term in office with the slimmest possible majority last night, and will now decide whether to form a broader but possibly more unstable alliance. ... (more)

Slovenian voters will choose a new president on Sunday in the runoff of an election that pits former prime minister Lojze Peterle and Danilo Tuerk, a former senior UN diplomat. ... (more)

Danilo Tuerk, Slovenia's former senior U.N. diplomat, won Sunday's presidential run-off with around 70 percent of the vote against former prime minister Lojze Peterle, exit polls show. ... (more)

Slovenian voters will choose a new president on Sunday in the runoff of an election that pits former prime minister Lojze Peterle and Danilo Tuerk, a former senior UN diplomat. ... (more)

Russia has sharply reduced the number of foreign observers invited to monitor parliamentary elections due to be held in December. ... (more)

The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, ODIHR, has deployed a Limited Election Observation Mission to Croatia to observe the parliamentary elections scheduled for 25 November 2007. ... (more)

Argentina's glamorous first lady, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, claimed victory on Sunday in her bid to succeed her husband and become the first woman in her country's history to be elected president. ... (more)

Argentines go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president, along with legislators and provincial governors. In a country that produced the iconic figure of Eva Peron [wife of two-time President Juan Peron] more than 50 years ago, all eyes are on another woman: the current first lady. ... (more)