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Farage's political rivals rule out standing in Clacton by-election

The shock announcement that he was stepping down came as Farage is the subject of a parliamentary probe over the non-disclosure of a €5.8 million donation from a Thailand-based crypto-currency billionaire.

USA

Court blocks Trump-led push to use citizenship database for elections

US federal court says the Trump-led initiative carries the risk of preventing valid voters from their constitutional right to democracy and tramples on Americans’ privacy.

Armenia

Armenia goes to polls in pivotal vote to decide South Caucasus future

Armenians will decide their future on Sunday against the backdrop of a Russia-West clash, as both the EU and the US support PM Pashinyan’s cautious pro-Western drive, while Russia embarked on an onslaught of economic and political pressures on Yerevan to keep the former Soviet state in its orbit.

Europe News

Maltese cast ballots as Labour government seeks fourth term

Maltese voters headed to the polls on Saturday for a snap election, with Prime Minister Robert Abela’s Labour Party tipped to win on a platform of economic stability and 4% GDP growth, despite ongoing corruption concerns.

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Europe News

Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela calls early snap election for May

The Maltese leader mainly cited rising energy costs due to the Middle East conflict, as concerns and fears of a spike in inflation grow in a country reliant on imports as reasons to seek a new mandate.

Peru

Peru's election results delayed after logistical issues disrupt voting

Peruvian voters will now have to wait at least one additional day to learn the results of the country’s presidential elections due to an issue authorities said was logistical, which left thousands of people unable to vote on Sunday.

The Cube

Is Meloni reshaping Italy's electoral law to secure re-election?

Opposition parties say that proposals to change Italy's electoral law are an attempt by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to tilt the system in her favour to stay in power at the next election. The Cube investigates.

Ukraine

Ukraine will only hold elections after ceasefire, Zelenskyy says

Under Ukraine’s constitution, holding national elections while the country is under martial law is illegal. That was declared on 24 February 2022, the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Europe News

The elections that will shape Europe in 2026

Voters across the continent have huge choices to make at the ballot box in the upcoming year. Euronews takes a look at the key electoral tests awaiting the EU - and beyond - in the year ahead.

Myanmar

Polls close in first day of Myanmar's general election since 2021 coup

Final results are expected to be announced by February after two more rounds of voting are completed, but the ballot is widely being criticised and dismissed as a sham.

Thailand

Thailand dissolves parliament amid continued fighting with Cambodia

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the House of Representatives after getting approval from the King on Friday. The country is now set to hold elections early next year despite an ongoing armed conflict with neighbouring Cambodia.

Honduras

Vote count under way in Honduras in close presidential race

Trump shocked Hondurans on Friday by endorsing one of the candidates and announcing that he would pardon ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year sentence in a US prison for drug trafficking.

Iraq

Iraq elections: early voting for 1.3 million citizens began on Sunday

The election, with 7,744 candidates, will determine if PM al-Sudani secures a second term amid regional tensions.

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45,000 marchers call for end to fossil fuel subsidies

Just days before the Dutch election, 45,000 people marched in The Hague, demanding urgent climate action.

Argentina

Watch as Milei celebrates victory in Argentine midterm elections

Milei emerged triumphant in Argentina’s midterm elections, bursting onstage in Buenos Aires to belt out his death-metal anthem, “I am the king of a lost world!” Beaming before cheering supporters, he hailed the results as proof that Argentina has turned the page on decades of debt-ridden Peronism.

Europe News

Dutch Geert Wilders among targets of suspected Belgian terror plot

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders said that authorities had confirmed to him he was among the alleged targets of a suspected terror cell in Belgium that was dismantled on Thursday.

EuroVerify

Did the Irish government block people from running for president?

Claims are circulating online that the Irish government has the power to stop people they disagree with from running for the country's highest office, as Ireland prepares for its presidential election in late October.

Tech News

Moldova’s election shaped by Russia’s AI-driven disinformation machine

Spoof websites impersonate legitimate Western media and pay “engagement farms” in Africa, while AI bots are deployed to flood comment sections deriding the EU and pro-European party.

Moldova

Ahead of crucial snap vote in Moldova, Transnistrians remain uncertain

Moldovans will vote on 28 September in a crucial snap parliamentary election. The outcome will influence the country's EU membership bid amid Russia's war in Ukraine.

Europe News

Dutch snap election to be held on 29 October after coalition collapse

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof's cabinet fell apart when far-right Party For Freedom leader Geert Wilders withdrew his ministers over disagreements on migration policy.