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Israel

Netanyahu warns of 'real danger of left-wing government' in Israel

Trailing in the polls before Tuesday’s elections, Israel’s prime minister has warned that the right-wing government he leads could be voted out of

Israel

Scramble for votes pits Netanyahu's Likud against rightist allies

Flagging in opinion polls before Tuesday’s Israeli election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally his country’s rightists by casting

Israel

Orthodox Jewish women's party B'Zchutan joins Israel election race

Less than a week before the Israeli election, a Jewish ultra-Orthodox women’s party has entered the race, challenging traditional beliefs about the

Israel

Israel's Arab citizens brandish new electoral power

Israel’s elections for parliament next week [17th March] hold the potential not only of a new prime minister emerging, with a move towards centre

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Egypt

Elections could be delayed in Egypt over legal hitch

Egypt looks at new timetable for elections due to begin on March the 22nd

Estonia

Estonia votes in election amid concerns over Russia

Estonians are voting in a parliamentary election with centre-right Prime Minister Taavi Roivas the favourite to form a new pro-Nato coalition and fend off an opposition party that wants better ties wi

Spain

Spain's election tremors thought likely to crescendo through 2015

Spain’s election year promises to be busy. It is expected that the parliamentary poll at the end of it will change the essentially two-party system

Greece

Looming Syriza victory gets mixed reactions in Athens

As Greece’s leftist Syriza party looked set for a comfortable victory over the ruling conservatives in the Greek election, our reporter spoke to some

Greece

Young Greeks who have never had a job ponder Sunday's election

The youth vote in Greece could be crucial to the outcome of the elections on January 25, yet more than half of young people are jobless, many have never worked, and many have lived their whole adult l

Greece

From jailbirds to journalists: the other leaders contesting the Greek elections

Greece

Greece Elections : What you need to know

Japan

Japanese voters go to polls with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe likely to hold onto power

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks set to be re-elected in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Opinion polls show he is on course for a huge

Ukraine

Ukraine braces itself for a difficult 2015 as parliament votes in a new government

Ukraine's parliament votes in a new government including three foreign-born technocrats but the return of previous foreign and defence ministers suggests no policy change towards the separatist east

Moldova

Tough coalition-building ahead for Moldova's pro-Europeans

Moldova

Moldova's constant pull, eastward and westward in turn

Moldova

Moldovans cast their vote in elections with east-west divisions

Moldova

Moldova: East-West choice faces voters in parliamentary election

Bahrain

Bahrain votes amid calls for election boycott

Japan

Japanese PM Abe calls early election

India

India: World's largest democracy gears up for national elections