Tunisia Tunisia faces presidential run-off vote An official under Tunisia’s former hardline ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has come out on top in the country’s first free presidential 25/11/2014
Tunisia Tunisia: presidential runoff expected Tunisia’s two main presidential candidates are expected to go head to head in a second round a run off following Sunday’s landmark election. It 24/11/2014
Tunisia Polling stations close in historic elections in Tunisia Polling stations have now closed in Tunisia’s historic presidential election. This is the first ever ballot to directly elect the country’s leader 23/11/2014
Tunisia Tunisia votes: "We're looking for someone to save the country" Tunisians are heading to the polls to vote for their first directly elected president since the 2011 revolution ended the rule of Ben Ali. The 23/11/2014
Tunisia Tunisia set to vote in first free presidential elections Tunisia is heading to the polls to vote on Sunday for a new president, just one month after electing its parliament. The country which kick started 22/11/2014
Romania Surprise presidential result may bring a wind of change in Romania The surprise win by provincial mayor Klaus Iohannis in Romania’s presidential elections is still sinking in. Not only is he a relatively fresh 18/11/2014
USA Indicted Texas Governor: Obama wrong on border crisis and weak on terrorism With the president on vacation and Congress in summer recess, August in Washington can be the right time for generating headlines, as a bored press 21/08/2014
World Turkey's Erdogan woos expat voters Long before announcing his intention to run for the presidency, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was wooing diaspora voters. For the 07/08/2014
World Afghanistan efforts 'haven't gone to waste' in election In the first round of Afghanistan’s presidential elections (held on April 6), Afghans went to the polls in defiance of threats from the Taliban to 12/06/2014
World Syria's Assad holds historic election; critics decry 'blood poll' In Syria’s presidential election this June 3, the incumbent Bashar al-Assad strolled up to the ballot box looking relaxed. Yet since the civil war 03/06/2014
World Tymoshenko dismisses civil war fears, says Putin's regime facing its end Ukraine is moving towards crucial presidential elections on 25th May. The country’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, is a candidate, but the 01/05/2014
USA Bush or Romney again? US Republicans struggle to find a Clinton challenger America is getting increasingly excited about another election cycle – not about the upcoming mid-terms in November, but about the presidential race 28/04/2014
World Algeria: how long can re-elected ailing Bouteflika hold on? Abdelaziz Bouteflika, aged 77, has won a fourth term in office as president of Algeria, re-elected after already serving for 15 years, and having a 18/04/2014
Algeria Algeria divided as president Abdelaziz Bouteflika seeks fourth term Algerians find themselves divided once again after their president announced he would run for a fourth term, in April. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, has 25/02/2014
World Chile's vote for change - Bachelet's drive for presidential re-confirmation In Chile’s extended presidential race, there is one candidate of the left, another of the right. One wants a clean break from the Pinochet legacy 18/11/2013
Tajikistan No comment after internet black out ahead of Tajikistan presidential elections Officials in Tajikistan have refused to comment on the black out of two online news portals. Access to YouTube and a popular nongovernmental 06/11/2013
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan accused of clampdown on freedoms ahead of election Authorities in Azerbaijan are engaged in an “abusive strategy” to clampdown on freedom of expression ahead of elecitons next month, say Human Rights 02/09/2013
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe facing an uncertain future as presidential election looms Political tensions are soaring once again in Zimbabwe ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections that could bring an end to President Robert 29/07/2013
Europe Iranian elections - Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi talks to euronews Iran is a country where the ruling class seems to thrive on hostility to the west and where much of the population is repressed, and living in dire 12/06/2013
World 'Iran's disinherited may clash with bourgeoisie' Said Kamali, euronews: “On the eve of the presidential election in Iran, with municipal polls planned at the same time, on 14 June, we’re speaking 04/06/2013
World Venezuela's Capriles may trump Maduro Many questions have opened up in Venezuela about its future, following the strongly contested presidential election in which the candidate of the 15/04/2013
World Venezuela's election under Chavez nostalgia The presidential election this Sunday in Venezuela is expected to give the country either a leader who tries to fill the shoes of the late Hugo 13/04/2013
World Venezuela after Hugo Chavez When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was re-elected last October it was one of the last times he appeared to be healthy, and it now looks unlikely 04/01/2013
World Obama's 'second Convention advantage' The US Republican Party has wound up its National Convention confirming Mitt Romney as its candidate to run against the incumbent Barack Obama in 31/08/2012