Presidential elections

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

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

Polling stations have now closed in Tunisia’s historic presidential election. This is the first ever ballot to directly elect the country’s leader

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

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

The surprise win by provincial mayor Klaus Iohannis in Romania’s presidential elections is still sinking in. Not only is he a relatively fresh

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

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

America is getting increasingly excited about another election cycle – not about the upcoming mid-terms in November, but about the presidential race

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

Algerians find themselves divided once again after their president announced he would run for a fourth term, in April. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 76, has

Officials in Tajikistan have refused to comment on the black out of two online news portals. Access to YouTube and a popular nongovernmental

Authorities in Azerbaijan are engaged in an “abusive strategy” to clampdown on freedom of expression ahead of elecitons next month, say Human Rights

Political tensions are soaring once again in Zimbabwe ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections that could bring an end to President Robert

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

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

Many questions have opened up in Venezuela about its future, following the strongly contested presidential election in which the candidate of the

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

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

The US Republican Party has wound up its National Convention confirming Mitt Romney as its candidate to run against the incumbent Barack Obama in