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Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said his country won’t be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman’s efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote. The announcement effectively...

The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the far-right Homeland Movement, which the party’s president and deputy speaker of parliament, Ivan Penava, said sends a message that Croatia will not stand by while the “electoral will” of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is...

El Salvador’s ruling party on Monday ratified President Nayib Bukele’s candidacy for February 2027 presidential elections, paving the way for a third consecutive term that has been highly criticized by lawyers and human rights advocates. Bukele’s party Nuevas Ideas, which holds a supermajority in...

The Hungarian parliament passed a complex constitutional amendment on Monday evening, which – among other measures – ends the current president’s mandate in a single sentence: “On the day following the entry into force of this constitutional amendment, the mandate of the President shall terminate.”...

Nicaragua’s government has stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in recent days, in what a United Nations expert described Friday as a “purge of the legal profession” aimed at eroding the country’s final shreds of democratic checks and balances. The government of husband-and-wife...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that legislative elections will be held in late November, as his government comes under mounting international pressure to demonstrate its legitimacy. Abbas issued a decree on Thursday declaring the election date for November 28 in all of the...

Conservative politician Keiko Fujimori on Friday was declared the winner of the presidential runoff election in Peru, which was dominated by people’s concerns over surging crime. Fujimori, 51, the daughter of a disgraced former president, was running for the presidency for the fourth time. She will...

Gabriel García Luna, Guatemala’s new attorney general who took office in May, pledged Wednesday to dismantle what he called the “repressive and vengeful” administration of his predecessor, Consuelo Porras, who was sanctioned by multiple countries including the US for stifling anti-corruption efforts...

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation. The proposed constitutional change will decentralize the country’s police force, which is...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar has launched a wide-ranging reform drive aimed at pulling the state out of the captivity into which it was forced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Magyar announced a raft of economic, political, and legal measures...