September 4, 2024
A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.
The Lac des Dix in Valais, Switzerland. Photo credit: Wikimedia/BraunW (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Upcoming Europe Elections
Switzerland Referendums: September 22, 2024
Jamey Keaten, AP (September 3, 2024): Prosecutors probe allegations of fake voter rolls in Switzerland’s vaunted direct democracy
Bosnia and Herzegovina Local Elections: October 6, 2024
Jasmin Begic, Balkan Insight (September 4, 2024): Bosnians Use Online Platform to Report Hate Speech Ahead of Elections
OSCE (August 30, 2024): ODIHR Launches Election Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria Snap Elections: October 27, 2024
Antoaneta Roussi, Politico (August 29, 2024): Bulgaria calls new election, closes in on EU commissioner pick
Novinite (August 29, 2024): Bulgaria’s Seventh Parliamentary Election in Three Years: Over 500 Million Leva [USD $283 million] Spent as Voters Head to the Polls Again
Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024
Iulian Ernst, Romania Insider (September 4, 2024): Mircea Geoană officially steps down from NATO seat to run for Romania’s presidency
Poland Presidential Election: By May 18, 2025 (earlier election possible)
Notes from Poland (September 3, 2024): Polish opposition raises millions in donations after electoral commission strips it of funding
Monika Ścisłowska, AP (August 29, 2024): Polish electoral body says former ruling party violated campaign rules, imposes penalty
Past Europe Elections
Germany, State Elections in Saxony and Thuringia: September 1, 2024 and Brandenburg: September 27, 2025 (next federal elections set for September 28, 2025)
Guy Chazan, Financial Times (September 4, 2024): The hard-left Russophiles playing kingmakers in Germany: Two state election results force conservative CDU into awkward negotiations with ex-Communist Sahra Wagenknecht
Alessio Dell’Anna, EuroNews (September 9, 2024): German state elections: Who is Sahra Wagenknecht, the woman cannibalising the country’s left?
Reuters (September 2, 2024): Battered and unloved, Germany’s coalition likely to hang on after regional losses to far right
Nadine Schmidt, Claudia Otto and Matthies Otto, CNN, September 1, 2024: Germany’s far-right party AfD set to win one state election, and is level in another, exit polls show
Victor Grossman, Jacobin (August 30, 2024): In Former East Germany, the Left Is Paying for Its Failures
France Snap Legislative Elections: June 30 and July 7, 2024
AFP (September 4, 2024): French former PM Edouard Philippe launches 2027 presidential bid
Laura Kayali and Anthony Lattier, Politico (September 2, 2024): Macron sweats under growing pressure to appoint prime minister
Kim Willsher, The Guardian (August 31, 2024): ‘People feel the election has been stolen’ – French left’s Lucie Castets on Macron’s political deadlock
Ketrin Jochecová, Politico (August 31, 2024): France should have right-wing PM, says Sarkozy
Denmark General Elections: November 1, 2022
AP (August 29, 2024: Denmark has a record 25 government ministers after a major reshuffle
Europe This Week: September 4, 2024
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September 4, 2024
A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.
Upcoming Europe Elections
Switzerland Referendums: September 22, 2024
Jamey Keaten, AP (September 3, 2024): Prosecutors probe allegations of fake voter rolls in Switzerland’s vaunted direct democracy
Bosnia and Herzegovina Local Elections: October 6, 2024
Jasmin Begic, Balkan Insight (September 4, 2024): Bosnians Use Online Platform to Report Hate Speech Ahead of Elections
OSCE (August 30, 2024): ODIHR Launches Election Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria Snap Elections: October 27, 2024
Antoaneta Roussi, Politico (August 29, 2024): Bulgaria calls new election, closes in on EU commissioner pick
Novinite (August 29, 2024): Bulgaria’s Seventh Parliamentary Election in Three Years: Over 500 Million Leva [USD $283 million] Spent as Voters Head to the Polls Again
Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024
Iulian Ernst, Romania Insider (September 4, 2024): Mircea Geoană officially steps down from NATO seat to run for Romania’s presidency
Poland Presidential Election: By May 18, 2025 (earlier election possible)
Notes from Poland (September 3, 2024): Polish opposition raises millions in donations after electoral commission strips it of funding
Monika Ścisłowska, AP (August 29, 2024): Polish electoral body says former ruling party violated campaign rules, imposes penalty
Past Europe Elections
Germany, State Elections in Saxony and Thuringia: September 1, 2024 and Brandenburg: September 27, 2025 (next federal elections set for September 28, 2025)
Guy Chazan, Financial Times (September 4, 2024): The hard-left Russophiles playing kingmakers in Germany: Two state election results force conservative CDU into awkward negotiations with ex-Communist Sahra Wagenknecht
Alessio Dell’Anna, EuroNews (September 9, 2024): German state elections: Who is Sahra Wagenknecht, the woman cannibalising the country’s left?
Reuters (September 2, 2024): Battered and unloved, Germany’s coalition likely to hang on after regional losses to far right
Nadine Schmidt, Claudia Otto and Matthies Otto, CNN, September 1, 2024: Germany’s far-right party AfD set to win one state election, and is level in another, exit polls show
Victor Grossman, Jacobin (August 30, 2024): In Former East Germany, the Left Is Paying for Its Failures
France Snap Legislative Elections: June 30 and July 7, 2024
AFP (September 4, 2024): French former PM Edouard Philippe launches 2027 presidential bid
Laura Kayali and Anthony Lattier, Politico (September 2, 2024): Macron sweats under growing pressure to appoint prime minister
Kim Willsher, The Guardian (August 31, 2024): ‘People feel the election has been stolen’ – French left’s Lucie Castets on Macron’s political deadlock
Ketrin Jochecová, Politico (August 31, 2024): France should have right-wing PM, says Sarkozy
Denmark General Elections: November 1, 2022
AP (August 29, 2024: Denmark has a record 25 government ministers after a major reshuffle
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