Europe This Week: October 9, 2024

October 9, 2024

A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.

Ruins of the The Odeon of Philippopolis in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Realsteel007 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Upcoming Europe Elections

Bulgaria Snap Elections: October 27, 2024

Krassen Nikolov, Euractiv (October 7, 2024): Key political player in Bulgaria arrested for influence peddling ahead of elections

United Kingdom Conservative Party Leadership Election: Results Announced November 2, 2024

Kate Whannel, BBC (October 8, 2024): Badenoch and Jenrick reach final two in Tory race

Albania Parliamentary Elections: By June 2025

DW (October 8, 2024): Albania: Clashes as protesters call on government to resign

Llazar Semini, AP (October 8, 2024): Albania’s opposition protests and demands a caretaker Cabinet

Germany Federal Parliamentary Elections: September 28, 2025

Germany’s 2025 federal elections come on the heels of three state elections in the east that delivered blows to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning coalition government. The far-right AfD won in Thuringia and casein a close second in Saxony. While Scholz’s SPD pulled off a surprise win in Brandenburg, AfD made large gains there as well. In addition, a new pro-Putin, anti-establishment left-wing populist party, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), won large percentages of the vote. 

Euractiv (October 9, 2024): The Brief – Germany’s election season is upon us

Nette Nöstlinger, Politico (October 8, 2024): Germany’s social democrats name new top leader ahead of national election campaign

Past Europe Elections

Bosnia and Herzegovina Local Elections: October 6, 2024

Azem Kurtic, Balkan Insight (October 7, 2024): Bosnia’s Big Parties Maintain Grip Outside Cities in Local Elections

OSCE (October 7, 2024): Local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina were competitive amidst legal reform but lacked genuine public engagement, international observers say

Daniel Bellamy, Euronews (October 6, 2024): Bosnia holds local elections just days after deadly floods

Austria Parliamentary Elections: September 29, 2024

Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson, AP (October 9, 2024): Austria’s president seeks a solution after other parties say they won’t work with the far right

Reuters (October 5, 2024): Austrian far-right head urges rivals to let him govern after election win

Spain Parliamentary Elections: July 23, 2024

The Economist (October 3, 2024): Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy

Elections On Deck

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