Europe This Week: October 23, 2024

October 23, 2024

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

The Ivan Vazov National Theater in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Plamen Agov (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Upcoming Europe Elections

Bulgaria Snap Elections: October 27, 2024

Bulgaria is holding its sixth set of snap elections since 2021.

Gallup (October 22, 2024): No One Trusts Elections Less Than Bulgarians

Margarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation (October 22, 2024): Bulgaria Continues to Experience Chronic Political Disarray

Krassen Nikolov, Euractiv (October 22, 2024): Bulgaria: Early Elections Won’t Solve Political Crisis

Lithuania Parliamentary Elections: October 13 and 27, 2024

Paulius Perminas, Baltic News Service (October 22, 2024): Opposition parties agree to back each other against conservatives in Lithuania’s run-offs

Iceland Snap Parliamentary Elections: November 30, 2024

Hallgrímur Indriðason, Nordic Labour Journal (October 21, 2024): Iceland facing watershed moment as PM calls snap elections

Iceland Review (October 18, 2024): Iceland News Review: Surprise Elections!

Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024

Luiza Ilie, Reuters (October 18, 2024): Romanian leftist prime minister leads presidential race, poll shows

Ireland General Elections: By March 2025 (earlier elections possible)

Ireland is due to hold elections by March 2025, but leaders have indicated that the polls will take place this year. They will set a date soon.

BBC (October 21, 2024): Irish general election to be called this year

Shawn Pogatchnik, Politico (October 18, 2024): Crisis deepens for Ireland’s scandal-hit Sinn Féin

Poland Presidential Election: By May 18, 2025 (earlier election possible)

Jan Cienski, Politico (October 21, 2024): Playing with ‘electoral rocket fuel’: How Poland’s Donald Tusk hopes to weaponize migration

Albania Parliamentary Elections: By June 2025

Fjori Sinoruka, Balkan Insight (October 22, 2024): Albanian Opposition Leaders’ Arrests Create Uncertainty Ahead of Elections

AP (October 21, 2024): Former Albanian President Meta arrested for alleged corruption

Czech Republic Parliamentary Elections: By October 2025

Aneta Zachová, Euractiv (October 21, 2024): Czech ANO on track to win next year’s elections without need for coalition

Past Europe Elections

Austria Parliamentary Elections: September 29, 2024

Stephanie Liechtenstein, AP (October 23, 2024): With or without the far right in power, Austria’s links with Russia cause concern among allies

Reuters (October 22, 2024): Austria’s president tasks centre-right with forming government

Bethany Bell, BBC (October 22, 2024): Austria far right shunned for coalition despite winning election

Belgium Local Elections: October 13, 2024 and Parliamentary Elections: June 9, 2024

Belgium held parliamentary elections on June 9, 2024 but still has not formed a government. It frequently takes the country a long time to form governments because of the number of political parties and the complexity of coalition negotiations – the previous government was sworn in in September 2020, 652 days after the 2018 elections. 

Barbara Moens, Politico (October 18, 2024): Bart De Wever: The man who wants to destroy Belgium reluctantly heads toward running it

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