November 6, 2024
A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.
The Custom House in Dublin, Ireland. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Upcoming Europe Elections
Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024
Romania holds presidential and legislative elections later this year.
Una Hajdari at Politico notes: “The electoral outcome may keep Romania on its mostly pro-European, centrist path — or tip it toward more nativist policies that would sound alarm bells in Brussels because of the country’s strategic proximity to Ukraine and its role as a key southeast European economy.”
Paul Dragos Aligica, GIS (November 1, 2024): European security stakes in Romania’s 2024 elections
Ireland Snap Parliamentary Elections: November 29, 2024
Shawn Pogatchnik, Politico (November 6, 2024): Ireland faces snap election on Nov. 29
Willis Sparks, GZERO (November 5, 2024): Ireland preps for an election sprint
Iceland Snap Parliamentary Elections: November 30, 2024
Iceland is holding snap parliamentary elections on November 30, 2024 following the collapse of the coalition government of the conservative Independence Party, center-right Progressive Party, and the Left-Green Movement.
Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Bloomberg (October 30, 2024):
Albania Parliamentary Elections: By June 2025
Albania is due to hold parliamentary elections in June 2025 amid tension and protests by the opposition center-right Democratic Party demanding that the Socialist Party government of Edi Rama step down and appoint a caretaker government ahead of the vote. Democratic Party leaders have accused Rama of manipulating elections and corruption. Protesters are also demanding the release of Democratic Party figures who have been arrested, including former Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
Albania is currently in membership negotiations with the European Union.
Fjori Sinoruka, Balkan Insight (November 4, 2024): Albanian Premier Edi Rama’s Diaspora Tour: Outreach or Electioneering?
AP (November 3, 2024): Albania aims to join the European Union by 2030, prime minister tells expatriates in Greek city
Bekim Bruka, Jurist (November 1, 2024): Democracy Beyond Borders: Albania’s First Diaspora Vote and the Struggle for Fair Representation.
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 came in 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.
Notably, Die Linke (The Left), which formed from remnants of the Communist Party in the east, saw a major collapse in the recent state elections.
The governing coalition is currently hanging on by a thread and snap elections could happen.
Kate Brady, Washington Post (November 6, 2024): German governing coalition collapses, adding upheaval in uncertain moment
Nette Nöstlinger, Politico (November 4, 2024): German government faces make-or-break moment in shadow of US election
Past Europe Elections
United Kingdom Conservative Party Leadership Election: Results Announced November 2, 2024
Jill Lawless, AP (November 2, 2024): UK Conservatives pick Kemi Badenoch as new leader, first Black woman to head a big British party
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November 6, 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
Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024
Romania holds presidential and legislative elections later this year.
Una Hajdari at Politico notes: “The electoral outcome may keep Romania on its mostly pro-European, centrist path — or tip it toward more nativist policies that would sound alarm bells in Brussels because of the country’s strategic proximity to Ukraine and its role as a key southeast European economy.”
Paul Dragos Aligica, GIS (November 1, 2024): European security stakes in Romania’s 2024 elections
Ireland Snap Parliamentary Elections: November 29, 2024
Shawn Pogatchnik, Politico (November 6, 2024): Ireland faces snap election on Nov. 29
Willis Sparks, GZERO (November 5, 2024): Ireland preps for an election sprint
Iceland Snap Parliamentary Elections: November 30, 2024
Iceland is holding snap parliamentary elections on November 30, 2024 following the collapse of the coalition government of the conservative Independence Party, center-right Progressive Party, and the Left-Green Movement.
Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir, Bloomberg (October 30, 2024):
Albania Parliamentary Elections: By June 2025
Albania is due to hold parliamentary elections in June 2025 amid tension and protests by the opposition center-right Democratic Party demanding that the Socialist Party government of Edi Rama step down and appoint a caretaker government ahead of the vote. Democratic Party leaders have accused Rama of manipulating elections and corruption. Protesters are also demanding the release of Democratic Party figures who have been arrested, including former Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
Albania is currently in membership negotiations with the European Union.
Fjori Sinoruka, Balkan Insight (November 4, 2024): Albanian Premier Edi Rama’s Diaspora Tour: Outreach or Electioneering?
AP (November 3, 2024): Albania aims to join the European Union by 2030, prime minister tells expatriates in Greek city
Bekim Bruka, Jurist (November 1, 2024): Democracy Beyond Borders: Albania’s First Diaspora Vote and the Struggle for Fair Representation.
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 came in 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.
Notably, Die Linke (The Left), which formed from remnants of the Communist Party in the east, saw a major collapse in the recent state elections.
The governing coalition is currently hanging on by a thread and snap elections could happen.
Kate Brady, Washington Post (November 6, 2024): German governing coalition collapses, adding upheaval in uncertain moment
Nette Nöstlinger, Politico (November 4, 2024): German government faces make-or-break moment in shadow of US election
Past Europe Elections
United Kingdom Conservative Party Leadership Election: Results Announced November 2, 2024
Jill Lawless, AP (November 2, 2024): UK Conservatives pick Kemi Badenoch as new leader, first Black woman to head a big British party
Elections On Deck
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