Elections

SNSD member Željka Cvijanović declared victory in the race for BiH Presidency member from Republika Srpska in today’s general elections in our country.

Cvijanović, as SNSD spokesperson Ratko Kovačević stated, created an unattainable lead for Šarović, who is her main opponent.

Kovačević stated that 75 percent of the polling stations were processed and that Cvijanović won around 240,000 votes, while SDS-PDP candidate

Click here to read the full article published by Sarajevo Times on 2 October 2022.

In addition to their president, Brazilians will elect 513 members of parliament, one-third of the 81 senators and the country's 27 governors on Sunday.

Brazil's elections have been overshadowed for a long time by the "clash of the titans" Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva versus Jair Bolsonaro. On Sunday, October 2, legislative and local elections will also take place in Brazil. For 156 million voters, this is an opportunity to renew all the members of the Chamber of Deputies, a third of the seats in the Senate, and all the governors and regional assemblies in the country.

This year, they have taken on the appearance of an exuberant celebration of democracy, with more than 28,000 candidates in all elections combined. Among them, the zaniest candidates are "Wolverine," "Obama," "007," "Gladiator," "mountain dwarf," "Batman pastor," "samurai cab" and so on. Some pose in bathing suits or inside a coffin. Others show themselves with a firearm, a tire, a melon or an inflatable cow.

Click here to read the full article published by Le Monde on 29 September 2022.

Juliana Mittelbach, a 40-year-old hospital nurse from the city of Curitiba, Brazil, had long considered a career in politics until the COVID-19 crisis forced a decision. She had noticed it was “mostly Black people” who died. “They were the ones who came to the hospital in the worst condition or when it was already too late,” she told openDemocracy.

Mittelbach came to the harsh realisation that Brazil’s right-wing policies had severely affected her community. “It was a call to action that pushed me to launch my candidacy,” she says.

Click here to read the full article published by Open Democracy on 23 September 2022.

Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni says she would be "honoured to break a taboo" and become the country's first female prime minister.

Exit polls suggest her Brothers of Italy party won Italy's snap general election on Sunday.

The party leads a right-wing bloc -- which also includes the parties of Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi -- that is forecast to get at least 36.5% of the vote share. The most optimistic outcome would see the coalition get 46.5%.

That means Italy, which has seen 67 governments come and go since World War II, is likely to be led by a woman for the first time.

Click here to read the full article published by Euronews on 26 September 2022.

The Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) is capacitating women across the country to contest in the forthcoming general elections under the programme Women Rise in Politics, with support from United Nations Women. 

Under the programme, the commission is hosting workshops for women interested in participating in politics to provide them with critical information to enable them to contest the male-dominated political space. 

According to the latest census results, women make 52 percent of the population but despite this, there are few women than men in political positions. 

Click here to read the full article published by Chronicle on 14 September 2022.

For the first time, a Massachusetts election was dominated by women candidates, who won primaries in five out of six statewide races on Tuesday — an unprecedented showing in a state that had trailed in women’s political representation.

With Maura Healey and Kim Driscoll emerging as the Democratic nominees for governor and lieutenant governor, voters could make history by electing the first all-female duo to lead a state. With three additional women on the Democratic slate, and two on the Republican side, the state is positioned to have women seated across the top levels of government in an election cycle many political observers expect will be defined nationally by the energy of women voters.

“Massachusetts has always led and it’s nice to see it’s finally leading by electing women up and down the ticket — after 235 years,” said Democratic political strategist Mary Anne Marsh.

Click here to read the full article published by Boston Globe on 7 September 2022.