Thursday, June 25, 2020

Election results and more

While the Serbian election turned out mostly as predicted, with SNS winning 191 of the 250 available seats, on 61.6% of the vote, other elections in other countries have provided some interesting results.

Malawi held elections that saw Lazarus Chakwera of the MCP defeat the incumbent president. This follows a botched 2019 election that the President had narrowly "won", that was thrown out by the constitutional court due to irregularities. While it is never good when the courts have to overturn an election because of how dirty it was, it is good to see that the opposition can still win in in these cases.

In Mongolia, the ruling Peoples Party has been re-elected to a majority of similar size that they obtained previously. The party itself is interesting, having transformed into the modern from from the previous ruling Communists. The party maintained a massive share of election seats won to 1996, when the opposition Democrats won. The Peoples Party was then returned in 2000, and ruled until 2012, before returning again in 2016. It is interesting for a former governing communist party to be so electorally popular, and yet, also willing and able to honestly stand aside for opposition victories. This is rare within the former Soviet sphere of influence.

Lastly, update on Israel, and party numbers in cabinet:
14 - Likud 
12 - Hosen 
2 - Labour 
2 - Shas 
1 - UTJ 
1 - Jewish Home 
1 - Gesher 
1 - Derekh Eretz 

As well as the latest polls:
41 - Likud (+5) 
16 - Yesh Atid (-1) 
16 - Joint List (+1) 
11 - Hosen (-3) 
9 - Shas (+-0) 
8 - Yisrael Beiteinu (+1) 
7 - UTJ (+-0) 
7 - Yamina (+2) 
5 - Meretz (+2) 
0 - Labor (-3) 
0 - Derekh Eretz (-2) 
0 - Jewish Home (-1) 
0 - Gesher (-1) 
0 - Otzma (+-0) 

64 - Likud and Allies (+6) 
40 - Non-Arab Opposition (-7) 
16 - Joint List (+1)

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