Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Friday ordered the popular opposition Future Forward Party dissolved, declaring that it violated election law by accepting a loan from its leader, charismatic 41-year-old Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
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A proposal to amend Georgia election law to force party primary contests before special elections will not take effect this year, meaning a newly appointed U.S. senator won’t have to defend her seat from early challenges by fellow Republicans.
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Tennessee would be the first state in the nation to hold a presidential primary, freeing it from having to compete for attention on Super Tuesday, under a new bill.
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Barreling into the 2020 election season, the 11th Circuit appeared critical Wednesday of a suit by Democrats seeking to shake up the ordering of candidates on the Florida ballot.
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A new filing with the Federal Election Commission revealed a political action committee with ties to the Republican Party has spent $2.4 million on a Democratic U.S. Senate primary contest in North Carolina.
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It’s happened: A taboo against working with an increasingly powerful far-right political party in Germany has been broken, plunging Germany into a bitter political fight and reawakening fears of its Nazi past.
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A Russian firm is suing France’s far-right National Rally party, led by Marine Le Pen, for failing to repay a multimillion-euro loan, court documents show.
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Reaching counterintuitive findings, a group of researchers found polarization does not cause legislative deadlock and in fact may increase the number of bills passed in a legislative body.
Read moreThe figurehead of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party Alexander Gauland is being investigated for tax evasion, prosecutors said Thursday, after his parliamentary immunity was lifted by MPs.
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Italy’s liberal and left-wing voters are letting out a collective sigh of relief after the country’s former interior minister and far-right leader Matteo Salvini was defeated Sunday in regional elections.
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A change to the deadline for independent political candidates to register for elections signed is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Austrian political leader Sebastian Kurz, one of Europe’s youngest and most closely-watched conservatives, is seeking a new political formula for staying in power: He’s joining forces with the left-wing Greens only months after his first government coalition with a far-right party fell apart.
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Partisanship remains the defining factor for division in the American public’s political values, outranking age, race, gender, religion and education, the Pew Research Center reported Tuesday.
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Seven aides to a New Jersey congressman who opposes the impeachment of President Donald Trump have resigned over the lawmaker’s announcement this weekend that he will switch his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
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A former premier and onetime ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a new party on Friday, saying it would stand against “cult of the leader” politics.
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Americans’ political affiliations and their support for President Trump directly correlate with their trust in news and journalists, the Pew Research Center said in an analysis released Thursday.
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The Libertarian Party of Arkansas argued before an Eighth Circuit panel Wednesday that the state’s new election law requiring more than double the signatures within a 90-day timeframe to get on the ballot is unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of Delaware’s system of making political party affiliation requirements when it hires new judges.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners, the struggling center-left Social Democrats, picked a pair of left-leaning politicians to lead the party, a surprise move that will seriously test the so-called grand coalition with Merkel’s conservatives.
Read moreA federal court in Texas declined to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the state’s election code places unconstitutional burdens on minor political parties but also declined to block changes to the code passed by state lawmakers this year that require minor parties to meet the same requirements as major parties for getting candidates onto a ballot.
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