Libertarians Win Fight Against Kentucky on Voting
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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Novel Alliance Forms in Austria: Conservatives and Greens
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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Poll: Partisanship Still Top Factor in US Political Values
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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Staffers Spurn NJ Lawmaker Over Pre-Impeachment Party Switch
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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Erdogan Ally Breaks Away, Blasts ‘Leader Cult’
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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Study Finds Close Link Between Political Party and Trust in News
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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Libertarians Challenge Arkansas Ballot Rules at 8th Circuit
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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Justices to Decide Judicial Affiliation Case Out of Delaware
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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Merkel’s Coalition Government Faces New Strains
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 moreTexas Election Code
A 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.
Read moreFar-Right Surge Pushes Spain’s Left to Come Together
Faced with a surge in support in Sunday elections for the far-right nationalist Vox party, Spain’s Socialist party will try to form a coalition government with a smaller far-left party it had previously rejected as a partner.
Read moreFar-Right Parties Make Gains in German, Italian Elections
Two elections in two distant, and very different, parts of Europe saw the emergence of two similar storylines: Far-right political forces remain strong and pose problems to the ruling coalitions in Germany and Italy.
Read moreGreen Parties Make Big Gains in Swiss Parliament
The Swiss went to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday and while turnout was down, change was up as environmentalist parties made historic gains.
Read morePoland’s Nationalist Party Wins Big in Elections
Poland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
Read morePoll Shows Partisan Animosity Has Deepened Since 2016
Americans are showing more animosity toward members of the opposing political party, with the majority of both Republicans and Democrats saying those on the other side of the aisle are too close-minded, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreMinor-Party Petition Rules Roil Minnesota Libertarians
Minnesota Libertarians brought a federal complaint Wednesday over a state law that bans voters who sign their party petitions from voting in primary elections.
Read moreNewcomer Parties Balk at Magnifying-Glass Voting in NY
Happier to team up in court than on the ballot, two New York political parties have sued to overturn an election law that consolidates political endorsements.
Read morePartisan Gap Drives Split Views of American Economy
Most Americans view the state of their personal finances positively, but their opinions on the economy as a whole and President Donald Trump’s effect on it are deeply divided by political affiliations, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreNY ‘Public Financing’ Commission Called Threat to Fusion Voting
Taking aim at a new commission promised to make New York elections fairer, dozens of voters, candidates and political organizations claim in court that the resulting hit to fusion voting will ultimately hurt equality.
Read morePolitical Eruption in Italy: Government Veers Toward Collapse
Any day now Italy’s coalition government — molded from an unlikely alliance of two populist parties drawn from the left and the right — could fall and plunge Europe into a new crisis.
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