Prime Minister of Sweden, Stefan Löfven, has called for a snap election next year after a budget brawl.
Over the last three months there have been a cascade of corruption scandal leaks published by an anonymous tweeter which have polarised and already fractured Turkey. Following the Gezi Park protests that left 11 dead and thousands injured a vote for Erdogan’s AKP was seen by many commentators as a vote for political acquittal for the corruption scandals and police violence.
The 2009 Iranian elections were mired in a accusations of irregularities and voter fraud, but with the election of Hassan Rouhani and his platform of “hope and prudence”, the 2013 elections were a different experience.
Israelis go to the polls on Tuesday in a general election that is expected to result in current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retaining his office, but as head of a joint right-wing Likud-Yisrael Beitenu list.
Eight years ago, the Orange Revolution managed to force a rerun of the election and a change of power, but were Sunday’s Ukrainian elections transparent and free of fraud or will people return to the streets to protest?