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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

elections

Delegates to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 4, 2024, 8:47 pm
Allegations of Christian influence surface ahead of World Zionist Congress election
As Diaspora Jews prepare for vote that will influence funding of Jewish causes and oversight of Israel’s ‘national institutions,’ a group is accused of misrepresentation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
MP of Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) Walter Rosenkranz delivers a speech after his election as new parliament president in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on October 24, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
November 24, 2024, 6:53 pm
Austrian far-right party shows strength with state election win in Styria
Freedom Party’s victory is show of force for the Russia-friendly faction, adds to pressure on parties trying to form a national government
By Francois Murphy
This combination of pictures created on June 29, 2024 shows (L) Iranian presidential candidate and ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as he attends his election campaign rally at Sharif University in Tehran, June 22, 2024, and (R) lawmaker and former health minister Massoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate for Iranian president, at a campaign rally at Afrasiabi Stadium in Tehran, June 23, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
June 29, 2024, 2:57 pm
Hardliner, moderate to face off in 2nd-ever Iranian runoff, after record low turnout
Neither presidential candidate secures majority, with 40% voter turnout amid opposition boycott; reformist Pezeshkian wants ‘friendly relations with all countries except Israel’
By Ramin Khanizadeh and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
People walk past an installation depicting a replica of a ballot box along a street in Tehran on June 26, 2024. (Raheb Homavandi / AFP)
June 28, 2024, 6:55 am
Iranians set to vote for new president with sole reformist on ballot
Masoud Pezeshkian faces off against conservative Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as Tehran replaces Raisi following deadly helicopter crash
By Ramin Khanizadeh and Ahmad Parhizi
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks at a news conference at the German government guest house in Meseberg, north of Berlin, Germany, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 9, 2024, 11:48 pm
Macron dissolves French parliament, calls snap elections after far-right wins EU vote
French far-right parties win 40% of the European parliament vote, beating president’s centrist alliance
By AFP
Official European Union campaign billboards are displayed in a street, in The Hague on June 6, 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)
June 6, 2024, 11:52 am
European Union elections kick off across bloc, with hard-right gains expected
Polls open in the Netherlands ahead of four days of voting in the 27 member states following the election of Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Party for Freedom in the national vote
By Mike Corder
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum speaks after being named presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party for next year's presidential election in Mexico City on September 6, 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP)
May 31, 2024, 4:32 am
Quietly Jewish scientist poised to win Sunday’s Mexican presidential election
Claudia Sheinbaum, would-be successor of a left-wing populist incumbent, has focused on energy and crime despite detractors’ repeated efforts to discuss her faith – or lack of it
By Canaan Lidor
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech to announce the date of the UK's next general election, to be held on July 4, at 10 Downing Street in central London, on May 22, 2024. (BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
May 22, 2024, 9:28 pm
British PM Sunak calls general elections for July 4; polls predict defeat
Governing Conservatives widely expected to lose to Keir Starmer’s Labour, though Sunak vows to ‘fight for every vote’
By Agencies
Reserve soldiers from Brothers in Arms take part in a protest outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem against the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military duty, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:56 am
With an ambitious civic agenda, Brothers and Sisters in Arms says it’s here to stay
The protest group founded by reserve soldiers last year wants involvement in education, community and employment issues, to strengthen democratic values in society
By Sue Surkes
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballots during the parliamentary and key clerical body elections at a polling station in Tehran on March 1, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
March 3, 2024, 8:35 pm
Iranian media: Hardline conservatives secure bulk of parliamentary seats in elections
Official IRNA news agency puts turnout at around 41% in first vote since outbreak of protests over death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022; authorities still counting ballots
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
February 18, 2024, 1:54 am
PM: Elections have a date — in a few years; Likud official: After the war, he’s done
Senior Likud members say Netanyahu won’t be able to go on after war with Hamas ends; Lapid says if he’d been premier on Oct. 7, Netanyahu ‘would have sent people to burn my house’
By ToI Staff
Presidential-elect and Indonesia's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto (C) dances on the stage after polls closed in the country's presidential and legislative elections in Jakarta on February 14, 2024. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
February 14, 2024, 11:15 pm
Indonesia defense chief accused of rights abuses claims victory in presidential vote
Prabowo Subianto committed alleged crimes under Suharto regime over two decades ago; vows to build embassy in West Bank or Gaza; rival championed boycott of Israeli soccer team
By Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan
Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, known as PVV, reacts to first preliminary results of general elections in The Hague, Netherlands, November 22, 2023. (Peter Dejong/AP)
November 22, 2023, 11:52 pm
Far-right anti-Islamist wins Netherlands election: exit poll
Geert Wilders is known as the ‘Dutch Trump’ for his hairstyle and rants against immigrants and Muslims; if elected, he says he would move embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel
By Richard Carter
Presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo and running mate Karin Herrera wave at supporters from a balcony after preliminary results showed him the victor in a presidential run-off election, in Guatemala City, August 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
August 21, 2023, 8:55 am
Guatemala elects progressive Arévalo, who studied in Israel, as president
Son of former president wins 58% of the vote, dispatching rival Sandra Torres, but efforts afoot to keep him from taking office
By AP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, left, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2023, 6:29 pm
Likud argues fine print gives current Knesset an extra year in power
Party claims that timing of elections means Knesset term should last five years, not four; Knesset legal adviser disagrees
By ToI Staff
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