by Abdel Moneim Ali Issa In a meeting held last Wednesday with leaders of the Justice and Development Party, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan summarized the reasons that led to the party’s defeat in last week’s municipal elections, saying that what happened “was not only a loss of votes, but also a loss of blood.” Read more
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by Mounira Chrifi The last hours before the start of the referendum on the new draft constitution in Tunisia seem decisive and decisive. It is expected that more than nine million registered voters will go to the polling stations to vote “yes” or “no” on a draft new constitution for the country, including more than Read more
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The 2022 elections in Lebanon may change the processes of governing and that is because no traditional block or alliance secured a majority that would allow it to govern. This change is not structural since the establishment parties and political actors have maintained their level of representation mainly due to the fact that the system Read more
Continue Readingby Amal Obeidi* Since the fall of Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has had three distinct electoral experiences, which have in turn given birth to three political institutions: the General National Congress (GNC), the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) and the House of Representatives (HoR). However, neither the elections themselves nor the institutions that they created Read more
Continue ReadingWhile the Turkish president celebrates his re-election, we can reason that the results point to a difficult future for Erdogan and his party, due, in part, to Erdogan’s rhetoric that emphasized personality over ideas and loyalty over concern for the nation. 1. Erdogan’s party lost its majority. In the re-do votes of November 2015, the Read more
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