This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter ... his standing across most demographics in a squeaker of a win in the popular vote closer than almost anything seen since ...

Compared to the way the opposition was neutralized in 2018, popular discontent this time did not seem widespread, Norén-Nilsson said, because Hun Sen and the CPP have been effective at building a ...

The opposition should not cry foul yet they are not united and strategic. They should leave the incumbent to win elections. Better still, they can shelve their ambitions and choose one person so ...

Singapore’s new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong struck the right note on key issues when he was sworn in this week, according to media reports, but he made many do a double take when he claimed his ...

This time the party vehicle is called ... To overcome this bias, an opposition prime-ministerial candidate would need to win three times as many seats in the lower house as a pro-military one.

Venezuela’s opposition ... time, with a weak economy and widespread poverty eating into his popularity, Maduro has miscalculated by allowing an election to go ahead that he had expected to win ...

But unlike that election, which by all independent accounts President Nicolás Maduro stole, the country’s embattled opposition has decided this time not ... Maduro didn't win, but also the ...

This has been most successful when leaders have been able to rally an ethnic base in rural areas and a more populist constituency in urban areas at the same time ... and ethno-populism can help ...

while more voters for the first time expected the conservative opposition coalition to win the next election due by May, a widely watched poll showed. A Newspoll survey conducted for The ...