The French system of allocation of power is pretty strange: despite the very first article of its constitution stipulating that “Its organisation is decentralised.”, France is one of the least decentralised countries in the democratic world, even for a unitary state. The current political establishment was set up in the middle of the Algerian War…
Mr. Hakainde Hichilema recently won the Zambian elections in a landslide victory (he won nearly 60% of the vote, with a 70% voter turnout). He assumed power on the 24th to become the 7th president of Zambia. He has unsuccessfully run for president 5 times (though sometimes on a knife’s edge), starting with the 2006…
The French regional elections were fairly hectic this year. The far-right Rassemblement National (RN) almost won the region of Provence-Alps-Côte d’Azure, Macron’s En Marche (EM) did pretty badly, a worryingly low number of people actually voted, and the centre saw a big resurgence. Here in Alsace the candidat from Les Républicains, Jean Rottner secured a…