Federal Elections (World)

Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election as voters reject old guard

Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats hold back the far right in German state vote

New government in France announced two months after divisive elections

Sri Lankans vote in a presidential election that will decide how it recovers from economic crisis

Go big or go home: World market themes for the week ahead

U.S. sanctions 16 allies of Venezuela’s president over accusations of obstructing the election

Thousands protest in France against Macron’s choice of Barnier as prime minister

Algeria’s 78-year-old president is expected to breeze to a second term in Saturday’s election

What’s splitting Germany isn’t ‘anti-immigration’ politics. It’s worse

Far-right success in German elections piles new pressure on Olaf Scholz’s government

More than 80 teenagers arrested in Venezuela’s post-election protests released from prison

Germany’s AfD becomes first far-right party to win state election in country’s postwar history

Far-right state win shakes Germany’s fragile coalition

German far-right party AfD wins its first state election

Under Björn Höcke, far-right Alternative for Germany party is projected to surge in coming state elections

Macron meets with French party leaders in bid to try and name a prime minister

Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election

Indonesia cancels ratification of controversial election law changes as thousands protest

Venezuelans in Caracas and across the world demonstrate to defend opposition’s victory claim