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"After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the vice president, as well as with [Afghan President Ashraf Ghani] and many others around the world, I concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to come home," American President Joe Biden said in April when announcing his country’s final military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s pro-European ‘Party of Action and Solidarity’ (PAS) swept July’s snap parliamentary elections.
In the country’s second election in four months, a group of anti-corruption parties dealt a blow to Bulgarian Prime-Minister Boyko Borisov, who has intermittently governed Bulgaria since 2009.
On 6 December, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro won in a move to consolidate power in the country's legislative elections.
On 15 November, Moldovia finished the second round of its presidential election. Maia Sandu, a pro-Europeanist candidate, won the presidency with almost 58 per cent of the vote.
On 31 October, Côte d'Ivoire held a controversial presidential election, amidst an opposition boycott.
On 28 October, incumbent Tanzanian president, John Magufuli, won re-election in a landslide victory.
On 25 October, Chilean voters approved a referendum to re-write its constitution, the first step in the reformation of Chile's dictatorial constitutional structure.
On 18 October, Bolivia held its first presidential and legislative elections since the former president, Evo Morales, was ousted, following widespread protests against his administration.
On 17 October, New Zealander’s gave the centre-left Labour Party an outright majority in the legislature. Prime-Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has become an increasingly-well known figure on the global stage, will serve a second term in office, after leading her party to a landslide victory.
On 03 September, the ruling conservative Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) claimed a landslide victory in the country’s general election.
During the last four years, Americans have witnessed a paradigm shift in American politics and government. President Donald Trump's administration has brought on an era of incompetent governance, ignorance towards the rule of law and norms, blatant corruption, and catastrophic division.
On the night of 21 November 2013, an estimated 2,000 protestors took to the Maidan Nezalezhnosti ('Independence Square') in central Kyiv to demonstrate against the government's decision not to sign the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement.
On 15 July North Macedonia held the first national elections since the historical Prespa Agreement last year.
On 12 July, the second round of the Polish presidential election saw right-wing incumbent Andrzej Duda squeezed out a narrow victory against opposition Warsaw mayor and opposition challenger Rafał Trzaskowski.
On 10 July, held parliamentary elections, which, in a rare moment for Singaporean politics, saw the opposition make significant gains.
On 5 July, the Dominican Republic held elections to choose its President, Vice-President, 32-member Senate, and 190-member House of Deputies.
On 5 July, Croatian voters handed a surprise victory to the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
On 28 June, the first round of the Polish presidential elections finished, clearing the way for a second round to take place later in July.
On 1 July, Russians finished a history-changing constitutional referendum that, amongst other measures, would allow for President Vladimir Putin, who has already run the government for nearly two decades, to remain in office until at least 2036.
On 27 June, Icelandic voters went to the polls in a presidential election, only the second European election to be held in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 23 June, Malawi’s opposition candidate Lazarus Chakwera claimed victory in the country’s presidential poll, unseating incumbent Peter Mutharika, who has been in power since 2014.
On 22 June, Republic of Kiribati’s 55,000 voters went to the polls in a presidential election that may very well determine the future of the Pacific region.
On 21 June, Serbia held a hotly controversial parliamentary election, Europe's first national elections in the wake of COVID-19.
On 17 and 18 June, the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly voted on the new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council and the 75th General Assembly President.
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