Palestinian voters will go to the polls at the end of July to elect a new president for the first time in 15 years.

Kosovo’s acting president Vjosa Osmani set 14 February as the date for an early parliamentary election, following a decision by the country's top court to annul the June parliamentary vote. "The Election Commission is instructed to take all necessary actions to hold the elections," Osmani said in a written statement.

No expert can say that the pandemic will be over in March, said Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in response to comments on the voting date. He made a surprise appearance at the regular briefing of the National Operative Staff in order to respond to criticism expressed by President Rumen Radev. The measures we employ are the mildest and most sparing for the people's psychological wellbeing, Borissov stated, praising the Staff, and defining it as the most competent.

Israel appeared headed to its fourth election in two years on Tuesday after a last-ditch effort to keep the government afloat and push off the automatic dissolution of parliament failed, news wires reported.

Venezuelans on Sunday choose a new congress in an election that the opposition is boycotting and most Western nations call a fraud by President Nicolas Maduro to retake the last state institution not in the hands of the ruling Socialist Party.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of France's radical left opposition, on Thursday said he will run in the country's 2022 presidential election, after reaching an online quota of support that he had set.

Political talks on Libya's future have reached agreement on holding elections within 18 months, the United Nations acting Libya envoy Stephanie Williams announced on Wednesday, hailing a "breakthrough" in a peacemaking process that still faces great obstacles, news wires reported.

Police in Georgian capital Tbilisi fired water cannon and tear gas against hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday to support a call by opposition parties for a rerun of parliamentary elections, held on 31 October, Reuters reported. The opposition is demanding the resignation of the CEC chief Tamar Zhvania, saying the elections were rigged.

Georgia faces political crisis after the opposition refused to recognise the results of parliamentary elections, held on Saturday, news wires reported. According to the Central Election Commission, the ruling Georgian Dream party was well out in front with 48.1%t after the votes at nearly all of the polling stations were counted. The largest opposition party, the United National Movement, was in second place on 27.1%.

The conservative opposition Homeland Union party has won Lithuania's elections with a projected 50 seats in the 141-seat parliament, the electoral commission said late Sunday after the second tour as almost all votes were counted, news wires reported.