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Republican presidential candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy holds up a handwritten sign referring to fellow candidate Nikki Haley as he speaks during the fourth Republican debate on December 6, 2023.

Attacks get personal at fourth Republican presidential debate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media on November 22, 2023

Israeli labor union head: We need elections, Netanyahu shouldn't run

By YEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un casts his ballot during a local election, in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, in this picture released on November 27, 2023

North Korea cites rare dissent in elections even as 99% back candidates

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett informs the country that he will not seek reelection, at a 2022 press conference at the Knesset.

Will ex-Israeli PM Naftali Bennett make a political comeback after Gaza war?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is seen pointing downwards at a Religious Zionist Party faction meeting in Jerusalem, on May 1, 2023.

Religious Zionist party falls below electoral threshold in new poll

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Dutch far-right politician and leader of the PVV party, Geert Wilders speaks to the press following the exit poll and early results in the Dutch parliamentary elections, in The Hague, Netherlands November 22, 2023

Geert Wilders: the anti-Islam, anti-EU populist who could be next Dutch PM

By REUTERS

Argentine president-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 19, 2023

Argentina elects pro-Israel right-winger Javier Milei as president

By Juan Melamed/JTA

Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis at the third Republican candidates' U.S. presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2023.

Haley and Ramaswamy's dislike for each other takes the political stage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

A WOMAN looks at posters in Tel Aviv showing hostages who are being held by Hamas in Gaza and people still missing following the October 7 mega-terror attack on Israel

Most Israelis support humanitarian pause, but only if hostages released - poll

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with MK Yoav Ben Tzur during a plenum session. November 13, 2017.

Shas minister: Netanyahu will need to hold elections right after the war

By YEHUDA SHARONI/MAARIV

Abortion rights protesters participate in nationwide demonstrations following the leaked Supreme Court opinion suggesting the possibility of overturning the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, in Atlanta, Georgia, US, May 14, 2022

Abortion rights advocates, Democrats score wins in US elections

By REUTERS

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) seen with then-National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror during the weekly cabinet meeting at in Jerusalem on November 3, 2013

Netanyahu confidant: Israel must have an election after war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A woman looks on during a rally held by American Muslims for Palestine calling for a cease fire in Gaza in Washington, U.S., October 21, 2023

No ceasefire in Gaza, no votes, Muslim Americans tell Biden

By REUTERS

CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM – the first woman elected governor of Mexico City – waves upon her arrival to be sworn in, Dec. 2018

Who is Mexico's Jewish presidential candidate: Profiling Claudia Sheinbaum

By URIEL PEIZER

EGYPT’S PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo, on Sunday.

Egypt’s Sisi seeks renewed mandate in a country in crisis - opinion

By NEVILLE TELLER

An Israeli soldier chooses a ballot from behind a voting booth at an army base near the southern city of Ofakim March 15

Israel will delay municipal election by three months due to Hamas war

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

ROBERT SESSELMANN of the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a vote last Sunday to become a district leader, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls.

Jewish leaders concerned after Germany's AfD party continues to make gains in elections

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA

‘WE NEED building permits’: Construction in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, 2016.

Residents of east Jerusalem shared their hopes, how they see the future