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Longtime Turkish strongman leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared victory on Sunday evening in the second and final round of this year’s presidential election in the country, greeting supporters with a song atop a bus in Istanbul.

The newly elected Turkish Parliament will feature 16 different political parties, reports say, including a radical Islamist party accused of ties to the Turkish terror organization Hizballah.

Police in Turkey have arrested three people and identified 17 suspects believed to be involved in an alleged “Israeli porn” video doctored to feature the likeness of former presidential candidate Muharrem İnce.

Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei formally debuted his political coalition’s campaign platform on Tuesday, a formal requirement for him to run in the October 2023 presidential elections.

The top opposition candidate in Sunday’s Turkish presidential election, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, accused the Russian government on Thursday of disseminating “deepfake content” and other disinformation to meddle in the election.

Challengers to Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denounced a series of dirty tricks during this year’s presidential race in the last week before Sunday’s election, including Erdoğan airing a video falsely linking top opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to terrorists and a third-party candidate claiming doctored images have surfaced featuring him in Israeli pornography.

Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a surprise announcement on Tuesday that he would increase the salaries of all public workers, about 700,000 people, by 45 percent, a dramatic move ahead of Sunday’s presidential election.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The polling firm Meganálisis found in a study published this weekend that “nobody” is leading the race in the Venezuelan establishment opposition’s upcoming presidential primary election.

Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to the campaign trail this weekend in anticipation of the country’s May 14 elections. He made two public appearances before granting an interview on Sunday night in which he claimed his administration eliminated the head of the Islamic State.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan abruptly ended a live television interview on Tuesday night, suddenly falling ill and attributing his inability to continue to a stomach illness.

Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi was detained at Heathrow Airport in London on Good Friday and interrogated for hours, apparently because someone had been impersonating him in London.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that she doesn’t know about running for president in the future but enjoys solving problems.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Saturday that he would preside over “free and fair” elections in 2024.

Turkey’s fractious opposition parties united on Monday behind a single candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP).

The national election commission of Nigeria declared Bola Tinubu, the 70-year-old former governor of Lagos nominated by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the winner of this year’s presidential election on Wednesday.

Young voters organized a protest in front of the headquarters of Nigeria’s top electoral oversight body on Monday, objecting to slow presidential election results and widespread allegations of election integrity violations in Saturday’s nationwide vote.

Less than 24 hours before polls open in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy is facing an unprecedented four-way race to the presidency marred by rampant Whatsapp conspiracy theories, fears of vote-buying, threats of violence against would-be voters, and at least one candidate assassination.

A former deputy prime minister of Turkey and longtime ally to Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested on Monday that the nation should consider delaying this year’s presidential election in light of the country struggling to deal with the fallout from last week’s series of massive earthquakes.

Only 39 percent of likely voters in the United States want Vice President Kamala Harris to remain as President Joe Biden’s running mate in 2024, a Rasmussen Reports poll found.

Brazil inaugurated hardline socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva into his third term as president on Sunday, cementing a peaceful transfer of power after the convicted felon’s narrow victory over predecessor Jair Bolsonaro in October’s presidential elections.

Multiple newspapers in Brazil reported on Friday that the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the nation’s top election authority, had spent much of the week working to dismantle conservative chat groups on Whatsapp and Telegram in an attempt to “demobilize” massive nationwide roadblocks and protests.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a message to his supporters on Wednesday night urging them to stop blocking highways and threatening supply chains in protest of his electoral defeat, urging more protests “in plazas” and other “legitimate” locations.

Truckers supporting conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and their allies are currently maintaining 178 roadblocks nationwide, the nation’s transit police announced on Wednesday morning, protesting the election of leftist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential election.

A coalition of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apparently led by commercial truckers has organized roadblocks in 21 of the country’s 26 states in the past 24 hours, protesting the election of socialist convicted felon President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the return of convicted felon and Brazilian President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power, branding the hardline socialist an “old friend of the Chinese people” and raising expectations for ties to Beijing in statements on Monday and Tuesday.

Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro counted truckers among his most fervent supporters in Sunday’s presidential election.

Leftist leaders of free governments and authoritarian regimes around the world rapidly sent messages of congratulations and support to socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for narrowly winning Brazil’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.

The top electoral authority in Brazil announced on Sunday evening that 77-year-old hardline socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once convicted and sentenced to over two decades in prison for alleged corruption, had won this year’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and his rival for the nation’s top office, socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will meet for a final debate on Friday before voters choose their next head of state on Sunday.

Brazilian socialist ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned on Tuesday the “condescending” actions of the nation’s Federal Police (PF) against former Brazilian lawmaker Roberto Jefferson — who this weekend attacked police with a grenade.

The scientific magazine Nature meddled in the Brazilian presidential election on Tuesday with an endorsement of corrupt far-left frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, admitting the former convict was not “close to anything like perfect,” but declaring conservative rival President Jair Bolsonaro “disastrous” for the planet.

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the federal election oversight body, announced on Thursday the widespread censorship of campaign materials referring to socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as “corrupt” or “a thief,” references to his 25-year prison sentence on corruption charges.

More than 1.1 million people tuned into the live broadcast of the Brazilian podcast Flow on Tuesday to listen to far-left socialist presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took time to, among other things, describe conservative President Jair Bolsonaro as a “pedophile” and accuse soccer star Neymar of cutting a deal with Bolsonaro to avoid prison.

Incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and former socialist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced off on Sunday in the first of the several scheduled debates towards the October 30 presidential runoff election between both candidates.

Multiple polls out of Brazil on Thursday and Friday show the gap between presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro narrowing to under five percentage points — the difference between the two during the first round of voting on October 2.

The campaign of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will formally take action at the nation’s top court, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), reports confirmed on Friday after election opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva resurfaced video that appeared to show Bolsonaro approving of cannibalism.