Colombia's conservative president Abelardo De La Espriella took office in Cali on August 7 in the first presidential inauguration outside Bogotá in modern Colombian history; outgoing president Gustavo Petro did not attend, a break with tradition; Spain's King Felipe VI, Argentina's Javier Milei and FIFA president Gianni Infantino were among those present; De La Espriella pledged to govern from the regions under the banner of the 'Patria Milagro'

Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's former prime minister, confirmed on August 4, 2026 that his breakaway parliamentary group will formally launch a new party by October; PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński responded by ordering party members to sign a loyalty pledge disavowing external groupings; Morawiecki ruled out any cooperation with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, describing opposition to Tusk as a key organising principle

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said on August 2 that Nigeria's Tinubu administration's defense of its economic record bears no resemblance to the hardship confronting millions of Nigerians; Nigeria's Presidency fired back on August 3, dismissing his N7.98 trillion oil windfall claim as based on outdated data and demanding evidence

Oscar Bula, a former Colombian diplomat with UN experience, was confirmed as chancellor designate on July 28 as president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella's formal handover process with the Petro government continued; Cali, the site of the August 7 inauguration at the USC Arena, bolstered its military presence for the ceremony, a politically notable choice as the city is a stronghold of the outgoing leftist coalition

Peter Obi, the Nigeria Democratic Congress presidential candidate and former Anambra governor, said on July 26-27 that President Bola Tinubu is 'tired' and should be 'allowed to retire' rather than seek a second term in 2027, citing the president's inability to address Nigeria's worsening hunger, poverty and insecurity

Keiko Fujimori, leader of Fuerza Popular, is set to be inaugurated as Peru's first woman president on July 28, Peru's national independence day, after winning the June runoff by under 50,000 votes; her party has already secured the Senate presidency, a US delegation from President Trump has arrived in Lima, and the incoming government faces immediate pressure on economic policy and political stability after five years of revolving-door leadership

An INSA poll published July 23 placed the AfD first among parties in Berlin's Abgeordnetenhaus (city-parliament) race for the first time, weeks before the city-state election; the CDU collapsed after mayor Kai Wegner withdrew his candidacy, while the SPD fell to 13%; despite the AfD's lead, coalition arithmetic still allows a three-way SPD-Greens-Left government to form a majority

Colombia's Senate approved on July 22, 2026, by 55 votes to 32, that president-elect Abelardo De la Espriella will be inaugurated on August 7 in the Cauca department rather than in Bogotá, his first congressional victory of the new legislative term; the Chamber of Representatives must also vote to confirm the transfer, and the new Congress opened with tension over a contested comptroller election

Gustavo Petro used the installation ceremony of the 2026-2030 Colombian Congress on July 20 to deliver a sweeping defense of his four-year left-wing government, insisting poverty and inequality fell under his watch and signalling he intends to remain in politics after leaving office

Abelardo De la Espriella gave his first major policy address on July 20, Colombia's Independence Day, pledging to restore aerial fumigation of coca crops and aerial bombardments halted under Gustavo Petro; Colombia's new Congress for the 2026-2030 legislative term was sworn in the same day with a majority coalition backing De la Espriella's agenda

Barisan Nasional won 48 of 56 seats in the 16th Johor state assembly election on July 11, 2026, its biggest majority in Johor since 2004 and an improvement on its 40-seat result in 2022; Pakatan Harapan won 8 seats and Perikatan Nasional was eliminated from the state assembly entirely; voter turnout reached 56.77 per cent by 3pm with more than 1.52 million ballots cast from the 2.7 million eligible voters

Electoral authorities declared Fujimori the winner of the June 7 runoff on June 29 by fewer than 50,000 votes out of 18 million cast, making her Peru's first woman president-elect; left-wing rival Roberto Sánchez refused to concede and alleged fraud, raising the prospect of a disputed transition

A tactic in which losing candidates reject certified election results to obstruct transfers of power, documented in the US, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Guinea-Bissau since 2020.

Five structural forces, from concession refusals and snap elections to far-right mainstreaming, that increasingly determine whether a democratic transfer of power actually completes.

Less than two years after a landslide, Keir Starmer resigns amid Reform UK's surge; Burnham is frontrunner; nominations open July 9

A Trump-aligned lawyer edges leftist Iván Cepeda by under 1%, ending the Petro era and realigning Bogotá toward Washington; post-election clashes in three cities

Months after Congress ousted Boluarte, a fragmented 35-candidate field narrows to far-right Keiko Fujimori versus the left's Roberto Sánchez

Modi's party ends Mamata's 15-year rule and wins a third Assam term, but Vijay's TVK seizes Tamil Nadu and Congress sweeps Kerala, three of four states change hands

An 11 April landslide hands the EU a new Budapest, unblocking Ukraine aid while refusing to fast-track Kyiv's accession

Yunus's interim government hands over after a February landslide; Jamaat-e-Islami a distant second, the student NCP nearly shut out

The royalist-military-favoured party tops the 8 February poll on nationalism and stimulus; a referendum approves scrapping the 2017 constitution