Topic coverage
Dated GeoSignal briefings on Political Stability. Read developments, assessment and source references in their original context.
Romania’s parliament rejected Prime Minister-designate Siegfried Muresan’s proposed cabinet on 30 September, leaving government formation unresolved and returning the next procedural move to President Nicusor Dan.
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Mohammed Dahlan’s Reformist Democratic Faction are reported to be coordinating a national electoral list for planned Palestinian parliamentary elections on November 28, though neither a formal alliance nor the vote itself is assured.
Ana Brnabić has assumed acting presidential duties after Aleksandar Vučić’s 27 September resignation, starting a statutory process requiring Serbia to hold a presidential election within three months while campaigning continues for the 25 October parliamentary vote.
The United States on September 28 imposed or announced visa restrictions affecting 27 current or former officials and relatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with the largest group reported to be Bolivian judicial figures.
Ana Brnabić assumed acting presidential duties on 28 September after Aleksandar Vučić resigned, starting a three-month succession timetable while Serbia’s 25 October parliamentary election remains scheduled.
Serbia is preparing for a 25 October early parliamentary election after President Aleksandar Vučić dissolved parliament on 9 September; his 27 September resignation adds a presidential-succession process and leaves open his bid to become prime minister.
Five Israeli opposition leaders have agreed to coordinate their campaigns and post-election efforts ahead of the October 27 Knesset election, seeking to improve their prospects of replacing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Morocco’s reported final election tally confirms the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) as the largest bloc with 97 of 395 seats, leaving coalition formation and the appointment of a head of government unresolved as of 27 September.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry has confirmed the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) as the largest bloc in the House of Representatives with 97 of 395 seats, leaving coalition formation unresolved as of September 26.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry has confirmed that the Authenticity and Modernity Party won the most seats in the 23 September parliamentary election, but its 97 seats leave it well short of a majority and dependent on coalition bargaining.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry said on September 24 that PAM leads the preliminary House of Representatives results with 97 of 395 seats, leaving formal validation and coalition-building unresolved.
Morocco’s Interior Ministry has placed the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) first with 97 of 395 seats in provisional parliamentary results, leaving result validation and government formation unresolved.
Russia’s three-day State Duma election concluded on September 20 after voting was extended to Crimea and Russian-held parts of four Ukrainian regions, deepening Moscow’s assertion of authority over territory internationally recognised as Ukrainian.
Sweden’s centre-left opposition holds a reported 176–173 Riksdag advantage after the 13 September election, prompting Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to say he will resign while the formal result determination and government-formation process remain incomplete.
A bill under consideration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s National Assembly could allow amendment of otherwise protected constitutional provisions during a state-paralysing “major dysfunction,” while opposition protests against it were dispersed in Kinshasa on September 15.
Brazil’s Chief Justice Luiz Edson Fachin has removed Justice André Mendonça from the Banco Master investigations and unsealed related court records, while the question of a formal investigation into Justice Alexandre de Moraes remains unresolved.
Kosovo’s Assembly approved an Albin Kurti-led government on September 13, but an opposition boycott, unresolved deputy-speaker posts and the absence of the quorum required to elect a president leave the wider political crisis unresolved.
Bangsamoro is scheduled to hold its first regular parliamentary election on September 14, 2026, moving the Philippine region from transitional governance toward an elected legislature under the 2014 peace settlement.
Bangsamoro voters are scheduled to elect the autonomous region’s first regular parliament on September 14, 2026, after a legal reset of the timetable and final Philippine government preparations for voting and security.
Sweden votes on September 13, 2026, in an election that will determine whether Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-leaning bloc can retain power and whether the Sweden Democrats could enter cabinet for the first time.
As of 10 September 2026, the UN says Libya has advanced work on its electoral framework, but has yet to unify the government and state institutions needed to carry an election process forward.
Serbia’s government has asked President Aleksandar Vučić to dissolve the National Assembly and call an early parliamentary election, but no presidential decree or polling date had been confirmed as of 8 September.
Alternative for Germany won the most votes and 39 of 83 seats in Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 election, but remains three seats short of a majority as other parties face difficult coalition arithmetic.
Serbia’s government has initiated the legal process for an early parliamentary election, but President Aleksandar Vučić had not dissolved the National Assembly or formally called a vote as of 7 September.
