Elections
Every Magna Bureau story on elections: 22 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The cartels want a seat at the ballot box — Magna Bureau
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot.
NewsFrance pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops…
France now pays more than Italy and Greece to borrow: the OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points for the first time since 2012, as debt nears 119% of GDP.
NewsTwo mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa
Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday. With no arrests and a third massacre days
NewsThe strongman steps aside: Vučić quits… — Magna Bureau
Fourteen years after he took power, Aleksandar Vučić has resigned the Serbian presidency amid relentless anti-corruption protests. His own man, Miloš Vučević, takes over — and the Balkans' most durabl
NewsNetanyahu under scrutiny over pre-October 7 warnings
The Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out. Netanyahu denies both, flew sec
NewsThe High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications — Magna Bureau
Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua
NewsThe Luxembourg breakthrough: Le Pen's… — Magna Bureau
For the first time in its history, the Rassemblement National will hold a parliamentary group in the Senate — 15 seats won Sunday, seven months before a presidential election in which Marine Le Pen le
NewsSix days to the vote: Brazil's dead heat goes to the runoff
Lula leads Flávio Bolsonaro 42% to 37% in the BTG/Nexus poll six days before the first round — but the October 25 runoff is a statistical tie, and the man runni
NewsRamsden's warning: the Bank of England — Magna Bureau
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85% chance of a November hike.
NewsThe AfD's 38.2% earthquake and the — Magna Bureau
On Sept 20 the AfD won Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% while Merz's CDU crashed to 4.9% — below the threshold. In Berlin the Left came first and the AfD third at 16%. Merz called it a disaste
NewsFrance's €54 billion budget walks into — Magna Bureau
Lecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 100 basis points. Paris is about to find
NewsChina's factories blink back to life as — Magna Bureau
The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta
NewsInflation ambushes Brazil's election — Magna Bureau
Mid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate
NewsMorocco names its first woman prime — Magna Bureau
His Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23…
NewsNo clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…
Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…
NewsThe UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more — Magna Bureau
The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…
NewsTrump: "I offered Iran NOTHING"… — Magna Bureau
The president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsMorocco names first woman PM: Fatima… — Magna Bureau
For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on electi
NewsFive days out, Brazil's election is a… — Magna Bureau
AtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a… — Magna Bureau
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France. As the 10-year OAT flirts with 5% and the spread over Germany hits crisis-era wides, the bond vigilantes are
NewsOne in ten: Merz's approval collapses as… — Magna Bureau
The CDU failed to clear five percent in Mecklenburg — a first since 1949 — lost Berlin to The Left, and Saxony-Anhalt to the AfD. Germany's chancellor has the worst poll numbers in the survey's histor
NewsThey Came for the Voter Rolls — Magna Bureau
On Gandhi's birthday, thousands marched on Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of the Election Commission chief over 'vote theft' — and were dragged off the streets by the hundreds. Inside the Com