Politics
Every Magna Bureau story on politics: 19 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The 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 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
NewsThe $20 billion fund collapse shaking — Magna Bureau
Suspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds. Asset freezes are being lifted, a ruling-party deputy chair resigned, and Erd
NewsFrance walks out: 150 demonstrations, one — Magna Bureau
On Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The stree
NewsLabour promises an industrial age while the — Magna Bureau
At the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget looming, the party is spending promises it has
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
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…
NewsA year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait
Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat, a year after the Gen Z 212 protests began, demanding the release of some 750 detained youths.
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…
NewsSupreme Court lets Trump resume deporting — Magna Bureau
In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is…
NewsTrump accuses Xi of arming America's… — Magna Bureau
The US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa
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.
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