MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight Mathias Corvinus Collegium

This time, we dive into the depth of Macedonian politics on the occasion of the recent presidential and legislative elections that were held in the country on the 8th of May 2024.Dr. Marko Troshanovski, president of the Skopje-based think-tank Institute for Democracy (IDSCS), explains us that the main contest was between the then ruling Social Democrats, SDSM, and the major opposition party, the right-wing VMRO DPMNE. The latter one had a landslide victory by gathering 45% of the vote. The pr...

In mid-March 2024, the MPs unanimously voted for the dissolution of the Sabor, the Croatian parliament upon the initiative of the governing parties. Following the decision welcomed and widely supported by the left-wing opposition, president Zoran Milanović called for an early election on 17 April 2024, well ahead of the EP election in June and the legislative election scheduled later this year. In our new Votes & Seats podcast episode, Szabolcs Janik (Centre for Political Science, MCC) ha...

In this episode, we are analyzing the background of and the lessons learnt from the presidential election that was held in Slovakia in 2024. Dr. Jaroslav Ušiak from the Matej Bel University helps us understand the factors that might explain the somewhat unpredicted victory of the social democratic Peter Pellegrini over the centrist Ivan Korčok, with special regards to the main campaign messages of the candidates. Based on the endorsements behind the 2nd round candidates, we discuss whether th...

With the most appreciated contribution of Mr. Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho from the University of Coimbra, the Votes&Seats podcast series gladly issues its episode on the March 2024 Portuguese early legislative election. With our guest expert, we reflect on the background and the process of the election, with special regards to the factors that resulted in the victory of the center-right Democratic Alliance. In our analysis, we dive into the main campaign topics, the scandalous issues, and...

This time, we discuss the background, the outcome and the possible repercussions of the legislative, regional, and local elections that took place in Serbia on the 17th of December, 2023. Dr. Miša Đurković guides us through the deep forest of Serbian party politics. The principal research fellow of the Institute of European Studies Belgrade stressed that SNS, the Serbian Progressive Party of head-of-state Aleksandar Vucic won resoundingly, securing twice as many votes and seats in the Nationa...

This time, we talked about the November 2023 Dutch early general elections with Mr. Dave van Ginhoven from the Hague University of Applied Sciences. The 150 members of the Netherlands' House of Representatives were up for election. Defying all expectations, Geert Wilders' right-wing conservative Freedom Party finished first, securing 37 mandates – far more than Frans Timmermans’ Labor/Green alliance or Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The Freedom Party’s performance was ...