As I write, Nick hasn’t updated last night’s post on the UK election, but it’s a good summary. Enjoy.
Some tidbits:
It looks like campaigning vigorously against the war in Iraq is worth about a 4 percent swing in Britain. Who’s Old Europe now?

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Her Majesties’ subjects have spoken again. It’s just that we don’t know yet what exactly they have said. Well, a majority among them will have probably sighed a little in the booth and then more or less resignedly or enthusiastically ticked off the box next to their local Labour candidate, thus likely ensuring Blairs “historic” [...]

After several months of ‘phony war’, the worst-kept secret in British politics was finally revealed today - the next UK General Election will take place on May 5th, just four weeks away.
I’ll try and find the time to post on Fistful during the campaign if none of my colleagues manage it, but I’m also posting [...]

As I end my two weeks here as a guest blogger, with events turning dramatic in Kyrgyzstan, the revolution that didn’t happen is fizzling out in Moldova. (See today’s RFE/RL Newsline, which unusually has no less than five stories from the forgotten republic.)
Those few of you who have been following the story may recall [...]

As many Fistful readers will be aware, it’s widely expected that there’ll be a General Election in the UK this May. Of course, because of the way our system works, no one can say for definite when it will be until the Prime Minister actually goes to the Queen and requests that she dissolve Parliament [...]

While the official results of yesterday’s re-run Presidential election will likely not be announced for a couple of days, opposition candidate Viktor Yushshenko looks certain to win this time - if the country’s Central Election Commission has been doing a better job than in November. The BBC has calculated that he has “an unassailable lead” [...]

The last barrier to the re-run of the Ukrainian Presidential election has been lifted, as the Parliament has now approved the combined package of changes to the Constitution and election regulations.
The main features of the agreement - which President Kuchma immediately signed into law after they were passed - are:
Reforms of the Central Electoral Commission, [...]

It looks like the legal stalemate in Ukraine could be a little closer to a solution. Possibly related to reports about the opposition offering immunity to incumbent President Kuchma in exchange for him no longer trying to factually or legally obstruct the preparations for the repeated presidential run-off election on December 26, at least most [...]

For those of you interested, the BBC’s website has an English translation of several parts of the Ukrainian Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday. I’m not a legal expert - especially on Ukrainian law - but I was struck by one aspect of the case that we either didn’t notice, or didn’t deem important enough to acknowledge [...]

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – The Supreme Court declared the results of Ukraine’s disputed presidential run-off election invalid and ruled Friday that the run-off should be repeated by Dec. 26, bringing cheers from tens of thousands of opposition supported massed in Kiev’s main square.
The ruling, made after five days of hearings by the court’s 18 justices, [...]