The Biggest Election Year in History
Tuesday, Feb 20th, 2024
Your Five Daily Current Events Questions
Yesterday’s issue mentioned two recent elections — that of Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia and Tom Suozzi in New York. Well, it seems that Feb 2024 has been a hot month to go to the polls. Get ready to see a lot of these — 2024 is going to see high-stakes elections in no less than 60 countries around the globe. Forbes is calling it “The Biggest Election Year in History.”
Here’s an entire issue on recent elections that have taken or failed to take place!
1. What party of Imran Khan won the most parliamentary seats in elections in Pakistan, an electoral upset that stunned the powerful generals who run the country?
2. Alexander Stubb, the former prime minister of what Nordic nation, has been elected to be its next president?
3. Irakli Kobakhidze has taken office as the new prime minister of what European nation after the former prime minister, Irakli Garibashvili, resigned in late January?
4. President Ilham Aliyev has secured a fifth consecutive term in what former Soviet Republic nation?
5. What West African country has erupted into mass protests after President Macky Sall postponed elections?