There isn’t an international politcs thread I could find, probably should be one.
In the meantime:
New Zealand has their youngest PM in 150 years (from forming a minority coalition government.)
The really startling news though is the Czech Republic.
Billionaire Andrej Babis has won a thumping victory in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election, while eurosceptics and an anti-Islam group made strong gains.
State election officials citing results from 99.9 percent of polling stations on Saturday said Babis’s anti-corruption and anti-euro ANO (Yes) movement won with 29.7 percent support, almost three times higher than any other party and giving it a chance to rule with just one partner in a coalition.
ANO was followed by the eurosceptic right-wing ODS party on 11.3 percent.
At just 7.4 percent, the ruling Social Democrats of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka were on course for their worst result since the country peacefully split with Slovakia in 1993.
Now you might think that’s because there’s some sort of economic downturn , except:
The Czech economy has enjoyed rapid growth, a balanced budget and the lowest unemployment in the European Union in the past four years, but the Social Democrats - who led a government with ANO and another partner - were not able to capitalise.
Yikes.