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Pages in category "Elections postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Reason: The Finnish municipal elections were postponed from April to June due to the pandemic – missing from the map. Description Map of countries that have altered an election date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.svg
America's electoral process has been in the news quite a bit since early April, with many presidential primaries postponed or even canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the American ...
The election silence period, where opinion polls are banned before elections, was extended in Slovakia in 2019 from 14 to 50 days, one of the longest blackout periods in the world. [43] The Slovak courts considered this change unconstitutional. In 2022, this blackout period was reduced to 48 hours. [44]
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced politics around the world; it affected the governing and political systems of multiple countries, reflected in states of emergency, [1] suspensions of legislative activities, isolation or deaths of multiple politicians and reschedulings of elections due to fears of spreading the virus.
On 6 March 2017 France announced that Internet voting (which had previously been offered to citizens abroad) would not be permitted in the 2017 legislative elections due to cybersecurity concerns. [59] [60] As of 2020 citizens abroad vote by internet in legislative and consular elections, not for President or EU. [12]
Despite efforts by the government as well as pro-Beijing businesses to promote participation at the ballot box as well as a 90-minute extension of voting hours due to a technical glitch, only 27. ...
Dedollarisation refers to countries reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, medium of exchange or as a unit of account. [1] It also entails the creation of an alternative global financial and technological system in order to gain more economic independence by circumventing the dependence on the Western World-controlled systems, such as SWIFT financial transfers network for ...