Politics

Rob Jetten’s Centrist D66 Party Won The Dutch Election, Positioning Him To Be The Netherlands’ Youngest & First Openly Gay PM. D66 Secured ~18% Of Votes & Tripled Its Seats To 26 In The Lower 150-Member Parliament. Lacking A Majority, They Must Form A Coalition To Govern. The PVV Lost Ground By ~15k Votes; Final Results Await Overseas Ballots.

Cameroon’s 92-Year-Old President Paul Biya, The World’s Oldest President, Has Won A Disputed 8th Term With 53.66% Of Votes Amid Deadly Protests & Fraud Claims. Biya Has Ruled For 43 Years, Sparking Youth Unrest In A Country Where Over 70% Are Under 35. Security & Protesters Clashes Leave Deaths, With Critics Warning Of Rising Instability.

Tanzania’s First Female President Samia Suluhu Hassan, In Power Since 2021 After John Magufuli’s Death, Is Set To Become This African Nation’s First Elected Female President In A Vote Widely Seen As A Formality Amid Opposition Bans And Arrests. Critics Cite Rising Repression. Despite Frustration, Samia Remains Popular, Especially Among Rural Women.

Japan, The World’s 4th Largest Economy And Lowest G7 Nation In Gender Equality (118/148), Has Elected Its First Female PM, Sanae Takaichi. A Staunch Conservative & Pro Abe, She Admires Thatcher, Loves Heavy Metal, Is Hawkish On China, WWII And Immigration, Seeks To Revise The Pacifist Constitution, And Opposes Same-Sex Marriage And Gender Reforms.

Sanae Takaichi, 64, Ally Of Slain ex-PM Shinzo Abe (Japan‘s Longest Serving PM, ~9 yrs), Was Elected LDP Leader, Positioning Her To Be Japan’s First Female PM. She Beat Shinjiro Koizumi, 44, Who Would Have Been Japan’s Youngest PM. Her Win Fuels Debate On Nationalism, China, & U.S. Trade. LDP’s Lost Majority In Parliament Clouds Her Path To Power.