Indian voters have delivered an unexpected repudiation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership as electoral tallies Tuesday showed his Hindu nationalist party falling short of a majority in Parliament, piercing the aura of invincibility around the most dominant Indian politician in decades. While Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party finished first and is still well positioned to form a government with its allies in the coming days, the BJP’s performance paled in comparison to its...

The election outcome in India has turned out to be a huge political blow for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling party, and has significant implications on how he intends to govern the country, observers say.   Modi did not get the landslide victory that was widely predicted by exit polls ahead of results. Instead, he will enter his third term with a much-weaker mandate than initially anticipated. His Bharatiya Janata Party lost dozens of seats bringing...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to secure a historic third term, but his party has now lost its majority rule for the first time in a decade.   While Modi, 73, celebrated his smallest victory ever on Tuesday, things looked grim for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which maintained a majority rule in India since 2014.  The latest outcome shocked the nation, as Modi and BJP members were predicted to win by another landslide. India’s stock market fell by 6%...

On Sunday, Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president of Mexico. She will take office on Oct. 1. She is a leftist who blames capitalism for the millions of Mexicans who live in poverty. Sheinbaum has promised an expansion of the welfare state. She proposes to expand government control of other industries in the private sector. She wants the telecommunications industry to be controlled by the government. Importantly, not only did Sheinbaum win in a landslide, but her Morena party...

Claudia Sheinbaum has secured the Mexican presidency in a landslide victory to become the country's first female president in its over 200-year history. The 61-year-old former climate scientist will succeed incumbent president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also of the left-wing Morena party, who has held the office since 2018. Newsweek has mapped Sheinbaum's victory in three charts.

How much power is too much power? On Sunday, the governing coalition around the National Regeneration Movement — also known as Morena — of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador trounced the opposition alliance in thousands of federal, state and local races in Mexico’s biggest election ever. Claudia Sheinbaum, Morena’s presidential candidate, secured at least 58.8 percent of the vote, unheard of since the advent of multiparty democracy at the turn of the century, beating her main rival,...

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