After pilot efforts in directly electing village akims in 2021, and district akims in 2023, on October 12, Kazakhstan’s Abai Region will hold its first direct election for the leadership of the ...

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, and members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus denounce the fiscal year 2024 appropriations process as they decry so-called "woke" spending by Democrats and President ...

On November 5, Kazakhstan expanded its experiment with local elections to include three towns and 42 provincial districts. Residents of these districts and cities voted for akims, a position akin to a ...

Palo Alto voters will not get a chance to directly choose their mayor after all. After months of consideration, a split City Council opted on May 20 not to place on the November ballot a measure that ...

The method of electing the head of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF) will change from the current indirect election system by local cooperative leaders to a direct election ...