MCC Votes & Seats Podcast – Election insight
Az MCC Politikatudományi Műhelyének beszélgetéssorozatában szakértők és politikusok segítségével azt elemezzük, hogy a különböző európai országokban aktuálisan zajló parlamenti és önkormányzati választásoknak mely szereplők a valódi nyertesei és mi tekinthető igazi győzelemnek a szavazások után.
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With the help of local guest experts, in the podcast series of the MCC Center for Political Science, we endeavor to analyze which actors are the real winners of the parliamentary elections taking place throughout Europe, and what exactly can be considered an ultimate victory after the ballot counts.
Episodes
55 episodes
2025 Polish Presidential Election – A Referendum on the Tusk Cabinet?
The second round of the Polish presidential election was held on 1 June 2025 with Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki as the two leading candidates standing after the first round. The head-to-head battle resulted in the narrow victory of the P...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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44:58
2025 Portuguese Snap Legislative Election – Falling into the Same Trap?
Portuguese politics has gone through a turbulent period recently, the latest development being a snap legislative election held on 18 May 2025, the third one in a row in the past three years. Therefore, we have good reason to believe that gover...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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50:00
Mathematician vs. Football Hooligan: The clash of Centrism and Nationalism in the Romanian Presidential Election's Rerun
In May 2025, the presidential election in Romania, which was annulled last December, was repeated amid considerable social and political tensions. Mathematician and independent Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan faced former football hooligan George S...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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34:53
Special Edition: By divine inspiration - Election in the Holy See
Chosen by God, elected by the cardinalsIn May 2025, the Conclave has elected the American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Bishop of Rome, the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church, and the head of Vatican City State, the Hol...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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28:14
2025 German Snap Federal Election – Gone with the Wind (of Change)?
Following the collapse of the so-called “traffic light” coalition in late 2024, a snap federal election was held in Germany on 23 February 2025, 7 months before the “ordinary” one scheduled for late September. In the campaign, the economic situ...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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50:46
On the Crossroads at the Heart of the Balkans: Legislative Election in Kosovo
The first episode of the Votes & Seats podcast’s 5th season flies us to the heart of the Balkans. Thanks to the most valuable professional insights from Mr. Mehdi Sejdiu, we were lucky to have the bigger picture about the background, the ci...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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38:05
2024 Romanian legislative election – What happened in the shadow of the turbulent presidential election?
A scheduled Romanian legislative election was held on 1 December 2024, between, now we can say, the planned two rounds of the presidential election. Following the decision of the Constitutional Court annulling the result of the first round, man...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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41:40
Different Pictures of the Same Reality – Georgia after the 2024 Parliamentary Election
The ruling Georgian Dream party declared its victory, while the four main opposition alliances won’t accept the results published by the Central Election Commission. Anti-government political actors claimed the election was "rigged," and so the...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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29:30
“A Tough Lesson” – Moldova after the 2024 Presidential Election and EU Referendum
This time, we analyze the October 2024 presidential election and EU membership referendum that were held in Moldova on the same day.Mr. Nicolae Panfil from Promo-LEX claims that the referendum turned out to be a “double-edged sword” in t...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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37:37
Consensus and Beyond: Understanding the Changes in Lithuanian Politics After the 2024 Elections
The oldest political player in Lithuania, the Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won the October 2024 parliamentary election securing 19% of the vote. On the other hand, the largest party in the outgoing center-right coalition, the Homeland Union (...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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22:15
One More Round for Everyone: Status Report from Bulgaria after the 6th Early Election
Our podcast series goes on with the 7th episode of its ‘Bulgaria spin-off.’ This time, it was Dr. Mariyan K. Sabev from the Center for the Study of Democracy to give us insights into the ever-lasting Bulgarian political saga.As the exper...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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28:32
The End of an Era? Lessons Learned from the 2024 Austrian Legislative Election
The conservatives and the social democrats were in charge for 80 years, maybe now it’s time for something new – says Dr. Ralph Schölhammer, assistant professor of International Relations at Webster Vienna Private University.On 29 Septemb...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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38:09
2024 French Snap Legislative Election – The Classical Cordon Sanitaire in Operation
On the eve of the European Parliament election of 9 June 2024, French president Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly and appointed 30 June and 7 July as the days of a snap legislative election. In the first round o...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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28:21
2024 United Kingdom General Election – What’s Next After Labour’s Landslide Victory?
It is not an exaggeration to say that 2024 is a year of elections around the world, including Europe where citizens have already voted or will vote in different elections in 30 EU or non-EU countries (excluding the EP election). The United ...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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34:46
A Republic in Crisis: The French Elections
The first round of the French elections delivered a powerful victory to Marine Le Pen and a humiliating defeat for French President Emmanual Macron. With another round of elections on July 7th, however, the actual outcome of the election still ...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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40:03
Lost in the Maze of Ballot Papers? – The 2024 Belgian Federal Election
2024 is an exciting year in European politics not only because of the European Parliament (EP) election but also a number of national elections already or to be held this year across the member states. The Belgian federal election is definitely...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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32:42
The Silence of Voters: Lessons Learnt from the 5th Consecutive Early Legislative Election in Bulgaria
Talking about the constant political crisis, our guest commentator, Dr. Katia Mihailova from the University of National and World Economy lays it down to us that Bulgaria needs new ethics to overcome the 4 year-long political agony in the count...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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31:57
The 2024 EP Election - A shift to the right – but what will it be enough for?
After 5 years, the EU citizens had the chance again to express their political preferences in the recent European Parliament (EP) election, held across the member states between 6–9 June 2024. Although the voting took the form of 27 different n...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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17:28
Parliamentary and Presidential elections in North Macedonia, 2024
This time, we dive into the depth of Macedonian politics on the occasion of the recent presidential and legislative elections that were held in the country on the 8th of May 2024.Dr. Marko Troshanovski, president of the Skopje-based thin...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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31:49
2024 Croatian legislative election – a tactical step before the European voting?
In mid-March 2024, the MPs unanimously voted for the dissolution of the Sabor, the Croatian parliament upon the initiative of the governing parties. Following the decision welcomed and widely supported by the left-wing opposition, president Zor...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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45:24
Presidential Election in Slovakia, 2024
In this episode, we are analyzing the background of and the lessons learnt from the presidential election that was held in Slovakia in 2024. Dr. Jaroslav Ušiak from the Matej Bel University helps us understand the factors that might explain the...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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25:31
Early Legislative Election in Portugal, 2024
With the most appreciated contribution of Mr. Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho from the University of Coimbra, the Votes&Seats podcast series gladly issues its episode on the March 2024 Portuguese early legislative election. With our guest exper...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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28:47
Votes & Seats: Legislative election in Serbia, 2023
This time, we discuss the background, the outcome and the possible repercussions of the legislative, regional, and local elections that took place in Serbia on the 17th of December, 2023. Dr. Miša Đurković guides us through the deep forest of S...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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34:25
Early General Election in the Netherlands, 2023
This time, we talked about the November 2023 Dutch early general elections with Mr. Dave van Ginhoven from the Hague University of Applied Sciences. The 150 members of the Netherlands' House of Representatives were up for election. Defying all ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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30:05
The 2023 Polish legislative election
Leading EU and member state politicians and political commentators closely observed the election campaign in Poland in recent months. Indeed, the stake of the October election was high and centred around the question whether Law and Justice (Pi...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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32:40
