“To run for President of Iceland, you need to be an Icelandic citizen, at least 35 years old, and have 1,500 endorsements,” Anna Andersen writes. “For the first time in Icelandic history, this endorsement process is digital. Instead of collecting all their signatures on paper the old-fashioned way,

“Rishi Sunak urged Conservative Party faithful in a pre-election speech to take part in ‘the greatest comeback in political history,’ a tacit admission of the long odds the prime minister faces in local votes across England this week,” Bloomberg reports.

“Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote,” Bloomberg reports. “Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal

“Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months as prime minister fending off internal Conservative Party criticism and rumors of plots to oust him. So far it’s come to nothing — though his team is taking nothing for granted this week,” Bloomberg reports. “His critics on the Tory right have spent months gearing

“Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that