Opinion polls suggest Johannesson’s rightwing challenger, former Wall Street broker Gudmundur Franklin Jonsson, has almost no chance of winning.
Voter surveys have since early June predicted a landslide victory

Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, also known as Jandor, has warned former President Goodluck Jonathan against contesting the 2027 presidential election, saying a bid would involve serious political risk.
Speaking in Lagos on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, Jandor said Jonathan would likely be “reduced to a minnow” by incumbent President Bola Tinubu at the polls. He added that those encouraging Jonathan to run were deceiving him and that the former president should remain in retirement.
“Tinubu is a master in the game of politics,” Jandor argued, stating that no one could defeat the current president in …

• 60% of votes already cast, four days to Election Day
• California, Nevada, New Jersey expand vote-by-mail option
Four days to Election Day, the number of early votes for Tuesday’s Presidential Election in the United States has hit 90 million, with 53 million ballots coming as drop-box mail votes.
Of the 240 million U.S eligible voters, experts estimate a 158 million turnout in this year’s crucial elections.
In what appears a strong motivation for change, over 20 million more Americans are expected to vote in 2020 than in 2016.
Speaking to …

Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Feb. 23 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi has condemned the recent killings of IPOB members in Emene, Enugu State.
Officers of Department of States Services (DSS) and members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were killed during a fierce clash between the duo last week.
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Reacting to the tragic clash on his Twitter page on Saturday, the former Governor of Anambra State described the incident as senseless and demanded a thorough investigation.
…“The recent killing

Ex-President Barack Obama has hailed Joe Biden’s choice of Senator Kamala Harris as a running mate in this year’s United States Presidential Election, saying “Joe Biden nailed this decision”.
Biden named Harris, a high-profile black senator from California, as his vice-presidential choice on Tuesday.
“I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate,” Biden, 77, said on Twitter.
“I’m proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign.”
Harris, whose parents were immigrants to the …

Iceland votes in a presidential election on Saturday, the second European country to hold polls since coronavirus lockdowns were lifted, with incumbent Gudni Johannesson widely expected to win a second four-year mandate
Opinion polls suggest Johannesson’s rightwing challenger, former Wall Street broker Gudmundur Franklin Jonsson, has almost no chance of winning.
Voter surveys have since early June predicted a landslide victory

Poland is scheduled to hold a presidential election in just four days but nobody can say whether it will happen or not.
Sunday’s election date was set months ago but preparations have been thrown into disarray by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown Poland is under to control the spread of the virus.
Bitter fighting between the ruling conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) and its opponents is preventing the sides from coming together to find an alternative.
Plans for the vote are in chaos.
Proposed legislation regulating it is still in Parliament, with no guarantee that it will pass.

Togo’s opposition continues to refuse to recognise the results of the 2020 presidential election as announced by the country’s electoral commission and is calling on people to take to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the re-election of incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé for a fourth term.
The victory of the people cannot be stolen, according to Philippe Kpodzro, a former archbishop of the capital Lomé and one of the main supporters of opposition leader Agbéyomé Kodjo. The clergyman says the provisional results announced on Sunday night by the electoral commission are a “farce” and “comical”. He calls on the …