Something for the weekend: The mother of all elections

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What’s the collective noun for elections? We tried to Google it however couldn’t discover the reply. Please email us with any ideas.

We ask as a result of we’re proper in the course of election fever. In Brazil final weekend Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president from 2003 to 2010, staged an extraordinary comeback after a bitter, divisive marketing campaign.

One other outstanding return to energy got here on Friday as Benjamin Netanyahu grew to become prime minister of Israel — again. And in Denmark Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left Social Democrats had their best result in 20 years.

The FT has lined every marketing campaign by means of our community of international correspondents — we’ve the most important community of any UK newspaper. And naturally the very best of their reporting has appeared in FT Edit.

However the primary occasion remains to be to return, because the US goes to the polls subsequent week for midterm elections for seats in Congress and the Senate. Edward Luce, the FT’s chief US commentator, wrote this week that these votes would be the “mom of all midterms” with roughly half of the Republicans working for workplace publicly stating that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. “Meaning America’s system itself is on the poll,” he famous.

FT Edit might be right here to convey you the most effective perception and rationalization by means of the week, beginning on Monday with a giant learn from Georgia, together with evaluation and remark from Edward, Gillian Tett and others.

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