Mathias Corvinus Collegium
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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.------------------------------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 vic
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Moldova's vote is framed around European integration, sovereignty, and political memory.
The episode presents Moldova's parliamentary election as a contest over European integration, sovereignty, and political memory. It is strongest when it sets the pro-European majority against the Patriotic Bloc's neutrality language, and when it treats Alternativa as a new face…
A clear look at the 2025 Dutch election, where coalition collapse and strategic voting reshaped the field.
This episode keeps its focus on Dutch politics as a matter of institutions, coalition math, and voter drift, not just one election night result.
Romania's rerun election is framed as a legitimacy test shaped by geography, diaspora voting, and deep regional divides.
Romania's rerun presidential election comes across as a serious test of legitimacy, tied to the cancelled 2024 vote, the suspicion of foreign involvement behind that annulment, and the unrest that followed in its wake.
A careful look at Moldova's vote, with politics, constitutional questions, and European integration in view.
The episode follows Moldova's 2024 presidential election and referendum on the same day, with guest expert Nikolaj Panfil of PROMOLEX. It is at its best when it connects the vote, the campaign, and the social, cultural, geographic, and demographic background around them.
A clear look at Serbia's ruling party's resounding December 2023 win.
The piece treats Serbia's December 2023 elections as a test of how Aleksandar Vucic's camp turns control of the campaign into political advantage. Dr.
A Romanian election briefing that broadens into a clear picture of populist nationalist drift in Europe.
Romania's December legislative election carries the episode, while the presidential race sits in the background. The strongest part is the plain explanation of how losses by the Social Democrats, the Liberals, and the center-left USR opened space for the right, giving the shift…
A clear look at Portugal's political turbulence, with coalition math and immigration debate driving the story.
Portugal's snap legislative election reads as one more turn in a political system that has been shaky for a while. The strongest material here moves past the headline and explains why the vote was called early, why immigration became such a central campaign issue, and how both…
A measured account of Germany's snap election, with attention to turnout, polarization, and what comes next for government formation.
Germany's snap federal election is treated as a matter of institutions and consequences, not just a fast-moving headline. The episode stays with the collapse of the Traffic Light Coalition, the campaign that followed, the vote itself, and the question of what government…
Combative civics for an unstable political moment.
Homespun conservative reactions to public disorder.
Antiwar interviews without institutional politeness.
Georgia politics, climbing fast.
Practical tech, local questions, plain answers.
Campaign mechanics, without the polish.
This episode analyzes the 2023 Polish legislative election, discussing surprising results like high voter turnout and the success of the liberal Third Way.
This episode analyzes the 2023 early general election in the Netherlands, where Gert Wilders' Freedom Party unexpectedly won 37 seats.
MCC Votes & Seats asks Dr.
Belgium's federal election is the starting point.
MCC Votes and Seats Podcast covers Norway’s 8 September 2025 legislative election with Dr.
The episode opens on the Polish presidential runoff.
MCC Votes and Seats looks at Lithuania's October 2024 legislative election with guest expert Dr.
MCC Votes and Seats turns to North Macedonia’s 8 May 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections with Dr.
Paul Gilfillan of Queen Margaret University says Labour’s landslide rested on a 0.5 percent vote-share increase and the first-past-the-post system, not a sweeping new mandate.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast's Bulgaria spin-off episode seven focuses on the country's sixth snap parliamentary election since spring 2021 and the post-election math after the October 27 vote.
This episode analyzes Slovakia's 2023 parliamentary election, featuring expert Dr.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast: Savoy Csenik and Nikolai Panfil of the Promolex Parliamentary Election Observation Mission discuss Moldova’s 28 September parliamentary election and its pro-European outcome.
Croatia's election starts with the Sabor being dissolved, but the episode keeps the procedural bit lively.
Portugal enters another snap election cycle, and nobody in this conversation treats that as normal background noise.
MCC Votes and Seats speaks with Alexander de Souza Carvalho of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra about Portugal’s March 10, 2024 snap legislative election.
MCC Votes and Seats Podcast examines Georgia after the October 26, 2024 parliamentary election with Viktor Kipiani of Geocase, who links the vote to geopolitics, the war in Ukraine, and the EU accession process.
The episode opens with Romania's legislative election, held on December 1 between the two planned rounds of the presidential race.
The Votes and Seats Podcast episode on the 2024 French snap legislative election focuses on Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly after the European Parliament result.
Katja Mihajlova of the University of National and World Economy in Sofia argues that Bulgaria’s 2024 election showed “the silence of voters,” with turnout falling and parties failing to rebuild trust.
MCC Votes & Seats Podcast’s special edition on the 2025 pope election centers on Marco Malaguti, a researcher at Centro Studi Machiavelli in Rome, speaking with host Bálint Elthot about Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prévost.
Stephen Scholl interviews Thibaut Gibelet and Jan Kasper about France’s snap parliamentary election, where the National Rally and allies received about 33%, the New Popular Front 28%, Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance 21%, and the Republicans 7%.
The episode opens with Romania's 2025 presidential rerun and the political circumstances that led to it.
This conversation looks at Germany’s snap federal election after the collapse of the Traffic Light Coalition.
Serbia's 17 December 2023 elections set up a detailed political conversation.
The episode opens with the unexpected 2025 Dutch general election.
MCC Votes and Seats turns to Moldova's 2024 presidential election and referendum, held on the same day.
The episode looks at Kosovo's February 2025 legislative election.
The episode opens on Czechia's lower house election, held on 3 and 4 October 2025.
The podcast turns to Austria's 29 September 2024 legislative election.
This episode analyzes the Slovenian legislative election, discussing campaign issues, polarization, and government formation with a local expert.
An expert interview analyzing the results and implications of recent Turkish presidential and legislative elections.
An expert analysis of Bulgaria's April 2023 early legislative election and ongoing political crisis.
An expert interview analyzing the July 2021 Bulgarian parliamentary election results and their implications.
An expert interview analyzing the 2021 Armenian parliamentary election, focusing on the impact of the Nagorno-Karabakh war and political crisis.
An expert interview analyzing the results and implications of the 2021 Croatian local elections.