Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders’ hopes of becoming prime minister of the Netherlands are dwindling after coalition talks fell into disarray Tuesday, CNBC reports. The New Social Contract party’s leader Pieter Omtzigt walked away from negotiations, vexing Wilders’ efforts to assemble a

The Economist: “TikTok is proving especially important as a place where politicians compete for votes from the young. Indonesia has more TikTok users than any country except America. A typical user scrolls for 29 hours a month, making it one of the country’s most popular social-media platforms.”

“Taiwan looks set to elect Lai Ching-te as its next leader after the main opposition candidate conceded, lining up a man Beijing has labeled an ‘instigator of war’ for the presidency,” Bloomberg reports. “The Kuomintang’s Hou Yu-ih congratulated Lai for his victory on Saturday evening in Taipei,

“At least three people were hospitalized after mistakenly eating colorful pods of liquid laundry detergent that were distributed as a campaign freebie in Taiwan’s presidential race,” the AP reports. “One of the victims said she thought the pods were candy.”

A new Economist poll tracker in the U.K. finds that the Labour Party has a poll lead over the Tories of around 20 percentage points — the largest gap one year before an election since Labour’s landslide victory under Tony Blair in 1997. “Converting national polls to seats in Parliament is not