The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) will elect its ninth Secretary General at the 152nd IPU Assembly, which will be held in Istanbul, Türkiye. Five candidates have made it to the shortlist for this role. (L-R) Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Anda Filip, Sangsoo Jun, Fatou Dieng Thiam, Cecilia Widegren.
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) is set to convene its 9th Party Congress in late February 2026.
The year 2025 marked a highly productive and reform-oriented phase for India’s Parliament, with the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) playing a pivotal role in legislative coordination, digital transformation, youth engagement, and parliamentary consensus-building.
Global women in parliaments 2025 report. Key facts, stats, leading countries, challenges, and progress toward gender parity in national legislatures.
Review the defining global parliamentary trends of 2025. From the UN’s 80th anniversary to historic leadership shifts in Europe and Asia.
Prime Minister François Bayrou announced that he will seek a confidence vote in the French parliament on September 8. The move comes as his government faces rising opposition over plans to cut €44 billion in public spending.
WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Secretary General Martin Chungong have jointly called on national parliaments to ratify the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. This landmark agreement is the first WTO accord to focus on environmental sustainability.
Eemeli Peltonen, a 30-year-old Member of Parliament (MP) for the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), has died by suspected suicide inside Finland’s main Parliament House (Eduskuntatalo) in Helsinki.
In a landmark decision, Iran parliament has voted overwhelmingly to suspend all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The move follows 12 days of joint US-Israeli airstrikes targeting Iran’s key nuclear sites—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Out of 223 lawmakers, 221 voted in favor, with one abstention and one opposing vote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition narrowly escaped collapse. A crucial vote in the Knesset to dissolve parliament failed by a 61-53 margin. The vote, triggered by the growing crisis over military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews, could have forced early elections.