Full coverage: Elections

While nominal incomes have risen sharply, the real value of those incomes has increased only slightly. It is the source of our discontent. 

France is grappling with the cost-of-living crisis and facing into the Olympics but its president is forcing the electorate to make deep ideological choices. Nobody knows how this story ends.

French bond rate spreads could blow out if Emmanuel Macron’s high-risk election gamble doesn’t work out. This time, the euro is safe, however.

The elections have shown that anger doesn’t cut it with enough voters. People want policies that offer the chance of better times. Facing an energised Government, Sinn Féin needs to change its message.

Early trends from Friday's vote show that the anger palpable among sections of the electorate has dispersed into a fragmented opposition vote. The challenge for all politicians is now to interpret it.

Democracy is always interesting. It is rarely experimental. Limerick’s mayoral election is different. 

Do you have strong views on the Nature Restoration Law, the MiFID directive or GDPR? Just vote.

Following the demise of centrist politics in the latest vote, readers of The Currency have the money and power to address the electorate’s frustrations. Will you do it?

This time, French voters have clearly chosen to move their elections away from the post-WWII battleground between centre-right and centre-left. The constitutional implications and the lessons for democracy are profound.

Divisions on the far right and on the left favour French President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election chances in two months’ time. Can the Gaullists return and challenge Macron's stance as the last man standing against extremism? Thomas Hubert reports from Paris.