Cyprus, Slovenia, Senegal, and Benin reshuffle who holds power

Cypriots voted on May 24 for 56 of the 80 seats in the House of Representatives. Polls before the vote had DISY and AKEL competing for first place, with hard-right ELAM also expected to gain. When results were declared, DISY won the most seats with 17, AKEL followed with 15, and ELAM took eight, while ALMA and Direct Democracy Cyprus each entered with four.

In Slovenia, lawmakers approved a minority coalition that made Democratic Party leader Janez Jansa prime minister. He replaced Robert Golob of the Freedom Movement. The change returned a familiar figure to the premiership after an election cycle that had put Golob in office.

Senegal's president Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed prime minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the government on May 22. The decision followed growing tension inside the ruling coalition and ongoing economic strain. The dismissal removed the head of government while Faye remained president. A successor was not named in that announcement.

In Benin, Romuald Wadagni was sworn in as president on May 24, succeeding Patrice Talon. His inauguration closed the election sequence and opened a new term focused, in his own framing that day, on living standards and security. The handover was one of the clearest transfers of office in the week's political news.

Elsewhere, the Philippine Senate resumed the impeachment process against vice president Sara Duterte after a lockdown the previous week. In Turkey, police raided the headquarters of the Republican People's Party and evicted its leadership, including Ozgur Ozel. In Krakow, residents backed the dismissal of mayor Aleksander Miszalski and the city council in a recall, with exit polls showing 33.4 percent turnout and overwhelming votes to remove both the mayor and the council.

The United States Senate, meanwhile, advanced a War Powers measure aimed at hostilities in Iran. A preliminary vote passed 50 to 47 after several failed attempts, following the defection of Louisiana Republican senator Bill Cassidy. The tally did not end the war, but it recorded a congressional rebuke tied to the same conflict shaping diplomacy that week.