Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday.

Voters across France choose mayors this week. The far right is performing strongly in the country’s second city, making the contest there a test of national shifts.

At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.

Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.

A youth-led uprising brought Nepal’s government down last year. Now, a 35-year-old politician demanding change is set to become prime minister.