On 24 May 2015, Rachid Ghannouchi, the newly chosen leader of Ennahda, an Islamist political party, has announced he would the end of political Islam of his party. Instead, he wants his party to embrace democracy and move towards Islamic democracy, similar to Christian democracy. Political and religious activities are to be separated in the future. It means a radical change of direction of Ennahda, that had lost the parliamentary elections in 2014 and became second.

The planning minister Romero Jucá decided to resign following the release of the telephone conversation in which he speaks about removing president Dilma Rousseff from office. Jucá didn’t deny that that the conversation took place, however he claims that his words were taken out of context. In the leaked call, Jucá also speaks about the "national pact" that could stop the Operation Car Wash  (Lava Jato) - an investigation that has been carried out by the Federal Police of Brazil since March 2014 over money laundering and corruption allegations at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras in which many politicians have already been charged.

On 23 May 2016, the result of the Presidential Elections that took place the day before, finally became clear in a race that was to close to call between Hofer, the far-right candidate of the FPÖ and van Bellen, a former politician of the Greens party. Van Bellen came out as winner just narrowly with 50,35% of the vote, winning over just 30.000 votes more then his rival that won 49,65% of the vote. Following his victory, van Bellen that profiled himself as a pro-European and welcome to refugees, stated he acknowledged the vote had showed Austria consists of two halves, and that divisions had to be healed.

On 22 May 2016 Parliamentary Elections took place in Cyprus. The results showed that the ruling Democratic Rally (DISY) party of current President Anastasiades had won the elections with 30,68% of the vote, despite a setback from its earlier record of 34,3%. The communist (AKEL) party and centrist (DIKO) party came in second and third like last time, although both lost support as well and went down to 25,67% and 14,49% of the vote respectively. New parties entered the stage such as the new centre-left (SYPOL) party with 6%, the nationalist-conservative KA party with 5,24% but also the neo-Nazi (ELAM) party with 3,71%, the latter which has links to the Golden Dawn party in Greece, also a neo-Nazi party. Only 56 out of 80 seats were up for grabs, since the island is still divided in a Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot part.

On the 13th of may, France's Socialist government survived a no-confidence vote in parliament after pushing through a deeply controversial labour law that makes it a bit easier for employers to fire staff. After months of widespread street protests and strong opposition, the divisive bill was finally forced through on Tuesday the 11th without a vote. But with 288 votes needed to bring down the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls, 246 politicians  only voted in favour of the motion, according to the official count. Following the protests, the labor law has been modified to leave the 35-hour week in place. However, it allows companies to organize alternative working times. Under « exceptional circumstances » and for temporary periods only, employees could work up to 60 hours a week.

On Thursday, 12th of may, president of Guinea-Bissau, Jose Mario Vaz, sacked his entire cabinet, alledging that they failed in being true in their duty of service to the people. As Vaz had informed political actors and displomats earlier that week, in an attempt to resolve the current instability, he chose the option of sacking the government rather than dissolving the Parliament and summon early elections. He demanded of the ruling party that they appoint a new cabinet to lead the country out of its political crisis. Vaz already dismissed last year PAIGC leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, resulting in the current crisis. Three prime ministers succeeded each other in only three months.