Le gouvernement se mobilise pour booster la campagne électorale. À partir d’Oran où il a effectué, mercredi, une visite d’inspection, le premier ministre Abdlemalek Sellal a appelé les Algériens à voter massivement le 4 mai « pour barrer la route aux marchands de la démission et aux prêcheurs du désespoir ».
Wednesday afternoon, Iranian media reported that televised debates among presidential candidates would not be livestreamed, but recorded before being broadcast by state-run TV for the citizens. The decision, according to media, was made in the latest session of the Committee for Monitoring Presidential Election Campaigns, a legal body assigned to guarantee that electoral candidates receive an equal share of public facilities during the campaign period.
Iran’s Interior Ministry on Thursday night gave the following list of candidates (in alphabetical order) vetted by the Guardian Council.
The vetting body was examining the qualifications of more than 1,600 candidates who registered to run for president for days.
According to the commission, it would be difficult to conduct the country’s parliamentary and district council elections in the current year.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Turkey’s Supreme Election Board’s (YSK) refusal to annul the April 16 r
Les partis politiques en campagne aux législatives du 4 mai prochain sont "libres" de ne pas afficher les visages de leurs candidates.
Après avoir à diverses occasions soutenu le mode de scrutin proportionnel par le passé, les partis chrétiens ont opéré un revirement vers le modèle mixte ou le système à deux tours prévoyant la préqualification. Pourquoi les principales formations ont-elles ainsi tourné le dos à la proportionnelle ?
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As leaders of the main parties start the business of electing a new President of Albania, there is no sign of the opposition parties calling off their boycott and becoming part of the process.
Albania's parliament will complete the first round of electing a new President on Wednesday afternoon, even though no candidate will be up for a vote.
The international community has notified the Lebanese government of the necessity to agree on a new law for the upcoming parliamentary polls in order for the country to be able to restore its “democratic rhythm,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.
Ahmad Zia Massoud on Tuesday strongly reacted to his dismissal as President Ashraf Ghani's Special Representative on Reforms and Good Governance.
On Monday, President Ghani in a decree ordered the dismissal of Zia Massoud and dissolved his position. The decree didn’t make clear why the move was taken.
Rejecting his dismissal, Massoud suggested that his appointment to the post came following a codified deal with the president.
“You (Ghani) have got no right or power to fire me,” Massoud said at a press conference in Kabul.
Les partis islamistes, même dispersés, affichent leurs ambitions et prétendent être capables de rafler la majorité des sièges dans la prochaine Assemblée populaire nationale (APN). La phénoménale intrusion des nombreuses «candidates sans visage» sur les affiches électorales de certaines formations du camp démocratique et nationaliste atteste d’une évolution insoupçonnée de la mouvance islamiste dans la société.
The head of the Eurasia Opinion Research Center (AKAM), Kemal Özkiraz, has announced that he will close his survey company following its failure to accurately predict the April 16 constitutional referendum results.
MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Monday called on the political forces to seek the approval of a new electoral law during the May 15 legislative session as he stressed that no party in Lebanon can “impose” a certain electoral system on the other parties.
First deputy speaker of Wolesi Jirga or lower house of parliament on Monday said the president was playing a political game with parliament by not sending his nominees for a trust vote to fill vacant Cabinet portfolios.
Turkish authorities have conducted a search for biological and chemical weapons in a school in which members of the top brass and the country’s parliamentary speaker were scheduled to vote in the Çankaya district of Ankara.
7:11 p.m. The ‘yes’ votes for the country’s key referendum on shifting the governance system to an executive
