Shakeel Ahmad.-
MULTAN: In a display of ‘political sagacity’ ahead of the local polls, residents of Basti Baghwali have conducted an election of their own to select one of the two aspirants for the actual contest “to have better chance of winning”.
The political activists set up two polling stations (one each for men and women) to ‘elect’ the candidate for general councillor slot in Khanewal’s Union Council 116.
Muscat: Newly elected Shura members would be invited to attend the extraordinary meeting to select the chairman and two deputy chairmen as per the provisions of the Royal Decree No. 99/2011, Majlis Al Shura Secretary-General Sheikh Ali bin Nasser Al Mahrouqi said.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has ordered Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to take action against thee LG poll candidates who manhandled Returning Officer Allah Ditta Warraich in Hafizabad.
The candidates are: Aman Ullah Sandhu, Manzoorul Hasan Chatta and Fazal Qadir.
Terming the incident a criminal act to sabotage elections, the ECP ordered Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police, Punjab, to take action against culprits under the law and submit a report to the commission by 2pm on Wednesday.
ISLAMABAD: The process of submission of nomination papers for local government elections in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) will start from Monday (today). Scrutiny of nomination papers will be conducted from November 1 to the 4th. Appeals against rejection or acceptance of nomination papers would be filed on November 5 and 6. Appeals would be disposed of from 7 to 9th. Candidates can withdraw their candidature on November 10th while the final list of contesting candidates with symbols allotted to them will be published the following day.
Rana Tanveer.-
LAHORE: The Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya (JA) will not partake in the forthcoming local government polls to register its protest against what it calls the step-motherly conduct of the state towards it.
AMMAN — Newly appointed Senate President Faisal Fayez sent a letter to His Majesty King Abdullah pledging cooperation with all constitutional authorities to achieve envisioned comprehensive reforms.
MADINAH: Thirty-one female candidates have withdrawn from the upcoming municipal council elections.
This is according to Jedaie’ Al-Qahtani, spokesman of the committee overseeing the polls, who said there would now be 1,071 women candidates contesting the elections on Dec. 12.
These withdrawals took place in governorates across the Kingdom and are not an indication that there is any less enthusiasm for the polls, he was quoted as saying by a local publication on Monday.
Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri threw his support Monday behind Prime Minister Tammam Salam while stressing that Mustaqbal will not allow Hizbullah to “undermine dialogue.”
“Any Lebanese cannot but feel insulted by the scenes of the garbage that floated in Beirut's streets and the rest of the regions,” Hariri said in a statement released by his press office.
The parliament bureau held a meeting on Tuesday in an attempt to agree on the agenda of the upcoming legislative session.
Deputy Speaker Farid Makari stated after the meeting however that the concerned forces failed to agree on an agenda.
A new meeting for the bureau will be held next week, he added.
Tuesday's meeting was held at Speaker Nabih Berri's residence of Ain el-Tineh.
It was attended by MPs Marwan Hamadeh, Ahmed Fatfat, Michel Moussa, Antoine Zahra, and Serge Torsarkissian.
Darya Podolskaya.-
CEC is ready to give mandates to parliament members of VI convocation, the Central Election Commission reported to 24.kg news agency.
A Justice and Development Party (AKP) official’s suggestion that Turkey will again head to the polls if the Nov. 1 polls do not produce a majority government are tantamount to blackmail of the country, the main opposition has said.
“If a result resembling the June 7 results emerges, I’m afraid there will again be talk of elections,” AKP Deputy Chair Mehmet Ali Şahin said recently.
The Nov. 1 snap election is the key to getting Turkey out of the instability and insecurity it was dragged into after the June 7 election, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has argued, while reiterating an earlier warning to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to be fair in its evaluation of the upcoming elections.
Ali Kayalar.-
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is expecting a comeback of nearly 7 percent of its voters, who had earlier casted their vote for the party but stepped back in the June 7 election, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.
“The political outlook that emerged after [the] June 7 [election] will bring the AKP new votes due to a search for political sustainability and a powerful government,” Kurtulmuş told Hürriyet Daily News during an interview on Oct. 26.
The names of around 672,000 people who cast their votes in the June 7 general election are missing from the voter lists that were prepared ahead of the Nov. 1 snap election, according to a statement made by Republican People's Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Erdal Aksünger during a press conference on Monday in İzmir.
Hero aka Mehr Shabbir is hoping for an easy win from Union Council 218. He participated in the local government elections for the first time in 2005 from a Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-i-Azam seat, which he won, and later joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to remain in active politics. Now, he is contesting the election as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate for chairman.
Muhammd Shahzad.-
Following the hype of the NA-122 by-elections, the morale of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporters and candidates in Union Council 118 is at an all-time high.
Residents of the area say that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has neglected the area for too long. “The government has failed to deliver and the people are tired of their empty promises,” says one of the residents.
Voter turnout in Sunday’s polls was 56.66 per cent, according to Talal bin Ahmed al Saadi, rapporteur of the Higher Committee for Majlis A’Shura eighth term elections.
Rana Tanveer.-
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s candidate for chairman and a Pakistan Peoples Party worker are contesting the election for chairman and vice chairman on the same panel.
PTI’s Haji Muhammad Imtiaz, candidate for chairman, was elected councillor in 2001 and 2005. He had earlier contested the election for MPA twice but had lost. Chaudhry Fayyaz, a PPP worker, from the same panel, was elected councillor in the same constituency on a PPP ticket.
Nasir Iqbal.-
ISLAMABAD: The massive earthquake which hit large parts of the country on Monday disrupted the Supreme Court hearing of the election dispute for the NA-154 Lohdran National Assembly seat, but the brief proceedings suggested that the court took notice of the absence of petitioner Mohammad Siddique Baloch.
“Your client should be present in the courtroom,” observed Justice Mian Saqib Nisar who was heading a three-judge bench that had taken up an appeal moved by Mr Baloch of the PML-N against his Aug 26 unseating by an election tribunal from NA-154 Lodhran-I.
