Opposition party leaders have furiously responded to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s claims that a government without the Justice and Development Party (AKP) would lead to a period similar to the 1990s, an era of unsolved murders and disappearances mostly in the predominantly Kurdish-populated eastern and southeastern Anatolia.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has ramped up the rhetoric against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, saying he should “look in the mirror” if he wants to see a murderer, referring to Demirtaş’s chanting of “murderer state” after the deadly Oct.
An investigation has been launched by the Dutch authorities about an election campaign letter sent by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to Turkish citizens living in the country, seeking to find out if the privacy of those Turkish citizens was violated in order to obtain their addresses, the Zaman daily said on Monday.
Ninety-four ballot boxes from eight different neighborhoods will be combined into one ballot box in a school building in each of the neighborhoods in the southeastern province of Batman, the media reported on Tuesday.
As the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections came to a close on Monday night, turnout appeared weak for the second consecutive day, highlighting growing disillusionment since the army seized power in 2013.
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said turnout on Sunday had been just 15-16 percent, but that it should rise after public sector workers were given a half-day off to vote.
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TOLOnews on Wednesday officially launched a new website - From Words to Action - which aims to track the progress of President Ashraf Ghani's pre-election commitments and the National Unity Government's (NUG) post-election commitments.
The aim of this is to promote government accountability.
LAHORE: A PML-N candidate for the upcoming local body elections was shot dead in the Misri Shah police precincts on Monday.
Police said Imran, 45, and Mohsin Shah belonged to Wahdat Colony and were friendly with each other before candidates for the elections were announced. They said Imran got a ticket from the PML-N for Union Council-43 while Shah was supporting an independent candidate.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has agreed to change the polling date for the third and last phase of upcoming local government elections in Punjab and Sindh scheduled for Dec 3.
A four-member delegation of Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Fiqh-i-Jafaria (TNFJ) led by its secretary general Sakhawat Hussain Kazmi held a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan and other members of the commission here on Monday and asked for a change in the polling date, pointing out that the Chehlum of Imam Husain would be observed on the same date.
But the reform panel maintains all its efforts have been in line with the presidential decree.
Parliament convened on Tuesday to elect members of its various committees, as well as members of its bureau.
It re-elected the members of the committees and renewed the terms of its treasurers, reported al-Jadeed television.
Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra replaced Mustaqbal MP Robert Fadel in the finance committee.
Fadel in turn replaced LF MP Fadi Karam in the economics committee.
The session was held without incident or political bickering that had marred committee sessions.
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Health Minister Wael Abou Faour announced Monday that Prime Minister Tammam Salam's government is on the brink of entering a “coma.”
“The government will enter a coma and it will only wake up to address the garbage crisis exclusively,” Abou Faour, who is close to Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
“No contacts can rescue the government from the state of paralysis it is heading into,” the minister noted.
According to new leaked minutes of a meeting of Justice and Development Party (AK Party) officials, the AK Party has created polarization in society for years in order to gain more votes and a new type of polarization must be created on the eve of the general election on Nov. 1.
Muscat: A total of 107 centres have been approved by the Ministry of Interior for the casting of votes for the Majlis Al Shura elections scheduled for October 25. The polling booths in the various wilayats are as follows:
Muscat Governorate:
Muscat: Al Zahra Basic Education School and Safana bint Hatem Al Taei Basic Education School;
Muttrah: Wattaya Basic Education School and Imam Jaber bin Zaid School;
Al Amerat: Al Sahba bint Rabia General Education School for Girls and Al Harith bin Khalid Basic Education School;
Semi-official results from the first stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections show that the "For the Love of Egypt" electoral coalition has emerged victorious, with the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist force contesting in the polls, facing a big defeat.
THATTA: Ruling out any possibility of postponing the local government elections, Sindh Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that arrangements in this regard have been completed and all necessary measures to ensure holding of the polls in a free, fair, transparent and peaceful manner have been taken.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has clarified that it had already provided to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) voter lists used in the general elections 2013 and also those used in the recently held by-elections in NA-122 constituency.
Responding to a PTI statement on the issue of voter lists, a spokesperson for the commission said on Sunday that at the time of 2013 elections, there were 326,028 registered voters in NA-122 and during the by-elections held this year the number of registered voters was 347,762, increase of 21,734.
