Muscat: The Interior Ministry confirmed that the election committees in the Wilayats will announce on Wednesday (today) the final lists of voters, (611, 906) in numbers, at the Walis’ offices and on the election website www.election.gov.om/shura.
The Main Committee for Majlis Al Shura 8th Term Elections had adopted the final lists of voters during a meeting yesterday chaired by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior, Chairman of the Committee.
Voting is underway on Tuesday for by-elections on PP-16 provincial assembly seat in Punjab's Attock district.
The polling began at 8am and will continue until 5pm without any pause.
The PP-16 seat fell vacant after the killing of Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada in a suicide attack on Aug 16.
Only two candidates are contesting for by-polls in the PP-16 constituency, which are being held under the supervision of army and Rangers.
LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to deploy army both within and outside polling stations during by-elections in Punjab.
“For ensuring transparency in the by-polls it has been decided to seek cooperation of all civil and military agencies and deploy army men both within and outside the polling stations,” ECP secretary Babar Yaqoob told the media after a meeting of the Commission chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza here on Monday.
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Of the 78 women candidates, only one has made it to the Federal National Council (FNC) elections, and ironically, Naema Al Sharhan, also became the first women member from the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
Khaleej Times, in a bid to find answers to this argumentative question talked to some voters here, but they have blamed a variety of reasons for what they believed a 'disappointing trend'.
Jaber Nasser Humaid, an Emirati businessman, said some may believe that women should stay at home.
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Although only a few democracies give voters the right to reject all the election candidates and opt for a 'None of the above / blank vote' option, the UAE is one of the few select countries that allows its voters to indicate disapproval of all the candidates. Other countries that give their citizens this liberty include France, Brazil, India, US, Spain, Belgium and Finland.
A total of 7,600 candidates are in fray for municipal council elections. Judeh Al-Qahtani, president of the executive committee of municipal elections, said 1,066 of them are women.
He said the scrutiny of the candidates’ papers would take some time. “The final list will be published in two months,” he said. Al-Qahtani said there had been no challenges, either for candidates or voters.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has long been criticized for his arguable violations of constitutional impartiality, has called for nationalism and a stance against terrorism, while implicitly asking for votes for his former party in the Nov. 1 snap election, during his campaigns in France and Belgium.
Candidates in municipal council elections are holding meetings in a number of commercial centers to attract votes and gain the confidence of people.
In these gatherings, they are talking about election culture, the importance of women’s participation and achievement of the “main goal.”
A number of prominent intellectuals have warned that the notorious article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which was amended by Parliament in 2008, has been resurrected in the form of TCK Article 299, which is frequently being used as the basis for cases where there are charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said “If we face a problem, the Supreme Election Board [YSK] will be held responsible,” claiming the YSK made the wrong decision when it rejected requests from local election boards in several districts in the restive Southeast to move polling sites for the upcoming Nov. 1 election.
With over 1.4 million votes counted by the election committee, the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, supporting the country's President Almazbek Atambayev, has taken the lead with some 27 percent of the votes.
"There are no final results yet, but one thing we can say for sure — for the first time in the history of Kyrgyzstan a fair and clean election has taken place," Aynura Temirbekova said.
She added that the president and the government deserve credit for the fairness of the procedure.
Kyrgyzstan's pro-Moscow Social Democratic Party was in the lead after Sunday's election with 27 percent after 99 percent of ballots were counted, with the opposition Respublika-Ata Zhurt running second on 20 percent, election authorities said.
A total of six political parties, mainly supporting President Almazbek Atambayev's policies, had passed the threshold to take seats in the 120-member legislature, early official data showed.
ABU DHABI // While only 35 per cent of the eligible electorate cast their vote in Saturday’s FNC election, experts say this was a reasonable number.
Ahmed Al Dhaheri, a member of the National Elections Commission, said the turnout was not considered low for the UAE level.
“This is the natural rate for societies like the UAE that do not suffer from anyone pressuring them,” he said.
“There is no pressure from the economic, social or political side, because they see that the situation they are in is perfect and whoever comes will maintain that level and even better.”
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Electioneering for the Oct 11 by-elections for the NA-122 Lahore seat reached its peak on Sunday as the main rivals — the ruling PML-N and opposition PTI — held public meetings in the same neighbourhood, Samanabad.
The seat fell vacant after an election tribunal’s decision against PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq who was then speaker of the National Assembly.
