KABUL (Pajhwok): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Abdullah Abdullahon Monday said a date for Wolesi Jirga (WJ) polls would be announced by new commissioners after reforms in the electoral system.
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- He was known as the "Lord of Algeria" and was the longest serving intelligence chief in the world - a J Edgar Hoover-like figure who dominated Algerian politics and had files on everyone.
Yet on Sunday, Mohamed "Toufik" Mediene was summarily fired by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ending his 25-year tenure at the head of Algeria's fearsome intelligence service, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security.
Dubai: Empowerment of women and people with special needs, the environment and education are some of the issue that Asma Khalifa Al Mezaina, one of the Federal National Council (FNC) candidates, hopes to impact if she wins in the upcoming election.
Asma, who works as a researcher at the Ministry of Economy, is running for candidacy in Dubai.
Abu Dhabi: The National Election Committee (NEC) announced the procedures to use the electronic voting system during the Federal National Council Elections 2015.
Voting will be carried out electronically during the period of early voting from September 28-30 as well as on Election Day on October 3.
As discontent continues between the Electoral Reform Commission (ERC) and Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) over reform packages, an IEC official said Saturday that the election management body was getting close to announcing a proposed date for the nation's parliamentary elections.
Speaking to TOLOnews, Aziz Bakhtyari, an IEC commissioner said that the commission was preparing to submit a proposal containing the date for parliamentary elections to President Asharf Ghani within two days.
The ultra-conservative Salafist Nour Party announced on Friday it is going to run only for two party-based electoral lists in the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to an official statement by the party.
Younis Makhyoun, head of the party, said that the party has decided to run for the Cairo and East and South Delta district, and West Delta district.
The party will be running for 45 seats in the Cairo and East and South Delta (six governorates) district. It will run for 15 seats in the West Delta (three governorates) district.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi accepted on Saturday the resignation of the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, MENA state news agency reported.
The cabinet had met earlier on Saturday and decided to submit their resignation to the president, according to Al-Ahram Arabic news website.
The president reportedly ordered the cabinet to continue carrying out their current responsibilities until a new cabinet is formed, and asked Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail to become prime minister and form a new cabinet.
Le Fédération de la gauche démocratique n’a pas obtenu de bons résultats au scrutin, cependant, elle peut se targuer d’avoir mené la campagne la plus intègre, sur un classement de neuf partis politiques, selon un rapport publié le 10 septembre par le CMDH (Centre marocain des droits de l’Homme).
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have submitted a draft constitutional amendment bill in the National Assembly Secretariat, seeking merger of Fata in the Provincially Administrated Tribal Areas (Pata) of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
The proposed 22nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2015 was submitted by Fata parliamentary leader MNA Shah Jee Gul Afridi to National Assembly Secretary Muhammad Khan.
KARACHI: The minority communities in Sindh are troubled yet again. For the upcoming local government elections, they have been deprived of the right to vote for their own candidates as the non-Muslims nominated on the reserved seats for minorities will be elected by members of union councils and union committees.
The UAE leadership is keen to empower women to become real partners in the country’s overall development, said Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs and Chairman of the National Election Committee on Thursday.
Gargash commended Emirati women for playing a pivotal role in the success of the electoral process, in a lecture on the Federal National Council (FNC) Elections 2015 at the Sharjah Ladies Club at the event held under the patronage of
Following efforts by President Hassan Rohani to limit the role of the Guardian Council in the elections, Iran’s Supreme Leader sided with the conservatives, emphasizing the legitimacy of the Guardian Council as the final authority on the election process.
In a speech on Wednesday September 9, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed the importance of the approaching parliamentary elections and maintained that all elections under the Islamic Republic regime have been legitimate and without reproach.
Le 9 septembre, la CGEM (Confédération générale des entreprises du Maroc) a procédé à l’élection du collège électoral qui désignera les huit personnes chargées de représenter les intérêts du patronat marocain à la Chambre des conseillers. Ce sera la première fois que le syndicat des patrons sera représenté devant cette institution constitutionnelle. Pour cette première, l’organisation compte « défendre ses intérêts » et ne s’inscrira pas dans une « logique de parti » nous indique Fadel Agoumi, directeur délégué de la CGEM .
Egypt's High Elections Committee (HEC) accepted on Thursday the application of steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz to stand as a nominated candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections despite a court order that was due to disqualify him from the race.
The application was presented by Ezz’s solicitor Mohamed Hamouda to the HEC in Shebin El-Kom in the Nile Delta governorate of Menoufiya
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ruling on Tuesday to disqualify Ezz from running in the parliamentary elections.
Abu Dhabi: Imparting knowledge through educators is the recipe for building a sophisticated and civilised society, says Obaid Al Zaabi, who is contesting for a seat in the Federal National Coucil (FNC)
However, he said certain measures need to be taken to ensure that these instructors do not feel underprivileged. “And turning this into reality is one of my aims once elected as an FNC member,” said Al Zaabi, who is the former UAE Ambassador to Kuwait.
Les négociations entre les chefs de partis de la majorité, réunis au domicile d’Abdelilah Benkirane, à Rabat, mardi 8 septembre, ont échoué à dégager un consensus clair sur qui présidera les régions et villes remportées par les partis au gouvernement.
Radikal, one of Turkey’s most popular news websites, shares offices with Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and its English-language sister the Hürriyet Daily News. It published the following account as an editorial on Sept. 7, hours after the violent attack carried out on the office building by pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) protesters:
At the moment, around 15 gendarmerie special teams are posted in the garden of our newspaper offices. Why are they here? They are here to protect us, the journalists, because you came to our home carrying stones and sticks.
The High Elections Committee (HEC) announced on Wednesday that it will redraw the boundaries of two electoral constituencies, one in Cairo and one in the Upper Egypt governorate of Qena, in accordance with an Administrative Court ruling issued on Monday.
On Monday, the Administrative Court ruled that the cabinet must redraw two constituency boundaries due to administrative errors committed.
Egypt's centre-left Constitution Party is set to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, member of the high board Khaled Dawoud told Ahram Online.
Dawoud said that the party’s secretary general Tamer Gomaa held a vote among the party members in which the majority voted ‘yes’ to participation in the upcoming elections.
