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La Coordination nationale pour les libertés et la transition démocratique (CNLTD) a rendu publique, ce samedi 31 mai, sa Plateforme politique. Le document a été adressé aux invités à la conférence nationale prévue le 10 juin à l’hôtel Hilton, à Alger.

Plus de 40 jours après l’élection présidentielle, Ali Benflis continue de contester les résultats officiels. « Avec le recul, mon appréciation reste strictement la même. Cette appréciation je l’ai exprimée en conscience sur la base d’une évaluation politique rigoureuse et sans concessions », explique l’ancien candidat dans un entretien publié ce samedi 31 mai par le journal El Watan.

The National Police are preparing to dispatch 372 personnel to improve security for presidential and vice presidential candidates in the lead up to the July 9 election.

Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno of the National Police’s security maintenance division said that personnel would assemble a special security team, which would begin working following the General Elections Commission (KPU) formal announcement of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Gerindra Party’s Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa as the official tickets in the race.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Thursday appointed Rami Hamdallah to head a unity government with Hamas amid disagreement over the foreign affairs portfolio, officials said.

Hamdallah is currently serving as prime minister within the West Bank-based government.

“The government is ready, but there is only one problem, and that is that Fatah and Hamas reject Riyad al-Malki as foreign minister, something Abbas is insisting on,” the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Rebel groups of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) will meet with opposition parties in Germany next June to discuss ways to develop a common platform on constitutional reforms and the national dialogue process, said the leader of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Girbil Ibrahim.

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also general chairman of Democratic Party (PD), said it was Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa who planned to present their vision and mission in front of PD cadres.

"I have never asked, let alone obliged presidential candidates to present their vision and mission in front of me," Yudhoyono said on his Twitter account on Thursday.

The head of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) provincial branch inAnkara has resigned, apparently as part of a reorganization of the party according to results of the March 30 local elections.

Since the elections, AKP officials have been expecting changes in Ankara as the party leadership has apparently decided to renew the organization via changes at provincial branches where the ruling party failed to achieve its targets. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said he is hopeful of agreeing on a joint presidential candidate with the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), but added that no specific name was discussed during his meeting withCHP head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on May 30.

A l'issue de la reprise du dialogue national, dans la matinée de ce vendredi 30 mai, la question de la tenue séparément ou en simultanée des élections législatives et de la présidentielle a été débattue. 

D'après la correspondante de Mosaique FM, la position des partis politiques qui participent au dialogue national diffère, puisque plusieurs appréhende des dépassements de la nouvelle constitution si le délai légal de la tenue des élections est dépassée.