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The Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) is opting to elect their own candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, a party group said during a visit to Hurriyet’s Ankaraoffice on May 21. 

The HDP’s candidate will have high democratic values and will serve as an alternative to the ruling and main opposition’s party polarization.

Supporting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in a possible second round was tied to the specific candidate, the group also said. 

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C) hold a meeting with a group of 10 miners from Soma representing workers who recently held a sit-in protest in front of Soma municipality after the mine disaster.

Le Doyen et député à l'Assemblée Constituante, Fadhel Moussa, était l'invité de Midi Show pour revenir sur le sujet des quatre recours sur les cinq relatifs à la nouvelle loi électorale qui ont été rejetés par  l’instance provisoire chargée du contrôle de la constitutionnalité des lois et du 5ème recours dont le délai d'examen a expiré.

To say that the challenges facing Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's likely presidency look insurmountable is a huge understatement. As the next president, Sisi will have to contend with a sluggish economy, an energy crisis, a water crisis, vanishing tourism and foreign currency reserves, political instability and political violence. All the while, he will have to deal with voter expectations like those US President Barack Obama faced in 2008, and a potentially fatal backlash if he doesn’t deliver on them.

Au lendemain de son adoption par le Conseil des ministres, le plan d’action du gouvernement descend à l’APN. Le document a été déposé ce jeudi 22 mai au niveau du bureau de la chambre basse du Parlement. Premier constat à la lecture du document dont TSA s’est procuré une copie : le programme du gouvernement Sellal, qui sera débattu en plénière dans une semaine, ne contient aucune nouveauté ni annonce importante. Le plan de 49 pages puise dans les engagements déjà annoncés et répétés durant les quinze années du règne du président Bouteflika.

The Somali parliament on Wednesday (May 21st) formed a sub-committee tasked with finalising the country's provisional constitution before it is voted on in a nationwide referendum and preparing electoral laws for the 2016 elections.

Lawmaker Abdi Ali Hassan was elected as the chair of the committee and Elmi Mohamed Nur as his deputy, Africa Review reported.

Hassan said he was confident his committee would succeed in fulfilling its duties. "The current parliament will have to be replaced in 2016 by one-man, one-vote elected legislators," he said.

Paramadina University rector Anies Baswedan has announced that he will support the presidential and vice-presidential candidacies of Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Jusuf Kalla. He said the sole reason behind his decision was the belief that Indonesia needed a fresh figure with integrity to take the lead.

“We are in need of a new leader with a clean track record and committed to the graft-eradication movement,” the former head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ethics council said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Thursday.

The Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) should monitor the supporters of each candidate contesting the upcoming presidential election as with only two contenders taking part, rivalry could turn violent, a political expert has said.

“Political rivalry will be fierce. Friction at the grassroots level, especially among candidate supporters, will be substantial. Bawaslu must be ready to anticipate such friction,” Soegeng Sarjadi Syndicate executive director Ari Nurcahyo said in a discussion in Lembang, West Java, on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.