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TELUK INTAN: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has described the straight fight for the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat on May 31 between Barisan Nasional and DAP as a “50-50 battle”.

Speaking to reporters after nomination for the by-election ended yesterday, Muhyiddin said the two-week campaign period would decide the outcome.

Gerakan president Datuk Mah Siew Keong will square off against DAP’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, the political secretary of Gelang Patah MP and party adviser Lim Kit Siang, in the by-election on May 31.

La sous-section ADEMA de Niamakoro a  reçu, vendredi dernier,la délégation du bureau de la section VI du parti avec  à sa tête le tout nouveau secrétairegénéral de la section Mahamane Mahalmadane Touré. Occasion pour les militants de Niamakoro d’échanger sans tabou avec eux sur leurs problèmes, les difficultés qu’ils traversent.

Porté au firmament pendant la campagne électorale, le mouvement Barakat (ça suffit) connaît des difficultés. Confrontés à des critiques internes, les principaux animateurs du mouvement, à la structure horizontale, sont à un virage historique.

Less than two weeks before presidential elections kick off in Egypt, activists on social media are mocking the two competing candidates, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, via hashtags*. 

“Every citizen taking a minibus to work should let his fellow citizen sit on his lap. This way the minibus will take [double] the passengers - imagine then how much diesel will be saved,” one user joked.

Vote contre logement ? La wilaya d’Alger a réagi promptement aux informations données, hier, par certains titres de la presse, selon lesquelles le relogement des habitants des bidonvilles est conditionné à leur participation à la dernière élection présidentielle.

The coalition led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's won the most seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections last month, boosting his chances for a third term in office, election officials said.

Monday’s results from the election commission showed Maliki's State of Law alliance garnered 92 out of 328 parliamentary seats, with the incumbent himself winning more than 721,000 personal votes.

Both were by far the highest such figures from the April 30 election.

Personal Life and Career

Hamdeen Sabahi was born on July 5, 1954 in a small Nile Delta town in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate called Baltim to a farmer father. 

Sabahi is married and has one daughter and one son. 

Sabahi studied Mass Communication at Cairo University in 1975. During his college years, the Nasserist politician began his political activism and ran for Student Union elections. 

GEORGE TOWN: The allegation by a Bukit Gelugor by-election independent candidate that Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had secretly expressed his support for PAS’ hudud in Kelantan is a lie.

Lim’s political secretary Wong Hon Wai in a statement on Monday said that the Chief Minister has never supported PAS’ Private Members Bill to implement its brand of hudud in his capacity as DAP secretary-general.

“Lim has also said that hudud will never be implemented in Penang. 

The Syrian opposition’s defense minister has resigned after reports of disagreements with the group’s head, opposition sources said on Monday.

Dissident Asaad Mustafa’s resignation from the government-in-exile highlights divisions among President Bashar al-Assad's opponents.

Mustafa, in his sixties,had been appointed to his post in November as part of a plan by the opposition National Coalition to administer rebel-held areas of the war-torn country, according to Reuters news agency.