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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad will face two other candidates in the coming June presidential election, the country's Supreme constitutional Court announced Sunday, according to The Associated Press (AP).

21 other candidates were found to be ineligible to run, according to court spokesman Majid Khadra said on state television. He did not elaborate.

Almost 130 legislators gathered together at a hotel in Mogadishu, they called on the Somali President Hassan Sheikh to resign in a strongly worded letter:

Federal Republic of Somalia

Date: 05/05/14

To: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud – (President of the Somali Federal Republic)

CC: Mr. Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari – (Speaker of the Somali Parliament)

CC: Ambassador Nickolas Kay – (UN Special Representative of the Secretary General)

Re: Call for resignation

Dear Mr. President,

Avant d'entrer à la séance de Dialogue National, le Président de l'ISIE a déclaré sur nos ondes que l'organisation des élections présidentielles et législatives en parallèle  est possible. Chafik Sarsar a cependant déclaré que leur organisation au même moment posera différents problèmes.

Source/Fuente: http://www.mosaiquefm.net/fr/index/a/ActuDetail/Element/36798-c-sarsar-i...

Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed presented the 2014 Work Plan to parliament on Saturday (May 3rd), outlining the ways the government intends to pursue its Vision 2016 goals.

The work plan includes blueprints for establishing inclusive political processes, justice reforms, economic recovery, enhancing social services delivery, mobilising domestic revenue and boosting capacity of government institutions.

The Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) said that stalled vote counting in some provinces was mostly due to alleged vote-rigging, not administrative errors.

Bawaslu chairman Muhammad said over the weekend that the agency had issued a recommendation to the National Police to launch an investigation into individuals allegedly responsible for election-related crimes that had caused vote-counting delays.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has delivered clear signals that its leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will run in Turkey’s first ever direct election for president in August.

A decision made in a five-hour long meeting of the AKP’s highest decision-making body, the Central Decision and Executive Council (MKYK), on May 2 is considered to be the clearest of these signals, with the party ultimately opting to maintain its three-term limit for its deputies.

Parliament will gather today for a long-delayed session, during which summary of proceedings for four ex-ministers of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) facing graft charges will be debated.

The session comes after a one-and-a-half month delay due to the local elections held on March 30 and also a procedural flaw in the related motions.

Le président de l’Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les élections (ISIE), Chafik Sarsar a déclaré suite à sa rencontre avec le chef du gouvernement, Mehdi Jomaâ que le budget consacré à l’organisation des prochaines élections s’élève à 100 millions de dinars.