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La commission de législation générale a convenue aujourd’hui, 27 mars 2014 lors de sa réunion sur les critères de candidature à l’Instance provisoire pour le contrôle de la constitutionnalité des lois notamment l’intégrité, l’indépendance, la neutralité avec une expérience dans le domaine du droit supérieure à 20 ans. 

Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Moeldoko said he regretted the tardiness of a request for help in organizing the upcoming April 9 legislative election from the General Elections Commission (KPU).

“I offered the KPU my help last year but it barely responded. Now, with the election drawing near, just a week away, it finally requests back up. I will do it anyway but I must draw a firm line first so the TNI won’t be blamed should anything go wrong,” Moeldoko told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.

Quatrième mandat contre passation du témoin à la génération post-indépendance. C’est cela le message du clan du président-candidat, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Le président de l’Union des forces de progrès (UFP), Mohamed Ould Maouloud, a déclaré que le fait que le gouvernement pose des conditions préalables pour entrer dans un dialogue politique avec l’opposition capable d’ouvrir la porte à l’organisation d’élections présidentielles, n’est pas encourageant pour l’entrée dans un vrai dialogue susceptible de mettre un terme à la crise que traverse le pays.

The National Police chief of operational assistance, Insp. Gen. Arif Wachyunadi, has said the incidence of political violence in Aceh was increasing. So far this campaign season the police have recorded 24 cases of political violence, three more than were recorded during the 2009 general election. 

Arif highlighted that heated tension and competition between rival parties was likely the source of the violence.

Sarajevo City Council has cancelled its earlier decision to award honorary citizenship to Milan Bandic, the Mayor of Zagreb, after he said Bosnia should have three entities, not two.

The City Council of Sarajevo has withdrawn its decision, made in February, to make Zagreb Mayor Milan Bandic an honorary citizen of the Bosnian capital owing to his recent statements backing a third, Croatian entity for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Deputy Sarajevo Mayor Aljosa Campara said he hoped the decision would not harm relations between Sarajevo and Zagreb.

Sudan’s opposition umbrella organisation National Consensus Forces (NCF) has called on the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to accept conditions set by the opposition for engaging in national dialogue.

The NCP had stipulated setting a timetable to apply opposition conditions, however, the NCF rejected the proposal, maintaining its position that the NCP must agree to its conditions prior to any dialogue taking place.

Jakarta. A new survey released on Wednesday has revealed that the ruling Democratic Party and the scandal-ridden Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have topped the list of Indonesia’s least popular political parties in Indonesia.

The polling body, Charta Politika, said that when respondents were asked which party they were most averse to, 17.1 percent chose the Democratic Party, while 8.5 percent said the PKS. Coming in at third was the Golkar Party, which garnered 6.6 percent of the vote in the survey.

Kemasuk, Yogyakarta. Painted on the back of trucks and emblazoned across T-shirts, the smiling face of former Indonesian dictator Suharto has become a common sight across Java 16 years after his downfall.

“How are you bro? Still better in my time, no?!” runs a phrase commonly printed alongside the late army general, toppled following more than three decades in power when the Asian financial crisis tore into Indonesia.