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"A new coalition agreement should provide for the right of veto for PM on undesirable fir him candidacy for the post of member of the Government," the leader of Ar-Namys faction Felix Kulov informed 24.kg news agency.

According to him, the previous agreement didn't involve this point. "But it is not my fault. Now, I think, we must take this into account. Now it is very important to raise the statehood and develop parliamentarianism," Felix Kulov said and added that Ar-Namys doesn't try to get into a coalition at any cost.

Alger (© 2014 AFP) - L'ancien président algérien Liamine Zeroual s'est adressé aux Algériens, à moins d'un mois de la présidentielle du 17 avril lors de laquelle son successeur brigue un quatrième mandat, appelant à l'alternance au pouvoir, dans une lettre publiée jeudi dans la presse.

M. Zeroual, 72 ans, qui a démissionné et s'est retiré de la politique mais reste très populaire en Algérie, dit s’exprimer par "obligation morale". 

The former rebel Justice and Equality Movement led by Bakheit Abdallah Abdel-Karim (Dabajo) (JEM-Dabajo) referred its difference with the head of Darfur peace implementation Office, Amin Hassan Omer, to the president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.

Last Tuesday the group said that state minister Omer refused to give them the chairmanship of Darfur Reconstruction and Development Fund (DRDF) who told them that the holder of this position would be named by the donor countries.

Religious Affairs Minister and United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali has failed to attend the Banten office of the General Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) to answer questions relating to allegations of violating campaign rules.

Suryadharma is suspected of having used state facilities for his party’s interests and campaigning in a mosque when attending an event held by the Islamic Dakwah Indonesia Institution (LDII) in Banten on Tuesday.

Golkar Party chairman and presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie told party cadres and sympathizers in Medan, North Sumatra that a Golkar win in the upcoming elections was the only path to a state of welfare in this country.

“If you want to live in a better condition, then Golkar must win the elections,” he told a campaign meeting at Merdeka square in Medan on Thursday as quoted by antara.com.

Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate, visited the central board of Muhammadiyah on Thursday, the country’s second largest Muslim organization, and met with its chairman Din Syamsuddin.

This was Jokowi’s second visit to the Muhammadiyah central board office in Jakarta during his governorship.

Upon arrival, Jokowi, Din and the rest of the entourage performed a mass Duhur prayer in the Muhammadiyah mosque with Jokowi as the imam (leader of the mass prayer).

The University’s of Indonesia’s (UI) Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM-UI) has estimated that a legislative candidate for the House of Representatives must spend an average of Rp 1.18b (US$104,045) to have any chance of securing victory in the upcoming election.

“This figure has increased from an average of Rp 250 million in the 2009 legislative election,” LPEM-UI researcher Teguh Dartanto said as quoted by Antara news agency on Wednesday.

He estimated the total income of a House member for five years reached to between Rp 5.3 and Rp 5.4 billion.

Le Président du parti Al Moubadra, Kamel Morjane était l'invité de Boubaker et Néji Zaïri dans Midi Show : La Grande Interview de ce jeudi 20 mars 2014. Pour entamer l'interview, Kamel Morjane a déclaré que son appartenance au gouvernent Ben Ali en 2005, n'avait aucune relation avec le faite qu'il soit le gendre de Ben Ali.

Kamel Morjane a aussi déclaré qu'il n'était pas aussi proche de Ben Ali que ce que la rumeur laisse comprendre. Il pouvait même passer plus de six semaines de suite sans entrer en contact avec lui.