Voter registration for the elections for Benghazi’s new municipal council is to begin on 16 January and will last until the end of the month. Would-be voters will be able to register by texting their National ID numbers to the Benghazi sub-committee of the Central Committee for Municipal Council Elections (CCMCE). The phone number is 11711.
Budimir sacked Krajina on Friday over a complaint by several Croat war veterans’ organisations which said that their members had not received their pensions, but the president was quickly accused of forcing him out for political reasons.
After the dismissal of Krajina, a Croat, there are now not enough Croats in the Federation entity government for it to function properly.
Budimir has also demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nermin Niksic so that the whole entity government can be replaced.
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against Sindh High Court (SHC) verdict that declared as illegal the fresh delimitations before the upcoming local government polls in the province.
Advocate General (AG) Sindh, Khalid Jawed Khan filed the petition on behalf of the provincial government in the apex court’s Karachi registry, questioning SHC judgment of December 26, 2013.
KABUL (PAN): The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) on Saturday renewed its warning to presidential and provincial council candidates to avoid electioneering ahead of the stipulated time.
IECC officials say they have formally informed presidential and provincial council elections not to embark on election campaigns ahead of the time.
After a Lahore High Court order gave the Punjab government time to complete delimitations, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday announced postponement of Local Government Elections in the province, Express News reported.
Punjab local bodies polls had been scheduled for January 30, but will now be held only after authorities complete delimiting constituencies all over again, a process which could take six to eight months.
Official Spokesperson Omar Hmaidan explained during a press conference yesterday that the GNC is on the verge of discussing the law for the return of property appropriated by the previous regime.
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)’s leadership believes that local government elections in Punjab are likely to be delayed till 2019, following a ruling of Lahore High Court (LHC), which stopped the government from carrying out the delimitation exercise.
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday announced that it has declared Section 8 and 9 of the Punjab Local Government Act 2013 to be illegal, Express News reported.
Sections 8 and 9, which fall under the ‘local areas’ chapter of the Act, are related to the delimitation of Union Councils and the delimitation of wards in Municipal Committees respectively.
Lahore High Court’s full bench gave the final verdict.
The court announced that a new law should be created and implemented to tackle the issue of delimitation.
Despite the party’s efforts to restore the its reputation, not a single figure joining the Democratic Party convention to select a presidential candidate is popular enough to win the election, a new survey has shown.
The survey conducted by Indo Barometer found that Dahlan Iskan, the state-owned enterprise minister, was still the most popular, although he was only favored by 12.1 percent of the respondents.
Dahlan was followed by Pramono Edhie Wibowo, the former Army chief of staff and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s brother-in-law, who could only garner 1.9 percent.
A rare meeting this week between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Prabowo Subianto, one of the front-runners to replace him next year, has rekindled long-running speculation about a possible coalition between the two former Army generals’ parties.
The meeting took place behind closed doors on Tuesday morning at the State Palace, with Prabowo, the founder and chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), telling reporters afterward that he and the president had seen eye-to-eye on many of the economic and social issues affecting the country.
Abdelkader Bensalah a été élu, hier, à la majorité absolue des voix des congressistes, secrétaire général du RND pour les 5 années à venir. Sans surprise, le congrès a confirmé le soutien du parti à un quatrième mandat pour le président Bouteflika.
Libya's General National Congress on Monday voted to extend its mandate until December 24, 2014, a decision that will not be accepted by many Libyans who see the Congress as being a huge failure.
102 members out of 120 who attended the session voted in favour of the new transition plan.
Extremists can never understate the role of the Chinese and Indians in making Malaysia a better country, said an MCA central delegate from Bukit Mertajam.
Gui Guat Lye said Malaysians should not forget the sacrifices made by their ancestors in contributing to the country’s development.
“Extremists could ask us to return to China all they want but they cannot deny the role of our forefathers,” he said when debating the resolutions at the party’s 60th annual general meeting.
Bakrie, chairman of the Golkar Party, and Prabowo Subianto, founder and chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement Party — known as Gerindra — are neck-and-neck in the most recent poll of prospective presidential candidates, a survey showed on Sunday.
Hanta Yuda, executive director of Pol-Tracking Institute, said the survey, conducted from Sept. 13 to Oct. 11, found that Aburizal and Prabowo’s electability levels were almost equal.
“Prabowo was voted for by 11.73 percent of the respondents while Aburizal got 11.67 percent,” Hanta said.
KABUL (PAN): The European community has promised to continue playing an important role in ensuring that Afghanistan continues its transformation into a democratic state with a modern economy.
The assurance was held out at a one-day conference on the prospects and challenges for Afghanistan in the wake of next year’s troop withdrawal. The event was organised by the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee in Brussels.
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan stated that the thumb impression verification of the votes cast in the May 11 general elections should not be turned into a “political football”, Express News reported on Wednesday.
He was speaking during a National Assembly session in Islamabad.
“This issue has been made into an unnecessary problem by a political party,” the interior minister added, referring to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The General National Congress (GNC) and the High National Election Committee have been attacked by NGO Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) over the low representation of Amazigh, Tebu and Tuareg ethnic groups in the framing of the constitution.
