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Indonesia’s Golkar party plans to establish a ruling coalition with other political parties modeled after Barisan Nasional if it wins the country’s elections next year, said its chairman Aburizal Bakrie.

Aburizal, who is the party’s presidential election candidate, said he had for many years been a “secret admirer” of Umno and Barisan as well as Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who had shown how a country like Malaysia could be brought forward under the framework of a political coalition.

The success of Barisan Nasional’s approach to politics in Malaysia’s plural society is rooted in its principle of moderation, said Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

He said the approach worked because the Barisan government listened to the people and tried to meet their rising expectations.

“We have liberalised our political system, getting rid of laws which allow detention without trial and we now allow university students to be involved in politics,” said Khairy at the Umno International Forum held ahead of the party’s general assembly on Tuesday.

Dans cet entretien, Rachid Nekkaz, qui a abandonné sa nationalité française pour se porter candidat à la présidentielle de 2014, revient sur sa stratégie et ses projets en Algérie.

The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party is the most popular political party on social media, a survey has shown.

The online media monitoring firm Katapedia found that Gerindra was the most-talked about political party in the month of November, making up 19.67 percent of total political party mentions on the social media platforms Twitter and Facebook.

CEO of Katapedia Deddy Rahman said that Facebook and Twitter were surveyed simply because among social media sites they had the largest number of users in the country.

Somalia's parliament has ousted Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon in a vote of confidence. Politicians blame wrangling over corruption allegations and personal loyalties.

Abdi Farah Shirdon, prime minister of the Horn of Africa nation for just over a year, lost a confidence vote in parliament after he resisted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's demand that he resign. Legislators said Mohamud and Shirdon had differed over the composition of a new Cabinet, prompting Monday's no-confidence vote.

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suggested delaying April elections to avoid heavy snow, organisers said, an idea that will rattle the United States and critics who fear he may be trying to drag out his second and final term.

Karzai is barred by the constitution from running for a third term and has so far refrained from backing any of the candidates, although he is widely expected to support his elder brother Qayum, seen as one of the front runners.

The committee responsible for amending the Egyptian constitution finished voting on a new draft of the charter on Sunday evening, approving four articles that had not been passed in earlier sessions.

The articles were discussed at a closed meeting on Sunday evening, before a final session at which they were passed. All of the articles relate to the upcoming elections.

Bersih 2.0 is organising a petition campaign calling for all Election Commission (EC) members to step down, claiming they had failed to conduct a free and fair general election.

Newly-minted steering committee chairman Maria Chin Abdullah said they are targeting January to send the petition to the King.

She claimed the EC had failed to clean up the electoral roll despite clear evidence of irregularities and had failed to act impartially.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met the country’s senior religious figures and discussed with them key domestic issues as well as developments in the Muslim world.