The Constitution Conciliation Commission has agreed to keep unchanged the first article of the current Constitution, which defines the form of the state as a “republic,” though parties have been unable to reach a consensus over the second article, in which the characteristics of the republic are detailed.
KABUL (PAN): Residents of different provinces demand opening of more voter registration centres, but election officials say they cannot positively respond to such calls due to paucity of funds.
In the build-up to presidential and provincial council polls in April 2014, voter registration centres were set up on May 24 in the capitals of all the 34 provinces and the second phase started in July at district level.
AMMAN — As of early morning Tuesday, more than 2.3 million Jordanians are expected to head to polling centres to cast their votes for candidates in the municipal elections.
The elections will see thousands of candidates running for the position of mayor and spots on municipal councils of 100 municipalities, in addition to the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM).
The Justice and Construction Party (J&C) today refuted claims that they control General National Congress and exerted an undue influence on the government. Such claims were dismissed by a spokesman as “slanderous”.
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Friday announced the official results of the country’s largest by-polls and ruling party Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) once again topped the electoral race by winning 18 of the 39 national and provincial assembly seats.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Awami National Party (ANP), which had fared poorly in the general elections despite being in the ruling coalition for five years, seem to be awakening while the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf’s (PTI) ‘tsunami’ seems to have receded.
Kyrgyzstan's Central Election Commission (BSK) has withdrawn the parliamentary mandates of three leaders of the opposition Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) party.
The BSK's representative, Rashid Bekbasarov, told journalists that the decision on August 20 to strip them of their seats in parliament went into effect immediately.
SA’ADA, Aug. 21 — President Abdu Rabu Mansur Hadi established a committee on Wednesday tasked with ending the renewed clashes in Damaj, Sa’ada between the Houthis affilaites and Salafis.
President Hadi ordered the committee to meet with five representatives from each group in order to reach a solution to the conflict, said Hassn Zaid, head of the Al-Haq Party.
Three Damaj residents were killed and eight wounded Tuesday and Wednesday after the two sides exchanged gunfire, Damaj resident Mohammed Al-Wadei said. Machine guns and bazookas were used during the clashes.
Lawmaker says a lack of clear criteria for a presidential candidate are causing problems
Marzuki Alie, the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party board of patrons, has criticized the party’s convention committee, saying it does not understand what the ruling party is seeking in its 2014 presidential candidate.
The lawmaker warned that he would reconsider taking part if committee members — tasked with nominating a presidential candidate — did not take their job seriously.
SDPK leads in Kara-Suu town council deputies elections. Special representative of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in Kara-Suu Territorial Election Commission (TEC) Rasulbek Kadyrov reported to 24.kg news agency .
According Rasulbek Kadyrov, today Kara-Suu TEC holds a meeting, where it confirmed the voting protocols and distributed deputy’s mandated among the parties. SDPK received 18 mandates in town council, Onuguu-Progress- 6 mandates, Bir-Bol- 4, and Zamandash- Sovremennik- 3 mandates.
PONTIAN, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- Candidates for the Umno polls have been reminded to maintain discipline and not resort to any action that could tarnish the image of the party.
Umno information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan said Umno should set an example to Barisan Nasional (BN) component and opposition parties in conducting a transparent and clean party's election.
AMMAN — A Royal Decree was issued on Wednesday approving Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour’s first Cabinet reshuffle since he came to office in March this year, raising his team members to 27 from 19, including the premier.
The reshuffle saw 13 new ministers join the government, including two women, while five others left their post.
An apparent power struggle has broken out within the Democratic Party for control of the House of Representatives legal affairs commission, with a challenger claiming the support of the president but the incumbent shrugging off the contest.
Gede Pasek Suardika, the current House Commission III chairman, is being challenged by Ruhut Sitompul.
Ruhut said he secured support from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also party chairman, to be appointed chair, adding that Jero Wacik, a minister and party adviser, was present when the president backed him a month ago.
BEIRUT: Representatives of the Amal Movement met Wednesday withFree Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun at his residence in Rabieh, a Change and Reform bloc MP told The Daily Star.
MP Ibrahim Kanaan said that MP Ali Bazzi, from Speaker Nabih Berri’s Development and Liberation bloc, and other Amal representatives visitedRabieh in the morning.
“They will likely hand General Aoun an invitation to the anniversary of missing Imam Musa Sadr's disappearance,” Kanaan said.
AMMAN — A group of Islamist activists led by current and former Muslim Brotherhood leaders are set to open an office in Amman next week, amid reports of a widening schism within the Islamist movement.
According to Islamists, the decision taken by the National Initiative for Building, or “Zamzam” — a socio-political movement launched by the liberal wing of the Muslim Brotherhood — represents the first official step into the political realm for the coalition.
The North Cairo Court ordered the release on Wednesday of former president Hosni Mubarak in the Al-Ahram gifts case after repaying the value of the gifts received, following a trial at Tora Prison.
Mubarak had been accused of unlawfully receiving expensive gifts from state-run Al-Ahram, with the court having previously considered an appeal filed by Mubarak’s defense attorney Farid Al-Deeb, according to state-run Al-Ahram.
L'hebdomadaire Alakhbar Info a révélé, mercredi, les détails des négociations, entre majorité et opposition dialoguiste, sur le report des élections législatives et municipales, prévues le 12 octobre 2013.
The Egyptian presidency received on Wednesday draft constitutional amendments from the judicial committee, which spent one month revising articles from the suspended 2012 constitution, according to a presidency statement.
A decree on 8 July by interim president Adly Mansour ordered that a 10-member judicial committee be formed to propose amendments to the suspended 2012 constitution within thirty days from the date of its formation.
KABUL (PAN): A major coalition of political parties to be formed in the next few days would introduce a consensus nominee for the presidential election, a politician said on Wednesday.
