Opposition parties panned a Yisrael Beytenu proposal for electoral reform Wednesday night.
The legislation proposed by Knesset Law, Constitution and Justice Committee chairman David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu) increases the election threshold to four percent, limits the number of ministers including the prime minister to 19 and deputy ministers to four.
The Tamarod campaign called on Wednesday for a public gathering in Tahrir Square to collect signatures to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsi.
On its Facebook page, the campaign announced that the gathering is set to take place on Wednesday at 5 pm. The campaign called on citizens to join the gathering and support their calls for withdrawing confidence from Morsi and holding early presidential elections.
State commissioners of Egypt's administrative court recommended rejecting a case to oust President Mohamed Mursi, saying that it does not fall under the legal jurisdiction of the State Council on Wedensday.
A lawsuit had been filed demanding the dismissal of Mursi from his presidential post on the basis that “he did not commit to his sworn vows of maintaining the country’s stability and security during crisis.”
the house of representatives (parliament) is the only entity that can take legal action against the president
Rights group Amnesty International has renewed its call for the release of the jailed president of the Bahrain Teachers Association, Mahdi Abu Dheeb.
Mr Abu Dheeb was convicted by a military court of plotting to overthrow the government during unrest that swept Bahrain in 2011.
His original 10-year sentence was subsequently reduced to five on appeal.
Amnesty has described Mr Abu Dheeb as a "prisoner of conscience".
KABUL (): An alliance of opposition parties on Tuesday accused President Hamid Karzai of refusing to sign on law on the authority and structure of the Independent Electi
Barisan Nasional coalition has led Malaysia since independence from Britain in 1957 but faces real challenge in Sunday's polls
They are scandals that would spell political death for almost any government leader: allegations of ministerial corruption, a botched handling of a bloody insurgency, widespread accusations of electoral fraud and a murky case involving submarines and large sums of money.
Malaysians are voting on 5 May in a general election expected to be the tightest in the country's history.
The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN, National Front) coalition has held power since independence in 1957.
But it suffered its worst result in decades in the last elections in 2008, ceding five state governments to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition.
It also lost a two-thirds majority in parliament for the first time.
Ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Alihas been sentenced on Tuesday, inabsentia, to life imprisonment inthe case of revolution martyr Omar Haddad (Sfax) and NéjibKhecharm and Makrem Bouassida, injured in Sfax and Kerkennah.
As to former Interior Minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem, he was handeda 10 year-jail sentence.
The verdict was returned early Tuesday morning by the Military courtof Sfax.
KABUL (PAN): Some senators on Tuesday asked President Hamid Karzai to take the parliament and the nation into confidence on the “ghost money” the CIA allegedly handed out to his office over the past decade.
On Monday, the New York Times reported CIA delivered tens of millions of dollars to the president’s office -- a costly influence-peddling attempt that led to massive corruption in Afghanistan.
While debating the draft law on elections, the House of People approved another two articles of the law.
Chaired by Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi, Speaker of the House of People, Ibrahimi and some deputies talked on the importance of 8th of Saur the victory anniversary of Mujahidd
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday that he believes his three-party alliance can win this weekend's national polls and topple a coalition that has ruled for nearly 56 years.
Sunday's general elections will pit Prime Minister Najib Razak's National Front coalition against Anwar's People's Alliance, which has pledged to tackle what it considers deep-rooted problems like corruption and racial discrimination.
KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 (Bernama) -- Malaysians must ensure the Barisan Nasional (BN) is returned to power with a more than a two-thirds majority in parliament in Sunday's general election to enable the government to be in a strong position to govern the nation, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today.
The former prime minister said BN needed a resounding victory to facilitate coalition to implement all the policies that have been planned for the people's well-being and the nation's prosperity.
BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt will continue to hold talks over the electoral law, sources close to the speaker said Monday, hours after the PSP rejected Berri’s hybrid proposal.
Speaking to The Daily Star, the sources said that Berri and Jumblatt agreed to hold more discussions to tackle the number of districts and MPs to be elected under proportional representation and under a winner-takes-all system, respectively.
BEIRUT: Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel discussed Tuesday with caretaker Social Affairs Minister
The National Assembly, in a session chaired by Speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, listened to a report on security situation in North and South Kordofan. The report was presented by the committee set up by the parliament and chaired by Mohamed Al-Hassan Al-Amin, the chairman of the Parliament's Security and Defence Committee.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday following a parliament session, Al-Tahir affirmed the House's support for the armed forces to defend the country and repulse rebel attack.
The dialogue of the political parties resumed, on Monday afternoon in Dar Dhiafa in Carthage, in the absence of Al-Joumhouri Party which suspended its participation pending the revelation of the position of the Ennahdha movement concerning the nature of the political regime.
Al-Joumhouri had announced, on Saturday, that it will not resume dialogue as Ennahdha persist to give broader skills to the Prime Minister.
President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika had a transient ischemic attack Saturday at 12:30 am without after-effects,announced Director of the National Centre of Sports Medicine, Professor Rachid Bougherbal."The first investigations have been already carried out and the President of the Republic needs rest before continuing examinations," he added, while reassuring that "there is no worry" about his condition.
"there is no worry" about his condition.
