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President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi held an “Ask the President” session during the National Youth Conference on Wednesday; a move seemingly unprecedented for an Egyptian president. The questions, too, were unusually straightforward; no one was beating around the bush. 

What the Q&A session signified in terms of internal policies was somewhat a new strategy for bringing the people and their president on closer terms. The presidential palace was opening wide, and the president was going to meet the people half way. 

À l'approche de l'élection présidentielle, prévue le 29 juillet, l'opposition prévoit de publier un ouvrage de 300 pages contre la politique du chef de l’État, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

D’ici à la présidentielle de juillet, l’opposition publiera un livre de 300 pages fustigeant la politique du chef de l’État, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, et intitulé Le Mali sous IBK : cinq années de mauvaise gouvernance politique et financière. Indignez-vous !

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North-led by Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar) welcomed the position of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) over the opposition’s participation in the 2020 elections and called for a large alliance against al-Bashir’s re-election

The SPLM-N Agar has called since several months for the participation of the opposition in the 2020 general elections in Sudan on the condition that a peace deal is struck, freedoms are guaranteed and transitional arrangements are implemented to ensure free and fair elections.

Pour sa première réaction officielle à la campagne de boycott, le PJD a adopté le même ton d'appel à  l'apaisement que le Chef du gouvernement, condamnant au passage le comportement "tendancieux" de la chaîne 2M avec Saâd Eddine El Othmani.

Plus de trois semaines après le lancement de la campagne de boycott des marques Afriquia, Sidi Ali et Centrale Danone, le parti de la Justice et du développement (PJD) s'est officiellement prononcé sur le sujet, par le biais d'un communiqué publié mercredi 16 mai sur son site officiel.

There are a total of 59.4 million eligible voters in Turkey and abroad, Supreme Election Board (YSK) Chairman Sadi Güven said on May 14. According to Güven, there are 56.34 million eligible voters in Turkey and 3 million Turkish expats entitled to cast their votes in the June 24 snap presidential and parliamentary elections.

The number of first-time voters is 1.65 million, while a total of 180,869 ballot boxes will be set up on polling day, Güven added. Turkish expats will vote in 60 countries at 123 diplomatic representations.

The lawyers of Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have appealed for his release from jail, saying his official candidacy constitutionally necessitates active participation in the election period.

Demirtaş’s lawyers appealed to the Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on May 15 demanding his release, stating that Turkey’s constitution and European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) legislation stipulates the “right to a free election.”

Lebanon’s Cabinet is expected to convene on Wednesday to address several key files, including a controversial electricity file, before it turns into a caretaker government on May 20, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

The meeting will take place at the Baabda Palace to “tackle and place several files on the solution track before the government turns into a caretaker cabinet,” well-informed sources told the daily.

The government conducts and will carry out projects to empower Turkish women whose rights and access to employment are often overlooked in male-dominated society.

In his party's manifesto ahead of the June 24 elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has pledged to end "every tradition of the age of ignorance targeting women." The Ministry of Family and Social Justice already works to empower women with projects to improve gender equality for women, which have lagged behind men in every field, courtesy of a patriarchal mindset.

Le tribunal administratif a reçu, ce lundi 14 mai, 34 appels rejetant les résultats des élections municipales.
22 dossiers ont été présentés par des listes partisanes, six appels émis par des listes partisanes, ainsi que six autres par diverses parties.