Crescent Star Party (PBB) advisory board head Yusril Ihza Mahendra announced his candidacy for the 2014 presidential election on Sunday, casting himself as an underdog in a speech delivered before hundreds of supporters in Indonesia’s second-largest city, a stronghold for the small Islamic party.
The opposition MPs staged a symbolic protest on Sunday by gathering all the assembly's microphones and handing them over to the speaker, Igor Radojicic, before they boycotted the day's session, media reported from Banja Luka.
They claimed that emergency procedures had been improperly used on Saturday to adopt the entity’s budget for 2014 urgently, in time to meet a Monday deadline imposed by the International Monetary Fund.
Lawmakers from the opposition Serb Democratic Party, the Party of Democratic Progress and the People's Democratic Movement took part in the boycott.
Présidentielle 2014. L’élection présidentielle aura lieu le 17 avril 2014, affirme Ennnahar citant une source bien informée. Selon le journal, la décision a été prise après la coordination de toutes les parties concernées.
The parliament’s financial and economic committee meets today to discuss ‘populist’ draft laws that include increases to social security, rent allowance and housing loans. Meanwhile, AlQabas daily quoted committee president Faisal AlShaya who revealed that Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sheikh Salem Abdul-Aziz AlSabah, as well as Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Health Minister Sheikh Mohammad AlAbdullah Al-Sabah, are invited “to provide the government’s opinion” on the proposals.
Iran's Student Day was marked in Tehran by students chanting slogans in support of the release of political prisoners.
The release date for the final voters list for the 2014 legislative elections has been revised after meetings between government institutions and the elections board on Wednesday. The final list will now be released 14 days prior to polling day on April 9.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has pushed the deadline back after announcing in November that the list would be released on Dec. 4.
NEW YORK –– The UN General Assembly on Friday endorsed Jordan as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2014-15 term.
A total of 178 out of 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of Jordan.
Jordan needed a two-third majority to win the seat.
Ahead of the vote, participants stood for one minute to pay respect to South African iconic leader, Nelson Mandela, who passed away on Thursday.
The Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) has said it will be flexible with the deadline for the General Elections Commission (KPU) to fix citizen registration problems still affecting around 3 million voters in the final list of 186 million voters.
As of Tuesday, the KPU and the Home Ministry had produced citizen registration numbers for around 7.1 million of 10.4 million voters who had lacked them. The KPU is scheduled to hold a plenary meeting on Wednesday, the deadline previously set by Bawaslu.
La Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) a indiqué que le second tour des éléctions municipales et législatives aura lieu le 21 décembre 2013.
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.
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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the transformation process in Umno should take into account the need for the party to move in tandem with the reality of new politics which now coloured the country’s political landscape.
Najib, who is also Umno president, said the party’s success thus far was not a guarantee for future success.
“To remain relevant, Umno has to be willing to carry out transformation that will reflect it as a party which is capable of assuring the future of the Malays and the country,” he said.
The Barisan Nasional component parties must resolve internal crises before implementing transformation to boost support of the people whom they represent, said Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
The Prime Minister said he was certain that all the Umno “friends” clearly understood that the fate of their parties depended on the extent of their capability to implement transformation.
“It is only with political will that we can come up with a party that is accepted by the public,” he said in an interview at his office in Parliament House yesterday.
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.
In the wake of his visit last night to Benghazi, Prime minister Ali Zeidan has today announced the formation of a ministerial committee to enforce the Law 53 ban on militias in the city.
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