Former speaker of the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais facilitated a meeting between Muslim-based political parties in an effort to set up a coalition known as the “central axis.”
United Development Party (PPP) secretary-general M. Romahurmuziy said that Amien had convinced the leaders of 14 Muslim parties to start a coalition ahead of the 2014 legislative election.
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.
by Göksel Bozkurt
The March 2014 local elections hold historical significance for four political parties represented in the Parliament as it may bring about both the presidential elections five months later and the general elections scheduled for 2015 – if the date won’t be moved to an earlier one.
KABUL (Reuters) - El presidente afgano, Hamid Karzai, ha sugerido retrasar las elecciones de abril para evitar las fuertes nevadas, dijeron los organizadores, en una idea que agitará a Estados Unidos y a las voces críticas que temen que quiera tratar de prolongar su segundo y último mandato.
La Constitución afgana no permite que Karzai asuma un tercer mandato y hasta ahora no ha apoyado a ninguno de los candidatos, aunque se espera ampliamente que apoye a su hermano mayor Qayum, uno de los favoritos.
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The first in a series of elections across Libya were held Saturday in four towns in the south of the country and in the restive east to replace local councils set up after the 2011 revolution that ousted from power Muammar Gaddafi. |
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.
An Iranian government spokesman has announced that the Rohani administration is working to end the house arrest of reformist figures and bring about the release of political prisoners.
In an interview with Etemad Newspaper on Thursday, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said the public should maintain its confidence in Hassan Rohani’s promises to open up the political scene, adding that the administration prefers to work hard at matters rather than merely make statements.
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.
The PKR elected representatives in Selangor have agreed to donate either RM1, 000 or 20% of their newly revised salary to an education fund for the poor.
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said on Saturday that Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim was receptive to his idea.
He added that he has yet to put forth the idea to elected representatives of PAS and DAP in the state.
Anwar said as the plan is tentative, the mechanics of the donation have yet to be worked out.
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.
Following the termination of its agreement with the National Encryption Body (Lemsaneg), the General Elections Commission (KPU) has said that it was now seeking help from universities, information technology (IT) experts and even hackers to secure voter data for the 2014 polls.
The Iranian presidency’s legal advisors have published the first draft of the Charter of Citizen Rights, as promised earlier by President Hassan Rohani.
The President’s Office reports that the charter was prepared with “input from universities, seminaries, thinkers and scholars across the country” and was published together along with the 100-day report of the government.
KUWAIT: Gulf Cooperation Council parliament and Shura council chiefs have come up with a number of joint recommendations at the end of a meeting in Kuwait yesterday. They decided that Kuwait will host a conference of the committee of parliament chiefs on GCC economic integration in 2014, while Kuwait’s National Assembly will also be responsible for organizing a trip involving the regional group to the US Congress.
Aucun parti ou coalition de partis politiques n'a obtenu la majorité aux élections législatives du 24 novembre au Mali où un second tour aura lieu le 15 décembre, selon les résultats provisoires annoncés mercredi soir par le gouvernement.
Le taux de participation a été de 38,4%, soit environ 10 points de moins qu'au second tour de la présidentielle du 11 août, "en deçà de nos attentes", a reconnu le ministre malien de l'Administration du territoire, Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, en annonçant les résultats provisoires.
With only a few months to go before the country goes to the polls, political parties are now engaged in talks with one another, strengthening ties in the hope of securing the best possible outcome from the national ballot box.
Gun Gun Heryanto, a political analyst at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, said on Tuesday that all parties were currently considering their options.
“Political elites are looking to find common ground in the hope of finding agreements in the future,” he said.
The Golkar Party will need to work hard to consolidate internally if its chairman and presidential candidate, Aburizal Bakrie, is to score a victory in next year’s election, commentators say.
“Golkar is experienced in winning legislative elections, but is always vulnerable when it comes to presidential elections,” Gun Gun Heryanto, a political communications lecturer at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, said on Tuesday.
“In the reform era, divisions within Golkar in the run-up to presidential elections have long been an issue.
With the lack of a strong Islamic figure in Indonesia’s current political scene and the rise of other political icons such as Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, Islamic-based parties may have to settle for nominating a vice presidential candidate in next year’s election, a new survey shows.
“It is very difficult for Islamic parties if they want to support their own presidential candidates,” Umar S. Bakry, the executive director of the National Survey Institute (LSN), said on Monday. “The most realistic move for them is to nominate a vice presidential candidate.”
Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has again topped a poll of prospective presidential candidates, despite there being no move by his party to officially nominate him for the nation’s highest office.
In a survey by Australia-based Roy Morgan Research, Joko was chosen by 37 percent of respondents, followed by Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) co-founder and chief patron Prabowo Subianto, who was favored by 15 percent.
Results from polling stations across Mauritania began to trickle in Sunday but the electoral commission said it wasn’t in a position to give an early picture of nationwide trends.
The commission said counting had been delayed in many regions where people were allowed to cast their ballots after the official deadline, adding that definitive results from Saturday’s election would be made available “perhaps in the middle of the week.”
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