About 120 international monitors from 15 countries are watching the parliamentary elections in Nagrony Karabakh, which is the Armenian enclave on the territory of Azerbaijan. Four political parties are taking part in the vote: the Free Motherland, the Democratic Party, the Communist party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun). The election has seen a controversial response of the global community. →
Voters in Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave seeking independence from Azerbaijan, went to polling stations on Sunday to elect a local parliament. More than 70 international observers are supervising the polls. Sunday’s vote has triggered a mixed response from the international community. The European Union has declared it illegal. →
A manual recount of the ballots from the latest parliamentary elections in Iraq on March 7th has not changed the allocation of seats. →
The Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) has begun a manual vote recount, aiming to count the votes, cast by the Baghdad voters at the parliamentary elections on March 7th, in compliance with the urgent request of the current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliqi, who said that the electronic counting system is not reliable. →
A gaffe made by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his meeting with voters in Greater Manchester may cost Labor their parliamentary seats in general election due on May 6th. Mr. Brown made the unfortunate gaffe while on a walkabout in Rochdale, where he spoke to Gillian Duffy, 65, who claimed she always voted Labor. Mrs. →
A final count from the latest presidential elections in Sudan in the five days from April 11th gives 68 percent of the vote to the incumbent President Omar al-Bashir. This means he has secured another term. →
Preliminary vote count has shown that Austria’s president Heinz Fischer had been re-elected for another six years. 78 percent voted for the incumbent president on the Sunday elections. His rivals were Barbara Rosenkranz from the anti-EU Freedom Party and Rudolf Gehring of the Austrian Christian Party. Turnout was 48 percent only. →
Voters in Austria went to polling stations on Sunday to elect the country’s new president. Running for the post are Barbara Rosenkranz of the extreme right Freedom Party, Rudolf Gehring of the Christian Party and the independent candidate Heinz Fischer. The latter leads opinion polls with nearly 80% of Austrians saying they are ready to support him. →
Britain’s second televised election debate, which drew to a close on Sky News on Thursday night, put Conservative leader David Cameron in first place, according to the YouGov poll for the Sun newspaper. →
The presidential election in Kyrgyzstan will be held on October 10, Deputy Head of the interim government Omurbek Tekebayev said Thursday. He said that on June 27 a national referendum on the constitutional reform will be held. On April 7, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was removed from power by the opposition. →
Early presidential elections in Poland will be held on June 20, acting President Bronislaw Komorovski said on Wednesday, citing a decree to this effect he said he signed earlier in the day. →
Britain ’s third-largest political party, the Liberal Democrats, has for the first time topped pre-election opinion polls. →
Acting President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski has good chances to win early presidential elections, according to the recent opinion poll conducted by Polish magazine Fact. →
The Kremlin’s Africa envoy Mikhail Margelov reports only minor technical irregularities in presidential, parliamentary, regional and local elections in Sudan in the five days beginning with April 11 th . For the first time in a quarter century, there was a choice of parties and manifestos before the voters. →
Turkish nationalist, leader of the Party of National Unity Dervis Ergolu has won the election in the Northern (Turkish) part of Cyprus receiving 50.4% of votes. His rival leader of Turkish Cypriots Mehmet Ali Talat was supported by 42.9 % of voters. Ergolu's party has traditionally been against reunification with Greek Cypriots. →
Sudan is holding its first multi-party elections for 24 years. Observers stress that their results will determine the political development of the East African country of Sudan for the coming few months. →
Sudan is holding the first multi-party elections in 24 years. Over 16 million people are expected to cast their votes during three days to elect a new president and the new parliament. →
People in Sudan are going to the polls on Sunday through Tuesday in presidential, parliamentary and regional elections, their country’s first in 24 years. According to the National Election Commission, more than 20 thousand domestic and foreign observers will be at work. →
The Russian Duma aims to pass a few draft projects which may result in regional parliaments having one-member factions. The draft projects to stimulate a multi-party system in self-government institutions were submitted by President Dmitry Medvedev. The aim is to make people in the regions more politically active and offer more opportunities to the local small parties. →
People in Iraq have started voting in a two-day referendum to help Parliament pick a new Prime Minister. The vote was called by the followers of the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. →