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Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Jordan is committed to holding free and transparent parliamentary elections and providing all needed support to the Independent Elections Commission, IEC which will oversee and manage the polls.
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he Interior Ministry is prepared to issue preprinted ballots for next year’s parliamentary elections regardless of the electoral system ultimately chosen, the head of the ministry’s election unit said Monday.
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President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has ruled Georgia virtually unchallenged for nearly nine years, declared Tuesday that his party had lost parliamentary elections and would go into opposition.
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The parliamentary elections started in Georgia. Around 14 parties and two political blocks take part in the elections. The Parliament will receive more authority in 2013 after the amendments to the Constitution enter into force. The president's power will be reduced. The elections will be declared valid if the number of voters reaches one-third...
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No leader of the former Soviet republics has been more pro-Western than President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia. He moves easily in Washington and dreams of bringing his country into full NATO membership. But his government’s handling of prisons and its approach to parliamentary elections set for Monday are raising doubts about his commitment to democracy and reform.
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Public outcry over the rape and beating of prisoners in a Georgian prison is threatening the nine-year rule of U.S. ally President Mikheil Saakashvili in Oct. 1 parliamentary elections...
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There is a lot riding on Ukraine’s Oct. 28 parliamentary elections, and what happens between now and election day is just as important as the vote itself. But can Ukraine get it right?
From left to right: NDI President Kenneth Wollack, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), NDI Chairman and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Congressman David Price (D-NC) and IRI President Lorne Craner.
The evolution of international election observation and its impact were among the topics discussed by a panel of distinguished leaders that opened an international meeting on observation standards hosted by NDI in Washington last month.
“Together, we are determined to build on the lessons that we have learned and to make even greater gains in the future,” said NDI Chairman and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. “In offering that pledge, we feel a sense of urgency because election monitoring can have an enormous impact on human lives.”
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12/10/2012
Ghana's incumbent President John Dramani Mahama was announced the winner of the country’s Dec. 7 election, and urged his opponents, who have threatened to contest the polls, to “join [him] now as partners in the projects of nation-building and of creating a better Ghana."
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