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Over 20 Yemeni reporters took part in a training workshop that runs from May 19 to 21 at the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a US-funded organization.
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The results from the first democratic elections to take place in Benghazi for more than four decades were announced this evening by the head of Benghazi’s electoral commission, Suleiman Zubi. He said that 138,312 people had voted.
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The final results in Algeria’s parliamentary elections confirm an overpowering victory for the national liberation front (NLF) who will dominate the future parliament with 220 representatives. Polls opened across Algeria at 8am Thursday (May 10th), with nearly 21 million voters expected to take part in the historic legislative election.
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Algerians will be voting for a new parliament on 10 May. The big question is whether this election will turn out to be as free and successful as the recent ones in neighbouring Tunisia and Morocco.
Forty-four political parties and 7,646 candidates are battling for 462 seats. By having so many contenders, the government is hoping that Islamist parties will be squeezed.
Two women vote in Sousse. Photo by Alexis Arieff
Women of all ages, regions and walks of life took to the streets last year during the uprising that led to the ouster of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. They participated as candidates and campaigners during the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) elections that followed, encouraged by the country’s new electoral law that required a “zipper system” that alternated men and women on candidate lists. As the political transition continues, Tunisian women are playing active roles in civil society and political parties.
Author:
Gabriella Borovsky and Asma Ben Yahia
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
05/01/2012
Resource Type:
Focus Group Report
Language:
English
Women wait to vote in Benghazi municipal elections. Photo by Megan Doherty.
Libyan voters went to the polls in Benghazi May 19 to elect members of the city’s local council. It was the first election held there in more than four decades. Though NDI did not field an international observation mission, Megan Doherty, NDI resident senior program officer in Libya, was accredited to observe the vote. Here she shares her informal observations of the voting process.
Source:
Washington Post
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Published Date:
05/22/2012
Writing in the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum reports on Libya’s stability as they near the June elections. Applebaum describes the dangers in Janzour, the former Libyan Naval Academy that is now home to more than 2,000 refugees displaced by the Libyan revolution. A few of these refugees, from the town of Tawergha, joined the regime’s soldiers last summer and are now fearful of retaliation and attack by the anti-Gaddafi opposition known as the Misrata militia.
Young Libyans in Benghazi celebrate Liberation Day. Photo by Megan Doherty.
As the political transition proceeds in Libya, leaders continue to struggle to meet public expectations on key issues such as security, political reform and standard of living, according to a new public opinion study by NDI.
Author:
Megan Doherty
Publisher:
National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
05/22/2012
Resource Type:
Focus Group Report
Language:
Arabic, English
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