At the invitation of the Chairperson, Ms. Farfan (El Salvador) and Mr. Zoumanigui (Guinea) acted as tellers.

He or she is elected by Riigikogu, with two thirds of the votes required.

We continued talking during coffee and lunch.

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Thus, the strident calls to stop the Park 51 project are as serious a threat to freedom as an outright legal ban.

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President Chen agreed to a recount.

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More precisely, it gets as many votes in the Electoral College as it would have if it were a state, but no more votes than the state with the fewest votes, which is currently three (e.g.

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I should also like to thank the tellers for their assistance.

In previous Tunisian presidential referenda, Bin Ali routinely received 99 of the vote he now got 96 .

The 2006 Mexican elections had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal difference between the two most voted candidates and such difference was just about the 0.58 of the total vote.

Viktor Yushchenko has been elected with 52 of the popular vote. His opponent received 44 .

If a vote is equally divided on a matter other than an election, the proposal shall be regarded as rejected.

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If a vote is equally divided on a matter other than an election, the proposal shall be regarded as having been rejected.

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Such populist measures are vote winners.

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President Karzai won the election with 55.4 per cent of the vote.

The case could illustrate the fragility of free expression in the country, according to Global Voices Nevena Borisova, as social media may be covered within Bulgaria s criminal code penalizing defamation or insult.

Only one Trotskyite candidate received more than 4 of the vote, while the rest including the French Communist party, which for more than 30 years received a stable 20 of the vote gained less than 2 .

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