Competing Fatah candidates split the vote, ensuring that Hamas nominees won.

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Few qualified Kosovo Serb candidates are presented.

Thus, in a direct run off between a Front candidate and a Socialist or UMP candidate, the Socialists and the UMP usually vote for each other.

Ever since de Gaulle, all candidates for the French presidency who started too early have lost.

The system is so designed as to promote consensus Presidential candidates among the main political parties.

From 4 to 9 June, provisional candidate lists were widely displayed.

I am convinced that the electoral campaign will take place in a peaceful climate, in spite of the large number of presidential candidates.

Tea Party candidates have even hinted that armed resistance to the US government may soon be justifiable.

In the December 21, 28 1919 municipal elections the multiracial lists of PRSI won in all four municipalities.

In general, each team comprises a generalist' who covers cross cutting inventory issues and one or two experts for each inventory sector energy, industrial processes, agriculture, waste, and land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF).

One week before the poll, some opposition candidates have yet to air even one campaign ad on Egyptian television.

One candidate, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran's Mayor, has even defended internet filtering in his campaigns.

Another wrong turn is the proposal recently embraced by two American presidential candidates to temporarily scrap taxes on gasoline.

Open list systems, where voters have influence on the order in which a party s candidates are elected, provide no such guarantee.

iyad_elbaghdadi At the very least, presidential debates in Egypt will give our stand up comedians some new material! Hesham Alquraini believes such debates would be highly significant heshamq If the debates between the Egyptian presidential candidates really happen, it will be an unprecedented leap in Arab political history

Preparations are in full swing for the presidential elections in Egypt, set for May 23 and 24, 2012, with candidates' election posters already up on the streets.

As it happens, Putin is now entrenching the already dominant United Russia party by his decision to head the party s candidate list in December s parliamentary election.

Among the many surprises during the Republican Party presidential candidates debates a couple of weeks ago was the rekindled importance of immigration.

Although none of the aspiring candidates for the US presidency can match him in terms of zaniness, similar trends are plain to see.

If one presidential candidate refuses to cooperate in this manner, that should confer an advantage on the candidate who is willing to disclose more fully the specifics of his plan.

For the presidential election, however, the practice of holding three televised debates between the two major parties candidates should be an opportunity for a thorough airing of those issues.

Civil society groups report the arrests of opposition electoral candidates, the manipulation of food supplies for political purposes, and violent incidents of voter intimidation.

The idea of a Tea Party candidate becoming US president is alarming, to be sure, but European populists could only be part of coalition governments.

The Election Law of Bosnia and Herzegovina that obligates political parties to secure at least one third of the candidates of the less represented gender in their election list of candidates.

The technicality the commission cited would be absurdly funny if its potential results were not so incendiary the CEC objected to the fact that the Tymoshenko bloc candidates listed only their home towns on the party list, not their precise street address.

All countries, for example, should adopt quotas requiring that no more than half of parties legislative candidates in each district be of the same sex.

Led by America s Mr. Conservative, Senator Barry Goldwater, and the leading contender for the 1980 Republican nomination, Ronald Reagan, the Taiwan lobby would fight normalization all the way.

For example, Bolivia TV devoted 62.7 of its news bulletins to the government party s candidates, whereas the seven opposition parties combined mustered only a 37.2 share. This, according to Weber, amounted to an abuse of institutional propaganda.

For example, Bolivia TV devoted 62.7 of its news bulletins to the government party s candidates, whereas the seven opposition parties combined mustered only a 37.2 share. This, according to Weber, amounted to an abuse of institutional propaganda.

In fact, while opposition candidates were given fair exposure on private TV and radio, the EU Head of Mission observed various cases in which their state controlled counterparts privileged the government s parliamentary candidates.

Candidates from the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States had performed that duty during the fifty ninth session and would be doing so again during the sixtieth session simply because it had submitted its endorsement after candidates from the other three groupings had been elected Vice Chairpersons.

The escalating conflict in recent months has resulted in the killing of numerous civilians, including pro governmental figures and progressive mullahs, as well as electoral candidates and workers, people involved in mine clearance and other humanitarian actors.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in 2005 that the fundamental character of regimes matters more today than the international distribution of power, and Senator John McCain, a US presidential candidate, has urged removing Russia from the Group of Eight advanced countries.

In addition to other opposition candidates, much attention has focused on Ahn Cheol soo, Dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University, who is a successful entrepreneur and a charismatic figure for South Korea s young and independent voters.

A month had passed on that Friday since the official political campaigns for Mexico's Presidency took off. Such election, up until then, didn't generate any interest among the electorate, mainly because people perceived the top candidate was invincible.

In the second decision, on 27 September, the Court ruled that the National Elections Commission should allow two additional independent presidential candidates and their running mates, as well as one candidate for the House of Representatives, a period of seven days to remedy deficiencies in their nomination papers, which had previously been rejected by the Commission.

To put it bluntly, given the World Bank s importance, consideration of either putative US candidate, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz or former Hewlett Packard CEO Carleton Fiorina, have been highly controversial around the world.

Yet, according to the polls, she is the only left leaning candidate who looks able to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, the current Interior Minister and odds on favorite to be the center right s standard bearer in the presidential election next May.

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 .

Comment by the Administration. The Board of Trustees did not take a decision in this regard at its sessions held in 2004 and 2005, but considers that, although priority should be given to candidates from contributing countries, candidates from non contributing countries should not be systematically excluded.