There is no electoral system.

When only one elective place is to be filled and no candidate obtains in the first ballot the majority required, a second ballot shall be taken, which shall be restricted to the two candidates who obtained the largest number of votes.

When only one person or member is to be elected and no candidate in the first ballot obtains the majority required, a second ballot shall be taken, which shall be restricted to the two candidates who obtained the greatest number of votes.

She owed her power to a divided opposition and a first past the post electoral system.

When only one person or member is to be elected and no candidate obtains in the first ballot the majority required, a second ballot shall be taken, which shall be restricted to the two candidates who obtained the greatest number of votes.

Conduct of elections when only one elective place is to be filled 184 62.

Annual report 20

Conduct of elections when only one elective place is to be filled 146 60.

The United Nations also named an international Electoral Commissioner to serve on the Commission.

When only one person or member is to be elected and no candidate obtains the required majority in the first ballot, a second ballot shall be taken, which shall be restricted to the two candidates who obtained the greatest number of votes.

Peru is paying particular attention to the development and implementation of the electoral timetable planned for this year in Haiti.

Accommodating this massive pool of voters, without compromising the results, will require roughly 930,000 polling stations, equipped with electronic voting machines, and one million election workers to manage the process. The elections will occur in nine phases, staggered over five weeks.

Its main tasks will be to draft an electoral law that is acceptable to all and to oversee the conduct of Lebanon's parliamentary elections.

In 2004 the OSCE, at the request of the Afghan authorities, sent an election support team to Afghanistan.

The process involves four million electoral officials and 6.1 million police and civilian personnel.

The act of being a candidate in a race for either a party nomination or for electoral office is called a candidacy.

Hiding behind the originality (in French presidential politics) of her gender, Royal has avoided specifying a detailed program.

The emotional manipulation of the mise en scene surrounding Chávez s death appears certain to translate into electoral support for his grey successor, Nicolás Maduro.

The prospect that the Party could come to power in an electoral alliance with the Socialists struck fear in opponents.

With an effective state, and an inclusive and functioning electoral system, Abbas could then disarm his own Fatah based militia.

Office of Internal Oversight Services

To date, neither the IFE nor any major international monitor, has alleged widespread electoral fraud.

That system was replaced by a new electoral law that obliges political parties to include at least one woman on their candidate lists.

The Commission is focusing its work on supporting the transitional institutions to adopt, as a priority, a draft post transitional Constitution and the electoral law.

(i) Office of the Chief of the Geneva Office

Exploiting Thailand s deep urban rural divide, Thaksin bulldozed his way to power in 2001 on a populist platform.

Until November, Nicaragua was on the way to developing a healthy electoral tradition, backed by high levels of participation.

The same pattern applies to Sierra Leone, where the 2004 elections were supported by an electoral team that was part of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).

It can be ensured only by an electorate that respects reality and punishes politicians who lie or engage in other forms of deception.

This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.

Upon my election as the President of the Palestinian National Authority, we reached a national agreement to achieve calm unilaterally, which endured despite repeated provocation.

On the second point, the speaker said political involvement took different forms depending on whether it was expressed electorally or not. While the fact of elections cannot be disputed, it is nonetheless true that many factors including the makeup of the electorate, the

Indeed, in order to make such investments, democracies require either brave leadership or an electorate that understands the costs of postponing hard choices.

A plainclothes police man searches the desk of a journalist at the Prachatai office.

(d) Developing, nurturing and maintaining an electoral system that provides for the free and fair expression of the will of the people through genuine and periodic elections, in particular by

American presidents are elected by an Electoral College in which each state votes in proportion to the number of members it has in Congress.

There will be no such entity, because there is no European electorate the electorate remains French, Belgian, Latvian, Greek, and so on.

We have created a political body that has power to hold European institutions to account but has no obvious European electorate to which it can itself be held accountable.

In the Palestinian case, after winning an election victory and making a deal with Fatah for a coalition government, Hamas turned on its nationalist rivals and drove them out of Gaza by force.

In some cases the plate may be removed after healing, but this is very rarely required (based on nerve interaction or tissue aggravation), and typically considered an elective procedure.

IEC would be responsible for the distribution of electoral materials from the 166 electoral distribution centres to 9,000 registration centres and 40,000 polling stations.

Branch office

Desktop PC

Ethics office

Office for Equality