The presidential election was held on 9 October with 18 candidates contesting.

A similar document was also signed by the 14 contesting political parties.

All 20 political parties contesting the election have submitted their list of candidates.

After contesting every election since 2000, Tsvangirai s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has changed tactics reluctantly.

However, in recent years, a new set of economies has emerged that is contesting the affluent countries economic dominance.

To be sure, contesting the election would provide my party with a great opportunity to take issues to the people.

Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.

Russians, it seems, can only feel good about themselves if they are contesting the world s great power head to head.

The deployment of international observers is in itself a confidence building measure for all the political parties contesting an election.

And, of all the major parties that are contesting the election, only the PMLN is demanding the reinstatement of the judges.

One delicious irony in Europe is that Chinese banks are contesting the requirement to subsidiarize in London on precisely those grounds.

To this end, 14 political parties, including two coalitions, are running for parliament and 12 candidates are contesting the presidential elections.

The law seeks to guarantee that women make up at least 30 per cent of those individuals contesting national and regional parliamentary elections.

Additionally, local and regional power struggles linked to the elections and the possible contesting of seats in the new parliament are a possibility.

Disagreements between the contesting Powers of that time has merely been replaced today by disagreement among countries that are supposed to share fundamental values and objectives.

Of the nominated candidates, 14 per cent were women, falling short of the goal of 30 per cent of the candidates contesting the polls being women.

All three of Somaliland s parties contesting the forthcoming election are adamant about wanting recognition of the region s independence, which was confirmed overwhelmingly by a referendum in 2001.

The percentage of women contesting elections on general seats of all candidates in 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993 and 1997, was 1.2, 1.8, 0.97, 1.0 and 2.0 respectively.

The same was true of the Isabelle Maigrot case, in which the accused person was contesting a confession said to have been made by him under police interrogation.

However, it was not convenient for the Group of Asian States to be unable to arrive at an agreed slate and accordingly for there to be contesting candidates.

Of the numerous parties contesting the elections, only seven won seats in the 400 member National Assembly, distributed as follows in terms of the percentage poll each party received

These efforts resulted in a woman contesting the presidency and in women being selected for 48 per cent and 30 per cent of the seats in Parliament and the Senate, respectively.

At Voinjama, in Lofa County, the Mandingo and Lorma ethnic groups are contesting ownership of land and other property which returning Mandingos claim they left behind when they fled during the war.

Currently there are some nine main political parties in the country and with the dissatisfaction of some of these parties Vanuatu is witnessing an increasing number of independent candidates contesting elections in recent years.

Ibid. Barring unforeseen circumstances, it is presumed that these layers of officials and representatives from contesting political parties, as well as the defence forces, will guarantee the minimum security needed at each voting station.

a One of these appeals comprises 232 cases contesting the same administrative decision (of these 232 cases, 149 were filed with the JAB on 26 December 2003 but were assigned 2004 case numbers by the JAB secretariat).

From a form of slave oppression in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, planking has now evolved into a creative form of protest that involves occupying public space and contesting this space's original representation by the dominant social order.

Last year, its adherents did play an important role in the removal of Libya s brutal dictator, Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi. Many subsequently matured politically, revised their worldview, and shifted from armed to unarmed activism, forming political parties and contesting elections.

The First Schleswig War () or Three Years' War () was the first round of military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

It is also a political conflict between elites and the deprived, between traditional leaders and the new generation contesting their authority, between leaders who arose from within their communities and an administration that has been appointed by the State in an effort to modernize administrative rule and to consolidate power.

Women as Candidates and as Elected Members of the Senate, the National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies The reservation of special quota for women in the legislature, in addition to the possibility of contesting elections on open seats, has been a regular feature of the political system of Pakistan as a form of affirmative action.

The Seasons thus convey a sense of affinity and also remoteness affinity of the man who sees in the peasant a living reminder of humanity's childhood, ... ...with which it is good to reconnect remoteness of the merchant displaying all the superiority of a far sighted visionary and contesting the voluptuous, decadent nobles control of the land.

However, since protection of life, property and dignity of citizens of other countries is the responsibility of the Government of the country of residence, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, for its part, is contesting the cases referred to above and, as a beneficiary, requests the relevant countries to carry out appropriate investigations and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes.

4.1 In its observations dated 23 April 2003, the State party, while not contesting the admissibility of the communication, argues that neither the Supreme Court's reference to section 101a of the Judiciary Act, nor the admission as evidence of tapped telephone conversations between the author and Mr. A.T.M.M., violated the author's right to a fair trial under article 14, and that the interference with his privacy and correspondence was neither unlawful nor arbitrary.