Japan is likely to hold fresh elections soon as well.

The Ivorian parties also reaffirmed the need to hold presidential elections in October 2005 and legislative elections immediately thereafter.

Poland would hold free and fair parliamentary elections, and Solidarity would compete.

Qatar today announced it will hold parliamentary elections in the second half of 2013.

To this end, preparations are under way to hold municipal elections by April 2006.

It is still intended to hold the elections before the end of this year.

Threats by Abbas to hold elections to resolve the deadlock seemed to add oil to the fire.

One of the agreements of the conference was to hold free and fair elections within three years.

environment in which to hold Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in over 30 years, on 18 September 2005.

The independent expert stressed the importance of free and fair elections, and that the Somaliland authorities would be strongly encouraging the Parliament to hold the scheduled elections.

Ukraine faces a crucial presidential election in 2009 or 2010 (and Moldova will hold elections in March 2009).

This should come as no surprise, as the Chinese government does not plan to hold free and fair elections soon.

This part of Ukraine overwhelmingly supported Viktor Yanukovych in elections, and local police participated in his bid to hold power.

Obviously, for our new President to be able to take power on 7 February, first we need to hold elections.

We sincerely hope that security conditions will quickly be restored so that the Transitional Government can hold elections this year.

There can be no meaningful reconstruction or appropriate conditions to hold elections without security (Europe already contributes 200 million annually to reconstruction).

What Iraq has taught is the importance of developing civil society and the rule of law before trying to hold broad based elections.

The Bush administration, having pushed Israel to allow the Palestinians to hold elections, then backed Israel s refusal to deal with a Hamas government.

For example, he allowed a private press to flourish, and in 2000 he became the first Ethiopian leader to hold multi party parliamentary elections.

With Burma s ruling generals preparing to hold elections later this year for the first time since 1990 it is time to try something different.

These countries may not yet be full democracies, but, because they hold competitive elections, they have met a necessary condition for being a democracy.

Suddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country s independence surrendered bit by bit.

In the view of his delegation, it would not be possible to strengthen the peace process and hold elections without an adequate level of resources.

The Interim Government and the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq delivered on their pledge to hold free and fair elections, on time, throughout the country.

Under the Organic Law of the Village Committees, all of China's approximately one million villages home to roughly 600 million voters hold local elections every three years.

Lebanon is now preparing for parliamentary elections later this month, which the new Government under Prime Minister Mikati has committed itself to hold, beginning on 29 May.

If Zenawi consolidates his hold on power in the parliamentary elections due this May, the world should expect the stability that he has brought to take deeper root.

In places like south Lebanon, which suffer from deep social cleavages and inequalities, free elections and free trade hold little resonance for people who are impoverished and marginalized.

The government must also move forward on further electoral reform, expand administrative decentralization, hold local elections in 2010, and come up with a credible program to combat rampant corruption.

They have the right to serve the public, on an equal basis with others, including the right to stand for elections and to hold office at all levels of government.

In several months' time, the country will hold legislative and presidential elections the final milestone on its journey towards a definitive return to the great family of the world's democracies.

Welcomes further the commitment of the Government of Guinea Bissau to hold Presidential elections in accordance with the timetable in the Transition Charter, and in that regard invites the international community to provide financial and technical support to Guinea Bissau in the holding of those elections

Welcomes further the commitment of the Government of Guinea Bissau to hold Presidential elections in accordance with the timetable in the Transition Charter, and in this regard calls on the international community to provide financial and technical support to Guinea Bissau in the holding of these elections

Following the publication of the electoral law on 11 February 2005, preparations are under way to hold local elections on 9 October 2005 and the first round of parliamentary and presidential elections on 13 November a second round, if necessary, would be held on 18 December.

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

As a result, the consequences of a failure to hold elections, a violent crackdown, or a takeover by another authoritarian regime would surely be worse than taking a chance on democracy.

The Joint Electoral Management Body and its functional arm, the Joint Electoral Management Body secretariat, made every effort to hold all elections required by the Constitution according to the June deadline.

(ii) Protecting the right of persons with disabilities to vote by secret ballot in elections and public referendums without intimidation, and to stand for elections, to effectively hold office and perform all public functions at all levels of government, facilitating the use of assistive and new technologies where appropriate

Japan is likely to hold fresh elections soon as well. The governments that emerge should use their popular mandates to forge a new form of cooperation that can transcend an embittered past.

Frozen states include Saudi Arabia, where democracy is omitted from official discourse, even limited partial elections have been put on hold, and the royal succession remains a secret kept from the population.

With the Presidential Elections on the horizon, Mauritanians are anticipating what the days hold for them. A wide spectrum of the opposition is planning to snub the ballot penciled for June 21.

First, they detract from the effort to hold the transitional elections second, the commissioners and national electoral officers during the transitional period are often not selected for their expertise in electoral administration.

The Bush administration, having pushed Israel to allow the Palestinians to hold elections, then backed Israel s refusal to deal with a Hamas government. The effect was to impose further hardship on the Palestinians.

Noting that the Belarusian authorities have decided to hold local elections on 14 January 2007, and expressing its hope that those will be free and fair, in full respect of international electoral standards,

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