Elections and major political developments

Recent elections and political issues

Political parties and elections Elections are to be held every 4 years on the second Monday of September.

Many people expressed their political dissent through boycotting the elections.

India s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

The Political Parties Order 2002 governs the conduct of political parties and the Conduct of General Elections Order 2002 was enacted to facilitate holding the October 2002 elections.

Since the elections, the political process has continued to unfold in Iraq.

Five political parties had taken part in the previous year's parliamentary elections.

Disclosure may help democratize political donations, preventing them from having an undue influence in elections.

However, the existence of real political opposition creates a different atmosphere, which spreads beyond elections.

Elections will usher in a new and more promising phase in the country's political history.

Even more important, South Korea also developed a democratic political system, with free elections and peaceful transfer of power between different political parties.

Because leaders cannot be ousted through elections, other means must be found to resolve political conflicts.

But traditional political differences based on disagreement over fundamental values play a diminishing part in elections.

These elections represent a historic moment for Iraq and a positive step in its political transition.

The political reform project includes capacity building for women candidates in preparation for the 2005 elections.

(l) To ensure that any future referendum and elections are conducted according to international standards for free and fair elections with the full participation of all political parties

Although there is still almost a year until the next local government elections, women's associations of political parties already prepare their members to stand as candidates in elections.

This past June, he agreed to lead a center right political party to contest December s parliamentary elections.

Street demonstrations, elections, and political debate in cafes and on the Internet are flowering as never before.

Developments related to the presidential and legislative elections dominated political activity in Liberia during the reporting period.

It is critical that the parties deal with major pending political problems before the elections are held.

Even though women are present in political parties, not enough of them stand as candidates at elections.

The official political parties have continued to mobilize their support base and constituents for the upcoming elections.

Britain and the US had contested elections and political systems that limited the arbitrary exercise of executive power institutions that are absent in China s political system.

Elections have begun to play a greater role in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, but none uses free and fair elections to fill the most important and powerful political offices.

Failure to do so would bring the risk of still greater political problems after next June s European elections.

But political parties advocating for implementation of Sharia have lost ground in successive elections from 1955 to 2009.

In the current context, moving the political agenda forward and organizing the elections are widely considered a priority.

The timetable for the elections seems to be in jeopardy in the light of the current political tension.

These elections are an important step for Iraq's political transition, as outlined in UN Security Council resolution 1546.

The instability of political regimes, characterized by the alternation between coups and elections, is also an indicator of underdevelopment and the absence of a truly national political programme.

The answer is not nearly enough, and the political price may be high at next summer s European Parliament elections.

Nor is it easy to create consensus in Israel, especially as its political parties prepare for elections next year.

Kadima s victory in Israel s elections is the country s most important political turning point in 30 years, if not longer.

Most political prognosticators are expecting large losses for Democrats in the November 2010 mid term elections over this issue.

These technologies range from producing decoy political parties and legally persecuting opponents to publishing fake polls and falsifying elections.

Egyptian elections will not be free and fair if they follow a political purge, as in Iran or Russia.

Ratification of the agreement has been delayed by the stalemate among Cambodia's bickering political parties following last year's elections.

Sarajevo List (in Swedish Sarajevolistan ) was a political project in Sweden launched ahead of the 1995 European Parliament elections.

The results of the elections show positive positive development in relation to participation of women in BiH political life.

Progress made on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration has helped improve the political environment for the organization of meaningful elections.

Political leaders in Haiti have a special responsibility to ensure the success of both the national dialogue and elections.

They enjoy closed shop hiring and firing prerogatives, leadership elections by acclamation, mandatory dues without transparency, and immense political power.

Allowing free elections and true political competition is also critically important, but this should follow economic reforms, not precede them.