Through me, they want to thwart the opposition who is fighting against a fourth term for the president.

The profession s dissident voices, it seems, are finally reaching a wider audience.

The Commission should be organizing public debates that give equal prominence to dissenting views.

The opposition won most votes in Addis Ababa, but the EPRDF halted counting of votes for several days.

The referendum can be considered to be a success the turnout was more than 92 per cent, with a 90 per cent yes vote and an 8 per cent no vote.

By failing to reach out meaningfully to the Tamil speaking minority, and by cracking down on opposition voices and any kind of dissent in Sri Lanka, the government is throwing away a once in a generation opportunity.

Previous demands for stricter regulations came to nothing because of financial sector opposition.

The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the opposition.

Despite these opposing voices, the ministry insists moving forward with the new guidelines as scheduled without changes.

It seems, however, that the Turkish government's plan to censor dissent has backfired, as tweets coming out from Turkey are on the rise.

At the November 2000 elections, boycotted by the opposition, Aristide was again elected president, with more than 90 of the vote, on a turnout of around 50 according to international observers.

Calderón took office in December 2006 under adverse circumstances. Elected with 35 of the vote, he lacked a majority in Congress, and the opposition refused to acknowledge his victory.

The leaders of the three party opposition bloc Azadlyg (Freedom) have declared that they will regard any electoral outcome that gives opposition parties less than 70 of the vote as having been falsified, and that street protests would follow.

There appears to be a general commitment to adhere to the electoral timetable, with few dissenting voices however, concerns have been expressed about the conduct and outcome of the elections in the light of the country's past experiences.

According to detailed evidence submitted by the opposition, the tallies from the countryside, allegedly already padded for Kibaki, were again manipulated, with additional votes awarded to him.

Any opposition is better than none.

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Nicolás Maduro has been the President of Venezuela since 14 April 2013, after winning the second presidential election after Chávez's death, with 50.61 of the votes against the opposition's candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski who had 49.12 of the votes.

Even now, Aristide says that he will share power with the opposition, but the opposition says no.

The Indian government maintains that they are only cracking down on separatists but the arrest of figures like notable human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who was subsequently booked under the PSA, shows that they are going after the voices of dissent in the Valley.

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To preach peace in a country where your husband persecutes religious minorities and opposing voices is hypocrisy in motion, they said.

ABIDJAN On December 2, Côte d Ivoire s Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara the winner of the country s November presidential election with 54.1 of the vote.

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