However, due to huge election costs, mayoral and municipal elections have never been held.

The free and transparent election of Ukraine's President the previous day was yet another example of that determination.

Elections take place in September and governments change in October of election years.

He was elected to the position in the Palestinian legislative elections that were held on 25 January 2006.

While the elections were initially seen as a success, major flaws of the Election Commission were discovered after a post electoral audit.

In last May's national elections, India's rural voters unseated the ruling coalition.

At the local elections held in June, the PRM did poorly.

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

The victory of the opposition in the parliamentary election of 2002 attests to the potential that may be unleashed with a victory by democratic forces in the presidential election.

BNP returned to power after elections on 1 October 2001.

Its main aspects concentrated on the Palestinian presidential elections held on 9 January.

However, the democratic elections were held in a persistently unstable security environment.

Despite the necessity of rerunning the elections in Zvornik municipality, the elections in the Republika Srpska passed off peaceably.

In the June 2012 parliamentary election, he was elected as MP of the Coalition of Radical Left (SYRIZA) party.

This spring s presidential election in Haiti sadly re enforced the country s blighted reputation.

Guelleh won the presidential election held in April 1999 and succeeded his uncle on 8 May 1999.

Little negotiation had been done since the previous October because of the elections in India.

Hamas s crushing defeat of Fatah in this week s elections brings the Palestinian people to a crossroads.

In last year s general election, the DPJ offered countless rosy promises.

But the stolen local elections that took place last autumn have set the country back 50 years, to the time of the Somoza dictatorship.

The presidential election will obviously serve as a catalyst for renewed, and possibly more successful, negotiations with Israel.

However, in the elections of October 2001 the Jatiya Party won 14 seats in Parliament.

The means chosen by these losers parties after they won the general election of 2005 was a great purge.

TOKYO Few recent elections have grabbed world attention in the way that Greece s vote on June 17 did.

NEW YORK The Congress Party s unexpected landslide in India s general election was greeted with euphoria.

That BNP and its coalition partners won the elections in October 2001 did not allay his fear.

On 31 January, the President of the Security Council read a statement to the press about the Iraqi elections held the previous day.

The successful holding of presidential elections has resulted in the naming of a new Government, with the announcement of the cabinet made on 23 December 2004.

Ten per cent of the candidates in the parliamentary and provincial council elections in September 2005 were women.

The recent presidential elections in Afghanistan had been a milestone in progress towards peace and democracy, but much remained to be done in the lead up to parliamentary elections in 2005.

The elections took place under a list system, whereby voters chose from a list of parties and coalitions.

Since the Palestinian parliamentary election in January 2006, the international community has been communicating with President Mahmoud Abbas while boycotting the Hamas led government.

The regime clearly expected the crowds that protested the fraudulent election of November 21 to scatter in apathy.

In so overplaying his hand in Ukraine s recent election, however, Putin clearly revealed to the world his neo imperialist designs.

He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.

In the parliamentary election, held on 7 September 2007, the party won together with the National Democratic Party 14 out of 325 seats.

As the recent elections represented the last milestone in the Bonn process, it is now important to establish a solid framework for the work ahead.

However, after the first election was held in 1992, the following election, scheduled for 1997, was delayed on numerous occasions until it was eventually held in September 2008.

The last of the constitutionally mandated elections, at the colline level, were conducted successfully on 23 September.

Last month's American election saw the two sides throw facts, figures, interpretations, and counter interpretations at the hapless electorate.

PARIS The winner of Sunday s legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin.

This year s presidential vote proves that America s democracy is healthy, but that some things could be better.

This time, the electorate includes 714 million voters, an increase of 43 million over the previous general election in 2004.

Affirming that the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government and that the will of the people of Myanmar was clearly expressed in the elections held in 1990,

Other interesting developments on the eve of the election include a fierce public debate over whether to vote or to boycott the presidential race.