Darya Podolskaya.-
Coalition of parliamentary majority will retain the Prime Minister Temir Sariev, but replace his deputies. Sources in the Parliament informed 24.kg news agency.
Four out of the six parties elected to Kyrgyzstan’s 120-seat parliament in the October 4 vote have agreed to form a broad ruling coalition. The size of the majority is likely to be enough to avoid a repeat of the frequent coalition collapses that blighted the last parliament.
With just days to go to Turkey’s snap general election on Nov. 1, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again voiced his clear preference for having a “single-party government” elected to rule the country.
Only five months since the last general election failed to produce a single-party government, Turkish voters return to polling stations on Nov. 1, with slim prospects of a substantial difference raising the stakes for all parties.
The five months since the June 7 vote have seen renewed clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), major attacks likely staged by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and a widespread feeling of vulnerability amid security gaps.
Amhad Mahmood.-
LAHORE: Of the registered 20.12 million voters in the 12 Punjab districts, where local council polls are being held on Saturday, several may find problems in locating their vote and polling station because of anomalies in voter lists and polling scheme.
The irregularities in voter lists cropped up when the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) adopted bloc codes (division of area in a certain way) to prepare computerised lists, arranged by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics for population census in 2012. But the census was left incomplete.
LARKANA: Sindh United Party (SUP) chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah feared on Wednesday that the way the candidates of anti-PPP parties were being kidnapped, harassed and forced to change loyalties and step down, the excesses might repeat the 1977-like situation when Maulana Jan Muhammed Abbasi had been abducted and elections declared null and void.
BAHAWALPUR: At least 44 candidates from the PML-N, 35 from the PTI, five from the PPP and over 100 independent candidates are in the run for the local body elections in 47 municipal committee wards of Bahawalnagar city where 153,437 voters are registered.
Rana Yasif.-
Rana Yasif.-
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidates from UC 206 have accused their Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) opponents of using public funds to influence voters.
Rana Yasif.-
LAHORE: In Union Council 208, a tough competition is expected between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Shamsul Islam.-
As extremist violence and political uncertainty cast a shadow over Turkey, voters are looking for Sunday's parliamentary election to usher in stability. But in a deeply polarized country, the most likely result is more confusion.
RIYADH: A total of 1,039 women are standing as candidates in the upcoming municipal council elections.
They will compete in 212 or 75 percent of the 284 municipal councils, said Jadee Al-Qahtani, head of the Municipal Elections Execu
An ongoing tussle between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has reached Washington after the former suggested that a company that once managed U.S. President Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign has now been hired by the Kurdish problem-focused party to run its campaign for the Nov.
World's leading rights group has warned against restriction over Internet freedom in Turkey, highlighting that the Internet freedom is "highly imperiled" in the country where many are prosecuted and harassed for what they write online.
Darya Podolskaya.-
CEC approved the final list of candidates for Parliament of VI convocation. Only list of applicants for the mandates of Respublika - Ata Jurt faction was changed significantly.
CEC approved the six people, who defended their position on the list at the Supreme Court. Instead Jyrgalbek Samatov, who has Russian citizen, the mandate will receive Bolot Ibraimzhanov. Jyrgalbek Samatov is going to litigate the CEC decision in the Supreme Court.
Nargiza Osmonova.-
Parties, which gained seats in the Kyrgyz Parliament, elected leaders of the factions.
The Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan will be headed by Chynybay Tursunbekov.
Respublika - Ata Jurt faction is led, as expected, by the party leader Omurbek Babanov. The faction has 27 deputies at the time (the party has 28 seats).
Kyrgyzstan party has created a faction, which includes 18 members of Parliament. Kanatbek Isaev was elected its head.
Darya Podolskaya.-
Deputies of the Parliament of the 6th convocation started to work.
Today, the MPs took the oath and received from the head of the CEC Tuigunaaly Abdraimov their official certificates and badges. Six parties passed to the Parliament.
Note, the Social Democratic Party gained 38 seats, Respublika - Ata Jurt - 28, Kyrgyzstan - 18, Onuguu- Progress - 13, Bir Bol - 12, and Ata Meken - 11.
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