With over 1.4 million votes counted by the election committee, the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan, supporting the country's President Almazbek Atambayev, has taken the lead with some 27 percent of the votes.
"There are no final results yet, but one thing we can say for sure — for the first time in the history of Kyrgyzstan a fair and clean election has taken place," Aynura Temirbekova said.
She added that the president and the government deserve credit for the fairness of the procedure.
El partido cercano al presidente prorruso de Kirguistán lidera con el 26,6% de los votos, tras escrutarse casi la totalidad, en las elecciones legislativas de este domingo en esta ex república soviética, considerada la más democrática de Asia central.
El partido socialdemócrata del Kirguistán (SDPK), próximo al presidente Almazbek Atambaiev, recogía el 26,6% de los sufragios tras el conteo del 99,25% de las papeletas, anunció la Comisión electoral central.
ABU DHABI // While only 35 per cent of the eligible electorate cast their vote in Saturday’s FNC election, experts say this was a reasonable number.
Ahmed Al Dhaheri, a member of the National Elections Commission, said the turnout was not considered low for the UAE level.
“This is the natural rate for societies like the UAE that do not suffer from anyone pressuring them,” he said.
“There is no pressure from the economic, social or political side, because they see that the situation they are in is perfect and whoever comes will maintain that level and even better.”
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Electioneering for the Oct 11 by-elections for the NA-122 Lahore seat reached its peak on Sunday as the main rivals — the ruling PML-N and opposition PTI — held public meetings in the same neighbourhood, Samanabad.
The seat fell vacant after an election tribunal’s decision against PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq who was then speaker of the National Assembly.
ABU DHABI // Emirati women have expressed their disappointment that only one female candidate was elected to the Federal National Council.
Naama Al Sharhan, from Ras Al Khaimah, was the only women out of 78 candidates to succeed by picking up 1,004 votes.
Asma Al Ali, 26, from Ajman, said she hoped many more women would make it on to the council.
“I was shocked, I expected at least one woman from each emirate,” she said. “Every emirate should have one woman so they will follow-up on issues relating to mothers and children.”
The ruling PML-N may not have the best of chances of making an impact in Bahawalpur’s local government polls due to groupings and rifts at various levels.
Other parties like the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) also have their problems but differences among the PML-N’s prominent figures are all too visible.
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A fire in the Tando Muhammad Khan Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) office has damaged three rooms and an office storeroom, where ballot boxes and old records were kept, ECP staff said.
ECP official Abdul Qadeer Rajput said the fire had destroyed old records, literature and upcoming local body election records, while records in other rooms had been salvaged. He added that efforts were under way to control the blaze.
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Perhaps a strong presence on social media was the reason behind the win for the youngest FNC candidate, Saeed Al Rumaithi who won from Abu Dhabi.
Minutes after the results were announced, Saeed Al Rumaithi, one of the winning candidates who will be representing Abu Dhabi, told Khaleej Times that although his win is certainly a great and exciting achievement for him, he nonetheless still has a lot of responsibility to carry on his shoulder.
KUWAIT: Islamist MP Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran said yesterday that he plans to submit amendments to the electoral law and to the constitution with the aim to increase the number of MPs in a bid to allow membership of the Cabinet to be raised.
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Of the 78 women candidates, only one has made it to the Federal National Council (FNC) elections, and ironically, Naema Al Sharhan, also became the first women member from the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
Khaleej Times, in a bid to find answers to this argumentative question talked to some voters here, but they have blamed a variety of reasons for what they believed a 'disappointing trend'.
Jaber Nasser Humaid, an Emirati businessman, said some may believe that women should stay at home.
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Although only a few democracies give voters the right to reject all the election candidates and opt for a 'None of the above / blank vote' option, the UAE is one of the few select countries that allows its voters to indicate disapproval of all the candidates. Other countries that give their citizens this liberty include France, Brazil, India, US, Spain, Belgium and Finland.
A new rally was held Sunday in the northern district of Akkar to denounce government plans to turn an existing garbage dump in the Srar area into a so-called “sanitary landfill” capable of receiving trash from areas across Lebanon as part of an emergency waste management project.
The demo was organized by civil society activists and attended by vocal Akkar MP Khaled al-Daher, Mufti of Akkar Sheikh Zeid Zakaria, two representatives of Akkar Greek Orthodox Bishop Basilios Mansour, and several municipal chiefs.
Voting for a new parliament is under way in Kyrgyzstan, with pro-Russian parties looking set to retain their dominance.
Polling stations opened at 02:00 GMT on Sunday, with ethnic tensions, the economy, corruption and security concerns among the election issues in the former Soviet republic.
More than 2,000 candidates representing 14 parties are running for the 120 seats in parliament.
Voting will conclude at 14:00 GMT with the composition of the new assembly expected to be known shortly thereafter.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has announced its manifesto for the Nov. 1 elections, keeping promises to focus on a new constitution and a presidential system together with bold and assertive pledges on the economy.
While presenting the party’s manifesto Oct. 4, AKP leader and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu paid respects to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the founding leader of the AKP.
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has declared its readiness to form a post-election coalition government with all parties except the Peoples’ Democratic Party, which it described as an “extension of the PKK.”
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