The Libyan House of a Representatives has issued the names of five people who are on its shortlist for post of Prime Minister. Heading the list is the current caretaker incumbent, Abdullah Al-Thinni.
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Ageela Issa, has met the heads of municipal councils from across the eastern region to discuss their difficulties.
El recuento de los votos de las elecciones presidenciales en Afganistán se lleva a cabo en cuatro hangares gigantes de los que se utilizan para guardar los aviones. En el interior apenas hay luz, hace un calor asfixiante y decenas de personas discuten alrededor de mesas de plástico sobre las que se extienden montones desordenados de papeletas de votos. En los laterales se apilan centenares de urnas, y hay tal jaleo que aquello parece un mercadillo.
ISLAMABAD: In a televised address to the nation, a visibly concerned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday requested that a Supreme Court commission investigate alleged irregularities in the 2013 general elections.
KABUL (Pajhwok): Of the 29 percent of ballots from the presidential election that were audited as recently as Monday noon, 54,000 votes of Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and 31,000 of Dr. Abdullah were found bogus, officials said on Tuesday.
The statistics provided to Pajhwok Afghan News by one electoral team show that Ghani retains enough lead with 1,210,602 votes over Abdullah, who has bagged 1, 081,645 ballots so far. The total votes recounted hitherto amount to 29 percent of all ballots cast in the second round of the presidential elections.
TV presenter Nabil Al-Haj of Libya Ahrar TV has resigned, accusing the new administration of the Qatar-based station of bias and twisting the news.
Los dos candidatos rivales de Afganistán, Abdullah Abdullah y Ashraf Ghani, han firmado un acuerdo para cooperar en la formación de un Gobierno de unidad nacional, según ha afirmado uno de los candidatos este viernes en rueda de prensa tras reuniones con el secretario de Estado de EEUU, John Kerry.
Hassan Al-Amin, one of the first members of the former General National Congress to resign over what h
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Tuesday declared the results of 33 polling stations in PP-97 Gujranwala null and void, Express News reported.
The tribunal also ordered re-elections in the district.
Former Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MPA Nasir Cheema had challenged the success of Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz (PML-N) member Muhammad Ashraf Warraich in PP-97, alleging that the polling results were rigged during May 11, 2013 general elections.
Cheema had asked the tribunal to check the results and re-count the votes.
The president of the former General National Congress Nuri Abu Sahmain and the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani have said that the new House of Representatives, elected in June and which held its inaugural meeting yesterday in Tobruk, is unconstitutional.
In a late session in Tobruk of the new House of Representatives broadcast live on TV, which started at about 8 pm Monday and ended at around 1 am on Sunday, Ageela Salah Issa Gwaider from Guba in eastern Libya was elected as the new head of the House of Representatives in a run-off with Abubakr Bahira.
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Monday declared as final the latest UN-proposed criteria for invalidation of suspected votes, saying extra attention would be paid to the remaining two controversial points in order to gain confidence of both the candidates.
The huge audit remained suspended as of Sunday morning and Abdullah’s team remained locked in talks with UN officials over the recount.
The first session of the newly elected House of Representatives was held this morning in Tobruk.
Attempts to resume the audit of Afghanistan's presidential election have stalled as candidate Abdullah Abdullah disagreed over the criteria to address alleged fraud in the June run-off election.
Abdullah and rival Ashraf Ghani agreed to the inspection of all 8.1 million ballots cast in the June 14 poll in a deal brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry. However, the recount has since faced several suspensions as the candidates sparred over how to disqualify ballots.
Kabul, Afghanistan - The military airport in the Afghan capital is busy, as shipments of ballot boxes from across the country arrive to be audited after top presidential candidates agreed for recount of votes amid allegations of fraud.
The Independent Election Commissions of Afghanistan (IEC), along with international and domestic observers and party representatives have begun the tedious task of filtering through all the 8.1 million ballots, searching for any irregularities that could be counted as fraudulent votes.
The United Nations (UN) reported that both presidential candidates signaled their support on Saturday for the UN's proposed invalidation criteria for the vote auditing process.
The UN office in Kabul said that the organization was notified by both candidates and now expects the audit process to move forward without further delay. The UN had previously submitted the proposal to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) without approval from the candidates and the commission said the auditing process would need to be put on hold until they could reach agreement.
Members of the new House of Representatives, at an informal meeting yesterday in Tobruk, have said that once they are formally in session they will ban all military organisations that are not under the direct control of the government. They said that no “parallel” bodies will be allowed to exist.
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