Noticias

A number of former Egyptian military figures are reemerging in the political arena alongside "remnants" of the Mubarak regime, fighting political battles ahead of the parliamentary elections, in an effort to draw a new partisan map that would dominate the new parliament.

The "Independence Current" that backs Egypt's new President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will run for all of the seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections. 

In a conference on Sunday, the coalition said it will run for the 420 seats, adding that its manifesto is based on believing in the principles of the January 25 and June 30 uprisings as well as the importance of social democracy and social justice, the state news agency said. 

They added that one of their purposes is also to prevent Islamists and corruption figures from reaching the next parliament. 

 Sans grande satisfaction ni pessimisme aucun, le président du Rassemblement pour la Culture et la démocratie (RCD), Mohcine Bellabas a dressé hier le bilan de la grande réunion de l’opposition du 10 juin dernier initiée par la Coordination nationale pour les libertés et la transition démocratique (CNLTD)

Selon ce bilan publié hier sur le compte facebook du RCD, la conférence pour la transition démocratique s'est finalement tenue bien que certains observateurs avaient "parié sur l’échec de la démarche engagée dans le cadre de la CLTD".

Iraq's supreme court ratified the results of the April 30 parliamentary elections on Monday.

"The court has approved the results of the elections except for four candidates who have ongoing trials against them," Supreme Judicial Council spokesperson Abdul Sattar Bayraktar told Anadolu Agency.

The State of Law bloc led by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki won the the parliamentary elections, taking 92 of the 328 seats.

Predominantly Shia al-Muwatin ended up with 29 seats, while the Mutahidoun bloc of Sunni Muslims got 23 seats.

Despite the Independent Election Commission’s (IEC) emphasis on its employees being the subject of fewer complaints in the second round than they were in the first, according to the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) on Monday, election employees are the main focus of the complaints it has so far received.

Jakarta. Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo accepted the endorsement of the Indonesian Farmers’ Association (HKTI) on Monday at the organization’s anniversary celebration at Balai Kartini convention center in South Jakarta, despite Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party candidate Prabowo Subianto’s longtime association with the group.

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, a senior academic and diplomat nominated June 16 by Turkey’s two major opposition parties as their joint candidate to run against an expected bid by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the August presidential election, has actually become a more visible figure for the Turkish public after his election as the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 2004.