Opposition parties in Bahrain say they will boycott parliamentary and municipal elections, scheduled to be held in October.
The National Democratic Opposition Parties said in a statement on Saturday that that they are not taking part in the elections without a "clear political" agreement “reflecting the will of the people.”
Rapid Support Forces (SRF) field commander Ahmed Hamdan (Hametti) maintained his accusations against the leader of the opposition Umma National Party (UNP) saying the court have to decide on their claim against him.
Hametti remarks come as Sudanese lawyers’ Union (SLU) released a statement on Saturday saying they continue to exert efforts to ensure the release of Sadiq al-Mahdi from Kober prison where they met him.
Cette remise concomitante des rapports 2012 et 2013 résulte des circonstances créées par la crise sécuritaire et institutionnelle en 2012.
Egypt’s former military chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, vowed on Thursday that the country would not go backwards but move forward after the initial results of the presidential election see him winning by a landslide.
“We know that some people fear a return to the past, but this will not happen, there is no going back and we will move forward,” Sisi said responding to a question about the fears of a return to the situation before the Jan. 25 revolution, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida.
Pour examiner les éventuelles conséquences politiques de la démission du ministre Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, président du parti ASMA-CFP, une » réunion de clarification « se tiendra cet après-midi au siège de l’APR (Yirimadio en commune VI) entre les chefs des partis de l’Alliance pour le Mali (APM) et les 27 députés de ce groupe parlementaire allié au RPM.
Après avoir décidé de boycotter l'élection présidentielle prévue le 21 juin prochain en Mauritanie, la quinzaine de partis d'opposition composant le Forum national pour la Démocratie et l'Unité (FNDU), paraissent déterminés à "peser" sur ce scrutin majeur.
Depuis deux semaines, l'opposition multiplie les meetings, les rassemblements et les réunions politiques dans presque tous les quartiers de Nouakchott, de Nouadhibou (capitale économique) et de bien d'autres villes du pays pour dénoncer la tenue du scrutin présidentiel.
La conférence avait pour but d’édifier les hommes de media sur le déroulement des évènements intervenus à Kidal, en un mot donne à la presse la vraie version des faits .
Former army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who won a landslide victory this week in the Egyptian presidential election, is likely to face severe threats from militant groups during his upcoming rule.
On Thursday, Egyptian jihadist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis issued a threat to Sisi, Al Arabiya News Channel’s Arabic website reported.
“Will Sisi last till he takes over power? And if he does, will he remain?” the group asked in a tweet following the announcement of the initial results of the presidential elections.
Speaking to his supporters in Herat, presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai kicked-off an event on Friday during one of his first campaign trips to the western province by discussing national unity, equality and growth.
Ashraf Ghani, the former Finance Minister and World Bank economist, said that upon his victory in the June 14 runoff against Abdullah Abdullah, all Afghans would be treated equally in eyes of the law.
Afghan youth party, Etelaf-e-Meli Nahj Naween of Afghanistan, on Friday at an event in Kabul announced their endorsement of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai for the June 14 runoff.
With only a couple weeks left before the historic vote that will determine President Hamid Karzai’s successor, candidates who lost in the first round, political figures, political parties and MPs have begun throwing their weight being Ashraf Ghani or his runoff rival, Abdullah Abdullah.
Election observers have suggested their will be a heightened chance of fraud during the presidential runoff now that the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has announced that it will add some 3,000 new voting sites and five percent more ballots per province for the second round in June.
Although officials maintain more available polling places on Election Day will necessarily mean more Afghans can participate, the head of Afghanistan Democracy Watch, Zekria Barekzai, said there would be no observers at many of the new sites planned by the IEC.
It was inappropriate for Gerindra Party politicians to criticize Joko "Jokowi" Widodo over his performance as the governor of Jakarta as Gerindra was among the parties that endorsed Jokowi's candidacy during the gubernatorial election in 2012, according to a Golkar Party politician.
Poempida Hidayatullah, a Golkar lawmaker in the House of Representatives who refused to obey Golkar’s instruction to support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, slammed Gerindra's deputy chairman, Fadli Zon, for making statements about the "failures" of Jokowi's administration in the capital.
The UN Security Council expressed "disappointment and concern" Thursday that an election of a new Lebanese president has not occurred and demanded that polls be held without delay.
In a unanimous declaration, the Council's 15 member states urged the country's parliament "to uphold Lebanon's long standing democratic tradition and to work to ensure that presidential elections take place as soon as possible and without external interference."
Both presidential and vice-presidential pairs, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa, have promised to improve the country's infrastructure if elected.
According to their mission statement, available on the General Elections Commission (KPU) website, Jokowi and Kalla have promised to build a 2,000 kilometers of roads across the country, in addition to building new ports, airports and industrial estates to support the country's economy, as reported by tempo.co.
An official from the Kurdish zone Thursday said the regime would not set up polling stations in “Syrian Kurdistan.”
Ilham Ahmad, from the Democratic Society Movement, said Kurdish groups would deal only with “powers that recognize” their rights, according to the Kurdnet news site.
Ahmad, whose party is one of a half-dozen that rule the self-rule zone along the Turkish border, was asked about the poll, expected to be won by President Bashar Assad.
The National Police are preparing to dispatch 372 personnel to improve security for presidential and vice presidential candidates in the lead up to the July 9 election.
Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno of the National Police’s security maintenance division said that personnel would assemble a special security team, which would begin working following the General Elections Commission (KPU) formal announcement of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Jusuf Kalla and Gerindra Party’s Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa as the official tickets in the race.
El presidente de la Autoridad Palestina, Mahmud Abbas, ha pedido al primer ministro saliente, Rami Hamdalá, que encabece el nuevo Gobierno de unidad pactado entre Al Fatá y Hamás y con el que ambas facciones aspiran a poner fin a siete años de división.
The General Elections Commission (KPU) has completed its audit of the 2014 legislative election-campaign fund reports submitted by the 12 parties that had contested the April 4 poll.
KPU chairman Husni Kamil Manik said that the commission had found no indication that any of the parties had violated campaign fund regulations.
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