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The leaders of two main oppositional parties will come together May 30 to discuss upcoming presidential elections and whether they can agree on a joint candidate that would stand against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

A total of 2,332 women and 743 non-Muslim members will be elected on reserved seats for local councils throughout the province. Elected members from each local council in all districts will serve as the electoral college for the elections on reserved seats.

L’opposition, manipulée par lactivistes du PARENA, sous la houlette de Tièbilé Dramé, est en train de commettre une grave erreur politique, en exploitant la situation qui prévaut à Kidal comme fonds de commerce politique. Ses principaux animateurs sont en train de profiter de la défaite de l’armée malienne face aux groupes armés à Kidal pour se refaire une santé.

C’est le colonel-major à la retraite Bah N’Daw est depuis mardi le nouveau ministre de la Défense et des Anciens combattants. Il a remplacé à ce poste Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga qui a présenté sa démission. La nouvelle est tombée tard dans la nuit de mardi. Ce réaménagement de l’équipe gouvernementale dirigée par le Premier ministre Moussa Mara intervient quelques jours après le revers subi par nos forces armées à Kidal face aux mouvements armés irrédentistes et djihadistes.

The Election Watch Organization of Afghanistan (EWA) on Monday warned that if the electoral bodies do not focus on the deficiencies and leakages witnessed in the first round of the elections, the June 14 runoff will face major challenges.

In a recent report, EWA submitted a number of recommendations as to how the electoral bodies should change before the runoff. Among others suggestions, the EWA asked the electoral bodies to focus on identification of suspicious sites and to ensure the distribution of sufficient ballot papers.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that an "intense crackdown" on the opposition in Egypt is creating a "repressive environment that severely undermines the fairness of the elections."

In a news brief, HRW's Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson said: "The mass arrests of thousands of political dissidents, whether Islamist or secular, has all but shut down the political arena and stripped these elections of real meaning."

Whitson added: "The presidential election cannot mask the ongoing brutal crackdown on peaceful opposition."

Former Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is poised to win the country's presidential election in a landslide -- though the fairness of the vote has been questioned.

Exit polls suggest el-Sisi won 95.3% of the vote, while opponent Hamdeen Sabahy garnered only 4.7%, according to data from the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research and the Egyptian TV channel MBC Masr.

People of this region have been busy over the last few months voting in many elections — parliamentary, local, presidential and referenda. Yet, most of it seems predetermined with no surprises in results. Though elections in other parts of the world, especially in established democracies, are witnessing declining turnout of voters, people’s participation in elections in the region is on the rise. This is not only due to the region’s thirst for democracy, but is in part a by-product of the so-called Arab Spring witnessed more than three years ago.