The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Thursday said that the presidential candidates must respect the election procedures and rules during the runoff campaigns. IEC added that any violations of the election rules would lead to legal action.
Paramadina University rector Anies Baswedan has announced that he will support the presidential and vice-presidential candidacies of Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Jusuf Kalla. He said the sole reason behind his decision was the belief that Indonesia needed a fresh figure with integrity to take the lead.
“We are in need of a new leader with a clean track record and committed to the graft-eradication movement,” the former head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ethics council said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Thursday.
Lack of a breakthrough in Lebanon’s presidential election was a foregone conclusion ahead of a parliamentary vote scheduled for Thursday with a majority of March 8 lawmakers pledging to boycott the session again.
The lack of quorum will bring Lebanon ever closer to presidential vacuum as President Michel Sleiman’s term ends Sunday.
The Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) should monitor the supporters of each candidate contesting the upcoming presidential election as with only two contenders taking part, rivalry could turn violent, a political expert has said.
“Political rivalry will be fierce. Friction at the grassroots level, especially among candidate supporters, will be substantial. Bawaslu must be ready to anticipate such friction,” Soegeng Sarjadi Syndicate executive director Ari Nurcahyo said in a discussion in Lembang, West Java, on Thursday as quoted by kompas.com.
Although the end of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s term on May 25 is looming ever nearer, the country’s fractious political parties have been unable to agree on a successor. As on many other issues, Lebanon’s two main political movements, the rival March 8 and March 14 alliances, have been unable to agree on a single candidate, with each backing a different figure to be Lebanon’s next head of state.
The Gerindra Party says presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto will guarantee the freedom of the press in Indonesia, and is convinced that under his leadership, there would be no more restrictions on press freedom, such as those seen during the New Order era.
“If Pak Prabowo is elected president, I’m sure that we would enjoy much more press freedom,” Gerindra’s patron council member Martin Hutabarat said on Wednesday, as quoted by kompas.com.
Assumer les erreurs commises dans la gestion du pays de 1992 à 2002, insuffler une nouvelle dynamique au parti en mettant à sa tête des hommes de conviction, afin de lui redonner sa fierté et sa vigueur d’antan.
Tel est, désormais, le crédo du ‘‘parti de l’abeille solitaire’’. Tout est en train d’être mis en œuvre pour y parvenir. D’abord, au sein du Comité Exécutif ; ensuite, dans les sections et sous –sections du parti.
Golkar Party lawmaker Poempida Hidayatulloh has lashed out at the party’s chief advisor Akbar Tanjung for his double standards related to members who refuse to follow the party’s decision to support Great Indonesian Movement Party, or Gerindra, presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa.
Poempida, who supports Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle’s (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko Widodo, also known as Jokowi, and his running mate, former vice president and former Golkar chairman, Jusuf Kalla, described Akbar as inconsistent and discriminative.
Après l’attaque barbare de la délégation du Premier ministre Moussa Mara, à Kidal le samedi 17 mai 2014, suivie de l’assassinat sauvage des civils et représentants de l’Etat par le Mnla et ses associés terroristes, l’adresse à la nation du Président IBK était très attendue par les Maliens. Mais son discours a été moins ferme qu’attendu, juge une importante frange de la population malienne.
GEORGE TOWN, May 22 (Bernama) -- Independent candidate in the Bukit Gelugor by-election Mohamed Nabi Bux Mohd Nabi Abdul Sathar has urged PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu and vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar to return to the party's original struggle.
He said both party leaders had been politicising hudud, which was the party's cause all this while.
Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat, Ramkarpal Singh Deo, today launched his manifesto, three days before polling day.
But it was Tanjong Member of Parliament (MP) Ng Wei Aik who made all the explanation on the projects to be implemented if Ramkarpal were to win the by-election.
Ramkarpal, the third son of the late Karpal Singh, said after 10 days of campaigning, he had identified six issues which had been included in his manifesto.
TELUK INTAN: Police warned all supporters from Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat on Thursday to adhere the Election Offences Act 1954 to ensure a safe campaigning period.
Hilir Perak OCPD Asst Comm Goh Kok Liang said the police would not hesitate to take stern action against anyone who tried to cause disturbance during the two-week campaigning period for the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat by-election.
"Aside from ensuring a smooth by-election to be held, the police also hope the by-election will be conducted fairly.
Près d’une année après avoir obtenu l’autorisation de tenir son congrès constitutif, l’Union démocratique et sociale (UDS) subit des entraves et des blocages politico-administratifs, l’empêchant de préparer ses assises.
The Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) is opting to elect their own candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, a party group said during a visit to Hurriyet’s Ankaraoffice on May 21.
The HDP’s candidate will have high democratic values and will serve as an alternative to the ruling and main opposition’s party polarization.
Supporting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in a possible second round was tied to the specific candidate, the group also said.
Ali Benflis, l’ancien candidat à la présidentielle, a décidé de décliner l’invitation qui lui a été adressée par Ahmed Ouyahia en vue de participer à la consultation pour la révision de la Constitution.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (C) hold a meeting with a group of 10 miners from Soma representing workers who recently held a sit-in protest in front of Soma municipality after the mine disaster.
KABUL: Afghan election candidate Ashraf Ghani vowed on Thursday to overturn first-round results and seize the presidency as he launched his comeback campaign ahead of a run-off vote next month.
Ghani, a former World Bank economist, faces an uphill task to win the head-to-head vote after finishing second – 13 percentage points behind opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah – in the eight-man election held on April 5.
Le Doyen et député à l'Assemblée Constituante, Fadhel Moussa, était l'invité de Midi Show pour revenir sur le sujet des quatre recours sur les cinq relatifs à la nouvelle loi électorale qui ont été rejetés par l’instance provisoire chargée du contrôle de la constitutionnalité des lois et du 5ème recours dont le délai d'examen a expiré.
C’est l’une des recommandations faites par le bureau politique national du Rassemblement pour le Mali (RPM). C’était au cours d’une conférence de presse qu’il a organisée, hier à son siège à l’Hippodrome, sur les tristes événements survenus samedi dernier à Kidal. Objectif : mettre tous les Maliens au même niveau d’information afin de barrer la route à l’intox.
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