Noticias

Le Parti pour la laïcité et la démocratie (PLD) appelle à la dissolution de la classe politique. Cette formation, dirigée par Moulay Chentouf, accuse les partis politiques, toutes tendances confondues, d’avoir trahi le véritable combat politique pour l’instauration de la démocratie.

The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) closed on-line overseas voter registration at midnight yesterday – as had been planned. However, it announced that it was extending it by direct registration through embassies until 31 March.

HNEC reported that a total of 6,267 overseas Libyans had registered on-line from 1/2/18 to 12/3/18. The three countries with the highest number of voters registered were the UK with 1,372, followed by 1,100 in Egypt and 783 in the US and Canada.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has elected Shehbaz Sharif as permanent president of the party as the Central General Council met in Islamabad on Tuesday. According to media reports, Shehbaz was elected uncontested as no other candidate submitted documents for the presidency of the party.

Earlier, PML-N leader Senator Asif Kirmani told media that party meeting will be held with a single point agenda to elect the new president. Along with other leaders, Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz attended the meeting at Convention Centre, Islamabad.

Iraqi President Fuad Masum has rejected the country’s controversial 2018 budget bill, and ordered it back to the parliament, according to a source quoted saying  on Tuesday.

Alsumaria News quoted an “informed source” saying that the president declined to approve the bill and decided to return it to the parliament for review.

A substantial law that gives the green light to political parties to form pre-election alliances and overhauls electoral regulations on the eve of 2019 polls has been approved at parliament after a marathon nightlong session, which included a physical fight between ruling and opposition lawmakers.

The 26-article law was approved by a majority vote led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The two parties have already announced an agreement to form what they have dubbed the “People’s Alliance.”

Former Libyan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aref Al-Nayed, has announced his intentions to run for the country’s presidency, slated for later this year.

In an interview with Egyptian newspaper Youm7 in Dubai, Al-Nayed said he is preparing an election campaign in cooperation with teamwork of young people to get Libya out of its crisis.

“Elections are the only way out of the Libyan crisis,” he thinks.

L’homme d’affaires malien, Aliou Boubacar Diallo, s’est déclaré ce dimanche candidat à l’élection présidentielle du 29 juillet, avec les couleurs de l’Alliance démocratique pour la paix (ADP-Maliba). Connu pour sa société Wassoul’Or, la mine d’or de Kodiéran, au sud du Mali, il est également un ancien poids lourd de l’entourage de Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.

Alors que la réunion des signataires de l'Accord de Carthage est prévue au cours de la journée de mardi, le président du bloc parlementaire du Front Populaire Ahmed Seddik a affirmé "n'avoir aucune attente" de celle-ci.

"Nous considérons que cette réunion sera l'occasion pour la coalition au pouvoir de commencer à préparer une feuille de route interne pour l'après élection municipale" a-t-il considéré.

Dans la ville de Nioro du Sahel, il n’y a pas eu que la désignation d’Aliou Boubacar Diallo comme candidat de l’ADP-Maliba à la présidentielle de 2018. La ville maraboutique malienne, non loin de la Mauritanie, a également jeté les bases d’une « sacrosainte » entente qui pourrait définir l’avenir politique du Mali. «Ce compromis est souhaitable avant le premier tour mais en tout cas indispensable au second tour », a laissé entendre Aliou Boubacar Diallo, le candidat désigné de l’ADP-Maliba.