Myanmar President Thein Sein congratulated democratic champion Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, as her party appeared to have trounced the ruling camp in the first free election in 25 years and inched towards an absolute majority in parliament. Thein Sein reiterated that the government would accept the results of[…]
Despite embarking on its first democratic elections after years of military rule, Myanmar still faces an uncertain political future. While pro-democracy leader and Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party is headed for a sweeping election victory, questions remain as to whether the country’s military[…]
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was officially re-elected to her seat in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday as her National League for Democracy party continued to steam towards victory in the country’s historic elections. Suu Kyi called on leading members of military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party[…]
Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi made it clear on Tuesday that she was ready to defy the powerful military’s attempts to clip her wings, as fresh results from Sunday’s historic election showed her party heading for a resounding win. As vote tallies trickled in, Suu Kyi’s long-oppressed National[…]
Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat in a general election on Monday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next government. “We lost,” Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) acting chairman Htay Oo told[…]
Political opponents and international observers on Monday raised concerns about the conduct and outcome of Sunday’s Turkish parliamentary elections in which the incumbent Justice and Development party (AKP) of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan defied poll expectations to regain a governing majority. “Now a party with some 50 percent in[…]
A United Nations rights investigator raised concern on Wednesday about whether Myanmar’s election next month could be considered free and fair because dozens of candidates had been disqualified and hundreds of thousands of people denied the right to vote. Yanghee Lee, U.N. special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar, also said[…]
Justin Trudeau is set to become Canada’s new prime minister after his Liberal Party swept to power in general elections, ending nearly a decade of Conservative Party rule. The Liberals seized a parliamentary majority, an unprecedented turn in political fortunes that smashed the record for the number of seats gained[…]
Egyptians are voting for a parliament expected to firmly back President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has crushed all opposition since ousting his predecessor, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. The much-delayed vote for the 596-member parliament – the previous assembly was dissolved in June 2012 – is to be staged in two[…]
Ayman Abbas, head of Egypt’s Supreme Election Committee, said on Sunday that half the governorates will vote on October 18 and 19. A second stage of voting will take place for the remaining governorates on November 22 and 23. Voters outside Egypt will cast ballots in a first stage on[…]
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