ACE Electoral News
ACE Electoral News
- Allegations of fraud delay results of Afghan parliamentary election, The International (2010)
- More than 3,000 complaints have been received by the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) since the parliamentary election on September 18. ECC officials said that investigation would delay the results of the election, which are expected to be announced at the end of October.
- Moldova parlt dissolved, election set for Nov 28 (Reuters, 2010)
- Moldova's acting president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and called an early parliamentary election for Nov. 28.
- Moldova's acting president dismisses parliament, calls snap elections (RIA Novosti, 2010)
- Moldovan acting president Mihai Ghimpu announced the dissolution of parliament on Tuesday and said that early parliamentary elections would take place on November 28.
- Moldova going to third election in two years (BBC, 2010)
- Moldova faces its third election in two years after members of parliament in one of Europe's poorest states failed twice to pick a president.
- Ukraine's Yanukovych promises fair local elections (Ukranian News, 2010)
- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych urges the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to send to Ukraine observers to the local elections in the country set for October 31, 2010.
- Ukraine's Yanukovych promises fair local elections (RIA Novosti, 2010)
- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has pledged to do his best to ensure that Ukraine's local elections scheduled for late October are fair, the president's press service said.
- Russia: With firing, Medvedev reasserts his power (The Washington Post, 2010)
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepped out of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's shadow long enough on Tuesday to fire Moscow's larger-than-life mayor, rattling a political establishment that until now has accepted Putin as the nation's undisputed authority.
- Tweeting for Votes in Latvia (Baltic Review, 2010)
- The one thing you can’t say about voters in Latvia is that they lack for information. As we approach election day on October 2nd, Latvia’s 1,514,936 eligible voters have been talked at, written to, snail-mailed and e-mailed, pamphleted on the street, and proselytized on the airwaves. They’ve been told how to vote and who to vote for in every way imaginable, including many which didn’t exist just a few years ago.
- Latvia prepares for "most important vote since independence" (M&G News, 2010)
- Citizens of Latvia go to the polls on October 2 to elect a new government against a backdrop of the deepest recession and highest unemployment in the European Union and the prospect of further cuts to pay back a 7.5-billion-euro (10-billion-dollar) loan from international lenders.
- Nigerian Electoral Commission Welcomes President’s Request for Election Delay voanews.com (2010)
- In order to ensure free and fair election in Nigeria, the actual President Mr. Goodluck Jonathan is amending the constitution, to delay the election for a couple of months. So that the electoral commission can be better prepared to organize the upcoming elections scheduled for next year.
- Civic Platform with absolute majority, says poll (thenews.pl, 2010)
- If elections were held this week in Poland then Civic Platform would have 244 seats in the lower house of parliament (Sejm) Law and Justice 165 and the Democratic Left Alliance 49 - meaning Donald Tusk’s party would have an absolute majority, finds a new poll.
- Poland: Right turn leads to nowhere? (thenews.pl, 2010)
- “If the Law and Justice keeps turning right, we will probably win municipal and parliamentary elections,” Grzegorz Schetyna, the Sejm Speaker told Gazeta Wyborcza.
- Kosovo president resigns after losing constitutional court case (Deutsche Welle, 2010)
- Three days after a court ruled he had violated the constitution, Kosovan President Fatmir Sejdiu has resigned, leaving his country without a head of state in the run-up to critical negotiations with Serbia.
- European Parliament: Sejdiu's decision shows respect for law (emg.rs, 2010)
- Fatmir Sejdiu, president of the Democratic League of Kosovo and now former president of Kosovo, on Sept. 28 presided over a session of the party's presidency, the Democratic League of Kosovo confirmed.
- OSCE Mission in Kosovo marks International Democracy Day (OSCE, 2010)
- "I have the answer, I have the answer," shouts Gentiana Maxharaj (17), a high-school student from Klinë/Klina, a municipality in western Kosovo. She and 40 peers from six municipalities in the region gathered in Gjakovë/Ðakovica on 15 September 2010 to take part in a democracy quiz.
- OSCE Mission concerned with legal representation in court cases in Kosovo (OSCE, 2010)
- A roundtable discussion today with judges, prosecutors and defence counsels to discuss an OSCE Mission report on legal representation in Kosovo concluded that the defence should play a more active role in court proceedings in order to ensure that defendants' rights are respected.
- Politics.hu to offer extended coverage of Hungary's 2010 municipal elections (Politics.hu, 2010)
- Starting on Sunday, October 3, Politics.hu will be offering extended coverage of Hungary's 2010 municipal elections, with real-time reports on electoral results and their repercussions.
- Hungary's Fidesz to sweep local election, budget eyed (Forexyard, 2010)
- Hungary's local elections on Sunday are likely to cement the political dominance of ruling party Fidesz -- and investors hope that will finally prompt it to clarify how it plans to reform the country's finance
- Tarlós: local government to buy public utilities (Politics.hu, 2010)
- Fidesz mayoral candidate István Tarlós yesterday vowed to take public utility companies into local government ownership if he wins the election in Budapest on Sunday.
- Hungarian TV asks court to block anti-Gypsy ad (Bloomberg Businessweek, 2010)
- Hungarian state television says it is appealing to the Supreme Court to block a political ad by a far-right party that talks about "Gypsy criminals."
