ACE Electoral News

ACE Electoral News

PNG reserved seats delay galvanises grassroots communities, Radio New Zealand International (2010)

This article discusses the decision of the parliament of Papua New Guinea not to consider a bill reserving 22 seats for women before adjourning until May. The National Council of Women and other women’s organizations across the country led the advocacy campaign for this bill, and they are determined to see women in the parliament. Currently, there is only one woman MP in the country.

Tautua Samoa party accepts leadership challenge before 2011 election, Radio New Zealand International (2010)

This article reports on the challenges of the Tautua Samoa party members to choose their leader before the March 2011 general elections. The election of a Tautua Samoa party leader is expected this week, but the party will probably decide to nominate its leader only from the winning candidates of next year’s election.

Tense Haiti awaits results of turbulent elections, Reuters (2010)

This article reports on the vote counting operations in Haiti. The country is waiting for the preliminary results to be published by the Provisional Electoral Council on Tuesday (December 7). More than a week after the elections, the preliminary official results are expected with anxiety: for a first-round win, a presidential candidate would need to gain more than 50% of the votes, but apparently no one was able to do that. The two candidates who received the majority of the votes will compete in a runoff, scheduled for January 7.

Mexico: Mexico's PRI Leads in Universal Poll Ahead of 2012 Presidential Election, Bloomberg (2010)

Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, is favored to win the 2012 presidential elections, according to a poll by newspaper El Universal and Berumen y Asociados.

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Slovakia: Referendum Law (1992-1995)

1992 Referendum Law with amendments through 1995. In English, courtesy of IFES Slovakia

Women and Elections

 

Lesotho: LPC to unveil manifesto, Public Eye Daily (2012)

As one of the twelve parties that will contest this year's general elections, the Lesotho People’s Congress is set to unveil its election manifesto at a rally set for February 5 in Berea.

South Africa: Ramphele: This is an astonishing moment for SA, News24 (2014)

In this article, the Democratic Alliance (DA) names Agang SA leader, Mamphela Ramphele as their presidential candidate in the 2014 general election.

South Africa: ANC list conference starts Monday, SABCNews (2014)

In this article, the African National Congress (ANC) begin their list conference Pretoria. It is in this conference that the party will decide who will represent the it in the national and provincial assemblies after the general elections in 2014.

South Africa: Elections need independent monitors- Agang SA, SABCNews (2014)

In this article, Mamphela Ramphele of Agang SA calls for urgent need of independent monitors during the elections. This comes after claims that some voters in the Tlokwe by-elections in the North West province.

Botswana 'breaks ranks with SADC, AU', News24 (2014)

In this article, Botswana President, Ian Khama says his country will not participate in future SADC election observer. This comes after what he calls 'failure' by African Union and SADC to point out the irregularities in last year’s Zimbabwe harmonised polls.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Tsvangirai urged to resign, News24 (2014)

In this article, deputy treasurer general, Elton Mangoma of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has wrote a letter to the party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai urging him to step down.

Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war, BBC (2011)

This news article is about the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, who warned that civil war could hit the country. His comments came in a lengthy TV address as anti-government protests spread to the capital Tripoli, and were brutally countered by security forces. Saif Gaddafi offered political reforms, and admitted that the police and army had made "mistakes", but said the death toll was lower than reported. Human Rights Watch says at least 233 people have died since last Thursday 18 Feb.

Bahrain protest continues, Aljazeera (2011)

This news article talks about hundreds of demonstrators are gathered at the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain's capital, as their protest against the government and ruling royal family entered its ninth day.

Reform Lawyer Says Tunisia Risks Anarchy, New York Times (2011)

This news article is about the warning by the head of a Tunisian government commission on political reform on Monday 21 Feb, that the country risked falling into “anarchy” as it passed through what he described as a very dangerous post-revolutionary transition toward multi-party democracy.

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Left-Leaning Party Wins Slovakia Election, wsj (2012)

In Slovakia parliamentary elections Robert Fico's Smer-Social Democracy party won 83 of the 150 seats in the national assembly. It is the first time since independence in 1993 that a single party has received enough votes to govern on its own.

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