| Kosovo status should be determined after Serbia elections-Solana | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:03:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | BRUSSLES, November 13 (Itar-Tass) - EU foreign policy and security chief Javier Solana believes that the Kosovo status should be determined after parliamentary elections in Serbia. He made this statement at a meeting with the defence ministers of 25 European Union member countries here on Monday. Solana stressed that it would be good to give a chance to Serbian elections and see if a strong democratic government can appear in this country, which would be favourable for all the parties concerned. Thus Solana supported the idea of the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari who last week proposed to make a decision on the status of Kosovo after the Serbian parliamentary elections scheduled for January 21, 2007. Meanwhile, according to reports coming from Belgrade, Serbian Prime Minister Voiclav Kostunica is certain that the position of Serbia on the Kosovo issue will remain unchanged after the forthcoming elections.... | |
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| | | Oversight of elections sought | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:28:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | TRENTON -- The ongoing feud between Mercer County elections officials escalated to a new level yesterday as the county's deputy superintendent of elections requested a federal monitor oversee Tuesday's general election. Mercer County Deputy Superintendent of Elections Steve Cook faxed U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie a letter yesterday afternoon asking him to "consider assigning a monitor for the duration of the 2006 general election process." Cook also asked Christie to review whether the office will require ongoing monitoring. Neither Christie nor representatives of his office could be reached late yesterday for comment. Cook has been locked in a dispute with Superintendent of Elections Bettye Monroe; the county's two top election officials haven't spoken since February.... | |
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| | | Asian-Americans flex muscle in US elections | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:10:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington - Asian-Americans are growing in political clout in the United States and could be crucial to the outcome of upcoming legislative elections. They are flexing their muscle in traditional strongholds like California as well as in big ticket races such as in Illinois. At present, there are six Asian-American legislators in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and two in the Senate, also dominated by President George W. Bush's Republican Party. Two Asian-Americans have a good shot at winning House seats in the November 7 elections and they could help tip the balance to the Democratic Party, which needs to pick up 15 seats to gain control of the chamber. The two Democratic hopefuls are Maizie Hirono, a Japanese-American former lieutenant governor contesting against a state senator in Hawaii, and Tammy Duckworth, a Thai-American US Army helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in Iraq, battling for a traditionally Republican seat in the suburbs of Chicago.... | |
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| | | Bush must show Iraq plan before elections - Democrats | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:05:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON: Key Senate Democrats have urged the White House not to wait until after the US congressional elections in two weeks to give the Iraqi government a timetable to assume a larger role in securing the country. The top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin, said the Iraq strategy blueprint reportedly being drafted for President George W Bush specifying ways to reduce sectarian violence should also include a schedule for pulling out US forces. "We shouldn't wait 'til the end of the year to come up with milestones. We ought to be doing that now. We should have done it long ago," Levin of Michigan said on Fox News. Voter discontent with the Iraq war is one of the main reasons Bush's Republicans are said to be increasingly at risk of losing control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the November 7 elections.... | |
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| | | Comelec says LP polls illegal, orders new party elections | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:06:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) yesterday declared illegal and invalid the election last March of Manila Mayor Lito Atienza as the new president of the 60-year-old Liberal Party. In a 17-page resolution, the Comelec told Atienza and his allies, among them Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor who was elected chairman of the party during the disputed March 2 assembly, to stop representing themselves as officers of the party and performing the duties and functions of their new positions. Atienza and Defensor had organized the rump party elections after then LP president and Senate President Franklin Drilon announced his decision to withdraw support from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for alleged cheating in the 2004 election. Upon meticulous consideration of the facts, it is clear that the elections conducted by the respondents on March 2, 2006, were not in accordance with, but in gross violation of, the LP Constitution and therefore invalid, the Comelec ruled.... | |
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| | | Belgian far right set for major gains in elections | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:04:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE two main parties of Belgium's national coalition face the threat of serious losses to the far right in municipal elections today. The Flemish Dutch-speaking Liberals of prime minister Guy Verhofstadt must combat the surging extreme-right Flemish Interest party in northern Belgium, while the Walloon Francophone Socialists must overcome corruption allegations in the south. .... | |
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| | | Liberia: NEC - Prepared to Handle Municipal Elections | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 7:08:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | The national Elections Commission (NEC) has once again reiterated its preparedness to organize municipal and chieftaincy elections to complete the formation of the current elected government consistent with the New Elections Law of 1986 promulgated by the 50th Legislature. In a statement, the NEC said it remained engaged with stakeholders on deriving a consensus about the key issues relating to the early conduct of the chieftaincy and municipal elections. .... | |
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| | | Secretary-General Urges Peaceful, Lawful Elections | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:02:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on all parties and candidates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where run-off elections are scheduled for October, to ensure that the process is peaceful and lawful. Mr. Annan’s comments followed a DRC Supreme Court decision last week validating the results of the first round of the 30 July presidential election and paving the way for a second round between President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba. “The Secretary-General calls on the two candidates to adhere to the electoral calendar, which sets 29 October as the date both for the second presidential round and for the provincial assembly elections, and to reach an early agreement both on the rules of conduct for the electoral campaign and on mutual assurances for security anῤ political engagement thereafter, a spokesman for Mr.... | |
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| | | November Elections: Bring it On? | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:12:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two factors will work against Republicans trying to retain control of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in November -- and they both have to do with the downside of being the party in power in Washington. First, there's President Bush. I've covered politics long enough to have lived through this cycle before -- the scorn that insiders in both parties heap on a White House in its second term, when every mistake made by an administration has been magnified and dissected. In another five years, Americans will look back at the Bushies' achievements. Today, the focus is on the screw-ups. (Witness the Sunday New York Times page-one story about GOP candidates who are dissing Bush guru Karl Rove.) Then, there is the GOP House, which clearly saw its leadership corrupted by power.... | |
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| | | 3 Broward cities plan fall elections | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 3:12:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | With Tuesday's elections not yet out of the way, Parkland, Southwest Ranches and Weston on Friday began gearing up for their own, separate municipal races in November. The one-week period for signing up to run for seats on the Parkland and Weston city commissions and the Southwest Ranches town council began at noon and runs until noon Friday. .... | |
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