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Macedonia’s conservatives win parliamentary, presidential elections © REUTERS 27 April 2014 Macedonia’s conservative ruling party has secured a third term in office, winning both parliamentary and presidential elections on Sunday, based on preliminary results of the ballot that the opposition said it would not recognize. “I can say that our fatherland is in safe hands. Nikola Gruevski remains prime minister and I can also say … that Gjorge Ivanov remains president,”… Read More »

Lebanon parliament fails to elect president © ALJAZEERA 23 April 2014  No candidate received the necessary two-thirds majority to win the presidency in first parliamentary vote. Lebanon’s parliament has failed to elect a new president, in what is set to be a prolonged saga closely linked to Syria’s upcoming election in June, political analysts say. The parliamentary session began at noon on Wednesday. No candidate succeeded in getting the minimum 86… Read More »

Abdelaziz Bouteflika sworn in for fourth term as Algerian president © The Guardian 28 April 2014 Frail president makes inauguration speech after election victory dismissed by opponents as unfair. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been sworn in for a fourth term as Algeria‘s president after he won an election that opponents dismissed as unfair and returned to power for another five years. Sitting in a wheelchair and dressed in a navy three-piece suit and… Read More »

Afghanistan’s Abdullah rejects election result as ‘coup’ against people © Reuters 7 July 2014 Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah’s camp rejected preliminary results of last month’s run-off election on Monday as a “coup” against the people, putting him on a dangerous collision course with his rival, Ashraf Ghani. The Independent Election Commission on Monday announced that Ghani won the June 14 second round with 56.44 percent of the vote, according to… Read More »

Slovak tycoon Andrej Kiska wins presidency © BBC 29 March 2014 lovak tycoon Andrej Kiska has won the country’s presidential election, despite having no previous political experience. Mr Kiska, standing for office for the first time, defeated current Prime Minister Robert Fico in the second round of voting. Early poll counts suggested Mr Kiska had gained about 60% of the vote. His victory stopped Mr Fico’s social democrats from gaining control… Read More »

El Salvador’s election, an extraordinary result © 13 March 2014 FINAL results were released early this morning for El Salvador’s March 9th presidential election. They confirm that Salvador Sánchez Ceren of the ruling left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) won the narrowest of victories over Norman Quijano of the right-wing National Republican Alliance (Arena), with 50.11% to 49.89%. That’s a difference of just 6,364 votes, in an election with about 3m… Read More »

Non-career politician Luis Guillermo Solís wins Costa Rica presidential runoff in a landslide © The Tico Times 7 April 2014 Opposition candidate and former professor Luis Guillermo Solís easily won Sunday’s runoff election, ushering in Costa Rica’s first third-party candidate in 44 years. Rallying at Plaza Roosevelt in San Pedro, east of San José, Solís of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) and red-and-yellow clad supporters cheered the results as the Supreme… Read More »

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales can seek third term © BBC 30 April 2013 Bolivia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Evo Morales can run for a third term in elections scheduled for December 2014. Under Bolivia’s constitution, presidents are only allowed to serve two consecutive terms. But the court argued that Mr Morales’s first term should not count because it predated the current constitution, which was amended in 2009. Critics said the… Read More »

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