Vino's Political Blog (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The Romanian general election has seen the Social Democrats (together with their Conservative allies) get 33% of the votes cast. The Democratic Liberal Party, of the centre-right, was only a little bit behind - with 32.57%. The National Liberals were on 18.32% and a party representing the Hungarian minority (the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania) got 6.29%. We will now have to see which...
The Waterglass (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, December 1, is Romania’s national day commemorating the unification of Romania. While most Romanians are taking the day off, vote-counters from the weekend’s parliamentary elections are busy: Parties neck and neck in Romania election Romania’s parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The Alliance of Social Democrats and Conservatives regained its lead in parliamentary elections, latest results showed Monday. With 92.73 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections counted, the Alliance of Social Democrats and Conservatives got 33 percent in the Deputies' Chamber, the lower house of parliament, and 33.99percent in the Senate, the Central Election Bureau said. The...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) President, Chief Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) alongside six other eminent members of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) are to monitor the forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ghana.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The result of Romania's parliamentary election was too close to call yesterday evening with the two main parties of the centre-left and centre-right running...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
I decided to take a closer look at the data available on: The Irish General Election of 1918 (http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/h1918.htm) and ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Early results showed that the Democratic Liberal Party (DLP) supported by Romania's president was leading in the parliamentary elections, agencies reported Monday. The DLP had about 33 percent of votes while the leftist Social Democrats got over 32 percent, with 71 percent of votes counted. &$ &$Source:Xinhua&$ &$ ...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Romania's opposition Social Democrats are set for a clear victory in the country's parliamentary elections, though without an absolute majority, the internet editions of several Romanian dailies speculated Sunday.
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Exit polls suggest Romania's Social Democratic Party got the largest share of votes in Sunday's parliamentary elections in the country. An exit poll conducted by pollsters Insomar gave the PSD 36.2 per cent of the votes, followed by the Liberal Democrats with 30.3 per cent. The governing National L...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Romanians are electing their new Parliament on Sunday by using for the first time the so-called uninominal or majority voting system, meaning that voters will cast their choice for a candidate, instead of a party. Just one day before December 1, Romania's National Holiday, nearly 18 million voters ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Romanians vote in the parliamentary elections Sunday to elect a new parliament for the next four years, with over 18 million people registered for the vote. Voting will begin at 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) and end at 9:00 p.m. (1900 GMT). This is the first time in the country voters will elect the new parliament by a uninominal vote. The uninominal system replaced the old voting system this...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last Sunday, November 23, when millions of people on the African continent found themselves in various churches worshipping God, a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau were also busy plotting the overthrow of President João Bernardo Vieira, just two days after parliamentary election results were published.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bucharest - The centre-right Democratic Liberals (PDL) of Romanian President Traian Basescu held a razor-thin lead in Romania's parliamentary elections, according to latest returns on Monday. With 71 per cent of Sunday's ballots counted, the PDL were...
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... crisis between the ruling part and opposition. Here is an excerpt of the report: The 2009 Elections: A Potential Step Backwards? Elections for the 301 seats in parliament as well as local elections for 21 governorate councils and the 333 district councils are scheduled for April 2009. A new electoral commission has been appointed and election preparations are...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly 2,500 candidates have submitted nominations to contest parliamentary elections in Bangladesh on December 29, poll officials said Monday.
