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    Hong Kong protests simmer ahead of local elections

    23 Nov 2019

    An uneasy calm settled over Hong Kong on Saturday as the city prepared to go to the polls for local elections seen as a referendum on months of anti-government protests, after weeks of especially violent clashes between police and demonstrators.

    Polls open in Italy, right-wing alliance seen winning

    25 Sep 2022

    Voters began queueing before polling centres opened at 0500 GMT, the media correspondents saw. The election will end at 2100 GMT when exit polls will give an indication of the final result.

    Ruling Socialist party leads Spanish general election

    11 Nov 2019

    Spain’s Socialist party pledged on Monday to act fast to form a government after its leader and acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez gambled on a repeat election that on Sunday night resulted in no clear winner but a surge for the far right.

    Australian prime minister announces May 18 election

    11 Apr 2019

    Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday called a national election for May 18, firing the starting gun on a campaign set to focus heavily on climate and the economy.

    Big turnout for India's giant election, where Modi has an edge

    11 Apr 2019

    Security for the polls was increased after seven people were killed in militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, the country's only Muslim majority state, and in eastern India, where Maoist insurgents were blamed for a bomb that killed a state legislator from Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

    Iraqi Parliament to elect new President on Thursday

    12 Oct 2022

    According to the power-sharing system in Iraq after 2003, the presidency should be reserved for the Kurds, the Speaker's post for the Sunnis, and the Prime Minister's post for the Shias.

    Turkey recounts Istanbul votes

    03 Apr 2019

    Turkish electoral authorities on Wednesday recounted votes in more than a dozen Istanbul districts after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP challenged results giving the opposition a narrow victory in a weekend election.

    Modi tears into Gandhi family, flays dynastic rule

    03 Apr 2019

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, accusing it of running “dynastic rule under the disguise of democracy for 55 years since the country’s Independence” and urged people to re-elect the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government that has made many “impossible possible” in the last five years.

    Philippine missions ready for elections

    04 Apr 2019

    Qualified voters for the April 13 to May 13 Philippine mid-term (legislative/general) elections from the UAE are at 318,862 of the total 1,789,823 overseas Filipinos absentee voters (OFAVs) registered with Manila’s Commission on Elections (Comelec).

    Modi, Rahul exchange barbs as election campaign hots up

    04 Apr 2019

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, accusing it of running “dynastic rule under the disguise of democracy for 55 years since the country’s Independence” and urged people to re-elect the BJP government that has made many “impossible possible” in the last five years.

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