Afghanistan will hold a deciding round of its problem-hit presidential poll on 7 November, pitting Hamid Karzai against his rival Abdullah Abdullah. News of the run-off vote follows weeks of mounting international pressure. It comes a day after a UN-backed panel said it had clear evidence of fraud in August’s first round, lowering Mr Karzai’s vote share below 50%. More on this story at BBC News…
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Afghan election goes to run-off
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections
Saturday, July 25th, 2009The Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections will take place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary elections of 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan are eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan will be chosen directly through popular votes. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan will not be allowed to vote.
Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and will be stopped 48 hours before voting starts The elections will be held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number. The Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections will take place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary elections of 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan are eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan will be chosen directly through popular votes. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan will not be allowed to vote.
Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and will be stopped 48 hours before voting starts The elections will be held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number.
Iraqi Kurds to vote Saturday
Friday, July 24th, 2009Voters in Kurdistan in northern Iraq go to the polls on Saturday in a double election, to choose a new parliament and a president for their autonomous region.
The elections have been the most vibrant and exciting since 1992, when the Kurds held their first-ever free polls after winning de facto autonomy.
That first election saw a massive turnout, with huge crowds of Kurds besieging the polling stations until after midnight, thrilled by the novelty of choosing their own leaders by ballot.
Sri Lankan local government elections, 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009Local government elections are scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka on 8 August 2009 for two local councils in the north of the country: Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban Council.
These will be the first elections in the country since the government declared victory in the 26 year old civil war on 18 May 2009. They will also be the first local elections held in the Northern Province in more than 11 years.
On 25 May 2009 the government announced that local elections would be held in Jaffna and Vavuniya.
Nominations took place between 18 June 2009 and 25 June 2009. After the nominations closed the Sri Lankan Department of Election announced that the elections would take place on 8 August 2009, the same day as the Uva Provincial Council elections.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has said that the elections are being held too early, with so many of the electorate displaced. It expects the Jaffna elections to be violent and the results rigged, just like the 2008 Eastern Provincial Counil elections.
The United National Party (UNP) and the People’s Action for Free and Fair Election (PAFFREL) have called on the election authorities to bring in foreign election observers.
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Afghan election officially postponed till August 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009Afghan presidential election due to be held in spring 2009 has been officially postponed till Aug. 20
