Opponents: Macedonian Referendum Will Fail on Low Turnout
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An official of Macedonia&#39;s ruling coalition says Sunday&#39;s referendum challenging ethnic Albanian autonomy will go down to defeat for lack of sufficient turnout.
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Macedonia's governing coalition early Friday defeated a no-confidence motion introduced by the main opposition party, which blamed the government for a weak economy and accused it of making too many concessions to the ethnic Albanian minority.
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SKOPJE, Nov 6  - The Macedonian government, buoyed by US recognition of Macedonia&#39;s constitutional name, was pulling out all the stops Saturday to scupper a referendum that could set back the peace process with the restive ethnic Albanian minority.
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ATHENS  - The government said Friday it would block neighbouring Macedonia from joining NATO or the European Union unless a name dispute with the Balkan republic is resolved.
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On Sunday, voters will have a limited chance to elect members to the city&#39;s parliament. By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Macedonia&#39;s national referendum on abolishing local autonomy for the country&#39;s restive ethnic Albanian minority appeared to have failed Sunday, early turnout figures suggested.
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Macedonians showed the West they would not slide back towards ethnic division, largely ignoring a nationalist referendum that would have reversed a law giving the Albanian minority more rights.
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Voters in Switzerland  --  where more than one in five is a foreigner  --  rejected proposals to liberalize tough rules on citizenship in a national referendum Sunday.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia In a boost for the country&#39;s multiethnic coalition government, a referendum backed by Macedonian nationalists that would have blocked efforts to give the country&#39;s ethnic Albanian minority greater autonomy appeared likely to fail late
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Early voter turnout was low in a  referendum on Sunday in Macedonia, where nationalist opposition  parties want to stop a Western-inspired law giving ethnic  Albanians more power.
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Politics: 6 November 2004, Saturday. Macedonia sank into contemplation on Saturday, prior to the crucial referendum on whether to grant local autonomity to ethnic Albanians in the country.
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Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly.
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Macedonians began voting on Sunday in a  referendum that could decide if the country remains on a  pro-Western path and gives its Albanian minority more rights or  slips back on a nationalist course.
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A referendum by Macedonian nationalists that would have eroded the rights of Albanians has been defeated by a voter boycott, The Independent said Monday.
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Latvians head to the polls, but low turnout is expected amid a lack of issues and series of corruption scandals.
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Voters failed to overturn Portugal's strict abortion law Sunday because of low turnout at the polls, but the prime minister nonetheless vowed to relax the restriction through legislation in the conservative ...Comment
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A referendum bid to block a law that  gives Macedonia's Albanian minority more rights failed on  Sunday, upholding a Western-brokered peace plan which ended  ethnic fighting in 2001.