New auditor general not elected in first round, JL's Kalnina-Priede receives most votes
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None of the four nominees for the new auditor general received Saeima majority support in the first round of auditor general elections today.
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KABUL - An irregularity was reported Saturday in the first hours of Afghanistanâs first democratic presidential election in history.
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KIEV, Ukraine -- The opposition candidate won the most votes today in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election but fell short of a first-round victory, according to an exit poll conducted by a consortium of non-governmental and polling groups.
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A conservative former prime minister won the most votes in Slovenia's tight presidential elections Sunday, but fell far short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
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A presidential election aimed at  restoring national government to lawless Somalia for the first  time in 13 years went into a second round on Sunday after no  outright winner emerged in the first ballot.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Reformist opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko edged the prime minister in the first round of Ukraine's presidential vote, the Central Elections Commission said Wednesday after a delayed final tally.
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PARLIAMENTARY elections and a referendum authorising Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko to run for a third term in office fell badly short of international standards, Western monitors said yesterday.
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Cristina FernÃ¡ndez de Kirchner was leading in early official results. She will need to win 45 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff.
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The Sri Lankan government of President Rajapaksa survives a budget vote that could have triggered an early election.
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Early returns Friday from Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election put incumbent President Hamid Karzai in the lead, the Financial Times reported Friday.
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A recount is all but certain in the race for governor, but the process will not start until December and it may be a while before islanders know who their next governor will be.
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"Today we cannot count on PiS's honesty and that PiS would not interfere with the election with the use of special services."  By Adam JasserWARSAW  - Prosecutors detained on Thursday Poland's recently fired interior minister, who has accused Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski of using secret services to spy on rival politicians.The prosecutor service said Janusz Kaczmarek was hampering an investigation into a corruption case. The opposition said Kaczynski was trying to muzzle critics ahead of an expected snap election."The detention is connected with a penal investigation concerning a leak into an anti-corruption office operation ...," Warsaw prosecutor Marzena Mucha-Podlewska told reporters. Read more
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Lithuania&#39;s opposition Labour Party, led by a Russian-born millionaire, has taken the lead in the first round of parliamentary elections in Lithuania.
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Poland's capital is set to get its first woman mayor, liberal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after voters in weekend municipal elections dealt a symbolic blow to the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, final results showed.
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The second round of Ukraineâs presidential election, in which Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich has opened up an unassailable lead, failed to meet many criteria for democratic polls, the Reuters news agency quoted Western monitors as saying on Monday.
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The corruption-tainted president is still favored to win reelection, but his failure to gain a majority in the first round has shaken him
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BELGRADE, Jan 23 (IPS) - The two leading candidates in the presidential  elections Sunday headed into a second round Feb. 3 as expected.  Less expected was the high turnout.