Tunisian president re-elected as expected, opposition contests
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TUNIS : Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has won re-election for a fourth term by an overwhelming margin in a vote denounced as &quot;surreal&quot; and an insult to democracy by several opposition leaders.
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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa won a second term in office in an election his challenger Michael Sata accused him of rigging, official results showed on Monday.
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Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili was heading for a landslide presidential election victory, early results showed on Sunday, but the opposition said the vote was rigged and vowed street protests.
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Opposition activists win the two parliamentary seats for the Maldives capital, provisional results show.
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TUNIS (Tunisia): Tunisian President President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali looked set for re-election for a fourth five-year term with more than 90 percent of the votes, partial official results showed Monday.
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Niger's president is to face the main opposition leader in a run-off of presidential elections, officials say.
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TUNIS : Tunisians head to the polls to cast their ballots in legislative and presidential elections in which the ruling party of long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is widely tipped to come out victorious.
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya is re-elected with 75% of the vote, say officials, with just a few results to come.
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Early results show President Ben Ali heading for his expected landslide victory in the Tunisian elections.
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Mauritanians voted on Sunday to choose a president and restore civilian rule to the Saharan Islamic state after 19 months under a military junta.
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Another sweeping re-election win by Tunisia&#39;s long-time president is a slap in the face for democratic reforms and political change in a country run with an iron fist, critics said on Monday.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade comfortably won a second term in Sunday's election, results showed on Thursday, and he warned opposition leaders they could now face corruption probes suspended during the poll campaign.
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Turkmenistan voted for a new president on Sunday in its first contested election, but one virtually certain to be won by an aide to the country's former authoritarian leader, who died in December.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy looked set to win a sweeping mandate for his ambitious programme of reforms Sunday, as French voters went back to the polls to elect a new National Assembly, the lower chamber of parliament.
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President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a champion of democracy.
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Polling stations opened in Tunisia on  Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections boycotted by  several opposition parties and seen as test to the U.S.  administration's drive to boost democracy in the Middle East.
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France goes to the polls for the second  time in a just over a month on Sunday when it votes in  parliamentary elections that are expected to seal President  Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s grip on power.