Opposition Party Faces Official Ban Ahead Of Elections
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Lawyers for the embattled Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK), the country's main opposition party, failed yesterday to persuade an appellate court to overturn a ban imposed on the party earlier this month.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court stopped the publication of the official presidential election results until it has examined an appeal lodged by the opposition against them, a spokeswoman told AFP.
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Thailand faced more political turmoil on Thursday after exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was banned from politics and his party dismantled, raising fears of unrest ahead of elections in December.
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Harare - Zimbabwe&#39;s government said the main opposition has decided to boycott elections because they are scared of losing, an official daily said on Thursday.
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KIEV, Ukraine: Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko warned Thursday that &quot;provocations&#39;&#39; allegedly being planned by his opponent could jeopardize a presidential contest scheduled at the end of December.
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party will likely contest March elections but will delay a formal announcement pending a visit by African experts to determine whether free and fair polls can be held, party sources said.
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A fresh censorship wave is linked to next month's Party Congress.
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Zimbabwe's main opposition party say they will not take part in elections unless major reforms are made.
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KIEV -- Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko lost a round in Parliament yesterday, when pro-government legislators helped block legal changes intended to prevent fraud in the Dec. 26 repeat of the country's presidential runoff.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Thailand is braced for a leap into the unknown this week as a court decides whether to disband the country's top two parties and ban their leaders from politics for breaching election laws.
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Â· New case occurs less than a week after all clear  Â· Government imposes national movement ban
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Pakistan's general election was postponed on Wednesday by six weeks until mid-February due to the  violence sparked by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, despite the objection of the two main opposition parties.
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Leading Iraqi political parties have called for forthcoming elections to be delayed because of mounting violence in the country. Fifteen political parties - including two Kurdish groups
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 1 -- Opposition leaders on Tuesday debated whether to call mass street protests in response to a government decision to delay parliamentary elections that had been due next week, but now will be put off until after Feb. 8.
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An outlawed Uzbek opposition party made a new attempt to get formal recognition Thursday, as Uzbekistan prepared for parliamentary elections that can only be contested by the country's five legal parties, which ...
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Lebanese factions backed by Damascus are set to boycott a presidential election in parliament on Tuesday, blocking the anti-Syrian majority from choosing a new head of state.
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South Korea's election watchdog ruled Thursday that President Roh Moo-hyun violated election laws by criticizing the opposition party ahead of this year's presidential vote.