Kazakh lawmakers ask president to call early polls
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Kazakhstan took a step towards early parliamentary elections on Tuesday after lawmakers asked President Nursultan Nazarbayev to dissolve the lower house and set a date for the ballot.
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The pro-West president called Saturday's snap polls after beingcriticized for authoritarianism. With early results giving him 48 percent ofthe vote, opponents protest fraud.
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ALMATY/ASTANA  - President Nursultan Nazarbayev  warned oil-rich Kazakhstan against voting for his opponents'  "empty promises" of riches in a poll on Sunday already  criticized in the West for bias against the opposition.
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As attacks continue, some officials call for poll delay
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With half the votes counted and interim leader Hamid Karzai still holding a 40-point lead, the race for the Afghan presidency could be virtually decided by late yesterday, a top election official said.
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He may be experienced at fielding  questions on geopolitics but when the Kazakh president logs on  next week for his first Internet news conference he will have  to tackle some more bizarre matters.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai's rivals said Sunday it was too early to call Afghanistan's inaugural presidential election, despite the interim leader's dominant showing after three days of vote-counting.    The U.S.-backed incumbent's main challenger, Yunus Qanooni, insisted that a full count and a proper investigation by a panel of foreign experts on fraud allegations could yet put him in the running...
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In his bitter wrangling with Hamas over legitimacy, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is considering calling presidential and legislative elections to strengthen his position, a top aide said Thursday.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party took an early lead in elections for parliament yesterday and his daughter's new party was running second.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Hamas Islamists on Monday to agree to early elections and to open a "new page" by ceding control of the Gaza Strip and holding reconciliation talks with his Fatah faction.
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Some political allies of Pakistan's military president, Pervez Musharraf, are urging him to drop plans to be re-elected by the sitting parliament and instead call early polls and seek a mandate from new assemblies.
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Voting started in Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections which are expected to be dominated by the parties supporting President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has ruled this oil-rich central Asian nation since the late Soviet era.
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The US and others countries welcome a call for early elections to end violence between Palestinian rivals.
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Â· President makes surprise move ahead of elections Â· Choice of Zubkov a bid to keep power, say critics
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Oil-rich Kazakhstan prepared to vote Sunday in a parliamentary poll criticized by the West and all but written off as unfair by opposition parties.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano asked Senate President Franco Marini on Wednesday to try to form an interim government to reform voting rules ahead of new elections, a senior presidential aide said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened on Saturday to call early elections to end an impasse with Hamas but set no date for the vote, signaling he has not given up on forming a unity government with the Islamic militant group.