Stolojan Withdraws From Romania Election
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Former Prime Minister Theodor Stolojan announced Saturday that he has withdrawn from Romania's presidential election because of poor health.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on Wednesday, clearing the way for early elections just two years after the last parliamentary vote
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EXIT polls from Romaniaâs presidential run-off yesterday showed the race between the Social Democrat prime minister, Adrian Nastase, and the opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was too close to call.
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Republican candidate Mitt Romney  dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Thursday, a  decision that makes Sen. John McCain the all-but-certain  nominee of his party.
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Veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov  withdrew from Russia's presidential race on Wednesday, saying  the opposition needed to put forward a single candidate in the  March election to withstand the Kremlin's "foul play."
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MOSCOW, Dec. 26 -- For the second time this month, a leading Russian opposition figure has withdrawn from March's presidential election complaining of a political landscape that has made open competition impossible.
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The head of Russia's election commission is removed ahead of parliamentary and presidential polls.
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The incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today withdrew his proposed 24-member executive after it became evident the European Parliament would veto the team.
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BUDAPEST : Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy resigned, pre-empting a move by his ruling Socialist party to oust him in a no-confidence vote in parliament next month.
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A nationalist politician whose anti-immigrant positions angered coalition partners was voted out of the Swiss Cabinet on Wednesday in a rare political shakeup for Switzerland.
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Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the Republican party nomination for the White House.
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Romanian President Ion Iliescu steps down after elections today in what some hail as the final exit of Europe&#39;s last reigning communist-era leader from the political scene.
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BUCHAREST, May 21 (IPS) - A decision by parliament to oust Romanian President  Traian Basescu was overturned in a historic referendum that has  endorsed his wide popular appeal despite recent political  turmoil.
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Romania's centrist opposition, buoyed by a presidential election victory of their leader Traian Basescu, put pressure on the ruling left on Wednesday to abandon its bid to cling to power or face early elections.
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Veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov withdrew from Russia's presidential race on Wednesday, saying the opposition needed to put forward a single candidate in the March election to withstand the Kremlin's "foul play".
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Marwan Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian uprising now imprisoned in Israel, withdrew today from the Palestinian race for president.
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BUCHAREST  - Romania&#39;s main civil rights group said Monday it was pulling thousands of observers out of the Romanian presidential election after being submerged by an avalanche of fraud allegations.