West Bank municipal election tests strength of Islamic party
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Thousands of voters overwhelmed polling stations in scattered West Bank towns and villages on Thursday as Palestinians enthusiastically voted in their first local elections in nearly three decades.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in  nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential  ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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ISTANBUL, July 23 -- Voters on Sunday overwhelmingly returned to power a political party that brought a mix of mild Islam and intense economic development to governing Turkey, rebuking the secular military whose challenge led to the early election.
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Moroccans chose their political future Friday in elections that could give an Islamic party greater power than ever before in a country seen as a pillar of moderation in the Arab world.
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Fatah, the dominant Palestinian political faction, approved the former prime minister Thursday as its candidate to succeed Yasser Arafat in a presidential election set for Jan. 9.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Islamic militant group  Hamas made significant gains in Palestinian municipal  elections, the first contested by the group sworn to destroying  Israel, initial results showed on Friday.
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A coalition of largely Shiite parties tacitly backed by the country's most influential religious leader won the largest number of votes in election results released Sunday, but fell short of the majority that many of its leaders had expected.
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In a town southeast of Jerusalem, a slate of candidates called the Reform Bloc campaigned hard in last month's municipal elections. The Reform Bloc ultimately swept seven of the town council's 11 seats, including that of the mayor.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Candidates backed by Islamic clerics won races in the Saudi capital in the kingdom's first regular balloting, an election observer said yesterday. But it was too early to say whether this represented a trend in the landmark municipal elections, which will be spread across three months.
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Hamas militants defeated the mainstream Palestinian movement Fatah in nine of 26 local elections, results showed on Sunday, in a foretaste of challenges confronting emerging moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Palestinians hold municipal elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor next month.
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Israeli soldiers patrol as Palestinian presidential candidate Bassam Salhi, center, from the People&#39;s Party tours the center of the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004.
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Electoral officials in Bosnia-Herzegovina say initial results from Saturday&#39;s municipal elections indicate a strong showing for Croat, Muslim and Serb nationalists.
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DAHARIYA, West Bank -- Thousands of Palestinians voted yesterday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in 28 years, with the Islamic group Hamas vying for political power for the first time against Fatah, the main faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank for  nearly three decades, a dry run for a presidential ballot next  month to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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HAMAS has won significant victories in local elections in the West Bank, the first to have been contested by the Islamic militant movement that is sworn to see Israelâs destruction.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in their first municipal elections under Israeli occupation on Thursday in a test of grassroots support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups.