Locals back opposition candidate
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Last week, with exit polls showing an independent candidate had won the presidential election, Hreshchyshyn was happy for her relatives still in Ukraine.
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The hopes of environmentalists for Tasmania&#39;s old-growth forests to be protected have been raised by Opposition Leader Mark Latham&#39;s choice of words at the Labor campaign launch.
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Newspapers have backed the MP embroiled in a political storm sparked by his views on the problems posed by Muslim women wearing a veil.
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Pakistan&#39;s opposition parties have nominated a jailed leader to stand against Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz in Friday&#39;s vote for a new prime minister.
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Local officials are using election law to block independent candidates.
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Hilary Benn's campaign for Labour deputy boosted by support of twice as many constituency parties as nearest rival.
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Opposition parties made big gains in municipal elections Sunday following two weeks of protests over the prime minister' admission that he lied about the economy.
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The opposition is expected to win by a landslide in a surprisingly smooth election.
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BLAINE, Minn. - Vote for my opponent. Please. Paul Herold entered the primary for a City Council seat in this Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb, but then he landed a new job that he says wouldn't leave him enough time to do a decent job for his constituents.
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Spain&#39;s ruling Socialists face a battle  to win back support in Madrid before next year&#39;s general  election after the capital voted in favor of the opposition in  regional polls.
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Spain&#39;s conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won Sunday&#39;s municipal polls by the tiniest of margins but the ruling Socialists also saw their bedrock support hold firm.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Battle-weary citizens chose an opposition leader as their next president, voting against the party that ushered the country out of a devastating war in 2002 and for the promise of less corruption and more jobs.
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Conservative support spreading in Labour strongholds, new ICM/Guardian poll shows
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Early results for Italian local elections in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi's left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Indigenous groups andindependent candidates were poised to win local elections inBolivia on Sunday, while support for traditional parties sankfurther after a popular revolt last year toppled formerpresident Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
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MADRID A contested plan to turn the troubled Basque region into a virtually sovereign state was assured passage through the regional parliament on Thursday when a pro-independence party that had opposed the proposal as insufficient said it would vote in
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BEIRUT -- Lawmakers yesterday narrowly endorsed changes drafted by the pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, calling for fairer election laws and preserving close ties with neighboring Syria. After a three-day debate, during which the Cabinet came under heavy fire from opposition groups, Karami's plan won the backing of 59 of the 108 legislators. Twenty-four members of the 128-seat parliament voted ...