Snap elections in Portugal called
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio has announced he is dissolving parliament and calling snap elections for 20 February next. Prime minister Pedro Santana Lopes&#39;s and the ruling Social Democrat party are well behind the opposition Socialists.
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Portugal, already reeling from an alarming economic decline, plunged deeper into crisis Saturday when the conservative government quit a day after the president dissolved parliament and called an early general election.
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Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva is pictured during his swearing-in ceremony in Lisbon, March 2006.Comment
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Polls opened on Sunday in Serbia's key presidential elections seen as crucial for the future of this Balkan state vis-a-vis the EU and as its breakaway province of Kosovo plans to declare independence.
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Portugal's prime minister says the country's parliament will legalise abortion despite a low referendum turnout.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio began  moves Tuesday to dissolve parliament and call an election after  deciding Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes could no longer  continue in the job.
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The Labour Party conference began winding down Wednesday with Prime Minister Gordon Brown riding high in the polls, fueling renewed talk of snap elections within weeks.
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Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano  summoned the presidents of both chambers of parliament to his  office on Tuesday, an official statement said, a sign he was  about to dissolve parliament and call a snap election.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has announced that he and his centre-right cabinet had submitted their resignations, the day after the nation's socialist president announced he would dissolve parliament and call an early vote.
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The parties also discussed snap parliamentary election in Georgia on January 5, 2008. via National radio of Ukraine
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Mozambique holds elections on Wednesday and Thursday to choose a successor to President Joaquim Chissano, who ruled for 18 years and led the southern African country to peace after a long civil war that claimed up to a million lives.
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Portugal holds a referendum on Sunday to  decide whether to legalise abortion, an emotive issue in the  overwhelmingly Catholic country where there are worries not  enough people will vote to validate a decision.
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Official campaigning begins in Portugal ahead of a referendum on easing its strict abortion law.
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Portugal's president decided Tuesday to dissolve parliament and call early elections after weeks of feuding among ministers, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes said.
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Voters in East Timor went to the polls on Saturday to choose a new government tasked with uniting the population of the tiny fledgling state, shattered by violence, poverty and soaring unemployment.
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Downing Street has brushed aside reports that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered a snap general election for February. The BBC reported Sunday a spokesman for Blair
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Italy's government crisis enters a decisive week with a snap election and a return to power of Silvio Berlusconi's centre right looking ever more likely.