Sweden Heads Into Close Election
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A center-right alliance vowing to fine-tune Sweden's cherished welfare system has its best chance in 12 years Sunday to oust a Social Democratic government that has seen its support wane despite strong economic ...
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The Swedish Government has decided to send election observers to the Palestinian territories for the forthcoming presidential elections on Jan.
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Voting stations opened Sunday in Estonia's first Parliamentary election since joining the European Union, with last-minute polls predicting the governing coalition would stay in power.Comment
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Polls opened Wednesday in South Korea's presidential election, with a business-friendly conservative tipped to end a decade of left-leaning rule despite an upcoming fraud investigation.
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Sweden's center-right opposition alliance declared victory Sunday after nearly complete official results showed it narrowly defeating the governing Social Democrats in parliamentary elections. Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson conceded defeat and said his government would resign.
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Jamaicans cast their votes for a new government on Monday in what was expected to be a close election held under a tropical storm alert for Hurricane Felix to the south and concerns about recent political violence.
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6 October 2004 -- Campaigning in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election drew to a close today amid violence, as the nation prepares to cast ballots in its first democratic vote on 9 October.
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Voting got off to a slow start in a traditional stronghold of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) which faced its last test at the ballot box this year.
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Sweden's election looked set to go   down to the wire on Sunday, with television projections giving   a center-right alliance vowing to trim the welfare state a   razor thin lead over the ruling Social Democrats.
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Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson admitted defeat in legislative elections at the hands of a centre-right coalition headed by 41-year-old Fredrik Reinfeldt.
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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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Centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfedlt   starts work on forming a coalition government in Sweden on   Monday after ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with vows   to cut taxes and trim the welfare state.
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Sweden's next prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt was to get down to work to form a centre-right government after winning weekend elections, with only minor changes expected to be made to the Swedes' cherished welfare state.
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Swedes began voting in the tightest election race in decades, with voter surveys suggesting a defeat for Prime Minister Goeran Persson at the hands of the centre-right opposition.
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Sweden 's governing Social Democratic Party and its two left-wing support parties remain in a dead heat with a four-party center-right coalition, five days before the Sept.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 Â Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of center-left government today, voting to reject its longtime prime minister, Goran Persson, in favor of a conservative candidate who has pledged to renew the Swedish welfare state.
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Sweden's long-ruling Social Democrats were locked in a dead heat in elections Sunday with the center-right opposition that campaigned on a promise to revamp the Scandinavian country's cherished welfare system.