Woman to lead Paraguay ruling party in election
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Paraguay's ruling party on Monday nominated a former education minister seeking to become Paraguay's first female leader as its presidential candidate, ending a month-long dispute over a primary election result.
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She supports same-sex marriages and decriminalizing abortion, and admits to smoking pot one time &amp;#151; and inhaling. The chances are next to nil that plainspoken feminist Patricia Mercado, Mexico&#039;s most liberal presidential candidate, will win election. But some say she may ruin the main leftist Democratic Revolution Party&#039;s best shot at the presidency.
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East Timor's ruling party took an early lead on Monday over a party launched by resistance hero Xanana Gusmao, after a weekend parliamentary ballot in Asia's youngest nation.
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Eufrosina Cruz runs for mayor, says Constitution trumps indigenous laws.
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A coalition of parties supporting Congolese President Joseph Kabila said Thursday that it has assembled a majority in parliament, meaning the group will select the prime minister to head the country's first democratically elected government in decades.
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Guatemala's Maya Indian Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchu said on Wednesday she may run for president this year in a bid to become the second indigenous head of state in Latin America.
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Argentina on course for first elected woman president after Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declares victory.
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A former education minister seeking to become Paraguay's first female president held a narrow lead on Monday in a race for the ruling party's presidential nomination, partial results showed.
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ROME, Jan 8 (IPS) - &quot;A woman that enters politics changes; a  thousand women that enter politics change politics,&quot; Chilean  President Michelle Bachelet told the Spanish television channel  TVE in a recent interview.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's  ruling ZANU-PF confirmed the first woman to become his deputy  on Saturday, putting her on course to succeed Mugabe when he  eventually retires in 2008.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s ruling party on Saturday confirmed the election of the first woman candidate as deputy to President Robert Mugabe at the end of a congress which also endorsed Mugabe as party leader for another five years.
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Sunday's elections are expected to bring 7,000 women into local and regional offices, where they currently hold less than a third of the seats.
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Argentine first lady and senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is set for a resounding victory in the presidential election one week away, according to 10 different polls published on Sunday.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party on Saturday  confirmed the election of the first woman candidate as deputy  to President Robert Mugabe at the end of a congress which also  endorsed Mugabe as party leader for another five years.
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Lawmakers in India were expected to elect the nation&#39;s first woman president in voting that began on Thursday, following the most scandal-dogged contest in six decades of independence.
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Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rode an economic boom and her husband's popularity to victory in a presidential election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman leader.
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First lady Cristina Fern&#225;ndez de Kirchner is expected to win Sunday's presidential vote.