Macedonian referendum fails: ruling party
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Macedonia's ruling party said a referendum challenging EU-backed laws to empower the ethnic Albanian minority had failed to pass the turnout minimum.
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Macedonian opposition parties looked  headed for a flop on Sunday in their referendum bid to block a  Western-inspired law that gives the ethnic Albanian minority  more local autonomy.
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SKOPJE, Nov 6  - The Macedonian government, buoyed by US recognition of Macedonia&#39;s constitutional name, was pulling out all the stops Saturday to scupper a referendum that could set back the peace process with the restive ethnic Albanian minority.
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Macedonians have begun voting in a referendum that could decide if the country remains on a pro-Western path and gives its Albanian minority more rights or slips back on a nationalist course.
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Bulgaria's Socialist-led government survived a no-confidence vote Friday on a motion filed by the opposition, claiming that the government was unable to cope with a health care crisis.Comment
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Pakistan's ruling party concedes defeat after vote, which casts doubt on president's political future.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia Voters are set go to the polls here Sunday in a referendum that will test the success of a three-year-long peace process to allay tensions between Macedonians and ethnic Albanians in this former Yugoslav republic.
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World Macedonian Congress (SMK) Chairman Todor Petrov on 1 September presented a petition to the Macedonian parliament calling for a referendum on the government's plans to cut the number of administrative ...
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko suffered a defeat in parliament today, when his foes blocked electoral amendments intended to avert fraud in a new presidential runoff later this month.
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Kazakhstan's ruling party claimed victory Tuesday in parliamentary elections, but the official results were yet to be announced and foreign observers said the ballot fell short of international standards.
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Early voter turnout was low in a  referendum on Sunday in Macedonia, where nationalist opposition  parties want to stop a Western-inspired law giving ethnic  Albanians more power.
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While the media has generally construed the outcome of the Hong Kong election on Sunday as a failure for the so-called democrats, the results revealed a marked determination by voters to choose
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Pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong have expressed disappointment at the outcome of Sunday&#39;s parliamentary elections. The pro-democracy camp secured 25 seats on the
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A series of tactical errors, with peculiarities in the voting process, prevented democracy advocates here from winning as many seats as expected in Sunday&#39;s legislative
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A referendum on territorial law that intends to give Macedonia&#39;s Albanian minority greater autonomy failed to pass the turnout minimum, the Macedonian State Election Commission (SEC) announced Monday.
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Ukraineâs parliament today failed to approve changes to electoral laws that the opposition wanted to prevent official fraud in a rerun of a presidential election later this month.
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The centre-right ruling coalition of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has suffered a crushing defeat in a round of by-elections. The centre-left opposition maintained its hold on four of the ...