Saudis Plan First Local Elections
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Saudi Arabia is preparing for the first municipal elections in that nation&#39;s history. Saudi voters will go to the ballots on February 10, 2005 to elect half of the City of Riyad&#39;s City Council members.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and ...
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Washington voters have the opportunity to make sweeping changes in District leadership for the first time in a decade, taking the first step toward selecting a new mayor and council chairman and at least three new council members in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy yesterday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices, and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.
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Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.
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A top Saudi diplomat and member of the royal family predicted that women will be allowed to vote in future elections, giving women in the strictly segregated Islamic nation a political voice for the first time.
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Calling for a new line of attack in Saudi Arabia
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Moroccans began voting on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists promising to clean up corruption in the north African kingdom of 33 million.
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Saudi men started voting in municipal  elections in the capital Riyadh on Thursday, the first stage in  an unprecedented nationwide vote in the absolute monarchy which  is inching toward reform.
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Local authority leaders are to call for council elections to be held on a different day from the Holyrood vote.
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Palestinians in the West Bank vote in their first municipal elections for almost 30 years.
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Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced Monday, dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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Elaborate security plans have been laid out across Afghanistan to ensure the success of the country&#39;s first presidential election scheduled to take place Saturday, US officials said yesterday.
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Serbia on Sunday held its first democratically organized local elections since Slobodan Milosevic's ouster in what was expected to be a close race between nationalists loyal to the former president and pro-Western reformists.
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Hamas made a strong showing in local elections in the West Bank, the first time the Islamic terrorist group competed at the polls, according to preliminary elections results obtained Friday.
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Polling begins in the UAE's first elections, in which less than 1% of citizens are eligible to cast a vote.
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Some 150,000 men have registered to vote in the first phase of the Saudi municipal elections, the electoral commission announced Saturday, a significantly smaller number than expected.