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Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his reformist challenger were in a near tie with almost all the votes counted in Ukrainian presidential elections, setting up a runoff vote, the Central Elections Commission said Monday.
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The government of Prime Minister John Howard, a conservative and a supporter of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, appeared to hold a narrow lead in polls published less than a week before Australia's presidential election.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin is under pressure to protect incumbent Liberal MPs from divisive nomination challenges in future, bypassing the party's grassroots democratic process in the interests of propping up his precarious minority government.
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Tony BlairÂs slide is paired with the ascent of another leader.
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The latest round of polls in the US election race shows the presidential candidates more or less tied, with Democratic hopeful John Kerry trailing Republican president George Bush by two or three percentage points, a gap still within a margin of error.
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AUSTRALIA As the Oct. 9 election nears, polls show the rivals - the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard, and Mark Latham&#39;s Labor party â-eck-and-neck.
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RBC, 22.11.2004, Kiev 13:04:55.According to the Ukrainian Central Election Commission, the gap between the Ukrainian presidential candidates Viktor Yanukovich and Viktor Yushchenko has increased to 3 percent.
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With the days remaining in Prime Minister Tony Blair's premiership down to single digits, the opposition Conservative party declared political war on his successor, saying Monday that a new battle for Britain's electorate was about to begin.
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Preliminary results of Ghana&#39;s presidential elections showed that President John Kufuor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was leading against his main challenger John Atta Mills.
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JERUSALEM Sept. 13, 2004 - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s attempt to speed up a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was undercut Monday by his main political rival, who called for a national referendum that could delay or even scuttle the pullout.
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PARIS   Polls show a tight three-way contest in France's presidential race, with a centrist former education minister just a few points behind the two established candidates.Comment
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A new opinion poll offered decidedly mixed news for British Prime Minister Tony Blair: while he looks set to win the next election, his finance minister and arch rival Gordon Brown is now a more popular choice as premier.
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The opposition leader in Jamaica is ready to assume power, but the prime minister is not ready to concede election defeat.
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EXIT polls from Romaniaâs presidential run-off yesterday showed the race between the Social Democrat prime minister, Adrian Nastase, and the opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was too close to call.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and his left-wing party faced a tough challenge from the centrist opposition in presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday.
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The US election is just little over two weeks away, and President Bush and Senator John Kerry continue to trade attacks on the campaign trail.
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BAGHDAD -- Top Shi'ite politicians failed to reach a consensus yesterday on their nominee for prime minister, shifting the two-man race to a secret ballot and exposing divisions in the winning alliance.