Albanian parliament fails to elect a president
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Albania&#39;s parliament failed to elect a  president on Sunday, keeping open the prospect of a snap  general election that would set back the country&#39;s European  Union hopes.
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Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election Sunday in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe&#39;s top election watchdog and a fierce defence from the country&#39;s authoritarian president, who
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Turkey's foreign minister failed to get enough votes to be elected president in a second round of parliamentary voting Friday, but he is expected to win next week in another ballot that only requires a simple majority.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (08/11/04) - A Sunday referendum in Macedonia against a government law granting the countryâs ethnic Albanian minority more political rights and powers has failed due to insufficient voter turnout.
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Croatia's pro-Western president, Stjepan  Mesic, narrowly failed to clinch re-election on Sunday, paving  the way for a run-off vote against the candidate of the ruling  conservative government.
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Nationalist parties in Macedonia yesterday failed in their attempt to limit the rights of ethnic Albanians, after voters failed to turn out for a referendum on the issue.
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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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Leaders of the Shiite political alliance that won Iraq's election failed to agree on a single nominee for prime minister Wednesday, with the two candidates insisting on a vote by the alliance's 140 parliamentarians, officials said.
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Kosovo counted votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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The corruption-tainted president is still favored to win reelection, but his failure to gain a majority on the first round has shaken him
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Uzbeks voted in a parliamentary election Sunday in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe's top election watchdog and a fierce defense from the country's authoritarian president, who insisted Uzbekistan has no "real" opposition.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Lawmakers angered by the  Palestinian leadership's failure to make reforms plan to force  a parliamentary no-confidence vote that could bring down the  government appointed by Yasser Arafat.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - Kosovo counted  votes for a new parliament on Sunday after an election that  exposed Albanian apathy and defiance from the Serb minority in  a province taken over by the United Nations five years ago.
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PRISTINA, Kosovo International efforts to determine Kosovo&#39;s future suffered an apparent setback Sunday as the province&#39;s Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections.
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Lebanon's deeply divided parliament failed to elect a new president on Tuesday and speaker Nabih Berri deferred the vote until October 23.
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President Stipe Mesic failed to win an outright first-round victory in the presidential election on Sunday and will face a female cabinet minister in a run-off, nearly complete official results showed.
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A Soviet-trained astronomer failed Monday to win enough votes in parliament to become Estonia's next president, forcing a new vote on a second candidate.