TEHRAN, November 21 -The purpose of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Bahrain is to make the domestic population believe that they are assigned a role in the management of state affairs and to portray a democratic image of the country on the world stage, says an academic.
TEHRAN, November 06 - After a divisive campaign marked by fierce clashes over race, immigration and other cultural issues, Americans began casting votes early on Tuesday to determine the balance of power in the U.S. Congress and shape the future of Donald Trump’s presidency.
TEHRAN, November 05 -For many Americans, Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections are a referendum on President Donald Trump’s divisive persona, hardline policies and pugnacious politics.
TEHRAN, October 28 -Former President Barack Obama on Friday accused Republicans of "shamelessly lying" about their records on healthcare and tax cuts during a rally for Democrats in Milwaukee.
TEHRAN, October 20 -A U.S. indictment charging a Russian national with playing a prominent role in a Kremlin-backed plan to conduct “information warfare” to influence the U.S. midterm elections suggested that Russian influence operations have become more sophisticated since a campaign to impact the U.S. 2016 presidential election.
TEHRAN, October 10 -Bahraini clerics have denounced the planned parliamentary elections as “a sham,” saying such a vote in a kingdom, which has stripped a majority of its people of their basic rights, will fail to deceive the world’s public opinion.
TEHRAN, October 07 -Latvia’s pro-Russia Harmony Party has won the country’s general elections , and will have to negotiate with other parties to form a coalition government.
TEHRAN, October 06 -Opposition leader Christian Kern said on Saturday he would leave politics and not run as the top candidate for the Austrian Social Democrats in European parliamentary elections next year, giving in to pressure from party critics.
TEHRAN, August 6 -Iraq's election commission has concluded the manual recount of votes from the country’s parliamentary elections held in May, wrapping up a process following accusations of electoral fraud.
TEHRAN, August 5 - Patricia de Lille has quit as mayor of Cape Town, she said on Sunday, ending a bitter dispute within South Africa’s main opposition party that has tainted its image ahead of elections next year.
TEHRAN, July 08 -Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega on Saturday ruled out early elections as demanded by opposition protesters in the country where more than 220 have died in unrest since April.
TEHRAN, July 04 -Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday transferring some powers to the president, in line with the country’s move to an executive presidential system brought about by last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections .
TEHRAN, July 01 -A Mexican journalist was murdered in the southern state of Quintana Roo, authorities said on Saturday, in the latest case of a reporter being killed before a presidential election riddled with violence.
TEHRAN, June 08 - Turkey's state of emergency, in place since a failed coup two years ago, could be lifted after elections this month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday.
TEHRAN, June 05 - Silicon Valley social media giants may face millions of dollars in penalties from two lawsuits filed in Seattle, Washington, arguing that they have failed to comply with state and local laws on election advertising.
TEHRAN, May 6 - Tunisians head to the polls on Sunday for the first free municipal elections since the 2011 revolution, seen as another milestone on the road to democracy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
TEHRAN, May 1 - The sectary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has called on people from all walks of life to vote for those who fought against regional threats in the forthcoming legislative elections rather than those who turned their backs on them and left them unattended.