TEHRAN, May 10 - Mahathir Mohamad brushed aside doubts on Thursday that he would become Malaysia's next prime minister following his shock election victory over the coalition that has ruled the Southeast Asian nation for six decades since independence from Britain.
TEHRAN, May 9 - Malaysians are voting to elect the county’s seventh prime minister in a fiercely contested race between scandal-hit incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak and his former mentor Mahathir Mohamad.
TEHRAN, May 8 - Preliminary results show Hezbollah, Amal and their political allies have won majority of the seats in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections.
TEHRAN, May 7 - The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance fighter has lauded ensuring an atmosphere of calm and security for the country’s general elections as a national achievement, describing the results as a major victory for his group.
TEHRAN, May 7 - Lebanon's Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk says provisional voter turnout figure of the country's parliamentary elections was 49.2 percent.
TEHRAN, May 5 - Polling stations opened in Lebanon on Sunday for the country’s first parliamentary election, with over 500 candidates competing for 128 seats.
TEHRAN, May 5 - Pro-democracy activists protesting in the Thai capital on Saturday said that they will march on the country's seat of power later this month to demand that an election be held this year.
TEHRAN, May 5 - Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has presented senior legislator Muharrem Ince as its presidential candidate to challenge incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the country’s June presidential elections.
TEHRAN, May 4 -Iraq's prominent Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has urged eligible voters in the Arab country not to cast their ballots in favor of "corrupt" lawmakers during next week's national elections.
TEHRAN, May 4 - A recent document has pointed to Riyadh regime’s fiendish plot to assert enormous influence on Lebanon’s May 6 legislative elections, and engineer the polls in favor of House of Saud.
TEHRAN, May 4 -Ballots were being counted Friday from local elections in England seen as the first key electoral test for Prime Minster Theresa May since she lost her parliamentary majority last year.
TEHRAN, April 30 - The leader of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Monday called for early elections in June, saying efforts to form a coalition government after last month's inconclusive vote had failed.
TEHRAN, April 27 - Lebanese will have a first opportunity in nine years to vote in a general election on May 6 under new rules, expected to bring some changes to parliament but preserve a unity government combining its main political blocs.
TEHRAN, April 26 - The Armenian parliament will elect the country's new prime minister on May 1, according to a statement posted on the parliament's website on Thursday.
TEHRAN, April 25 - Police took up positions in the center of the Armenian capital on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people protested against the ruling elite and the acting prime minister suggested new parliamentary elections to defuse the political crisis.
TEHRAN, April 25 - Police took up positions in the center of the Armenian capital on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people protested against the ruling elite and the acting prime minister suggested new parliamentary elections to defuse the political crisis.
TEHRAN, April 23 - The sectary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says his group seeks a clean and fair election as the Arab country gears up for a legislative vote in less than a fortnight.