Tag Archives: Elections

Turkey’s High Election Board says incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has garnered 49.4% of votes in the Sunday presidential election, falling short of the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. With 99% of ballot boxes opened, High Election Board head Ahmet Yener said on Monday Erdogan’s main rival Kemal …

More than 10 million Iraqis are at risk of losing their voting rights in the provincial election later this year, Hazim al-Rudaini, the vice president of the Strategic Center for Human Rights in Iraq, said on Saturday. In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, al-Rudaini explained that the total number …

The Independent High Electoral Commission in Iraq disclosed today the latest details of the ongoing manual counting. Imad Jamil, a member of the Commission’s media team, told Al-Ghadeer News, “Today, the electoral stations whose results are contested will be manually counted in six governorates, which are Karbala with 101 stations, …

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, attended on Monday the final electoral simulation ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 10. Al-Kadhimi tweeted, “We attended the final electoral simulation today – a successful experiment & testimony to the hard work that went into the process.” “This is a reassurance …

Iraq’s Election Supreme Security Committee released new directives related to the election day. The Committee spokesperson, Gen. Ghaleb Al-Atiya, told the Iraqi official news agency, “there will be restrictions on movement among the governorates, as well as all airports and border crossings will be closed between the October 9 and …

The Electoral Commission confirmed today that there is an organized mechanism for electoral campaigns. Nebras Abu Souda, assistant media spokesman in the Electoral Commission told Alghadeer News, “The electoral campaigns had started since the eighth of last July”, noting, “the commission has set the conditions that regulate the Electoral campaigning …

Iraq’s High Electoral Commission announced today, Thursday, that it has completed the necessary preparations for securing the participation of the displaced in the upcoming Iraqi elections. The Commission’s officials said at a press conference held in Baghdad, that that the displaced persons are allowed to vote two days before the …

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially announced on Sunday morning that Canada’s federal election will be held on September 20. Trudeau, also Canadian Liberal Party leader, made the announcement after his meeting with Governor-General Mary Simon, who approved his request to dissolve Parliament, triggering the issuing of the election writs …

Iranians are going to the polls in the country’s 13th presidential election since the 1979 Islamic Revolution to elect a new chief executive. The enthusiasm was high even from before the polls opened, with the people forming long queues outside polling states countrywide. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed …

Polls have opened nationwide in Iran’s 2021 presidential election, with nearly 60 million Iranians eligible to vote for one of four candidates running. Polls opened across the country at 07:00 am local time on Friday, June 18, and will run until 05:00 pm. Voting can be extended until 12:00 am …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has delivered an address to the Iranians two days before polls open in Iran’s 13th presidential election, calling the forthcoming vote “decisive.” Ayatollah Khamenei began his remarks on Wednesday (June 16), broadcast live on state television and social media, by stressing …

Principlist presidential candidate Sa’eed Jalili has dropped out of the June 18 presidential election, urging his supporters and those who have faith in the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution to vote for fellow contender Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi. In a statement released on Wednesday evening, hours before the end of …

Principlist candidate Alireza Zakani has resigned from the 2021 presidential election in support of fellow contender Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi, who enjoys the highest support among voters, according to opinion polls. Zakani, a veteran lawmaker, became the second presidential candidate to drop out of the race on Wednesday, hours after Reformist …

The results of an Algerian parliamentary election in which fewer than a third of voters took part will be announced within a few days, the head of the voting authority said late on Saturday. The ruling establishment has tried to use elections along with a crackdown on dissent as a …

Amnesty says arrests of Khaled Drareni, Ihsane El-Kadi, and Karim Tabbou are evidence of ‘chilling escalation’ in the clampdown on dissent. Authorities in Algeria have arrested two prominent journalists and a well-known opposition figure, just days before the country’s parliamentary election. Algeria is set to hold its first legislative election …

Authorities in Nicaragua have arrested two more potential presidential challengers to veteran leader Daniel Ortega in elections later this year. Felix Maradiaga and Juan Sebastián Chamorro have been accused of terrorism and plotting against Nicaragua’s sovereignty and independence. They were held under a controversial new security law passed in December …

The second debate featuring all the seven candidates running in Iran’s 2021 presidential election has been marked by less aggressive confrontations but also overly broad delineations of policy, in what some of the candidates blamed on the format of the debate. The debate held on Tuesday (June 8), also meagerly …

Polls have closed in Mexico’s mid-term elections after one of the country’s bloodiest campaigns in recent history. Early results suggest President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s governing Morena party and its allies will win a reduced majority in Congress. The elections have been marred by violence with dozens of politicians killed …

The election board says delays in opening polling stations and voter registration have pushed back the voting day. Ethiopia has delayed its national election again after some opposition parties said they would not take part and as a conflict in the country’s Tigray region means no vote is being held …

An official says the election cannot be pulled off on Sunday, but the vote has not been officially postponed, either. Poland is scheduled to hold a presidential election in just four days but nobody can say whether it will happen or not. Sunday’s election date was set months ago but …