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Afghan candidates, lawmakers in new poll protest (Reuters)

November 7th, 2010

Reuters - Scores of disgruntled lawmakers and candidates in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, marred by allegations of fraud, renewed protests on Sunday over the September poll and called for a fresh…

Kyrgyz vote in historic parliamentary election (AP)

October 10th, 2010

A Kyrgyz policeman provides security at a polling station in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Of the 29 parties in the running in Sunday's elections, at least half a dozen are expected to make it into a newly strengthened parliament, as an intensely fought and often ugly campaign draws to an end. (AP Photo/Nina Gorshkova)AP - Polls opened in Kyrgyzstan for parliamentary elections Sunday to choose a new and empowered parliament that the government hopes will usher in a new era of democracy.


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Polls opens for Afghanistan parliamentary election (AP)

September 18th, 2010

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Polling stations formally opened for voting in Afghanistan’s parliamentary election Saturday, though scattered rocket attacks struck in the early morning and Taliban insurgents managed to block at least…

Afghan vote runs up against fear, disenchantment (AP)

August 24th, 2010

In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 photo, Afghan women walk past election posters in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. Afghans will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. After a fraud-ridden presidential election last year that nearly undermined President Hamid Karzai's legitimacy and binternational/b support, the Sept. 18 parliamentary ballot is being watched closely as a test of whether the Afghan government is serious about reform. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP - A shopkeeper in Kandahar city says what others are thinking: Casting a ballot in next month’s Afghan parliamentary election isn’t worth the risk.


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Opposition winning Slovakia parliamentary election (AP)

June 13th, 2010

Iveta Radicova, leader of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party, dances with supporters following the announcement of exit polls after the general elections in Bratislava, Slovakia, Saturday, June 12, 2010. An exit poll suggests that the center-right opposition appears to be winning the parliamentary election in Slovakia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The center-right opposition has won a parliamentary election in Slovakia, nearly complete results showed Sunday.


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Tight race in Slovak parliamentary election (AP)

June 12th, 2010

AP - Preliminary results show the center-right opposition is slightly leading in a parliamentary election in Slovakia.

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Slovakia coalition fighting for survival (AP)

June 12th, 2010

AP - Slovakia’s three party governing coalition is fighting for survival in a parliamentary election on Saturday, challenged in a tight race by the center-right opposition.

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2 candidates from Iraq’s Sunni-backed party killed (AP)

June 5th, 2010

Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) rebels stop a car at a security checkpoint in the Qandil mountains in 2009. Iranian troops have crossed into Iraq twice in three days amid clashes with Kurdish rebels in the Qandil mountains near the border, a security spokesman said Saturday.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Gunmen killed two candidates from the Sunni-backed coalition that won the most seats in Iraq’s March parliamentary election, slayings that the alliance said Saturday were part of a…

Iraq’s Supreme Court ratifies election results (AP)

June 1st, 2010

A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (L-R) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal waiting to meet their mothers for the first time since their arrest, in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 20. Two of the three US hikers held in Iran for nearly a year on spying charges were engaged in Tehran's infamous Evin prison, their mothers said Monday.(AFP/PRESS TV)AP - Iraq’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ratified the results of the nation’s March 7 parliamentary election, officially declaring the secular Iraqiya alliance the vote’s biggest winner.


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Following Iraq upset, Allawi turns to negotiations (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Supporters of former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, seen in the poster, take to the streets after the results released by Iraq's election commission show a secular challenger has beaten the country's prime minister in parliamentary elections, positioning him to be the first to try to form a government in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 26, 2010. The narrow margin — 91 seats for Ayad Allawi's coalition to 89 for al-Maliki's alliance — sets the stage for months of political wrangling as the veterans of Iraq's young democracy attempt to win support for a majority coalition. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The secular challenger who stunned Iraq with his razor-thin parliamentary election win turned his attention to negotiations over a future government Saturday even as supporters of the prime…

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