Stories about Elections from February, 2006
Hungary: Prime Minister's Blog
Hungarian prime minister has his own blog now, and Henrik of Hungarian Accent reviews the reactions of Hungarian bloggers to this unlikely development. Pestiside.hu describes it as “a classic blog, offering updates on his personal life and observations and arguments on the political issues of the day” – and thinks...
Ukraine: Yanukovych Having an Easy Campaign
LEvko at Foreign Notes muses on why no one is really giving Victor Yanukovych and his Party of the Regions a hard time during this campaign, despite him being an easy target.
Belarus: Four Presidential Candidates
br23 blog introduces the four Belarusian politicians who have managed to collect more than 100,000 signatures and were registered by the Central Election Committee as presidential candidates: Alexander Lukashenka, Siarhiej Hajdukevich, Alexander Kazulin, and Alexander Milinkevich.
Belarus: Lukashenko Regime and the Upcoming Election
Tobias Ljungvall draws a parallel between today's Belarus and Russia under Lenin, and muses about Lukashenko's regime, the Russian ‘managed democracy’ model and the upcoming election. He also mentions solidarity rallies that took place in Stockholm on Feb. 16 – and one that was dispersed by the police in Minsk.
Peru: Inequality as an Election Issue
Fabiola Bazo has a hyperlinked and bilingual analysis of inequality as an election issue as Peruvians get ready to head to the polls.
Sri Lanka: Apathy and elections
Sri Lanka: Apathy and elections
Ukraine: News Roundup
Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine does his regular roundup of Ukraine's main political and economic themes: the gas agreement, privatization issues, campaign news and relationship with Russia.
Costa Rica: Ballot Counting Continues and E-voting in 2010?
Bob Glass says the ballot counting continues in Costa Rica while José Daniel of elecciones2006.com hopes that this year's close count won't serve as an excuse to implement electronic voting in 2010.
Hungarian Election: the Lesser Embarrassment
Pestiside.hu writes of a silly political story that made it into the Western media, the coverage of Hungary in general, and the candidates Hungarians have to choose between in the upcoming election: the lesser embarrassment, not the lesser evil.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Social Democratic Interstate Cooperation
Lemuel Kolkava of Deleted by Tomorrow writes about a strange “symbiotic relationship” between left-wing parties of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. With the June 2006 elections just two weeks apart, Czech and Slovak Social Democrats have decided to join forces – most likely because of “mutual expediency, not brotherly love...
Campaign Ads: Our Ukraine Bloc vs. Party of the Regions
Ukraine, Russia, Europe, the US, Oh My! looks at campaign ads of Ukraine's main political forces: Our Ukraine Bloc and the Party of the Regions. Our Ukraine could've done better, it seems: “…this perverse sense of humor can be seen all over Kyiv in their billboards: “Do Not Betray the...
Peru: More Voters Undecided
Peru Election 2006 says that Ollanta Humala has withstood recent political attacks and that perhaps the most interesting news recently is the 10% increase in the undecided vote.
Yanukovych and Poetry
Oleksandr at Messages From Canada has a post about “proFFessor” Victor Yanukovych talking poetry in Odesa. Very funny. Yanukovych is Ukraine's former prime minister who ran for president in 2004 and was accused of rigging the election, which caused street protests that became known as the Orange Revolution.
Haiti: Spin Doctors, and the occupation of the Hotel Montana
Free Haiti fingers three US reporters — Carol J. Williams, Edward M. Gomez and Kathie Klarreich — who appear to be “spinning the facts” on the current situation in Haiti, and posts some dramatic photos of protesters swarming the pool at the Hotel Montana, where the members of the CEP...
Belize: Local elections
Melody reports that candidates have been nominated for the Belize local elections, which local observers see as “a litmus test that could well set the stage for the outcome of the General Elections.”
Roundup of Hungary's Pre-election “Retardo Politics”
Folks at Pestside.hu do a roundup of Hungary's pre-election “retardo politics”: a “miner problem” for one party and a “minor problem” for another, Socialist “red spots” and free Internet, a former cosmonaut as one of the candidates. They also write about the outing of a Catholic cardinal who used to...
Cape Verde: elections
Yebo Gogo reports on the “too close to call” elections taking place in Cape Verde.
Ukrainian Political TV Ads Roundup
Scott W. Clark at Foreign Notes does a roundup of the Ukrainian parties’ TV ads: Regions of Ukraine; Our Ukraine; Viche; Pora. Yulia Tymoshenko's Bloc, however, is neglecting the TV campaign, for some reason.
Nepal: Money Needed For Movement
DFN talks of the need for the Nepali diaspora to pump money into the democracy movement in Nepal: moral support is not enough.
Belarus Election Online
Andrei Khrapavitski has a roundup of Belarus election-related sites. Very few are in English, however.
Pavlov, Pavlovskiy and Nemtsov, and the Belarusian Election
Tobias Ljungvall wonders what really draws certain people into Belarusian pre-election politics. Among those whose real motivations and intentions he'd like to know are Gleb Pavlovskiy, “the Kremlin's own favourite ‘political technologist’,” and Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition politician.