Stories about Elections from October, 2006
Ecuador: Campaign Blog for Movimiento Pachakutik
Christian Espinosa discovers the new blog [ES] of Movimiento Pachakutik candidate Luis Macas [ES]. Espinosa writes that the candidates in the upcoming Presidential elections in Ecuador are using blogs as a new way of campaining, even though the blogs’ full potential is yet to be tapped.
Ecuador Chooses
This coming Sunday Ecuadoreans will head to the polls for the first round of presidential elections. As Bloggings by Boz notes, only three presidents have finished their full term in the last 27 years. Given the indecision that has stood out in each of the campaign polls, it seems that...
DRC: AMP Conference in Belgium
UDPS Liege warns (Fr) that an AMP conference entitled “Elections: Second Round in the Congo” that took place in Belgium today was really a “conference to buy the conscience of diaspora activists”. The blog asked that UDPS sympathizers protest it.
Jordan: Election delay
The last week has seen a full blown attack against the idea of delaying parliamentary elections due next summer. No official has said that a delay is being considered. So, who set up this straw man for people to kick around? Khalaf wonders.
Brazil: The Fake Ovation Noise Machine
Colin Brayton gives some free advice to Lula's Workers Party: “fire that PR firm.”
Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus
Meat vendor in Osh market, Kyrgyzstan Just returning from a shopping tour on Osh Market, we welcome you to the latest roundup of notable online conversations that took place during the last two weeks, brought to you bi-weekly by neweurasia. Armenia: France's new legislation to make the denial of the...
Venezuela: “Mi Negra” Racist?
Miguel Octavio shares some interesting thoughts on the intersection of race, politics, and language in Venezuela's heated presidential campaign. The debate stems from Hugo Chavez calling the “Mi Negra” debit card proposal of Manuel Rosales racist. Octavio writes: ” I listen to this and have to wonder what my cousin...
Venezuela: The Avalanche From Caracas
Alfredo Ascanio gives another first-hand impression of the “avalanche march” by opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.
Brazil: Lula Debates
After citing a poll which puts President Lula da Silva in the lead with 54% compared to Alckmin's 46, Boz gives his impressions of Sunday's debate: “Alckmin risks losing votes by appearing to bully the president, who is fairly well liked.” Colin Brayton also offers his thoughts.
Venezuela: Rosales’ Mi Negra Plan
Oil Wars dissects the “Mi Negra” plan of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales and concludes that Rosales is a “phony populist.”
Kazakhstan: Parliamentary Democracy
Prominent politician and daughter of the president Dariga Nazarbaeva has proposed that Kazakhstan become a party list parliamentary democracy, reports Sean Roberts, who also discusses whether or not she really means it.
Venezuela: Opposition Rally
The established triumvirate of Venezuelan, opposition, English-language bloggers each give their own account of this weekend's rally in support of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales: Daniel Duquenal, Miguel Octavio, and Alek Boyd.
Latvia: The Election and Minority Voters
All About Latvia writes about election results and Latvia's minority voters: “As if speaking to Latvia’s MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, one woman exemplified a sentiment of most minority voters, when she said ‘Tatjana, people are simply tired of fighting and barricades. Long time ago, we all learned to speak Latvian and...
Bangladesh blog buzz
The latest happenings in Bangladeshi blogs around the world: * Politics: A recent study published in the Daily Star depicts that there are 53% undecided voters making the prediction of the coming 2007 election very uncertain. Nazim Farhan Chowdhury of Conversations with an Optimist says this is because the voters...
Tajikistan: Election Assessment
Alexander Sadikov discusses the OSCE's assessment of the environment in which Tajikistan's presidential election will take place.
Serbia: Debate on Media Depiction of Kosovo Children
B92 news have reported on the journalist association's reaction to the alleged mistreatment of children from Kosovo and Metohia (in further text K&M) during a talk show on national TV. Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) claims that the so-called public service TV tried to manipulate citizens in a...
Bahrain: Just Bahraini!
While the elections fever is getting high in Bahrain, Mahmood is promoting anti-sectarianism online. He created some logos and calls everyone to display them. He said: “It doesn’t matter if you are a Bahraini, Indian, Sudanese, Saudi, Kuwaiti or Plutonian. Show your support for us Bahrainis who want to live...
DRC: UDPS of Benelux Won't Support Bemba
On their blog, the UDPS of Benelux announces they will not support Jean-Pierre Bemba, incumbent Joseph Kabila's opponent in the October run-off election, even though they are staunchly anti-Kabila.
Zambia: the incumbent wins
A Village Idiot comments on the disputed Zambia's presidential election:”Sata’s insistence that he was robbed of the election seems more tied to his reliance on unreliable polling to gauge support for his campaign than any particular evidence of fraud.”
Brazil: More Election Analysis
The amount of commentary on Brazil's Sunday elections is staggering. In addition to Jose Murilo Junior's excellent collection of translated excerpts from Brazilian bloggers, Colin Brayton produced a podcast from Brazil on election day and posted a video of Geraldo Alckmin's acknowledgement of support from the Orkut social networking community....
Hungary: Municipal Election
A Fistful of Euros writes about the municipal election in Hungary. Paul of Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about Budapest's new old mayor: “a political rarity in more ways than one.”