Stories about Elections from November, 2007
Lebanon: Unconstitutional State of Emergency
The government is going to announce that the state of emergency is unconstitutional because apparently the constitution says that the government must announce it and it should be signed by the Minister of Defense, reports Lebanese blogger Eliedh.
Lebanon: State of Emergency..Or Not
Lebanon is in a political limbo after parliament failed to elect a successor for President Emile Lahoud today. Hours before the end of his term, Lahoud ordered the army to take charge of security, leaving rival factions responsible for naming a president and leading to international calls for calm. Lebanon's bloggers were quick to react.
Bermuda: Xenophobia?
A Limey In Bermuda thinks that “some members of the (governing) PLP are wearing their xenophobia as if it were a perfume.”
Kyrgyzstan: OSCE to Monitor Elections
Asel informs that the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will send nearly 300 observers to observe the upcoming Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan.
Paraguay: Result of National Survey
Cumplir [es] reviews the results of the National Survey 2007 in Paraguay and people's perceptions of corruption. In addition, the survey also found a very favorable perception of the Catholic Church, partly because of the ex-bishop Fernando Lugo, who will be running for President.
Lebanon: Pessimistic About the Elections
Lebanese blogger Maze is pessimistic about his country's presidential elections. “Tomorrow is the presidential elections in Lebanon after months of killing,destruction and pain…personally I'm pessimistic and don't think that a decision will be taken,” he writes.
Lebanon: Presidential Elections Debate Continues
Yesterday, November 22, was officially Lebanon’s Independence Day. Today is the constitutional deadline for the election of a new president of the republic. Bloggers reflections range from optimistic and pessimistic analysis of what is happening and what is expected to the effect of all this on the average Lebanese citizen, writes Moussa Bashir.
Chile: Piñera and His Facebook Page
Luis Ramirez discovers the Facebook page of Sebastian Piñera [es], a candidate for president in the next Chilean elections. On his wall, the candidate writes,”I invite you to write your ideas and greetings so that we can have a fluid dialogue via this medium. For me, this possibility has been...
Mexico: Michoacan Elections
Matthew Søberg Shugart of Fruits and Votes provides his run-down on the elections in Michoacan, Mexico.
Russia: Putin at Luzhniki
Mark MacKinnon writes about Vladimir Putin campaigning at Luzhniki.
Trinidad & Tobago: Disconnect?
Jumbie's Watch posts “a collection of quotations showing the vast distance between brain and mouth.”
Bermuda: Political Season
“May be we should hold an election every year as it would appear that’s the only time when anything gets done, or the public is actually listened to,” writes IMHO.bm, while Politics.bm has some advice for Bermudan politicians on how not to canvass.
Nepal: We need elections!
But for the Maoists, Nepal would have been voting today. United We Blog! urges that new election dates need to be announced soon.
Armenia: Responsible Politics
Following the return of the first and former president, Levon Ter Petrosian, to the political stage in Armenia, the Armenian Libertarian-Socialist Movement says that to make amends for past misdeeds he should eventually back out and support another opposition politician's candidacy for next year's presidential election.
Georgia: Neo-Bolshevik Propaganda
Resistance Georgia, an anti-Saakashvili blog, says there are grounds to compare the administration of the Georgian president to the Bolsheviks.
Kyrgyzstan: Election Thresholds Debated
The Azamat Report says that Kyrgyzstan is buzzing with discussions of the 5% and 0.5% thresholds for the parliamentary elections. Because of the ambiguous wording of the Elections Code, it was unclear how these thresholds to be calculated.
Kyrgyzstan: The Kyrgyzs Vote in Moscow
Asel writes that the Kyrgyz citizens living in Moscow will vote on the markets, as polling stations will be organized in the areas most densely populated by migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan. Asel is concerned that setting up additional polling stations along market rows could lead to falsification of voting results.
Russia: “Dirty Tricks” and Opinion Polls
Ten day to go before the Russian Duma election, Dmitri Minaev of De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis reports on the "dirty tricks" used in this year's campaign, and LJ user drugoi conducts an online opinion poll, whose results, among other things, show that the new parliament is likely to be elected by the Russian bloggers' grandmothers.
Jordan: Lessons from the Elections
Shifaa, from Jordan, brings us the lessons learned and implications of the parliamentary elections held this week. The good news is that a woman won a seat without resorting to the women’s quota.
Ukraine: Orange Coalition Not Likely?
Taras Kuzio lists reasons why the Orange coalition is unlikely to take place: “Yuriy Lutsenko is openly attacking Viktor Baloga, Ivan Pliushch is openly saying he will only support a grand coalition and BYuT are demanding that President Viktor Yushchenko finally outline his view on the coalition. Yushchenko meanwhile (just...
Russia: Two-Party Duma?
According to Siberian Light, it appears as if Russia is on the way to a two-party Duma: “However, depressingly, only two of the ‘major’ parties are likely to scrape together the seven percent of votes needed to gain any seats in the Duma – United Russia, and Communist Party of...
