# election - Saturday 15 June, 2013
Rowhani has vowed to restore diplomatic ties with the United States and end discrimination against women.
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With 36.6 percent of polling stations counted, Hassan Rowhani had 50 percent of the vote.
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# election - Friday 17 May, 2013
A prominent cleric has said that the law prohibits women from being president.
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A farming town in the Philippines used a traditional method to sort out a tie.
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# election - Monday 13 May, 2013
The country’s president is hoping to secure a majority in both houses of parliament so he can push through reforms in the country’s corruption-ridden system.
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# election - Sunday 12 May, 2013
A snap general election is likely to see the ruling GERB party win the most votes but with no overall majority a hung parliament is likely.
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# election - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, more than 70 per cent of people turned out to elect the first assembly. Fast forward 15 years and the people seem disenchanted, but why, asks David McCann.
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# election - Saturday 20 April, 2013
He was arrested yesterday ahead of key elections – the arrest was due to Musharraf’s decision to sack judges when he imposed emergency rule in November 2007.
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# election - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Margaret Thatcher normalised female success, challenging the prevailing orthodoxy that women were unsuited to the pursuit of power, but mechanisms, such as electoral gender quotas would have been anathema to her, writes Margaret O’Keefe.
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# election - Tuesday 16 April, 2013
The retired general is on bail over the 2007 killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2006 death of a rebel leader from the region of Baluchistan, and for sacking judges when he imposed emergency rule in 2007.
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# election - Monday 15 April, 2013
Nicolas Maduro, who had been acting president since the death of Hugo Chavez, won 50.66 per cent of the vote last night.
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# election - Friday 29 March, 2013
German MEP, Elmar Brok, said that Fine Gael’s support for some of the previous government’s policies had made it able to “sell” austerity and financial hardship to the Irish people.
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# election - Saturday 23 March, 2013
Do you recognise that school? Did you grow up on that street? Is that your ma?
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# election - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
A report that was discussed in the European Parliament today found that 38 per cent of Europeans rank the pay gap as the most important inequality.
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# election - Thursday 14 March, 2013
IN PICTURES: Twenty reactions to the election of the New World’s first pope.
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# election - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
The 115 cardinals under 80 were locked into the Sistine Chapel this afternoon to begin the process of choosing the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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# election - Monday 11 March, 2013
Henrique Capriles will run in elections to replace late President Hugo Chavez.
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# election - Sunday 10 March, 2013
Uhuru Kenyatta, one of Africa’s richest men, was declared the winner with 50.07 per cent of the vote.
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# election - Monday 4 March, 2013
Cardinals gather for the general congregations today ahead of the start of the conclave to elect the next head of the Catholic Church.
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# election - Monday 25 February, 2013
This is the second five year term for the 81-year-old Raul Castro who officially took over from his brother Fidel in 2008.
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# election - Friday 22 February, 2013
Italy goes to the polls on Sunday and Monday but it’s still not clear who is most likely to emerge victorious.
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# election - Thursday 21 February, 2013
The position became vacant following the death of Fine Gael TD Shane McEntee in December.
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# election - Monday 18 February, 2013
“Nobody is going to stop this revolution. We are making history,” leftist leader Rafael Correa declared as he secured a third term in office.
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# election - Sunday 17 February, 2013
The campaign was focused on rescuing the recession-hit EU member state from bankruptcy.
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This is the second opinion poll in the last two weeks that has seen Fianna Fáil rise to the top.
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# election - Sunday 3 February, 2013
Italy’s election take place at the end of this month.
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# election - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
The Labor party leader said the move would give “shape and order” to the year.
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# election - Friday 18 January, 2013
The Labour Party chairman said on radio this morning that Eamon Gilmore did “everything possible to ensure” he wasn’t elected chair.
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# election - Sunday 13 January, 2013
Fianna Fáil’s poll bounce isn’t a definitive comeback – but we shouldn’t write them off, writes Gary Murphy.
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# election - Friday 11 January, 2013
The guidelines also address corporate donations to parties and include strict rules on transparency.
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# election - Monday 24 December, 2012
Opponents to the new constitution have said it will weaken human rights, particularly women’s rights and undermine the independence of the judiciary.
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# election - Saturday 22 December, 2012
It is still unclear if Monti will run as a candidate in the New Year elections.
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Figures released by the Association for Democratic Reforms show that hundreds of election candidates had allegations against them – as had scores of those in power.
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# election - Saturday 8 December, 2012
This will be the the politician’s sixth bid to become prime minister, a post he has held three times already.
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# election - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Five demonstrators died overnight as supporters and opponents of president Mohamed Morsi fought outside the presidential palace.
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# election - Thursday 29 November, 2012
This will be the first time the two will have met since the election. What will they talk about?
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# election - Monday 26 November, 2012
The dramatic surge in emigration from Ireland in recent years means that voting rights for Irish people living abroad has become a major issue. What do you think – should emigrants be allowed vote?
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# election - Monday 19 November, 2012
Fianna Fáil are continuing their climb in opinion polls – but who would your vote go to in a general election?
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# election - Saturday 17 November, 2012
The Union of Students in Ireland has been criticised by Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell in the wake of the low turnout in the children’s referendum last weekend.
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