The coronavirus pandemic has claimed thousands of lives in his impoverished district of Mexico City, but Edgar Alonso is still determined to go out and vote in Sunday’s midterm elections. The 48-year-old, who runs a small electronics business in a market in densely populated Iztapalapa, home to 1.8 million people, said he is keeping his […]
Elections
Fawad says modern technology to ensure transparency in elections
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said that modern technology would play key role to ensure transparency in elections. Taking to a delegation of the High Court Bar Association of Islamabad and the District Bar Association of Islamabad, he apprised them about use of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) […]
War-ravaged Syria heads to polls with Assad set to win
Damascus: Polling May stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election where few doubt that Bashar al-Assad will extend his grip on power for a fourth term, in a war-battered country mired in economic crisis. The controversial vote is the second election since the start of a decade-long conflict, that has killed more than 388,000 […]
‘PMLN changes laws to rig AJK polls, to sabotage process’
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs Ali Amin Gandapur briefed the core committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf about amendments in the relevant laws, as the ruling party discussed the forthcoming general elections of Azad Jammu Kashmir. The committee, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan, was informed that the Pakistan Muslim League-N government had […]
Is Imran thinking about new elections?
It is near to impossible to know what the Prime Minister is thinking and how his thought process will pan out over the next couple of months. But certain government decisions serve as precursors to the potential upcoming political storm: New elections. For many, it is speculation and may sound far a stretch. But the […]
PPPP candidate trounces PDM-GDA joint candidate in PS-70 bye-poll
BADIN: Dada Mohammad Halepoto, the candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), won by-polls for PS-70 against his near rival candidate Moulana Gul Hassan Zaur of the JUI-F on Thursday Badin district. The PPP candidate, according to the unofficial results, polled 46,037 votes. The JUI-F candidate could only secure 6,342 votes. The losing JUI-F candidate and […]
Govt gives media practical demonstration on EVMs
ISLAMABAD: A week after empowering the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to use the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the government on Wednesday gave the media a practical demonstration of the gadget at the Parliament House. The demonstration was led by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, Adviser to the Prime Minister on […]
NA-75 Daska by-election postponed to April 10
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to reschedule the NA-75 Daska by-elections. According to the announcement made on Wednesday, the by-polls will now take place on April 10, 2021. Earlier, PML-N had requested the election commission to hold polling again in the Daska constituency as the February 19 election was marred by controversies […]
Italy’s Salvini pulls plug on government, calls for elections
ROME: The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering and said the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The shock announcement follows a period of intense public feuding between the right-wing League and its coalition […]
Corruption tainted Guatemala set to elect new president
Corruption-weary Guatemalans are set to elect a new president Sunday after a tumultuous campaign that saw two leading candidates barred from taking part and the top electoral crimes prosecutor forced to flee the country, fearing for his life. Gang violence, poverty and streams of US-bound migrants have dominated campaigning in Central America’s most populous country, […]