New Zeal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
This was posted as a comment. I think it deserves a wider audience. Anonymous said... The problem is John Key bringing the Maori Party into the tent by backing off on abolishing the Maori seats until Maori decide they don't want them any more (fat chance of that!) I'm extremely disappointed that Key seems to put a short-term desire to be seen by the electorate as an all-round "good guy" ahead...
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Pulack Ghatack Awami League will hold a meeting with its allies in the 14-party over sharing of parliamentary seats today. However, apprehending a relatively comfortable position this time, AL is unwilling to share any significant number of seats with its partners either in the 14-party alliance or in the proposed grand alliance. Awami League leaders so far held several informal...
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The graph above shows some results of the voting preferences of people in the 1997, 2001 and 2005 from the general election in the parliamentary seat of Pendle. The Labour vote in 1997 the yellow colour was massive but it has since then started to decrease at a reasonable rate. The Conservative vote from 1997 to 2001 did increase but in 2005 that came down, so since the result of 1997...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The Botswana National Front (BNF) parliamentary candidate for Moshupa, John Disele has defected to the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... in writing about this decision.Gurirab declined to comment on whether Ulenga would remain in his parliamentary seat for the last four sitting days of this year or would resign from the start of 2009.Parliament goes into recess next week.CoD has established a disciplinary committee to be led by vice president Alfred Chilinda in order to "allow an opportunity for members to have grievances...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The Secretary General of the Botswana People's Party (BPP) has expressed disappointment about his comrades' failure to beat the deadline for applications for council and parliamentary aspirants.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
SSEMBABULE NRM leaders are divided on whether or not they should hold fresh primary polls for the district woman parliamentary seat.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... H’Angus the monkey as their Mayor and single-issue candidates (remember Martin Bell) captured parliamentary seats on the crest of populist waves. As for low turnouts, last month Stoke voted to get rid of its elected Mayor in a vote that saw a 19 per cent turnout. And on Thursday night the BNP won its latest council seat on Boston Borough in Lincolnshire, on a 22 per...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... background had won such a mandate. He moved to the in 2004 after he was forced to give up his parliamentary seat for using his publicly paid airline miles for private use.With his comeback to domestic politics over the weekend, Mr. Ozdemir, who is married, has one child and speaks German with a slight southwestern accent, joins a handful of ethnic Turks in the Greens, the Social Democrats...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
... won such a mandate. He moved to the European Parliament in 2004 after he was forced to give up his parliamentary seat for using his publicly paid airline miles for private use.With his comeback to domestic politics over the weekend, Ozdemir - who is married, has one child and speaks German with a slight southwestern accent - joins a handful of ethnic Turks in the Greens, the Social...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... elections. But Musharraf had been recently re-elected, and the upcoming elections were for parliamentary seats. Additionally, she suggested that Nawaz Sharif was eligible to run for office in Pakistan, although several experts concluded he is not. Oh, wait. That last paragraph wasn’t in the article. I wrote that. And as far as I can tell, the L.A. Times has never reported it. I even...
