election

Navalny urges Russians to boycott presidential vote

Moscow - Muslimchronicle

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday urged voters to boycott the country's presidential ballot in March 2018 after election bosses barred him from standing. "We are declaring a strike by voters. We will ask everyone to boycott these elections. We will not recognise the result of these elections," Navalny told journalists after the election commission unanimously rejected his candidacy.Read more

Catalan vote turnout at 1700 GMT sees strong rise on 2015

Barcelona - Muslimchronicle

Turnout for crucial Catalan polls Thursday saw a significant increase in comparison to the last regional election in 2015, a record year for participation, official data showed. At 6:00 pm, with two hours left to the closure of polling stations in the crisis-hit region, turnout was 68.3 percent, five points higher than in 2015. source: AFPRead more

Polls open in Chilean presidential election

Santiago - Muslimchronicle

Polls opened on Sunday in Chile's presidential election to choose a successor to Michelle Bachelet. About 14 million people are eligible to cast ballots at more than 43,000 polling stations in a contest whose outcome is uncertain after a surge from the left. source: xinhuaRead more

More MPs face disqualification after Australian Senate president

Australia - Muslimchronicle

Australian Senate president Stephen Parry will submit his resignation today to Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, both as president and a member of parliament, after the UK Home Office confirmed that he is a British citizen, as well as an Australian citizen. As Parry’s departure demonstrates, what has become, in effect, a nationalist purge of parliament, is far from over. Today,Read more

Japan MPs re-elect Abe after election landslide

Tokyo - Muslimchronicle

Japan's parliament on Wednesday formally re-elected Shinzo Abe as prime minister after his party's crushing election victory, setting the 63-year-old on track to become the country's longest-serving premier. MPs voted by a huge majority to re-install Abe, after his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) swept to a two-thirds "super majority" on October 22. During the campaign Abe had stressed theRead more

Iceland's president in talks with party leaders on new coalition

Reykjavik - Muslimchronicle

Iceland's president launched talks on Monday to determine who could form the next government after an inconclusive general election in which a record eight political parties won seats. Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson called the snap election a month ago after a junior member of his centre-right coalition quit over a legal scandal involving Benediktsson's father. Growing public distrust of theRead more

Australia's Queensland calls election in test for populist Hanson

Sydney - Muslimchronicle

The Australian state of Queensland, home to the Great Barrier Reef, has called a snap election that is set to test support for both the populist party of Pauline Hanson and an environmentally sensitive Indian coal mine project. Campaigning began Monday in the state, a major tourist destination, after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk of the Labor Party set down a pollRead more

Kenyatta wins disputed Kenya elections with 98.2 percent: official

Nairobi - Muslimchronicle

Uhuru Kenyatta won Kenya's deeply divisive presidential election re-run after winning 98.2 percent of the votes cast, the official results showed Monday. In Thursday's protest-hit election, Kenyatta won 7,483,895 votes compared to 73,228 for his closest rival Raila Odinga, who had boycotted the vote. Turnout was just 38.84 percent. Source:AFPRead more

Kenya election board to announce poll results at 1230 GMT

Nairobi - Muslimchronicle

Kenya's election commission said the results of a highly contentious election will be announced on Monday afternoon, despite voting not taking place in 25 protest-hit constituencies. "Having been satisfied that the results of the elections shall not be affected by voting in areas where the election was postponed, we therefore invite the presidential candidates for the announcement of the resultRead more

VPN law latest step in Kremlin online crackdown, experts say

Moscow - Muslimchronicle

A law coming into force on Wednesday will give the Kremlin greater control over what Russians can access online ahead of a presidential election next March. Providers of virtual private networks (VPNs) — which let Internet users access sites banned in one country by making it appear that they are browsing from abroad — will be required to block websitesRead more