Rowhani wins Iran presidential election—minister
Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has won Iran’s presidential election, the interior minister announced on Saturday, ending eight years of conservative grip on the nation’s executive.
Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has won Iran’s presidential election, the interior minister announced on Saturday, ending eight years of conservative grip on the nation’s executive.
Unable to walk after suffering from a stroke in 2010, Trinidad Inciong-Sayo, fondly called Lola Trining, proved she is never too old to vote and to hope for a brighter future.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may push for Internet voting next time due to the low voter turnout in the overseas absentee voting (OAV) in the last elections.
It was heartening to observe young females involved with Vote Good. Females did not get the right to vote or be elected automatically; they had to fight for it.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did not vote on Monday, a contrast to the five previous elections where she voted as early as 7 a.m.
I used toothpaste and a scouring pad in removing indelible ink stains on my index finger.—Boyet de la Cruz, a registered voter from Barangay Bago-Bantay, Quezon City
Malacañang exhorted Filipinos to vote right on Monday and assured them of peaceful and blackout-free elections.
Some lawmakers are still pushing for the conduct of a parallel manual count alongside the automated ballot count.
Pick a green candidate. Avoid the 5 Gs—guns, goons, gold, gin and garbage. These were among the tips offered Monday by an environmental watch group to voters.
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia’s ruling coalition retained its 56-year hold on power in hard-fought elections Sunday, but a bitter opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said the polls were tainted by fraud and refused to concede. The ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition led by Prime Minister Najib Razak ceded just two seats in the election to end [...]
Malaysia’s ruling coalition has won control of parliament, the country’s Election Commission said Monday, after a tough fight with a rising opposition that hoped to hand the regime its first-ever loss.
Three bomb explosions killed three people including a young girl in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi on Saturday, police and hospital officials said, in the latest violence ahead of polls next month.
Saying that the law cannot require the impossible, a Quezon City judge has junked the request of five of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre case to be allowed to register to vote in the May elections.
