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Tag: elections
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Iran Elections: Pezeshkian-Jalili Tackle Country’s Most Controversial Issues
The first debate between the two candidates for the second round of Iran’s 14th presidential election was held on Monday, July 1. The debate…
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Iranian Presidential Candidates Exploit Anti-Afghan Sentiment to Gain Votes
Leading up to the early presidential elections in Iran, candidates have been exploiting anti-Afghan sentiment to garner votes. Observations suggest that many citizens are…
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The World’s Biggest Single-Day Election: on Indonesia’s Recent Elections
On 14 February, General Prabowo Subianto — Indonesian Defense Minister and former military general, long since accused of human rights abuses over his role…
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Iran’s “Innovations” for the Elections on March 1
Hassan Setayesh: For voting in the Iranian elections in March, there is no longer a need to present a birth certificate and have it…
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Cartoon of the Week: Turkish Elections, a Blow to the Power of the Palace-makers?
This week’s selected cartoon by Musa Keklik refers to the hopes of dissenting civil society in Turkey to win the elections.
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The 2021 Iranian presidential election: A spectator-less contest in the post-Khamenei era
IRGC is now preparing for the time when the supreme leader dies. Happening in the time of such transition of power, the 2021 election…
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MP decries unclear reason for candidate’s elimination
Iranian MP Ahmad Tavakoli has expressed serious reservations about the Guardian Council’s disqualification of Minoo Khaleghi, the candidate who won the third-highest number of…
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Mass arrest over election violence in Mamasani
Fars provincial authorities report that 57 people were arrested in connection with the violence that broke out on election day in the second round…
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Number of female MPs reaches record high
With the victory of four more women in the second round of parliamentary elections, the number of women in the 10th Iranian parliament reached…
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Random shooting in Mamasani closes poll an hour early
Hossein Zolfaqari, the deputy head of the Interior Ministry’s Security Department in the city of Mamasani in Fars Province, has announced that four people…
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Ministry rejects accusation of election meddling
After Gholamali Haddad Adel, the top conservative parliamentary candidate in Tehran, accused the administration of interfering in the election process, the interior ministry rejected…
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Voting begins in second round of elections
Voters in 121 cities went to polling stations today to vote in the second round of elections for their representatives in Parliament. The second…