US President Barack Obama is likely to run for re-election in 2012, a White House spokesman has said. “I think it is likely that is going to happen,” said Robert Gibbs during a regular briefing Thursday, noting the bid would not be official until Obama filed papers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Gibbs said [...]
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Obama likely to seek re-election: White House
January 21st, 2011 |
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Belarus: Lukashenko sure for re-election
December 19th, 2010 |
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Belarusians go polls to cast their vote in elections likely to hand President Alexander Lukashenko a victory while the opposition has vowed to protest.
In power since 1994, ex state farm boss Lukashenko, 56, looks poised to claim a fourth, this time five-year term at the helm and, with protests in ten-below temperatures expected to peter out as seasonal festivities approach, eyes are trained on tomorrow’s OSCE verdict.
“Clear criteria for reelection of judges”
December 22nd, 2009 |
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Justice Minister Snežana Malović has denied that the recent reelection of judges was partisan and without clearly set criteria. “It is not true that the criteria was not public from the very moment it was outlined,” Malović told B92 TV.
Bolivia’s president easily wins re-election
December 7th, 2009 |
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Exit polls in Bolivia show that leftist President Evo Morales has earned a second term after easily winning re-election on Sunday. Bolivian media report that President Morales gained at least 61 percent of the vote, 35 points ahead of his closest challenger, former governor Manfred Reyes.
Morales poised to easily win re-election on local support
December 7th, 2009 |
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, a fervent anti-US leader, looked poised to easily win re-election yesterday thanks to overwhelming support from his country’s indigenous majority. Bolivia’s five million voters, who started going to the polls at 8am, also appeared likely to hand Morales control of
Abdullah says Karzai re-election ‘illegal’
November 4th, 2009 |
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Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, who quit Afghanistan’s troubled presidential election race this week, charged Wednesday that his rival Hamid Karzai’s re-election had “no legal basis”. Abdullah, who pulled out of a run-off poll scheduled after more than a million votes cast in the
Headed for re-election
September 10th, 2009 |
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Evo Morales expects to be re-elected in Bolivia in December
The political focus in Bolivia is now firmly fixed on presidential and legislative elections to be held on December 6th, at which the incumbent president, Evo Morales, and vice-president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, both of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), will stand for consecutive re-election—a first in Bolivian political history. Their victory seems a foregone conclusion, given the weakness of the opposition and the lack of a rival strong enough to challenge Mr Morales.
The fragmented opposition is comprised of a mixture of old faces attempting to revive their political careers, regional leaders seeking to project themselves nationally and newcomers hoping to gain from public fatigue and scepticism about the traditional political opposition. None seems poised to dent the governing party’s hold on power. …
Colin Powell Endorses NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Re-Election Bid
July 29th, 2009 |
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NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has endorsed New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s re-election bid.
Powell offered the endorsement Tuesday during a taping of the “Larry King Live” show on CNN. He calls Bloomberg…
Jim Bunning Not Running For Re-Election
July 27th, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky said Monday he will not run for a third term in 2010, citing a lack of campaign money and interference from Senate Republicans who were pushing for him to exit the race. In a statement issued by …
McConnell Distances Himself From Scandal-Ridden Ensign
July 14th, 2009 |
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Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) is mired in a sex and corruption scandal that, in his own understated terminology, has been “not good.” Having been caught paying hush money through his parents to his former mistress, the wife of a former staffer, he…