Election 2024

Election 2024

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Investigation committee unmasks ‘dummy candidate’ ploy in 2024 polls

The 2024 polls were not a genuine democratic exercise but an orchestrated event designed at the highest levels of the state as with the main opposition sitting out, the administration reportedly...

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2024 national polls were a 'dummy election', says ex-CEC Awal

The silhouettes of a military vehicle and a soldier are seen near the Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, in Israel, December 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

Inflation, elections and war dominated 2024

Maia Sandu, Chisinau, October 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza

Moldova's Sandu decries 'unprecedented' meddling as EU referendum goes to wire

A participant of Moldovan presidential candidate Octavian Ticu's campaign hands out leaflets while agitating voters in a street ahead of the country's upcoming presidential election and a referendum on future European Union membership, in Chisinau, Moldova October 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza/File Photo

Moldova votes in election, EU referendum in shadow of alleged Russian meddling

Japan's new PM Ishiba unveils cabinet ahead of snap election

Japan's new PM Ishiba unveils cabinet ahead of snap election

Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) reacts on the day of a press conference after the LDP leadership election, in Tokyo, Japan September 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool/File Photo

Japan's incoming PM Ishiba calls election for Oct 27, seeks to unify party

Who is Shigeru Ishiba, the outsider set to lead Japan?

Who is Shigeru Ishiba, the outsider set to lead Japan?

Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election, in Tokyo, Japan September 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool

Shigeru Ishiba to be Japan's leader, winning on fifth attempt

Supporters of Sri Lanka's president Ranil Wickremesinghe attend his final election campaign rally for the upcoming presidential election, scheduled for September 21, in Colombo, Sri Lanka September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

What are the five key issues in Sri Lanka's presidential election?

Japan's Minister for Digital Transformation Taro Kono walks on the day of the cabinet reshuffle, at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo, Japan September 13, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

Who's vying to be Japan's next prime minister?

Luisa Gonzalez, former presidential candidate of the Movimiento Revolucion Ciudadana party, speaks to the media after Ecuadorean authorities arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas seizing him from the Mexican embassy, in Quito, Ecuador April 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Karen Toro/File Photo

Ecuador ex-President Correa's party taps Luisa Gonzalez as presidential candidate

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends an event, in Caracas, Venezuela May 1, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo

Maduro wins third term, electoral authority says, contradicting exit polls