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    No progress in Kyrgyz impasse as businesses warn of economic damage

    08 Oct 2020

    Kyrgyzstan’s parliament has failed to gather a quorum in an overnight session, deputies said on Thursday, leaving the Central Asian nation in a power vacuum as rival groups tried to claim power after ousting the cabinet.

    Protesters and vigilantes scuffle in Kyrgyz capital as political crisis festers

    07 Oct 2020

    Anti-government protesters scuffled with vigilante groups in Kyrgyzstan’s capital of Bishek overnight, after authorities in the Central Asian nation annulled parliamentary election results, local news website 24.kg reported.

    Pakistan's top court orders elections in Punjab and KP provinces within 90 days

    01 Mar 2023

    "Parliamentary democracy is a salient feature of the Constitution. There can be no parliamentary democracy without Parliament or the provincial assemblies,” the ruling said. "

    Pakistan's senate approves move to delay Feb.8 elections, but decision not binding

    05 Jan 2024

    The attendance was highly thin and just 14 senators were present in a 100-member House. This figure doesn’t even meet the requirement of quorum in the Senate. Caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi, who was present in the House, opposed the resolution.

    Bangladesh to vote in election without opposition

    05 Jan 2024

    Around 25,000 opposition cadres including the BNP’s entire local leadership were arrested in the ensuing crackdown, the party says - the government puts the figure at 11,000 - and tens of thousands more are in hiding.

    Suu Kyi’s party wins enough seats to form Myanmar’s next govt

    13 Nov 2020

    This time, the ballot was seen as a referendum on Suu Kyi’s government, which is hugely popular at home. But its reputation abroad has collapsed due to accusations of genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, which it denies.

    Kyrgyz president says opponents tried to seize power illegally

    06 Oct 2020

    Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov urged his opponents to stop public protests on Tuesday, saying he had ordered security forces not to use firearms, and reiterating his readiness to have the contested parliamentary election results annulled.

    Myanmar’s Suu Kyi casts early vote in poll hit by coronavirus curbs

    29 Oct 2020

    Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi cast a ballot on Thursday in the capital Naypyitaw ahead of November’s election after being unable to travel to her registered township near Yangon due to restrictions aimed at containing a spike in coronavirus cases.

    Nepal PM’s ‘constitutional coup’ challenged in court

    21 Dec 2020

    Seven government ministers stepped down after Oli’s dissolution saying it was violation of the “popular mandate” given to them in a 2017 general election. Protesters burned effigies of him in the streets.

    Registration for UAE’s Federal National Council elections to open on Tuesday, NEC reveals

    13 Aug 2023

    The NEC called upon the retired members of the electoral bodies, who is not currently working, and who wishes to run for membership in the FNC 2023, to submit a certificate stating that he is retired, while acknowledging that he is not currently working in any government agency...

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