TEHRAN, Feb 26 - The ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) candidate Mustafa Şentop has been elected as the new Speaker of the Turkish Parliament on Sunday.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - Senegal went to the polls Sunday in an election that incumbent President Macky Sall is tipped to win after his main challengers were banned from running.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - Police fired tear gas on Friday to disperse thousands of mostly young Algerians protesting in the capital for political change and calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika not to seek a fifth term at election s in April.
TEHRAN, Feb 23 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari cast his ballot in the presidential election on Saturday as polls opened after a week-long delay, television images on Channels TV showed.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - US President Donald Trump says Senator Bernie Sanders, who lost his battle for the Democratic nomination in 2016 to Hillary Clinton and has newly announced his candidacy for the White House in 2020, was “taken advantage of” and “not treated with respect” by the former secretary of state in the election race.
TEHRAN, Feb 19 - US Senator Bernie Sanders could defeat President Donald Trump in the 2020 election s if he is nominated by the Democratic Party, an American analyst in Virginia says.
TEHRAN, Feb 19 - US Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will run again for president in the 2020 election s and calling President Donald Trump a "pathological liar" and an “embarrassment” to America.
TEHRAN, Feb 19 - President Macky Sall is the strong favorite to win Senegal's election on Sunday, boosted by a modernizing first term that propelled economic growth although critics accuse him of jailing his rivals for political gain.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 -North Carolina election officials on Monday will begin hearing evidence on allegations that absentee ballots unlawfully collected by a Republican operative may have tipped a tight November U.S. congressional election in favor of a Republican candidate.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 -Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to hold an emergency meeting with senior members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party over the week-long postponement of the country’s election delay, the party media office said on Monday.
Nigeria’s presidential election , which was due to be held on Saturday, has been postponed to Feb. 23, the chairman of the country’s electoral commission said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Feb 13 - Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro resigned as parliament speaker on Friday in a split with President Alassane Ouattara that could signal his intention to run for president next year.
TEHRAN, Feb 13 - Spain's finance minister says that the country's prime minister will decide if and when to call a general election after parliament defeated the socialist administration's 2019 spending plan.
TEHRAN, Feb 11 -Australia’s conservative government is facing a huge electoral defeat as it heads into the final sitting of parliament ahead of a national election expected in May, a widely watched poll found on Monday.
TEHRAN, Feb 10 - The Islamic resistance movement Hamas has praised recent calls by a political party active in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for democratic Palestinian general election s.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 -India’s political parties have been abusing Facebook Inc’s popular messaging service WhatsApp ahead of the country’s general election and the company has warned them not to do so, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 05 -Anti-war American lawmaker, Tulsi Gabbard, has rejected a 2020 endorsement by David Duke, a founder and former grand wizard of the notorious Ku Klux Klan (KKK).