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	[ Kazakh Elections 2004 ]
		Procedure of elections of the deputies of the parliament of the republic shall be determined by constitutional law.
		A resolution to nominate a candidate for election as a deputy of the Mazhilis is passed by the majority of votes from the total number of the members of the highest body of a public association and is documented by an excerpt from the minutes.
		Self-nomination of candidates running for election as deputies of the Mazhilis is carried out by citizens submitting to the corresponding district election commission a statement about his or her intention to run as a candidate for election as a deputy of the Mazhilis in the given electoral district.
	www.rferl.org /specials/kazakhelections/parlelections.asp (3130 words)

	Latvia Election Report [Complete Document] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE monitored the elections in Latvia at the invitation of the Latvian Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
		In the elections to the Saeima on 5-6 June 1993, the status of the Soviet-era immigrants was one of the main issues, along with Soviet troop withdrawal and economic reforms.
		This Soviet legacy had implications for the 1995 elections, as over one quarter of the population were unable to participate in the elections due to lack of Latvian citizenship [Annex 4].
	www.hri.org /docs/inter/95-10-25.doc.html (5516 words)

	Politics of Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the June 5-6, 1993 elections wherein over 90% of the electorate participated, eight of Latvia's 23 registered political parties passed the four percent threshold to enter parliament.
		The 30 September-1 October 1995 elections brought forth a deeply fragmented parliament with nine parties represented and the largest party commanding only 18 of 100 seats.
		Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Rīga. A leftist coalition in the Rīga City Council elected Gundars Bojārs, a Social Democrat, to the office of mayor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Latvia (1468 words)

	Latvia
		Latvia, a parliamentary democracy, regained its independence in 1991 after forced annexation and more than fifty years of occupation by the Soviet Union.
		Following the inconclusive autumn 1995 parliamentary elections, President Guntis Ulmanis appointed a non-party businessman, Andris Skele, to head a coalition of seven of the nine successful parties, which includes Saimnieks (In Charge), Latvia's Way and the Latvian National Conservative Party (LNNK).
		Between January and March there was much discussion in the Latvian press of the arrest of Aleksandrs Lavents, the former head of Baltija Bank, which had gone bankrupt.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/latvia/latvia.htm (1186 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 - Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elections for the 100-seat Parliament (Saeima) held in the fall were free and fair, but the election law barred some citizens from competing as candidates due to prior activity in pro-Soviet organizations or lack of fluency in the state language.
		Although international observers deemed the parliamentary elections to be free and fair, the elections law passed in May barred the candidacy of any citizen who remained "active" in the Communist Party or various other pro-Soviet organizations after January 13, 1991.
		Local elections commissions took inadequate steps in some locations to insure that voters could make their choices in private booths, but there were no allegations that voters were subject to improper pressure or influence.
	www.usemb.se /human/1995/europe/latvia.html (4665 words)

	1995
		Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series The Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series are a series of derechos that occured from 20th ce...
		Kung Fu (1995 single) (7) (1996) Kung Fu was the first single released from the 1977 (Ash on March 20 1995 as a CD singl...
		Pensions Act 1995 The Pensions Act 1995 is a piece of legislation to improve the running of pension schemes.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1995.html (904 words)

	1995 Human Rights Report: ALGERIA
		After the Government suspended the parliamentary election in 1992, it dissolved the FIS as a political party, and the social and charitable groups associated with it.
		Nearly 75 percent of the electorate cast their ballots in an election that was generally considered to be free and fair.
		Fewer than 1 percent of the candidates for parliamentary elections in the 1991 parliamentary election were women.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_nea/Algeria.html (6882 words)

	Zhelyazkova - Volume 10 Number 4
		Latvians remain content to “think left but vote right,” and the country is still one of the few in the postcommunist world never to have had a left-wing government.
		Latvian political parties used many innovative techniques to attract voters, including organizing beer festivals and hiring television celebrities to tour the country with politicians in order to attract an audience.This is not cheap.
		Since 1995, large individual and corporate donations have made up the bulk of party income,9 and this increases sharply in an election year.As long as there remain no limits on political advertising or spending, this situation is unlikely to change.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol11_12num4_1/focus/auers_print.html (2185 words)

	Latvian parliamentary election, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Elections for 6th Saeima, the parliament of Latvia were held on September 30 and October 1, 1995.
		Latvijas Nacionālā Neatkarības Kustība (Latvian National Independence Movement); and Latvijas Zaļā Partija (Green Party of Latvia);
		See also: List of election results, Politics of Latvia
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/latvian_parliamentary_election__1995 (198 words)

	- – Latvia
		So, in 13th January of 1990 was founded the "Latvian Green party", which is one of the very first morbid growth political parties in the history of reestablished Latvia.
		The election campaign of GRU was considered as the second most powerful on these elections.
		The deputies are: The co-chairman of the Latvian Green party - Indulis Emsis, Arvids Ulme - the head of the Latvian Environment protection club, Leopolds Ozolins - the deputy of the city Jurmala.
	www.europeangreens.org /cms/default/dok/148/148873.latvia@en.htm (1188 words)

	LITUANUS. Vol. 41, No. 1 - Spring 1995
		With the principal issue of elections the restoration of independence, individual political platforms served to limit the accountability of deputies to the electorate, unbound as they were by party discipline.
		Estonian and Latvian governments have managed to shift it from the representative institutions to an autonomous and coherent financial technocratic teams at the central banks and finance ministries, isolating them from the distributive pressures of ethnic and interest group politics.
		The recent fall of the Latvian government was the result of disagreements over economic policy between the protectionist Farmer's Union deputies- and the free-traders of Latvia's Way who formed the ruling centrist-right coalition.
	www.lituanus.org /1995_1/95_1_04.htm (8034 words)

	List of election results - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a list of election results from around the world.
		There is also a list of political parties and a list of politics by country.
		UK Regional and local elections (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales)
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_election_results.html (330 words)

	Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
		Where the integration of the non-citizen population into Latvian society is concerned, it is perfectly understandable and legitimate that the Latvian authorities are trying to promote the national language and culture.
		The rapporteurs also expect the Latvian authorities to enhance their efforts to remove remaining discriminations in the fields of employment and local elections and to further improve relations between the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs and the non-citizens.
		We also expect the Latvian authorities to enhance their efforts to remove remaining discriminations in the fields of employment and local elections and to further improve relations between the Department of Citizenship and Migration Affairs and the non-citizens.
	assembly.coe.int /Main.asp?link=http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc99/EDOC8426.htm (5794 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Central and Eastern Europe
		Parliamentary Elections in Moldova on March 6, 2005, in Romanian, Russian and English
		Elections in the Slovak Republic, in Slovak and English
		Central Election Commission of Ukraine - Elections of the President of Ukraine, in Ukrainian and English
	electionresources.org /eastern.europe.html (223 words)

	Slovakia (08/05)
		In the September 2002 parliamentary election, a last minute surge in support for the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU) gave Dzurinda a mandate for a second term.
		Following a summer 2003 parliamentary shake-up, the government lost its narrow parliamentary majority and now controls only 69 of the 150 seats; however, the coalition is relatively stable because of the parties' similar political philosophies and conflicts between opposition parties.
		The election of a pro-Western, reformist government in late 1998 further boosted close ties between the countries.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3430.htm (3507 words)

	on-Parkdale-High Park
		She has virtually no profile (a few references to her in the papers as one of the only supporters of Sheila Copps and the position of parliamentary secretary to the heritage minister from 2000-2003 are not things that the average voter knows about).
		I remember last election when 'somebody' was takings signs from people's lawns and putting them on different people's lawns, the joke was on them though because later that day it rained and those cardboard Paul Schmidt signs sagged away.
		Past election results don't mean a whole lot in circumstances like this, and urban seats smack in the middle of the nation's biggest media market are going to be more volatile than any others.
	www.electionprediction.org /2004_fed/riding/35068-parkdale-high-park.htm (8655 words)

	Books by Spring 1993 - Glimmer Train - 1117841588 excerpts
		The centrist Latvian Way party received a 33% plurality of votes and joined with the Farmers Union to head a center-right wing coalition government.Led by the opposition National Conservative Party, right-wing nationalists won a majority of the seats nationwide and also captured the Riga mayoralty in the May 29, 1994 municipal elections.
		Since her election, she has become one of the most popular political figures in Latvia.Local elections in 2001 represented a victory for the left-of-center parties in several municipalities, including Riga.
		After elections, Einārs Repse formed a government consisting of his New Era Party and 3 other parties.In 2003, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga was reelected to the presidency for the second term, until 2007.
	isbncheck.com /888367_spring-1993_1117841588glimmertrainexcerpts.html (1160 words)

	The Moscow Times - Daily News on Business, Politics and Culture in Russia and the CIS
		A bruising battle between Russia's leading reformist party and the Central Election Commission came to an official end Wednesday, as the commission's chairman Nikolai Ryabov signed an order registering Yabloko for December's parliamentary elections.
		Their backpacks and suitcases are stuffed with eye-catching exotica: tiger bones, slimy sea cucumbers, jumbles of ginseng roots and gallbladders culled from Siberian brown bears and dried to the consistency of beef jerky.
		Latvian nationalist leader Maris Grinblats, head of the Fatherland and Freedom Party, sought defectors from rival left- and right-leaning parties Wednesday in his bid to cobble together a majority in support of his bid to become the country's next prime minister.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /indexes/1995/11/09/01.html (2221 words)

	Electoral Geography . com / News Archive
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		12.11.06 - Elections in Estonia (1992-2004) and Luxemburg (1994-2005)
	www.electoralgeography.com /en/news (761 words)

	Latvia index
		Law on Elections to the Fifth Saeima, 9 June 1992 with later amendments and additions (English)
		On Amendments to the Republic of Latvia Law "On Elections of the Fifth Saeima" 16 March 1993 (English)
		Law on the Central Election Commission modified by the amendments of 5 December 1996 and 14 May 1998 (English)
	www2.essex.ac.uk /elect/latvia_index.htm (122 words)

	Latvians Online \| News \| Parliament approves new Latvian government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Colorado-based band Jūrmalnieki has grown to be a favorite among Latvians in North America.
		The Latvian composer and folklorist Emilis Melngailis wrote in 1949 that the Latvian tradition of drumming had completely died out....
		Latvians Online is a global Internet meeting place for persons of all ages with an interest in Latvians and Latvia.
	www.latviansonline.com /news/article.php?id=671_0_2_0_C (511 words)

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		The commission based its decision on Article 5 of the parliamentary election law, which prohibits former members of foreign secret or intelligence services from being candidates, and on a March 2000 Riga Zemgale District Court decision that ruled that Adamsons had served with the Soviet Union's KGB border-guards service.
		Eventually she was given permission in February 2002 to leave Kyiv to conduct her election campaign and her bloc, despite the numerous obstacles placed in her way by the authorities, obtained the impressive result of 7.26 percent.
		The election results in the city of Kyiv could not have been what Kuchma was hoping for from his pre-election agreement with Omelchenko.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-08-15.rferl (8077 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		But many Western and local observers believe that these elections will be neither fair nor democratic because no opposition groups and parties will be represented.
		Uzbekistan will hold elections to its parliament, the Oliy Majlis, on 26 December 2004, and a presidential election sometime in 2007.
		Neither election is likely to offer any serious departure from the established order of politics in the country...
	www.rferl.org /specials/uzbekelections (240 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but in 1979 the first direct elections were undertaken and they have been held every five years since.
		A new currency, the euro, was launched in world money markets on 1 January 1999; it become the unit of exchange for all of the EU states except the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark.
		elections: the president of the European Commission is designated by member governments; the president-designate then chooses the other Commission members; the European Parliament confirms the entire Commission for a five-year term; election last held 18 November 2004 (next to be held 2009)
	www.phatnav.com /factbook/geos/ee.html (1961 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		But many Western and local observers believe that these elections will be neither fair nor democratic because no opposition groups and parties will be represented.
		Uzbekistan will hold elections to its parliament, the Oliy Majlis, on 26 December 2004, and a presidential election sometime in 2007.
		Neither election is likely to offer any serious departure from the established order of politics in the country...
	www.rferl.com /specials/uzbekelections (248 words)

	Bibliography of Transition
		The Parliamentary Elections in Kyrgyzstan February 5, 1995 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 21
		Compendium of Statements from Political Parties on the Constitutional referendum and Parliamentary Elections of November 12, 1995.
		The March 31, 2002 Parliamentary and local Elections in Ukraine A Pre-Election Report by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, March 4, 2002.
	www.asu.edu /clas/reesc/markarovbib2.htm (16587 words)

	[ Kazakh Elections 2004 ]
		Special thanks to Dr.Pauline Jones-Luong of Yale University and Dr.Steven Sabol of the University of North Carolina for their help in realizing this project.
		Kazakhstan held parliamentary elections on 19 September and will hold a presidential election in 2006.
		A look at the Kazakh presidency and the criteria for registering, campaigning and becoming the head of state...
	www.rferl.org /specials/kazakhelections (208 words)

	Printed Version
		Compared with presidential and parliamentary election campaigns in recent years in Macedonia (which BHHRG has observed since 1998), the domestically-generated referendum was very low key.
		Even in Struga, the centre of the political storm for the previous six months, voters were not going to the polls even among the roughly half of the population which was expected to be sympathetic to the referendum.
		Even though the Central Election Commission would be broadcasting running turnout figures from localities during the day the anti-boycotters seemed to have put no effort into turning out their vote early to give themselves some momentum.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=&CountryID=7 (6526 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Latvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Latvian 57.7%, Russian 29.6%, Belarusian 4.1%, Ukrainian 2.7%, Polish 2.5%, Lithuanian 1.4%, other 2% (2002)
		Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other 4.3% (2000 census)
		elections: president reelected by Parliament for a four-year term; election last held 20 June 2003 (next to be held by June 2007); prime minister appointed by the president
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/lg.html (984 words)

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