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version="0.92"> <channel><title>Election Updates</title><link>http://www.election-update.org</link> <description>World Election News and Updates</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:27:48 +0000</lastBuildDate> <docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs> <language>en</language> <item><title>Afghan election commission declares Karzai winner</title> <description><![CDATA[Election officials declared Afghan President Hamid Karzai the winner of a new five-year term Monday, canceling a runoff election scheduled for Saturday just one day after Karzai&#8217;s sole challenger quit the race. The decision ended weeks of political drift since a first presidential poll in August was found invalid because of massive fraud.
In the capital, a sense of relief was instant and palpable. Kabul residents honked horns and exchanged celebratory text messages as the news spread. American, European and U.N. officials rushed to congratulate Karzai and pledged to work closely ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/winning-moments/afghan-election-commission-declares-karzai-winner/</link> </item> <item><title>Abdullah plans runoff boycott to delay Afghan vote</title> <description><![CDATA[President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend&#8217;s runoff election in an attempt to force the vote&#8217;s postponement until spring, his campaign manager said — a move that would dim U.S. hopes for a stable Afghan government for months.
Karzai rejected Abdullah Abdullah&#8217;s conditions for next Saturday&#8217;s vote, including removing top election officials whom the challenger accused of involvement in cheating in the first-round balloting in August.
Abdullah has called a press conference for 10 a.m. Sunday to announce his final decision after Afghans and Westerners close ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/eurasia/afghanistan/abdullah-plans-runoff-boycott-to-delay-afghan-vote/</link> </item> <item><title>Afghanistan&#8217;s day of reckoning</title> <description><![CDATA[What will be the test of legitimacy for Afghanistan&#8217;s elections?
No-one is using the age-old electoral mantra &#8220;free and fair&#8221;.
It is hard to find anyone who expects Afghanistan&#8217;s third major poll since 2001 to be fully free or fully fair.
These are the first elections since 2001 run primarily by Afghans &#8211; albeit with international support.
There&#8217;s been an unprecedented level of political debate and lively campaigning in this first truly contested poll.
But one embittered election expert described it as a &#8220;squandered opportunity&#8221;.Badly cheated
Some foreign election observers have worried for months what ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/election/afghanistans-day-of-reckoning/</link> </item> <item><title>Senator gains release of American jailed in Myanmar</title> <description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Jim Webb obtained the release Saturday of American John Yettaw, who had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor in Myanmar for visiting detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Webb will accompany Yettaw to Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday on a military aircraft, his office said.
Webb also met for about 40 minutes Saturday with Suu Kyi, a witness said. It was not known what they discussed.&#8220;It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/asia/myanmar/senator-gains-release-of-american-jailed-in-myanmar/</link> </item> <item><title>Mediation stalls in Honduras as leaders refuse Zelaya&#8217;s return</title> <description><![CDATA[Tegucigalpa, Honduras &#8211; The month-old mediation effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to resolve Honduras&#8217;s political crisis is foundering under the near-universal opposition of Honduras&#8217;s top leaders to permitting deposed President Manuel Zelaya to return to power.
Political, business, church, and media leaders say they can&#8217;t trust Mr. Zelaya to keep the commitments that would limit his authority under the Arias plan because, they say, Zelaya repeatedly violated the Constitution in the days that led up to his June 28 ouster over a proposed public vote that they think was ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/political-unrest/mediation-stalls-in-honduras-as-leaders-refuse-zelayas-return/</link> </item> <item><title>Ousted president shut out of Honduras</title> <description><![CDATA[Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya landed in El Salvador late Sunday after a failed attempt to return to his homeland.
Zelaya told the Venezuela-based news network Telesur that his jet was denied permission to land Sunday evening in the Honduran capital, where military vehicles were arrayed on the runway.
At least one person was killed and eight wounded after security forces opened fire and used tear gas on several thousand protesters who ringed the airport, said Hugo Orellana, a Red Cross director in Honduras. Protest leaders put the death toll at ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/political-unrest/ousted-president-shut-out-of-honduras/</link> </item> <item><title>Croatian prime minister announces sudden resignation</title> <description><![CDATA[Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Wednesday announced his sudden resignation from the post of the government head and would not explain clearly the reasons for his decision.
Sanader, who is president of the senior ruling party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), told an extraordinary news conference that he also decided to withdraw from his party duty and from active politics and become HDZ honorary president, the Croatian news agency HINA reported.
Sanader said he had made the decision after deep consideration, and recalled that he had been in politics ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/resignation/croatian-prime-minister-announces-sudden-resignation/</link> </item> <item><title>Albania PM claims narrow victory</title> <description><![CDATA[The governing centre-right party of Albania&#8217;s Prime Minister has claimed victory in elections held last weekend.
With most results in, the Democrat party headed by PM Sali Berisha was narrowly ahead of its Socialist rivals, but possibly short of a majority.
However, the Socialists accused their rivals of manipulating the vote in order to win the election.
Election observers said the vote showed a marked improvement on previous polls, though there were still some concerns.
Mr Berisha said the results were a &#34;vote of confidence&#34; for his party and pledged ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/news/election/albania-pm-claims-narrow-victory/</link> </item> <item><title>Honduras rulers reject world pressure to reverse coup</title> <description><![CDATA[The Honduran interim government defied international pressure on Wednesday and vowed there was &#8220;no chance at all&#8221; of ousted President Manuel Zelaya returning to office.
World leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have told the new rulers of the Central American country to restore Zelaya, a leftist who was toppled by the army on Sunday and sent into exile after a dispute over presidential term limits.The Organization of American States gave Honduras an ultimatum early on Wednesday to allow Zelaya back into office by this weekend ...]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/north-america/honduras/honduras-rulers-reject-world-pressure-to-reverse-coup/</link> </item> <item><title>Silvio Berlusconi</title> <description><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, entrepreneur. He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of the Italian Republic.]]></description><link>http://www.election-update.org/reference/world-leaders/silvio-berlusconi/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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