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The interior ministry on Friday officially announced that elections for European Parliament and local government would be held on Sunday June 9. The deadline to submit a candidacy was set for ...

Officials are bracing for the logistical nightmare of the upcoming local and European elections, featuring a smorgasbord of as many as 20,000 candidates vying for the 3,500 public offices up for grabs. ...

Turkish opposition party the CHP secured an unlikely and historic victory at the country’s local elections on Sunday. The social democratic party became the first since the ruling AK ...

Over 3,500 people will be voted to positions of public office in the elections on June 9, the interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elias said on Tuesday. Speaking after meeting political parties ...

Nicosia mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis announced his candidacy on Thursday for director of Nicosia district local government organisation. The newly created post is part of the local authority reform, which Yiorkadjis ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that he would not hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take ...

The interior ministry on Monday urged would-be voters to “submit timely applications” to be registered on the electoral roll, as the deadline of April 2 for June’s elections near. The ...

A total of 4,488 new voters have so far registered on the electoral roll, chief returning officer Menelaos Vasiliou said on Monday. Among the new voters, 1,386 are Europeans residing in Cyprus. ...

Preparations are underway for the European Parliament elections and the local government elections on June 9, said the head of the Elections Service of the Ministry of Interior Menelaos Vasiliou on ...

Nicosia mayoral candidate Nikos Tornaritis was given a display of support on Sunday by his backer, Disy, as he toured central streets of the capital with its leadership. The walkabout ...

Egyptians cast their ballots on Tuesday on the third and final day of a presidential election expected to give President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a sweeping victory and a new six-year ...

Political parties were informed on Wednesday of the changes which have taken place in the electoral system due to recently enacted local government reforms. In a meeting regarding next year’...

A possible change in where displaced persons get to vote – in a stated bid to stop gender-based discrimination – may have the unwanted consequence of unbalancing the electoral map, MPs heard ...

Intensive moves are underway to create a new political party on the island called Volt Cyprus, which will focus on resolving the Cyprus problem, modernising the country and European integration. ...

George Solomou was elected new General Secretary of centre party Diko following in-house elections on Sunday. Solomou won with of 48.1 per cent of the votes (3,359 votes), the party announced. Chrysanthos ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has congratulated New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his win in the Greek elections. In a post on Twitter, Christodoulides said that he communicated with Mitsotakis and ...

Political parties did not give a proper accounting for their revenues and expenses for the May 2021 parliamentary elections, with all sorts of omissions in their books, the auditor-general said in ...

Voting for Turkish citizens begins on Saturday in the north in view of the second round of Turkey’s presidential elections on May 28, which will last for five days from ...

The CEO of OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, told a Senate panel on Tuesday the use of artificial intelligence to interfere with election integrity is a “significant area of concern”, ...

Elections for top spots in opposition party Disy are being held on Saturday, as party members vote, following the election of a new leader two months ago. House Speaker and ...

Stuck in Tayyip Erdogan’s shadow throughout his career, opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu believes his time has come to set Turkey on a new path and roll back much of ...

There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday released the names of his election campaign donors – but only after a discussion in parliament a day earlier had outed him as having effectively broken ...

Candidates for political office must name their donors, otherwise they have broken the law, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has said. He made the comments on Twitter, a day after President Nikos ...