Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party replaced deputy legislative speaker Hung Hsiu-chu with KMT chairman Eric Chu for the island's leadership election.
Thousands of politicians began trooping to election offices across the Philippines yesterday, kicking off a rambunctious seven-month campaign season.
Portugal's center-right ruling coalition led by incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho won Sunday's general election but fell short of an absolute majority in the parliament.
A former Australian political figure regarded the nation's journalists as "a pack of bastards" by the end of his failed 2015 election campaign, his authorized biography reportedly says.
Myanmar's Foreign Ministry has rejected a "joint statement" of nine countries on the country's upcoming general election, criticizing that the issuance of such statement at this juncture goes against the peaceful environment the Myanmar people have established for a successful holding of the election.
Singaporeans across the city state went to their designated polling stations on Friday to vote in a general election.
Myanmar's nationwide election campaign is picking up momentum as political parties began campaigning Tuesday, two months before the upcoming general election scheduled for Nov. 8.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi described on Tuesday the upcoming general election as a crucial turning point of the country.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) chief without a vote as nobody filed candidacy for the presidential election set for Sept. 20, local media reported Tuesday.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Wednesday pledged to work for a free and fair general election, and maintain political stability during the transition from the pre-election period to the post-election period.
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) is expected to be challenged on 89 parliamentary seats as candidates are filing their nomination papers Tuesday morning.
Singapore's Elections Department (ELD) on Tuesday published Handbook for Parliamentary Election Candidates 2015 hours after ELD announced Singaporeans will go to the polls on Sept. 11.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sacked 13 members from his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) 's central committee, just hours after a parliamentary election was concluded on Monday.
Myanmar's ruling party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), has made a major reshuffle of its leadership ahead of November's general election.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein and Vice President U Nyan Tun will not run in the upcoming general election slated for Nov. 8, General Secretary of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) U Maung Maung Thein told a press conference here Wednesday.
One of the organizers of Burundi' s protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's third-term bid has been injured by two bullets from unknown gunmen, his relative said.
One policeman was injured in a grenade explosion that targeted policemen who were Wednesday morning rehabilitating a road damaged during protests in the Burundian capital Bujumbura, a police spokesman has told Xinhua.
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