The Commonwealth Electoral Act of 1918 regulated elected officials.

India has an independent constitutional body, the Election Commission of India, to supervise elections both at the Federal and state levels.

Citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus shall enjoy equal rights to vote and be elected in elections to the elected bodies of the Union.

125. On 3 November 1996 elections were held to the Federal Parliament.

1978 1980 Member Nurses Disciplinary Committee (Central Province)

The Secretary General of the Commonwealth appoints election observers and monitors to support elections in member States.

The federal election legislation called on political parties to establish a limit of participation of candidates of the same gender.

Pursuant to the Federal Electoral Act political parties of national minorities are exempt from the 5 per cent clause with regard to elections to the federal parliament.

In September this year, during the German federal election, the Select Party was elected to become the third largest party in the House.

Elections Canada, the Instituto Federal Electoral of Mexico, the Electoral Institute of South Africa and UNDP subsequently joined the project as full partners.

8. Welcomes the invitations extended by the Government of Nigeria to the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity, the Commonwealth and the European Union to provide electoral assistance and to observe the elections at all levels so as to ensure the credibility of the electoral process

The Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir enjoys a popularly elected government, following democratic elections that were held last year.

He disbanded the National Electoral Commission (NECON) and the Transition Implementation Committee (TIC) and the Committee on Devolution of Power between Federal States and Local Governments and established an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

In the regional context, we note Mexico's cooperation in electoral assistance through the Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico.

For example, the Electoral Assistance Division, through the UNDP office in Mexico, has been working on a technical level with the Instituto Federal Electoral since 1995 to consistently improve the electoral process in that country.

Finally, this bill also restores the voting rights of the absentees in federal elections held in American Samoa.8

According to the timetable for the re establishment of democratic government agreed upon by all political parties, federal elections would take place in October 1998.

The difference is in election and powers, because the president and vice presidents of Republika Srpska are elected directly, while in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina they are elected indirectly.

The Instituto Federal Electoral of Mexico, with which the Division had an existing Memorandum of Understanding, played an invaluable role in training the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq formed in June 2004.

175. Following a cease fire agreement signed in August 1996, presidential elections were held in Chechnya (Russian Federation) in December 1996.

For instance, at the elections for the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation BiH, in 1996 only 7 women were elected or 5 , but in 2000 there were 24 women or 17,1 .

Election to the Senate (Upper House) is held according to the relevant legal provisions contained in the Senate (Election) Act, 1975, the Senate (Members from Federal Capital) Order, 1985 and 1988 and the Senate (Election) Rules, 1975.

Electoral commissions dominated by the ruling party overturned election results on vague grounds, and municipal courts, as well as the Serbian and Federal Supreme Courts, swiftly upheld the annulments.

The rules for the conduct of pre election campaigning in the media had been strictly observed as set forth, in particular, in article 24 of the 1994 Federal Act on Basic Guarantees of the Election Rights of Citizens of the Russian Federation.

During the 2004 Federal Government elections, the Government made a commitment to sign and implement MARPLEX.

Other important activities carried out by the Commonwealth include the election observation missions undertaken at the request of Governments.

The duties of the Chief Election Commissioner are a) Preparing electoral rolls for election to the National Assembly and the Provincial Assemblies, and revising such rolls annually b) Organizing and conducting election to the Senate or to fill casual vacancies in a House or a Provincial Assembly and c) Appointing Election Tribunals.

On 8 January, the Puntland Parliament elected General Adda Musse as the new President for Puntland .

Given the above electoral framework, the Joint Electoral Management Body is now finalizing the election plan.

The Russian Federation is organizing a commemorative exhibition.

None of the women was elected to be member of the Presidency BiH at the post war elections (1996 2000), neither for the president co president of FBiH, nor for entity Prime Minister.

In the complete autocracies Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq under Saddam, and the United Arab Emirates there have been no meaningful elections to fill the most important offices. The UAE, a somewhat decentralized and consensual federation, is not as dictatorial as the others, but only seven voters the traditional rulers of the federation's seven emirates elect the president.

Regrettably, the National Convention, which met from May to July 2004 and again from February to March 2005, did not include representatives from either the National League for Democracy (NLD) or several other ethnic nationality political parties, including the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), which had won the second largest number of seats in the 1990 elections.

The recommendations of the review will be presented to the Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.2 The next legislative elections must be held before May 1999.

In early October 2004, during and immediately after the election of the Transitional Federal Government, the exchange rate of the illegal currency appreciated from 25,000 to 18,000 shillings to the United States dollar.

A new constitution was adopted by referendum in June 1996 and a new legislative assembly was elected the following December. According to the new constitution, the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros is a federal State based on the principle of Islam.

9. Calls upon the Assistance Mission and the Joint Electoral Management Body to provide sufficient training to the election personnel as well as voter and civic education, with a particular focus on women, before parliamentary and local elections

At its first session, the Group unanimously elected Andrey V. Krutskikh of the Russian Federation as its Chairman.

7. Reiterates the importance of the implementation of the timetable of the Joint Electoral Management Body for parliamentary and local elections scheduled for the spring of 2005

United Nations support for the elections

The National Elections Commission, in collaboration with UNMIL, the International Federation for Electoral Systems, UNDP and the European Community, is currently focusing on preparing for the voter registration exercise.

It is a federal State, whose provincial governments are elected in broadly the same way as the national Government.

Federal tax rates have become an issue in the presidential election.

That brings us to another purpose of the registry, as stated in article 112 of the above Act, namely to provide the Federal Electoral Institute with the information it needs from the National Registry of Citizens in order to compile electoral instruments.

United Nations role in supporting the elections