Sentence examples for commune elections from inspiring English sources

In the commune elections last year, the party's share of the vote slipped to 22%, from 32% in 1998.

The commune elections are part of an evolving democratic system prescribed by the United Nations under a 1992 peace accord that helped to end a long civil war.

(The Cambodian government regards him as a fugitive, having convicted him on charges of spreading false information).Their problem is that Hun Sen, who according to Mr Adams's calculations is one of the world's top-ten longest-serving political leaders, keeps on winning elections as he did again, just this week.In regional terms Cambodia's commune elections are a minor affair.

During my mandate, I campaigned widely with civil society and NGOs to encourage women at the grassroots to run as candidates for commune elections, the first of their kind in the history of Cambodia.

See articleLocal-commune elections in Cambodia resulted in another landslide win for the ruling Cambodian People's Party of Hun Sen, the prime minister.

As a result, said election monitors, turnout in Poipet was less than half the national average of about 70%.Such scenes have led, inevitably, to opposition claims that Cambodia's local-commune elections on April 1st were riddled with fraud.

In the commune where he monitored the election, the RND came first, but without the special vote it would have come fifth.

The commune decided to boycott the election when it became clear that those brought in through the "Share-a-Home" program would not be allowed to vote.

Earlier elections in Venice, and in other Italian communes, required a winner to be endorsed by two-thirds, or sometimes three-quarters, of the voters.

A Damanhurian candidate won the mayoral election in nearby Vidracco last year, and the commune has town councilors in half a dozen other small villages, worrying some locals who fear that the commune, which keeps buying land, will soon rule the area.

"The Iraqi people are soon to have provincial elections as well as elections at the district and commune levels.