It did not go unnoticed in Washington that Zardari had agreed to a delay in elections and publicly had spoken out against violence.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 26 - Some of Iraq's most powerful political groups, including the party led by the interim prime minister, called Friday for a six-month delay in elections scheduled for Jan . 30 citing concerns over security.
Parliament does not have the authority to overturn the results, but the vote signaled the swelling dissatisfaction over an election marred by accusations of fraud. 1 Shiites Want January Election Despite calls for a delay in elections scheduled for Jan . 30 Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric is opposed to the idea, Shiite leaders said, and the main Shiite political parties took the same view.
A prolonged dispute between him and the opposition over a delay in elections, and over an electoral law that would allow them to be held, has sparked violent protests in Port-au-Prince, the capital.Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, offered to negotiate a ceasefire with the leftist FARC guerrilla army.
It may destabilize the country enough to force a delay in elections, elections that would probably put those folks out of power.
Martelly has blamed the delay in elections on opposition senators, who in turn contend that election legislation unfairly favors government candidates.
The N.L.R.B.'s union election proposal is aimed at removing unnecessary barriers to unionization, and was issued after delays in elections.
Violence by armed groups and militias has caused delays in elections meant to result from the end in 2003 of a five-year civil war.
Those include ongoing exclusion from the political process, with regular delays in elections; no real reforms in the punitive, wildly overbroad "De-Baathification" and antiterrorism laws; increasingly centralized power in the hands of the prime minister; and brutal policing, with mass arrests, unfair trials and endemic torture in Iraqi prisons.
Haitians once believed that Aristide might change things, but he was no longer in power, and the endless delays in elections, the recent spate of political killings and the general sense of spiraling violence and corruption has led to a palpable feeling of despair.
