Sentence examples for delay of elections from inspiring English sources

However the aligning of old laws with the new Kenyan constitution was hampered by bickering politicians, taking two years to complete and forcing delay of elections until March 2013.

"It is in someone's interest to benefit from the delay of elections, I just don't know who it is," said Marwa Hussein, 18, a student who visited the square for the first time on Wednesday.

In Guinea the opposition has cried foul over the delay of municipal elections and perhaps even presidential elections in 2015.

United Nations and Western officials had supported the delay of the elections.

Any delay of the elections beyond their scheduled date of Jan . 21would not only be an international embarrassment but could complicate the American military's plans for withdrawal.

At the time, leaders from all major parties produced a memorandum calling for a delay of the elections, which I presented to Ghazi al-Yawer, then the interim president of Iraq.

At a recent rally held at Damazin in the Blue Nile state, al-Bashir lashed out at a coalition of opposition parties who have been calling for a temporary delay of the elections.

Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the largest rebel group in Sudan's western Darfur region, also joined the call on for a delay of the elections.