Sentence examples for election boycott from inspiring English sources

The party has called for an election boycott.

During the spring, Momeni had become the public face of the student-led election boycott.

Already, one prominent Sunni group, the Muslim Scholars Association, has called for an election boycott.

The men had been detained for six months without trial for organizing an election boycott.

But he made it clear that the group would not call for an election boycott.

The other, Mehdi Karrubi, the ex-Majlis speaker and the head of the National Trust party, rejects an election boycott.

Mr. Aristide was re-elected in 2000 in an election boycotted by the major opposition parties, and while he was beloved by the poor he was criticized by many for corruption, autocracy and the violent suppression of political opponents.

In addition to the election boycotts in 1991 and 1998, Compaoré faced other controversy and popular unrest.

Although election boycotts can be the last refuge of losers, in this case Mr. Toledo is right.

The ban had prompted threats of election boycotts and warnings that the credibility of the election itself was at stake if political groups, particularly Sunnis, felt disenfranchised.

It comes eight months after she won an unprecedented second term in an election boycotted by Mrs Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).