Sentence examples for fair electing from inspiring English sources

Mauritania is the only Arab country after September 11th that managed to hold a free and fair election (save for Lebanon, depending on your definition of "free and fair"), electing a president without a military invasion in 2007, only to be toppled by a coup a year later.

Even though there are differing standards of classification for what makes a democracy, it always means rule of the people -- free and fair elections, elected representatives and freedom of all expression.

The opposition rejected the amendments as inconsequential and repeated its demands for a fully elected parliament chosen through fair elections.

They worry that the military might be trying to manipulate events to preserve its power by rushing the process and denying political parties and candidates enough time to organize for a meaningful, fair election that could elect a strong civilian government.

The people of Pakistan not only deserve fair elections and a democratically elected government, but they also want and need these governments and elected officials to be accountable for their actions.

Bolivia does now have a ruler, Evo Morales, who has been properly elected in a fair election, so the nationalist, left-wing policies of the protesters have won a retrospective endorsement (see article).

He said the government also wants a fair and clean election, as it does not want to be elected based on any election fraud.

The first ever democratically elected president in free and fair elections.

After all, Johnson was elected – chosen – by Londoners in a free and fair election, so it's not as if they can hide behind the excuse of coercion.

But the prime minister insists that he is a democrat, with a solid mandate from a public which has elected him to office three times in fair elections.

Opposition forces in Russia are holding a three-day national ballot to elect a leadership tasked with focusing the fight for fair elections.