MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Friday ruled that the country's sole independent election watchdog had broken Russian law by publishing citizens' complaints of campaign abuses during the run-up to parliamentary elections this weekend.
Mr. Binti was re-elected to the chief's post on Sept. 4, but his opponent contested the result; the Constitutional Court has sole jurisdiction over election disputes.
The previous representative of the electorate, the politician Henry Sewell, had returned after three years in England and the general expectation was that Sewell would be the sole contender for election.
Conversely, those candidates who have been declared winners by the Independent Election Commission, which is given sole authority over elections in the Constitution, are insistent that they have rightfully won and refuse to back down.
The chamber is the sole legislature until parliamentary elections, handling delicate matters like the election laws.
SIPC has sole discretion to the election of a trustee".
A campaign's ground game is hardly the sole determinant in an election, but it can be decisive in a close contest.
Yet when Afghanistan comes up in this election, the sole subject of complaint is that our helicopters don't work as well as they should.
In successive opinion surveys, the virulently anti-immigrant, antisemitic, anti-EU party has emerged as Greece's third-biggest political force – the sole certainty in an election that has defied expectation in almost every other way.
Always eager to discredit their opponents, but much more reticent when it comes to their own ideas on subjects such as, say, the third runway at Heathrow (yet another hot topic delayed until after the next election), the sole aim of the main political parties is not public service, but to get power – and once they have it – to cling on at all costs.
