Elections

The statements of Bitlis Governor Ahmet Ç?nar of Turkey's east was on papers Sept. 22. In order to provide voting security, to avoid possible troubles in the transfer of ballot boxes and for the national will to be reflected in the ballot box, he has asked the Provincial Election Board whether certain polling stations can be relocated at certain provincial and district centers.   

The biggest “bloc” in Sunday’s Greek elections was “abstention”, with a record-breaking level of roughly 45 percent of registered voters preferring whatever else instead of heading to a ballot box.
The final tally will be announced in the early morning.

After a day of eerily empty voting polls, the first results of the Greek elections will be available with the exit polls to be released at 7 p.m. The low voter turnout, estimated to be one of the lowest in modern Greek history, may make it harder for pollsters to make an accurate prediction.

Watch our rolling coverage of the September 20 Greek elections as weary voters are called to decide who should lead the country for the second time in 2015 and fifth time in six years.

After a low turnout, the polling booths close shortly. Join us as we present the first exit polls at 7 p.m. and the results as they happen.

New Democracy leader Vangelis Meimarakis voted at Maroussi polling station accompanied by Mayor of Maroussi Giorgos Patoulis.

In Greece people usually vote in school buildings which are used as polling stations, but this is not always the case for other countries.

There are many voters in United Kingdom who found themselves marking their ballot in the weirdest locations; caravans, garages and pubs were transformed into polling stations for the election day.

A garage in Croydon

Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva is leaving for the US on Saturday to take part in the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament.

The forum, organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), will take place on August 31 - September 2, 2015 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, according to a media statement of Bulgaria's Parliament.

Elections are only a small part of what we call political participation. In true democracies citizens have the power to influence decisions and practices of the state at every level. This is the real meaning of political participation.

Here, on the other hand, let alone influencing decisions, most of the time we are not even fully aware of what is going on.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has set October 25 as the date for both local elections and a referendum on remote electronic voting.

Singapore celebrated the semi-centennial of its independence over the weekend. Under the leadership of its founder, Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away in March, it rose from being a poor country with no resources to one of the wealthiest and most developed states in the world.