Voting

Over three million Turkish expatriates will begin voting for the June 24 presidential and general elections on June 7, with the first group to cast their votes in the most distant land of all, Australia. 

Iraqi authorities have launched an inquiry into this month's parliamentary elections after intelligence services found that the voting machines used were vulnerable to hacking.

Parliament adopted procedural rules for the election of a deputy chairman and members of the Anticorruption Body.

The proposals contain written motives that justify the high professional and moral qualities of the candidates.

The hearings of the candidates are held at an open meeting of the Commission for Combating Corruption, Conflict of Interest and Parliamentary Ethics.

Norway’s parliament is set to vote today on a motion of no confidence in the justice minister, and the center-right government is expected to resign if it is passed.

Voter turnout in the Russian presidential election reached 67.4% as of 6.52 a.m. Moscow Time, Russia's Central Election Commission reported.

The Central Election Commission continues counting the votes on Monday.

Russia's incumbent head of state Vladimir Putin has garnered 76.67% of the vote in the March 18 election with 99.79% of the ballots counted.

Slovak lawmakers will hold a no-confidence vote on March 19 against the three-party coalition government, which has been struggling since the killing of a journalist probing alleged political corruption.

BELGRADE - The voter turnout in Sunday's elections for the Belgrade city assembly was 7.24 pct by 10 am and the voting is underway without any problems for the time being, president of the City Electoral Commission Zoran Lukic said, denying allegations about subsequent voter registration at a polling station in the municipality of Mladenovac.

BELGRADE - The polling stations for the Belgrade local elections closed at 8 pm on Sunday.

Only those voters who were still at the polling stations at the time of the closure were allowed to vote.

Ahead of the elections in the Serbian capital scheduled for March 4, Serbia's outdated voting system has one advantage: it is immune from potential hack attacks, experts say.

"The most susceptible system to hacking is the e-voting system, which Serbia doesn't have and will not have any time soon," Bojan Klacar, from the Center for Free Elections and Democracy, CeSid, told BIRN.

Bulgaria’s ruling coalition has survived a no-confidence vote called by the opposition, which accused the government of failing to deal with widespread corruption.