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There are 290 seats in the Iranian Majlis, with members serving four-year terms. The chamber is officially led by a speaker. There are no political parties as such; instead, blocs or factions can emerge. The Parliament is dominated by "conservatives" and "principlists", a term usually applied to the political wave since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005.

If you know nothing about Iran, check this link before checking Jad's http://nerdcrunch.com/2011/05/20/how-iran-political-system-works/

for more details, check this one http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8051750.stm

As Crowley points out, Mitt Romney was pretty well-poised to seize on Obama's open mic moment, in which he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'd have "more flexibility" on missile defense after his re-election. Romney dug in on the issue Monday, hammering the White House on the stump and calling Russia "without question our number one geopolitical foe" on CNN.

François Hollande, the leftwing French presidential frontrunner, is to stage a high-profile campaign visit to London aimed at boosting his international profile and explaining his drive to rein in the excesses of world finance. The former Socialist party leader, who has never served in government, is engaged in an increasingly bruising election fight with Nicolas Sarkozy before the first-round vote in April.

Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in Russia's presidential election, which the opposition and independent observers say has been marred by widespread violations. Putin addressed a rally of tens of thousands of his supporters just outside the Kremlin, thanking his supporters for helping foil foreign plots aimed at weakening the country.

٠ يوم مرّوا من ١٠٠ يوم الوعود التي تحققت : ٠ من أصل ٦٤ هذه محاولة لتوثيق ومراقبة أداء الرئيس المصري المنتخب محمد مرسي وفيها سيتم مراقبة ماتم انجازه وفق ما أقرّه د.محمد مرسي في برنامجه أول مائة يوم.

Some data related to the effect of media on voters

Primary elections in Mississippi and Alabama Tuesday are giving Mitt Romney an opportunity to extend his lead in the Republican presidential race by winning in Southern contests that he has characterized as "a bit of an away game." Voting was under way Tuesday in the two states, with polls set to close at 8 p.m.

REUTERS - President Nicolas Sarkozy leads his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande for the first time in an opinion poll on Tuesday for round one of France's presidential election, but is still shown losing in the second round. The Ifop/Fiducial poll put support for Sarkozy at 28.5 percent in the first round on April 22, up from 27 percent at the end of February.

Thank God.

Interesting comparison between Russian Elections and Kony 2012!

His plan is to lay a crafty trap, according to political analyst Stéphane Rozès. Struggling to catch frontrunner François Hollande, Sarkozy is seeking to "dramatise" the election. "He is saying in substance: 'In May, it will be more or chaos,'" Rozès tells Europe1.

By Gareth Jones and Alice Baghdjian BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans resoundingly elected Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor and human rights activist from communist East Germany, as president of the European Union's largest country on Sunday, posing a potential political headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

According to an opinion poll, 80% trust Gauck, yet two thirds think he'd be an "uncomfortable" president for the country's political parties.

I had no idea Germany was even electing a new president, so I was totally surprised when I read news headlines today morning.

A Youth Economic Forum club event in collaboration with the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform Wednesday at 6pm Charles Hostler Auditorium

This is a gret web platform to follow the US presidential elections. Check it out!

All you need to know about the 2012 French Presidential Elections

Obama's humor once again

And this isn't the first time that a dog is the subject of the American presidential campaign trail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fala_(dog) (Scroll down to "Fala Speech")

BE A MAN. VOTE FOR PUTIN. definitely writing a position paper about this.

"But a law passed in 2007 that was intended to keep campaigning orderly and clean - it bans the Mexican equivalent of political action committees, limits spending, regulates language in advertisements and tightens the official campaign period to just 89 days - has been undercut by the unpredictable and uncontrollable Web."