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4/20/2024 3:02:57 PM
Millions of Indians began voting in a six-week election that's a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country's leader.
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4/19/2024 12:24:48 PM
Millions of Indians began voting Friday in a six-week election that's a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country's leader.
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12/24/2023 10:02:50 PM
Chad's new constitution was approved by 86 percent of voters in a referendum held a week ago, the African country's electoral commission said Sunday, but opposition leaders challenged the figures.
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12/17/2023 5:28:04 PM
Polls opened in Chad on Sunday for a referendum on a new constitution, a vote seen as a key step toward elections and the return of civilian rule promised, but postponed, by the ruling military junta.
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9/30/2023 12:12:37 PM
Maldivians were voting Saturday in the runoff presidential election which has turned into a virtual referendum on which regional power — India or China — will have the biggest influence in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation.
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9/23/2023 7:29:31 PM
Hundreds of people waving European Union flags on Saturday rallied in central London calling for Britain to rejoin the bloc.
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9/9/2023 11:25:27 AM
Voting started in the Maldives presidential election Saturday, a virtual referendum over which regional power — India or China — will have the biggest influence in the Indian Ocean archipelago state.
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9/1/2023 3:37:19 PM
Kazakhstan's leader on Friday called for a referendum on the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Central Asian country marked by the legacy of devastating Soviet nuclear tests.
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8/23/2023 5:38:22 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron told his government Wednesday he was considering referendums to pass legislation and break the political deadlock caused by the country's hung parliament, several sources told AFP.
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8/13/2023 11:02:24 AM
Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to stave off a challenge from the political opposition.
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7/30/2023 2:02:04 PM
The Central African Republic began voting on Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that would allow President Faustin-Archange Touadera to seek a third term in a country which has endured several coups.
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7/8/2023 1:49:55 PM
Voters across Uzbekistan are preparing to exercise their democratic rights by heading to the polls Sunday in the early presidential elections, called by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev following the adoption of the new constitution through a referendum in May.
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7/5/2023 5:50:54 PM
Ethiopia's upper house of parliament on Wednesday approved the creation of a 12th regional state after the latest referendum for greater self-rule in Africa's second-most populous country.
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5/5/2023 8:01:33 PM
Mali's military junta announced Friday a referendum on a new constitution to be held on June 18 in a delayed step towards a return to civilian rule in the West African nation wracked by insurgency.
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5/1/2023 3:33:18 PM
Uzbekistan overwhelmingly approved constitutional changes in a tightly-controlled referendum that will allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to serve two more terms.
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4/30/2023 10:26:36 AM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dives Sunday into the final two-week stretch before a momentous election that has turned into a referendum on his two decades of divisive but transformative rule.
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4/18/2023 11:47:36 PM
Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday ruled out the holding of popular referendums on state policies.
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Egypt
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3/27/2023 11:53:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed the government on Monday to study the proposal made by the Board of Trustees of the National Dialogue to renew legislation that stipulates full judicial supervision over elections and referendums.
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Egypt
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3/27/2023 2:20:22 PM
The National Dialogue's Board of Trustees has called for amending the law governing the country's National Election Authority (NEA) to renew judicial supervision over all elections and referendums.
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11/23/2022 2:10:01 PM
Britain's highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by the devolved Scottish government in Edinburgh to hold a new referendum on independence without London's consent.
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