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5/23/2021 7:06:57 PM
Close to 600 hopefuls -- including 40 women -- have registered to be candidates to succeed moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who is constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term
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5/14/2021 4:57:53 PM
On Saturday and Sunday, Chileans will vote to pick 155 constitutional assembly members to draft a new constitution to replace Chile's charter, which was drafted during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Pinochet
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5/6/2021 10:07:00 AM
Syria’s Supreme Constitutional Court announced the first candidates for the country’s upcoming presidential elections last week
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5/3/2021 11:21:29 AM
Washington and the Syrian opposition have denounced the planned election as a farce designed to cement Assad's authoritarian rule
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4/28/2021 9:34:22 PM
Pedersen has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get the Syrian government and the opposition to start negotiating a new constitution
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4/28/2021 7:02:16 PM
Fifty one Syrians, including seven women, had submitted their names before a constitutional deadline passed on Wednesday, the official SANA news agency said
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4/18/2021 8:27:05 PM
Tunisia's 2014 constitution has until now been widely interpreted as putting the internal security forces and the Interior Ministry under the control of the prime minister
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4/11/2021 10:08:14 PM
Voters in Kyrgyzstan granted sweeping powers to President Sadyr Japarov in a constitutional referendum that will also allow him to run for re-election, preliminary results showed
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4/6/2021 3:25:59 PM
A smooth transition from autocratic rule to democracy in 2011 brought about a new constitution in 2014, which provided for a court to be set up within a year to adjudicate constitutional disputes
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4/5/2021 9:29:41 PM
Jordan's estranged Prince Hamza signed a letter saying "I place myself in the hands of his majesty the king... I will remain committed to the constitution of the dear Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan…''
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4/1/2021 10:58:11 AM
Social media posts showed copies of the constitution, real and symbolic, being burned at rallies and in homes during what one activist called a 'constitution bonfire ceremony'
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3/31/2021 3:14:46 PM
The draft law on elections was made in pursuance of constitutional amendments adopted in a nationwide referendum in July 2020
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3/24/2021 12:53:15 PM
Erdogan revealed the plan in a speech to a congress of his ruling AK Party
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3/21/2021 6:24:00 PM
The party now faces the risk of being shut down after Turkey's top public prosecutor accused it of links to the Kurdish militants in a filing with the Constitutional Court on Wednesday
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3/18/2021 5:02:55 PM
The US State Department said the ban would 'further undermine democracy in Turkey and the European Union said it was 'deeply concerned' since the party's closure 'would violate the rights of millions of voters in Turkey'
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3/18/2021 12:09:31 PM
The case, unveiled Wednesday and filed with the constitutional court, marks the culmination of a years-long crackdown against parliament's third largest party
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3/17/2021 8:46:00 PM
'We call on all the democratic forces, the social and political opposition, and on our people to join a common fight against this political coup,' the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said in a statement
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3/13/2021 10:14:38 AM
Somalia missed a deadline to hold an election by February 8, when President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known by his nickname Farmajo, was due to step down, sparking a constitutional crisis in the already-fragile state
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3/11/2021 3:35:24 PM
Onik Gasparyan is considered dismissed because Armenian President did neither sign his dismissal order nor did he apply to the constitutional court within the deadline prescribed by law, the PM office said in a statement
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3/10/2021 9:10:00 AM
After the TV interview, shown in the US on the eve of Commonwealth Day, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull cited it as another reason for the country to sever its constitutional ties to the British monarchy
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