Sargsyan wins widely anticipated reelection in Armenia

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kevin Lees

Just as Rafael Correa won his widely expected reelection as president of Ecuador, Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan (Սերժ Սարգսյան) has won reelection for another five-year term. Exit polls showed Sargsyan with around 58% of the vote to just 32% of the vote for his nearest challenger, Raffi Hovannisian (Րաֆֆի Հովհաննիսյան), an opposition leader and Armenia’s foreign minister from [...]

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Election week in the Caribbean

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kevin Lees

Two of the Caribbean’s more colorful island nations go to the polls this week in parliamentary elections — Grenada on Tuesday and Barbados on Thursday. In Grenada, prime minister Tillman Thomas is seeking reelection for his government, led by the National Democratic Congress (NDC), which holds 11 out of the 15 seats in the Grenadian House [...]

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Kenyatta, Ruto cleared to run in Kenyan election despite ICC woes

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kevin Lees

Friday’s ruling from the Kenyan High Court has — for now, at least, and through the duration of the presidential campaign, barring any last-minute intervention from Kenya’s supreme court — cleared the legal obstacles for Uhuru Kenyatta to run for president in the March 4 election. Kenyatta’s legal issues stem from Kenyatta’s indictment for crimes [...]

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First Past the Post: February 18

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Kevin Lees

East and South Asia The Shahbagh protests in Bangladesh (pictured above) have effected legal reform — the state will now be able to appeal a life sentence into a death sentence. Will Mehmood Khan Achakzai be the caretaker prime minister in Pakistan? Narendra Modi seems likelier than ever to lead the BJP’s 2014 campaign in India’s [...]

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