Latest Portugal Elections News
- Angolans vote in first election in 16 years 5 Sep 2008 13:32 GMT
... (Adds details on vote, election spokesman comment, background) By Henrique Almeida LUANDA, ... election to set an example after flawed ballots elsewhere in Africa and to demonstrate its ... (MPLA), which took power after independence from Portugal in 1975, is confident it will beat a ...
- Voting begins in Angola parliamentary election 5 Sep 2008 12:50 GMT
... Angolans vote in first election in 16 years LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolans ... election to set an example after flawed ballots elsewhere in Africa and to demonstrate its ... , which took power after independence from Portugal in 1975, is confident it will beat a ...
- Angolan election expected to maintain status quo 5 Sep 2008 12:28 GMT
... Angolan election expected to maintain status quo For the ... of the workforce is unemployed. The former Portuguese colony's last election ended in disaster, sparking ...
- Angola to hold first election in 16 years 5 Sep 2008 11:36 GMT
... for a new parliament in a two-day election starting Friday, the first poll in the ... ruled by the MPLA since independence from Portugal in 1975. Presidential elections are to be held ... competing in the elections in the former Portuguese colony are expected to have little impact ...
- Ruling MPLA set to keep it grip on oil-rich Angola 5 Sep 2008 10:19 GMT
... Ruling MPLA set to keep it grip on oil-rich ... downtown Luanda, on September 4. The former Portuguese colony is going for elections on September 5, for the first time ...
- Angola-Beijing relations weaken on eve of poll 5 Sep 2008 08:47 GMT
... LONG ignored by foreign investors except China, oil-rich Angola ... Luanda’s promise to hold its first peacetime election after a three-decade-long civil war – with ... Ana Christina Alves, a researcher at the Portuguese university, Institueo do Oriente. Since 2004, the ...
- American health-care system won't change as long as profit can be made 5 Sep 2008 05:32 GMT
... the health-care systems instituted in France, Spain, Portugal and Canada would be sub-optimal for Americans, even ... is an untapped resource during the present election cycle. If Channel 20 would broadcast campaign ...
- Angola: A vote for the books 5 Sep 2008 04:49 GMT
... Angolan elections will determine whether the civil war ends ... few months ago during a conference in Portugal: "Angola is living through a period of ... the years from investments by Chinese, French, Portuguese, Brazilian and other investors alike. According to ...
- Indian Christians, politics of violence in Orissa 5 Sep 2008 04:49 GMT
... Indian Christians, politics of violence in Orissa A wave ... later, colonial powers such as the British, Portuguese, Dutch and French made strenuous efforts to ... people are prosecuted. The next Indian general election is looming - it must be held ...
- Angola: Elections to Support Democracy in Africa 5 Sep 2008 04:37 GMT
... Posted to the web 4 September 2008 The chairman ... said that the holding of the legislative elections in Angola will give a great support ... the European Union (EU), African Union (AU), Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP), as well as ...
- Angola's leaders leave little to chance 5 Sep 2008 04:02 GMT
... Published: September 4 2008 19:21 | Last updated: ... to secure a commanding parliamentary majority in elections to be held on Friday and entrench ... need to be nice to the former Portuguese colony. The MPLA has vowed to build ...
- Oil-rich and impoverished, Angola votes 5 Sep 2008 02:08 GMT
... oil producers, will take part in parliamentary elections for the first time in 16 years ... 16 years today, with analysts forecasting peaceful balloting and a victory for the ruling MPLA ... years. From the fight for independence from Portugal, which concluded successfully in 1975, until Savimbi's death ...
- Angolans Heading to Polls For First Vote in 16 Years 5 Sep 2008 00:57 GMT
... grinding poverty that is holding its first election in 16 years on Friday. A dove ... decision to go ahead with the long-delayed balloting and to welcome Western election observers who ... conflict - first against the colonial power, Portugal, followed by civil war - malnutrition, poverty and ...
- Angolans Headed to Polls For First Vote in 16 Years 5 Sep 2008 00:49 GMT
... grinding poverty that is holding its first election in 16 years on Friday. A dove ... decision to go ahead with the long-delayed balloting and to welcome Western election observers who ... conflict - first against the colonial power, Portugal, followed by civil war - malnutrition, poverty and ...
- Judgement day for the African state that is getting rich quick 5 Sep 2008 00:10 GMT
... 1997. Today, in the country's first parliamentary election for 16 years, voters will decide whether ... than $2 (£1) a day. The former Portuguese colony's latest economic statistics are remarkable. Annual ... into question the credibility of the vote. Portugal's second-largest television channel, SIC, said its journalists ...
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