It's your duty to vote.

Perhaps Europeans could elect a president.

CDU intends to elect the European President by universal suffrage

Only 199,000 voters, some of them representatives from corporations, elect the legislators who fill these seats.

I originally thought this election would very dull, but it suddenly got very interesting. But in fact, women early on in Taiwan had already been dedicated to electioneering although reaching only to the vice presidential position and playing the complementary role to men.

Our Basic Law even allows for foreign nationals to be elected to one fifth of the seats in our legislature.

Today, September 11, 2011, Guatemalan citizens will elect local, municipal, legislative and executive authorities.

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the structures and to select the membership of their institutions in accordance with their own procedures.

It is hoped that these elections will be a peaceful and inclusive celebration of democracy, of the right to vote and to demand results from elected politicians.

China has yet to follow through on its second promise that Hong Kong would elect its chief executive by universal suffrage by 2017.

If the Palestinians, under Israeli occupation, can choose their own leaders, why can't the same happen in Cairo or Damascus, in Ryadh or Algiers?

I wish we could look forward in Europe to a similarly healthy democratic experience next month when voters throughout the European Union elect new members of the European Parliament.

CAMBRIDGE On November 4, Americans will elect their 44th president amidst the worst financial turmoil the country has known since the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Both candidates are United States senators with little experience as executives, so their ability to manage the crisis has become a central issue in the election.

Those who stayed behind began to vote in strange ways electing, for example, the successors of the old Communist parties that they had been glad to get rid of only a few years before.

Unlike many female top leaders in other Asian countries who secured their position through family ties, most reports stressed that Taiwan is posed to elect a woman president who climbed through government and party ranks on her own.

Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the candidates had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.

They offered to talk about a political compromise that would bring some new people into the Parliament, provided real radicals, like Jacek Kuron or myself, were kept out. But for us the legalization of Solidarity and its right to choose its own representatives were nonnegotiable demands and Lech Walesa held firm on this until the Communists relented.

But Putin's press policy does not add up to an argument that he ought not to be re elected next March, when he stands again.

But for us the legalization of Solidarity and its right to choose its own representatives were nonnegotiable demands and Lech Walesa held firm on this until the Communists relented.

And so when 425 million people finally won the right to choose their own governments, I was ecstatic, but I was also a touch worried about some of the nastier things lurking behind the wall.

(a) Decides, with effect from its third session, to elect at the end of its session its bureau for the subsequent session and to encourage it to play an active role in the preparation of the regular session as well as in possible intersessional meetings