Abbas will now bask in the glow of having been elected.

There can be no doubt that Abbas was democratically elected.

He resigned only after winning election to parliament.

Either way, the selection process would benefit from greater transparency.

But the honeymoon period is coming to an end.

Now that Trump has been elected President, the outlook for Japan has become extremely challenging.

FFP was conceived by Michel Platini after his election as UEFA president in 2007.

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, it will be extremely difficult to ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Shortly after his election, he travelled to Cyprus, Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.

That night he died, on the 22nd day after his election.

Interestingly, all the available measures of actual corruption were already declining before the Kaczyński twins were elected.

The decision is consistent with the way Sarkozy has governed since his election in 2007.

All parties receiving more than 2 of the votes are represented in parliament.

Now, with the election of Evo Morales, the main source of Petrobras s natural gas has suddenly been nationalized.

Such an alliance would make Yushchenko's rule, if he wins, more difficult and he knows it. So he is cagey about plans to confront the oligarchs.

His first return visit to his native country soon afterwards showed to all the world the new Pope's power.

The IMF, for a change, did a good job, providing interim financing and throwing its political backing behind Lula after the elections.

When George Bush was elected, he claimed that tax cuts for the rich would cure all the economy s ailments.

Since Nigeria's independence in 1960, never has there been such a groundswell of optimism in our collective ability to resurrect the crippled and sleeping giant of a nation and begin to position it to achieve its manifest destiny of being the voice of and leading Africa and the black world, read a recent editorial by Nigeria's Business Day about the country's euphoria following Buhari's election.

At the time of his election he was archdeacon of the Roman Church, an important role in governing the see.

If, during this dialogue, a consensus is reached on the need to elect a new president, so much the better.

Indeed, another necessary component of such reforms is the adoption of medium sized to large sized districts for the election of national legislators.

The Islamic Republic s first president, Abolhassan Bani Sadr, was dismissed from office a year after his election.

Soon after Kennedy assumed the presidency in 1961, he was informed by the CIA of its plot to overthrow Fidel Castro.

Bush's election program promised big tax cuts, which he followed through on.

Clement IV, who was in France at the time of his election, was compelled to enter Italy in disguise.

PRINCETON The astonishing story of Barack Obama s election as president has already done much to restore America s global image.

The roadmap even dangles the carrot of cabinet posts and provincial governorships to prominent Taliban figures.

(c) To identify and submit regularly more women candidates for appointment or election to intergovernmental, expert and treaty bodies

Reid says Clinton will stick with Garland as Supreme Court nominee if elected

After Havel's election as president, first of Czechoslovakia and then the Czech Republic, Reed visited him in Prague.

First, the popular and parliamentary majority in Lebanon must declare that no solution is possible without the election of a new president.

PRAGUE Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and alarming deterioration in its democratic framework.

Since his election in 1998, Chávez has made confrontation and incitement to violence his primary political tools.

A new parliament will be convened on June 2 to elect a national government to succeed the outgoing administration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

(c) To identify and submit regularly more women candidates for appointment or election to intergovernmental, expert and treaty bodies

Accordingly, 94 votes constitute an absolute majority in the General Assembly for the purpose of electing judges of the International Tribunal.

In anticipation of the traditional 100 days in office, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu wrote an op ed that stated that Buhari's government cannot be judged in 100 days .

Still, it was there where 82 years before, a black woman took office after being elected through popular vote.

The immediate consequence of Trump's election was endaka (円高), or a surge in the Japanese yen that cripples Japan's export focused economy.

WASHINGTON, DC June 12 marks the first anniversary of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s disputed re election as Iran s president.

One year after he was re elected in a landslide, Thailand s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been forced to dissolve the National Assembly and call a snap election.

Breaking the impasse requires restoring political legitimacy by electing a president who, having promised reform, gains a mandate to deliver it.

Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president.

The annual military budget, which has increased by 150 billion since Bush took office, will need to be cut in coming years to get the budget under control