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Local activists and journalists called this blocking a dress rehearsal before the election.

Spain finds itself in the line of fire by the markets ahead of the parliamentary elections on Sunday.

Selective inspections by the Public Revenue Service targeting NGOs that began just before the elections have continued.

Events in the days leading up to America s presidential election provided a stark illustration of the struggle.

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She remembers a cab ride in Boston before the 2016 election.

That was one of the primary questions debated in the run up to the recent elections in Iran.

The fear that the pro Syrian and pro Iranian March 8 alliance might secure a victory was palpable prior to the vote.

It was clear before the January 2006 elections that Hamas was heading toward a victory.

If there hadn't been a split in the party just before elections, we'd have won.

Rouhani also resisted pressure from hardliners to ban Telegram ahead of the March 2016 parliamentary elections and the May 2017 presidential and local council elections.

The infighting among conservatives and within the IRGC increased in the last few days before the election.

Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

LJ user grebeniuk did a survey of sorts on the eve of the election, eavesdropping on and talking to young people.

Yesterday, October 29, was the so called Silence Day in Kyrgyzstan, the last day before the presidential elections.

Before the Duma election, however, Putin jeopardized this last vestige of responsible economic policy. Currently, Russia s greatest economic concern is growing inflationary pressure, driven especially by food prices.

And, by holding a major portfolio, a junior partner can avoid marginalization and strengthen its position for the next election.

Before the Duma election, however, Putin jeopardized this last vestige of responsible economic policy.

President Karzai does not want any foreign controls, particularly on the occasion of the elections in April 2014.

Article 19's report assesses how this has had an effect on freedoms online before the upcoming election.

The case of neighbouring Guinea Bissau, where a blood bath has just taken place ahead of general elections, should serve as a warning.

Bolsonaro has been leading in the polls ahead of the country's 2018 presidential elections, doing especially well among the middle upper classes.

However, it is not always evident when people and parties stand for election what they are going to do if they win.

It all smacks of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovich and his supporters to rid themselves of a powerful opponent before the next election.

It all smacks of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovych and his supporters to rid themselves of a powerful opponent before the next election.

But despite the smiles for the cameras, few here are convinced especially now, just before parliamentary elections.

In 2007, the AKP government briefly seemed interested in a new constitution, having weathered threats of a military coup just before the elections.

Little wonder that, with mid term congressional elections coming in November, Americans are angrily asking why the government s hyper aggressive stimulus policies have not turned things around.

In the weeks leading up to our arrest, they accused us of planning a color revolution following the national election using their media.

In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.

Since May 15, people in Spain have taken the streets to demand democracy in advance the upcoming elections, with thousands camping out in different cities.

Agency One, meanwhile, is responsible for a series of racist viral videos meant to help Sergei Sobyanin s recent Moscow mayoral campaign.

This is why they should commit their cruelest deeds in the first year and soften up as the next election approaches.

A few months before the election, neither of the two main political currents, conservative and reformist, has settled on its candidate.

And those of us sequestered in our cardboard boxes became subject to choices and uncertainties which mirrored those being experienced by the city itself.

Removing Berezovsky just before presidential elections would be a good publicity stunt, and a way of silencing the unwanted witnesses of Yeltsin's entourage.

This post was written by Mahsa Alimardani as part of a larger Article 19 report on the state of Internet freedoms prior to the 19 May Iranian presidential elections.

But his party, the Civic Democrats (ODS), lost the June 1998 elections to the Social Democrats (CSSD), whom Klaus vilified before the elections as a threat to democracy.

Doing so might well mean a retreat from the pre election banning of candidates, and would demonstrate a maturity among the Shia political elites that they have not yet shown.

On January 23, 2015, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon addressed his country's parliament for the last time before elections in the country scheduled for March 2015.

When I predicted Hamas s victory before the election, Fatah s campaign manager replied, Everyone will vote for Abbas and everything will be all right.

Anything that smacks of temporizing and appeasement will further inflame the public a few months before national elections are due.

Congress will be in session only briefly before the election, and a supplemental appropriation will pass only if President Bush pursues it vigorously as a bipartisan measure.

While there has been talk of the DPJ simply absorbing the much smaller Isshin no To, it's likely an entirely new party, with new branding will emerge before the summer elections.