presidential elections

Elections Offer Little Solace to Sri Lanka’s Poor

By Amantha Perera
Priyantha Wakvitta is used to seeing his adopted city, Colombo, transform into a landscape of bright sparkling lights and window dressing towards the end of the year.

Stab in the Back for Painful Afghanistan Election Process?

By Karlos Zurutuza
A knife fight late Tuesday among several auditors at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) still inspecting the results of the presidential elections held in mid-June could be the stab in the back for what has been a painful election process.

Race for the Turkish Presidency Promises Suspense

By Jacques N. Couvas
The announcement this week of the personality chosen by Turkey’s opposition parties to run for the office of the President of the Republic has taken the majority of the Turks by surprise.

More Than Generals and Troglodytes in Egypt

By Baher Kamal
Unconsciously or not, most mainstream media and foreign correspondents here have been echoing Muslim Brotherhood voices by depicting Egypt's new president, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, as the general who led the July 2013 “military coup” against the “legitimately elected” Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi.