The ruling party's Felipe Calderon won the official count in Mexico's disputed presidential race Thursday, a come-from-behind victory for the stiff technocrat. But his leftist rival refused to concede and said he'd fight the results in court. Complete Story
Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon built an insurmountable lead in Mexico's presidential vote count Thursday, but his leftist rival vowed to challenge the results in court.
Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski conceded defeat Thursday to the nationalist opposition in Macedonia's parliamentary elections, a vote considered crucial for the tiny Balkan nation's aspirations to join the European Union and NATO.
As Mexico launched the official recount of presidential vote tallies Wednesday, conservative Felipe Calderon insisted his slim lead from a preliminary count would hold, and said he would be willing to include his leftist rival in his Cabinet as a show of unity.
A review of Mexico's closest presidential race in history Wednesday is a key test for an electoral system that helped reverse decades of ballot-rigging and has been championed as an example for emerging democracies.
A day before crucial parliamentary elections, Macedonia's restive ethnic Albanian minority remains deeply divided on the pace of reforms in a country where ethnic and political tensions remain a potential flashpoint in Europe.
Mexico's leftist party demanded Tuesday that electoral officials recount every vote cast in the country's closest presidential race ever, claiming the balloting was manipulated and renewing fears that its fiery candidate will launch massive street protests if he doesn't get his way.
Mexico's young democracy faced its greatest test yet Monday as the pro-business Felipe Calderon declared himself president-elect with a 400,000-vote advantage. His leftist rival alleged ballot irregularities and pledged to use all "legal means" to challenge the apparent outcome.
Two bitter rivals declared themselves Mexico's next president Monday as a preliminary tally showed the ruling-party candidate with a razor-thin lead, sparking fears of violence and financial turmoil.
Mexico's presidential election was too close to call Sunday with voters bitterly divided between a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative warning his rival's free-spending proposals threaten the economy.
The leader of about 70,000 striking teachers in southern Oaxaca state said Friday they won't interfere with Mexico's July 2 presidential election, and promised to meet with a civic commission to try to resolve their pay demands.
Mexico's two leading presidential candidates are running about even nine days before the election, according to two polls released Friday, the last day voter surveys are permitted.
Republican senators weighing a 2008 presidential bid united behind President Bush's Iraq policy, while potential Democratic candidates favored troop withdrawals but split over a deadline for ending the U.S. military's combat presence.
A state senator who wants to be Kansas' top election official was fined $5,000 Thursday for illegally soliciting campaign contributions from lobbyists — her second fine for the offense in less than a year.
Slovakia's opposition leftist party won parliamentary elections, tapping into widespread public discontent over eight years of austere economic reforms, authorities said Sunday.
Memo to election supervisors: Make sure the voting machines are set at zero before sending them to polling places.
President Bush predicted on Wednesday that Republicans will maintain majority control of the House and Senate this November despite polls showing voters favor putting Democrats in charge.
Mexico's Roman Catholic Church on Monday urged voters to participate in the July 2 presidential election and asked the candidates to run clean campaigns.
Congo's president told the U.N. Security Council on Monday he would do his utmost to stop political intimidation and incitement of hatred during campaigning for the country's first national elections in more than four decades, diplomats said.
President Bush is almost midway through his second term and Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick is in the last months of her final term, but the elections that got them there are still the subject of contention in Ohio courts and political circles.
The presidency is up for grabs. Congress is anybody's guess. But when it comes to Mexico's business world, the big boys still rule.
A list of Mexico's richest people, as estimated by Forbes magazine. Listings include rank among the rest of the world's billionaires, name, age, wealth and source of the money.
The top contenders in Mexico's tight presidential race took to the airwaves on Wednesday, jousting for a lead one day after a debate that left the candidates in a dead heat.
Czech opposition leader Mirk Topolanek, whose party narrowly won the weekend's parliamentary elections, said Monday he would seek a governing coalition.
The center-right opposition Civic Democratic Party won the Czech parliamentary elections but will have to form a coalition government, according to preliminary results released by the government Saturday.