Belarus leader wins mandate for new term
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Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, has won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official says.
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BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romanian centrist Traian Basescu scored an upset presidential win yesterday and vowed to replace the ruling ex-communists with a reformist team in the run-up to European Union entry in 2007.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarusians approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Comission announced Monday, allowing the authoritarian leader of this ex-Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday he won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote process was marred by violations and thousands of people protested the outcome.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum asking voters to remove term limits so he can seek five more years in office, a change that will almost certainly isolate him even more from foreign governments that have condemned his authoritarian rule.
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Belarusian voters approved a referendum to scrap presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission chief said Monday, citing partial results.
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko declared victory Monday in Ukraine's fiercely contested presidential election, telling thousands of supporters they had taken their country to a new political era.
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President Bush yesterday claimed a national mandate, saying he earned &quot;political capital&quot; with a re-election victory that gave him a record 59 million votes - and intends to use it to press
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MINSK, Belarus -- Belarusians overwhelmingly approved a referendum on scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission announced today, allowing the authoritarian leader of this former Soviet republic to seek a new term in 2006.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarussian President Alexander  Lukashenko, viewed in the West as Europe's last hard-line  leader, got the go-ahead on Monday to run for another term  while the country's beleaguered opposition was shut out of  parliament.
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MINSK, Belarus  - Belarusian voters approved a referendum to scrap presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission chief said Monday, citing partial results. Ending the limits would allow authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko to seek a new term in 2006.
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SLOVENIA'S parliament elected centrist leader Janez Jansa as new prime minister today, giving him a clear mandate to form a ruling coalition after elections last month.
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The government of Belarus decided to respond to the Western criticism. When the results of the US presidential election were exposed, the Belarus Foreign Ministry released a statement, in which Bush's win was ...
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A look at Belarus, where voters decide on Sunday whether to abolish presidential term limits and allow the authoritarian president to run for a third term in 2006.
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Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko has called the Belarus Democracy Act passed by U.S. Congress stupid pressure on the CIS state.
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The president of Belarus, confident of  victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised  to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the  West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.