(e) Promotion of free and democratic elections

The country held its first democratic elections in 1994.

And we will try to help make elections democratic.

Russian observers described the elections as democratic, in contradiction to the opposition politician.

Seldom do democratic elections give as clear a message as that in Greece.

LONDON Democratic elections cannot be described as competitions aimed at revealing which candidates tell the unvarnished truth.

In the words of one Finnish observer, it was a landmark in the history of democracy and democratic elections.

I should, however, like to point out that, because of the different time scale of the reports Mr Martin's and my own the Committee on Institutional Affairs think that there is some inconsistency between the attitude to the budgetary procedure expressed in the text produced by the Committee on Budgets and its proposed amendments to the report of the Committee on Institutional Affairs.

The Shia majority, once unleashed, viewed US backed democratic elections as a vehicle for imposing hegemonic control over the country.

Hong Kong people have always loved shopping, and if it helps further the cause of democratic elections, even better.

That dark ambition has gained urgency, because the country is due to hold its first democratic presidential election since the transition began in 2011.

Joy over the election s outcome, however, should not blind us to its failure to meet a series of ethical benchmarks for democratic choice.

(f) To ensure that the forthcoming parliamentary elections will be held consistent with the commitments of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international standards for democratic elections

I suggest that Parliament, the Council and the Commission should take effective measures in the economic field, since at the moment other measures are impossible, to put pressure on the Burmese Government to bring this state of affairs to an end.

Democratic weapons or weapons of democracy?

It was the result of democratic decisions.

Thirdly, they must have been elected at democratic elections, in other words these observers must already have a mandate conferred on them by elections.

And effective and democratic institutions to point all this in the right direction.

A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two thirds of African countries have had multi party democratic elections.

Days after the debut of a massive sit in in Hong Kong calling for genuine democratic elections, Beijing began accusing the grassroots movement of being a color revolution backed by the US government.

Occupy Central protesters, who have camped out for months in the center of Hong Kong, are trying a new tactic in their fight for genuine democratic elections going shopping.

Noting with appreciation the holding of democratic elections in October and November 2005, which culminated in the inauguration in January 2006 of the first democratically elected woman president in Africa,

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It's an affirmation of bipartisan support for their democratic aspirations.

Introducing democratic ideas into that country will be a slow process.

The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming.

In North Africa, two Islamist parties have come fully to power via democratic elections al Nahda (Renaissance) in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, and the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in Morocco, both of which now lead new coalition governments.

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Accountability Accountability is a core element of democratic structures .

In Ecuador, too, democratic institutions are under siege.

AN They all have strong democratic believes, and they try different ways of cooperation.

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Lincoln won the election.

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protect democratic institutions and the civilian population from any terrorist attack

(f) The statements made by the President of Turkmenistan in April 2005 on democratic reforms, and urges that those reforms be truly democratic, in line with established international norms

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