Do you really trust them they will lead the transition to free and fair election?
In such a climate of intimidation, the prospects for a free and fair election are probably nil.
There is still some optimism here that Zimbabwe can pull off a free and fair election later this year.
"In Burma, we cannot expect a free and fair election, " was an understatement from a weary looking Dr Win.
It is hard to imagine a free and fair election within three months.
He wants the region and the UN to intervene to restore peace and conditions for a free and fair election.
"These two have tremendously enhanced the registration of women, " said Muddassir Rizvi, CEO of the Islamabad-based Free and Fair Election Network.
"If Mugabe's position that we need a free and fair election is a ruse, then he would have cheated me, " he is quoted as saying.
In the last two weeks, at least 30 people have been killed in some 20 incidents of electoral violence, Pakistan's Free and Fair Election Network says.
BBC: Pakistan's MQM party shuts Karachi offices after attack
Many cried at the empowerment of the new assembly, which represents the country's first body formed in a free and fair election in more than 47 years.
Unfortunately, it now appears that the ruling Sandinista government led by its presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega has no intention of permitting a truly free and fair election in Nicaragua.
None of this will be remembered, of course, if Mr Tsvangirai rallies and wins the presidency next year in a free and fair election and Mr Mugabe slips quietly into retirement.
"I have repeatedly said that my main competitor should have the opportunity to face me in a free and fair election, whose outcome is determined by the people of Kenya, " he said.
In a report entitled, This is No 'Free and Fair Election' in Nicaragua, the Center summarizes the extensive evidence of systematic election fraud being perpetrated by the Ortega government against the UNO opposition.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush Must Denounce Sandinista Election Fraud
It's rare when any political leader wins a 60% mandate in a free and fair election, which is why commentary on last week's Indonesian election has focused on the personal success of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Negotiations meant to ensure a free and fair election began last year and went on for months, but collapsed in February this year when Mr Mugabe set a date for the poll before a new constitution was in place.
Vice President Suleiman is in charge of a process in representing the Egyptian government to negotiate with those not in government in order to get us on a path toward an orderly transition that ends in a free and fair election.
He is also seen as the party's only chance, in a genuinely free and fair election, of defeating Morgan Tsvangirai, his popular prime minister and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has been Zanu-PF's partner for the past three years in a power-sharing government.
These include a call for a postponement of the election by 60-90 days, an independent assessment of alleged coercive behavior by the Front government and a tying of Western economic assistance to the correction of any such practices and the holding of a genuinely free and fair election.
Despite the fact that, in important respects, the process the Ortega government has used to guarantee a Sandinista victory is actually a parody of a "free and fair election, " the Richardson, Carter and OAS observer teams have clearly signalled that they are inclined to portray it as an honest one.
Should the internal opposition unite and threaten to win a free and fair election (were it to be held), the Sandinistas will claim that they are not obliged to permit such an election since the Resistance is in violation of the latest peace plan by remaining together and under arms.
If Mr Medvedev has liberal instincts, the best way to show them would be to run a free and fair presidential election.
The Brisbane meeting should see continued pressure on Mr Mugabe to meet minimum standards for a free and fair presidential election, which must be held by April.
Tests like Dr Mebane's one could provide monitors with quantitative estimates of exactly how free and fair an election has been, on which to base their qualitative judgment of whether that is indeed acceptable.
The Security Council this evening declared its support for a free and fair presidential election in Lebanon conducted according to Lebanese constitutional rules devised without foreign interference or influence and, in that connection, called upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon.
On the other hand I feel optimistic and happy to see, Somaliland's (my parents birthplace) fair and free election that took place on the 26th of June 2010.
The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously agreed to condemn the violence in Zimbabwe and said a free and fair run-off election would be "impossible".
So that would seem to suggest that the Commonwealth is going to basically be divided between, on the one hand, African countries, who feel that these elections were free and fair and no further action needs to be taken and on the other hand countries like Britain, like Australia, Canada and New Zealand who feel very much that this election was not free and fair.
" Rashid Qureshi, a spokesman for Musharraf, called the accusations "ridiculous" and said the election will be "free, fair and transparent.
CNN: Sources: Bhutto was to give U.S. lawmakers vote-rigging report
Remarkably in the circumstances parts of the West Bank and Gaza are a war zone, teeming with Israeli soldiers and armed Palestinians the election campaign has looked free and fair (see article).
应用推荐