It also marked the first time the Peronist movement was defeated in a free election.
Nor since the 1950s has Sao Paulo state in any free election chosen a conservative governor.
Ukrainians realized that a free election was impossible in the country after having experienced several fraudulent elections.
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Indeed, Islamists have won every free or partially free election in the region for the past six years.
Ms. ZEHRA: It's the kind of some cooperative arrangement whereby Benazir's party can be guaranteed a fair and free election.
Despite running a pork-free election campaign (while his rival Congress Party was promising voters free electricity), Naidu won by a landslide.
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The 48 political parties contesting Indonesia's first free election for more than 40 years began the final stage of their campaigns.
In 1990, the generals allowed a free election, foolishly believing that they were popular and that a government sympathetic to them would be elected.
An Islamist party called Nahda seems likely to have captured the lion's share of the votes cast in the first free election in Tunisia.
They look like being joined by Indonesia, whose new civilian government, formed after its first free election in 44 years, contains many former opposition leaders.
Earlier this year, the Palestinian people voted in a free election.
If the plan works, it will allow the prince to receive a royal pardon and return to take part in a free election in July.
So I think if there were free election, you'd get a group of politicians come into power, the Islamists holding a minor - very minor role.
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.
On elections, for me, the greatest of my achievements, eventually, seen by the Afghan people will be a proper, well-organized, interference-free election in which the Afghan people can elect their next president.
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Sunday's vote had added significance because the next chief executive election five years from now is supposed to be democratic, though Hong Kong residents are skeptical that China will allow a free election.
Should a bad agreement be signed this weekend, calling for disarming and disbanding the Resistance before Nicaragua holds a free election, President Bush should stick to his principles and refuse to be bound by it.
If President Kenyatta wins in a violence-free election accepted by Mr. Odinga, would the West really be willing to go as far as to pursue his arrest and threaten sanctions on Kenya as it has done with President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan?
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For all that, it is hard to see Mr Chernomyrdin triumphing, as he hopes, in a free presidential election.
Biden's visit followed Clinton's April trip to Beirut in which she called for an "open and free" election without outside interference -- a veiled reference to Iran and Syria.
Fifteen months after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians voted in their first free presidential election on May 23rd and 24th, with no opinion poll confidently predicting a winner among the three or four front-runners.
This in itself would be a momentous event, marking the first time in Egypt that a reasonably free presidential election had been held, producing a head of state legitimised by the popular will, albeit in a polarised society.
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.
Though his personal reputation is refreshingly scandal-free, his election would spell economic disaster.
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