But can a nation as troubled as Afghanistan carry out fair and free elections?
But in Serbia it now says free elections would be enough to end most sanctions.
The coalition government is currently led by the Islamist Ennahda party, which dominated Tunisia's first free elections.
Millions have cast their ballots -- some risking or giving their lives -- to vote in free elections.
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In 1975, Portugal held its first free elections for 50 years, the Socialist Party under Mario Soares won most seats.
Indonesia's first free elections since 1955 could prove that, in fact, democracy is just what a country in crisis needs.
What do you think the results of free elections in Pakistan, if be they it in January or February, will bring?
This eventually ended after foreign mediation led to a truce, policed by West African peacekeepers, and free elections in January 2000.
It has met with the opposition, and the opposition has felt that it is serious about moving towards fair and free elections.
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And Indonesia, with its first free elections for over 40 years due in June, is at least stumbling in the same direction.
Democracy, the summit recognised, is not just a matter of free elections.
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In 1994 he was chosen as president in Guinea-Bissau's first free elections.
The unrest in Egypt has settled, but the future there is not yet clear, as the military takes control on promises of free elections.
But at some Kabul polling stations, the ink apparently was not potent enough, according to Damaso Magbual, an observer from the Asian Network for Free Elections.
Until Wednesday, the White House position was that the U.S.-led coalition would not yield control of Iraq until free elections were held under a new Iraqi constitution.
And many Arabs in the region tell me they are angry that America only seems to support free elections when they produce the kind of leadership they support.
Should the United States put Pakistan on notice that our continuing financial support and weapons deliveries depend on genuinely free elections, the military, if not Musharaf, may listen.
It is heartening that in a recent poll by the Pew Research Centre, the top three reasons cited for America's success are the constitution, free elections and free enterprise.
This proposal not only seeks to deny the murderous Khmer Rouge a return to power, but would require the withdrawal of all foreign forces and the holding of free elections.
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The United States, the European Union and others are easing sanctions, allowing their citizens and businesses to directly invest in Myanmar after the ruling junta returned to civilian rule and allowed free elections.
Mr Zuma was prominent in promoting the ANC among Zulus who had voted for the Inkatha Freedom Party in the first free elections in 1994, and was consistently elected to senior ANC posts.
Given that Mr Shindler would be able to vote if he returned to live in the UK, it ruled that the current laws did not infringe the "very essence" of his rights to take part in free elections.
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Will it seriously influence the scorekeepers, let alone the corporate risk-takers, that Indonesia under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appeared to be cementing its order in free elections even as Thailand writhed in what is (albeit roughly) a republican-monarchist tussle?
And I very much appreciate the efforts that President Mills has taken not only to ensure fair and free elections, but also to root out corruption, increase transparency, make sure that government is working for the people of Ghana and not just for the few.
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In order for Egypt to have a bright future -- which I believe it can have -- the only thing that will work is moving a orderly transition process that begins right now, that engages all the parties, that leads to democratic practices, fair and free elections, a representative government that is responsive to the grievances of the Egyptian people.
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And given that this is the first major company to offer properly free union elections it cannot be free unions which caused that rise in wages.
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While the Center welcomes the apparently fair and free Czechoslovak elections of 8-9 June 1990, it believes that the United States and other democracies must remember that Czechoslovakia is still in a fragile -- and perhaps perilous -- process of institutionalizing democracy.
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