Suu Kyi's supporters said the trial was meant to keep her confined so she cannot participate in the general elections that the junta has scheduled for next year.
Not so: in New Zealand an act enfranchising women received the governor's assent in September 1893, and in the general elections later that year women exercised the vote.
But Najib was weakened by the razor-thin margin with which he kept his seat in the general elections, and Razaleigh disappointed by failing to deliver his native Kelantan to UMNO.
The Democrats' primary victories in both races all but guarantee a winner in the general elections, as Democratic voters dominate in the districts, and the Republicans running in the races aren't widely known.
There has again been speculation about the revival of a "third front" - a loose alliance of regional parties - to take on the ruling Congress party and the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the general elections.
However, in the General elections of December 6th 2009, President Morales won 63%% of the popular vote and his party achieved 85 out of 130 seats in the House of Deputies and 25 of 36 seats in the Senate.
In the last general elections in 2009, the party set up a digital war room.
In New Jersey, the Reform Party hopes to succeed with a suit challenging a requirement that prospective political parties get 10% of the cumulative vote in the General Assembly elections before they can be designated as political parties in the state.
Many analysts - and party supporters - then said the 42-year-old leader's elevation was a step forward in nominating him as the party's candidate in the 2014 general elections.
Yau Yau first rebelled against Juba after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in the 2010 general elections.
In the 1991 general elections, the opposition went from one to four seats, won 38% of the vote, and ousted a PAP minister, a relative victory.
With Ghanem out of the picture, the anti-Syrian forces lost the parliamentary majority of 72 out of 128 seats that they won in the 2005 general elections.
The party said on their website that the latest announcement was aimed "squarely at the SDP's efforts to harness the new technology to advance its platform in the upcoming general elections".
"At the request of the secretary-general, the Myanmar government is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian grounds and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections, " he said.
CNN: Myanmar opposition skeptical of government's amnesty claim
Mr Bush, 57, has been in power since the UDP won general elections in 2009 and also held the posts of minister of finance, tourism and development.
While the then Margaret Roberts lost out when she contested the parliamentary seat of Dartford in the 1950 and 1951 general elections, Mr Sharp unsuccessfully fought the Barking seat just across the Thames in 1987.
That is not good news for a government which faces a string of key state elections this year in the run-up to general elections, due in 2009.
Estonia's been keen on the idea of voting via the internet since 2001 and became the first country in the world to hold legit general elections when they implemented the remote e-voting process locally in 2005.
In the event, the centre-left scooped up only 31% less than in the 2001 general or the 1999 European elections.
Candidates in the municipal and general elections to be held over the next year have already been threatened with attack.
It is not official, but it is clear that the first salvos in the run-up to the general elections are being fired.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since 1985, portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been in power since the mid-1980s, has portrayed the U.N. recognition as a national triumph in the run-up to the general elections.
Each Democratic state party is allocated a number of delegates based on a complicated formula that takes into account the state's electoral votes and the strength of support for Democratic presidential candidates in the last three general elections.
But the Greens' freefall in the polls this weekend, leaves the ruling coalition looking fragile, and the Free Democrats are already positioning themselves to make a move to replace them in the federal coalition following the 2002 general elections.
We all get in the run up to general elections hundreds and hundreds of requests to fill in questionnaires, to sign declarations, we could spend our time doing nothing else, a lot of MPs quite honourably take the view, that's it, they, they just don't engage in that.
It is not the first time the heir apparent of India's powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has spoken about his disinclination to become the prime minister in the event of his party winning the general elections.
These include the stark decline in turnout at general elections concentrated at the bottom of the social scale and the creeping rise, in some places, of the far-right British National Party.
Mann said the plot was rushed through before the 2004 general elections in Spain, in case the government of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was defeated, Reuters news agency reported.
The scandal was a major reason for the defeat of the Congress in general elections last May.
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