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Morocco's brand-new "Parallel Youth Government" is bringing young people together to lead what they are calling the "battle for reform".

The minister in charge of relations with Parliament and civil society, Lahbib Choubani, described the initiative from the Moroccan Youth Forum is a "unique" experiment in the Arab world.

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Keizer Mayor Lore Christopher recently returned from a trip to Pristina, Kosovo. But it wasn’t on some international trade mission. (And the city didn’t pay for her trip.)

She was there in her role as human resources director for the Oregon State Legislature. The relatively new government in Kosovo is, in many ways, still building from the ground up.

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In the 2010 parliamentary elections in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his State of Law Coalition emerged as the head of government over rival Ayad Allawi and the Iraqiyya Party, which had won the election by a slim majority of two seats.

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The electoral processes in Angola are vital instruments for consolidation of peace, national reconciliation and the establishment of a democratic and law abiding State.

This was said by the former chairman of Bar, Inglês Pinto, during a conference on "the path of the 2012 general elections", running from 5-6 June.

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Egypt’s trial of employees of pro-democracy groups accused of illegally receiving foreign funds has been postponed to next month to hear government officials testify, and it will be closed to the media, one of the defendants said Tuesday.

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During a phone conversation last week, a friend of mine who once interned in the offices of a former State Senator said to me: “Hey Darren, I have never been to Africa before, how does the congress or parliament work there?”

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Voters were proving they are less likely to buy into lofty political promises and past achievements and were more interested in action and the betterment of their future, the organisers of nationwide commune election debates said yesterday.