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Parliamentary elections. Senegal's National Electoral Commission has announced provisional results : Registered Voters : 2,802,253 / Voted : 1,888,911 / Spoiled ballots : 11,075 Recorded votes : 1,877,836 / Voter turnout rate : 67.41% SOPI Coalition 49,59% - 89 seats ; Alliance of Progressive Forces (AFP) 16,14 % - 11 seats ; Socialist Party (PS) 17,36% - 10 seats ; Union for Democratic Revival (URD) 3,67% - 3 seats ; AJ/PADS 4,05% - 2 seats ; Senegalese Liberal Party (PLS) 0,92% - 1 seat ; Party for Progress and Citizenhip (PPC) 0,91% - 1 seat ; Progress and Justice Alliance (APJ/JJ) 0,80% - 1 seat ; National Democratic Rally (RND) 0,71% - 1 seat and Party for Independence and Labour (PIT) 0,58% - 1 seat. |
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Costa Rica |
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PUSC Party primary election. Results : not available |
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Netherlands |
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Former prime minister (1971-73) Barend Willem Biesheuvel dies. Barend Willem Biesheuvel was born on 5 April 1920 at Haarlemmerliede, a village between Amsterdam and Haarlem. After completing his secondary education at local schools, he graduated in law at the Free University of Amsterdam in September 1945. For the next two years Mr Biesheuvel worked in Alkmaar as secretary to the Food Commissioner for the Province of North Holland. In 1947 he became secretary to the Foreign Division of the Agricultural Society (now the Agricultural Board). In 1952 Mr Biesheuvel became general secretary of the Dutch Protestant Farmers and Market Gardeners Union (CBTB) and in 1959 chairman of that organisation. Between 1956 and 1963 he represented the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) in the Lower House of Parliament. From 1957 to 1961 he held a seat on the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe and from 1961 to 1963 in the European Parliament. Finally, from 6 July 1971 to 11 May 1973, Mr Biesheuvel was Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs in the government that bore his name. |
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Macedonia |
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Defense Minister Ljuben Paunovski resigns. Born on 19 October, 1958, in Prilep. In 1984 graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy- History of Art and Archeology Desk, Skopje. 1982-1986: Editor of the "Studentski Zbor" University newspaper. 1987-1998: Journalist and Editor of the Culture and Arts Desk at the Macedonian Radio and Television. 1998: Counselor to the Mayor of the City of Skopje. December 1999 - July 2000: Minister of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia. July 2000 - : Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia. |
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India (Karnataka) |
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Elections to four city corporations, 32 city municipal councils, 76 town municipal councils and 36 town panchayats. Results : not available |
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Nigeria |
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National Assembly byelection and state assembly byelection Kebbi State. Results : not available |
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This week : VIPS-GOV. |
THIS WEEK'S STORY
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The first presidential inauguration In New York City, George Washington, the great military leader of the American Revolution, is inaugurated as the first president of the United States. In February 1789, all 69 presidential electors unanimously chose Washington to be the first U.S. president. In March, the new U.S. constitution officially took effect, and in April Congress formally sent word to Washington that he had won the presidency. He borrowed money to pay off his debts in Virginia and traveled to New York. On April 30, he came across the Hudson River in a specially built and decorated barge. The inaugural ceremony was performed on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street, and a large crowd cheered after he took the oath of office. The president then retired indoors to read Congress his inaugural address, a quiet speech in which he spoke of "the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." The evening celebration was opened and closed by 13 skyrockets and 13 cannons. As president, Washington sought to unite the nation and protect the interests of the new republic at home and abroad. Of his presidency, he said, "I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn in precedent." He successfully implemented executive authority, made good use of brilliant politicians such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in his cabinet, and quieted fears of presidential tyranny. In 1792, he was unanimously re-elected but four years later refused a third term. In 1797, he finally began a long-awaited retirement at his estate in Virginia. He died two years later. His friend Henry Lee provided a famous eulogy for the father of the United States: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." |
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