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LETTER N° 44

From 29 October to 04 of November

29

Russia

(Chita Oblast)

Gubernatorial election. Results : preliminary data cited by ITAR-TASS shows that Ravil Geniatulin has been re-elected as administration head of Chita Oblast, having won 57.5 % of the vote. His nearest rival, State Duma deputy Colonel-General Viktor Voitenko garnered only 16%.

29

Russia

(Aginskii Buryat)

Gubernatorial election. Results : RFE/RL Newsline reported that Bair Zhamsuev won re-election as administration head of the Aginskii Buryat Autonomous Okrug with 95% backing.

29

Chile

Nationwide municipal elections. Results : former presidential candidate Joaquín Lavín, won 61%of the votes in Santiago and became the new mayor of the capital city.

29

Brazil

Municipal runoff elections. Results : 26 million people cast their votes in 31 key cities in the second round of mayoral elections on Sunday.The PT took 13 of the 16 cities where it had candidates and won big Victories North And South.

The PT's Marta Suplicy, a former federal deputy garnered 59% of the vote with all ballots counted in the city of 10 million. Paulo Maluf, a conservative populist for the PPB and former Sao Paulo mayor, won 41%

César Maia, won 51,06% of the votes and was reelected in this gubernatorial in Rio de Janeiro against his main rival Luiz Paulo Conde who gained 48,94% of the votes.

Victory of João Paulo reelected in Recife with 50,38% of the votes against his main rival Roberto Magalhães who won 49,52% of the votes.

 

29 to 05

Egypt

Parliamentary elections - stage two of three. Results :Voters in the governorates of Gharbia, Damietta, Kafr el-Sheikh, Sharqia, North and South Sinai, the Red Sea, Aswan and Dakahlia went to the polls in the second stage of the three stage parliamentary elections. Winners were clear in only 18 of the 134 contested seats. Only 18 seats were won outright in this second-round voting in the administrative districts of Gharbia, Damietta, Kafr el-Sheikh, Sharqia, North and South Sinai, the Red Sea, Aswan and Dakahlia. Ten went to the ruling NDP (Hosni' Mubarak's party) and eight to independents.The remaining 116 will be decided in runoffs November 4 between the top two finishers for each seat, according to the Interior Ministry.The third and final stage of the elections would be held on November 8.

29

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan, Presidential election. Results : Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev has been re-elected leader of his tiny Central Asian country in a landslide victory, won 74.3 percent of all votes cast

29

Tanzania

Presidential and parliamentary elections. Results : early indications are that President Benjamin Mkapa- whose CCM party has dominated Tanzanian politics since independence- will win a second term in office.

Parliamentary elections. Results : the president's Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party was also expected to dominate the union parliament

29

Tanzania

(Zanzibar)

Tanzanian election officials Sunday canceled the vote in 16 of Zanzibar's 50 constituencies, citing irregularities in the second multi-party elections since independence in 1961.

 Zanzibar go the polls Sunday for the second time in a week for an election. Civic United Front (CUF) were certain to win.

29

Colombia

Colombia, Municipal elections. Results : Independents claimed mayoral races in four of Colombia's five largest cities Sunday, posing a challenge to the two traditional political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals. Their victories included Bogota, where Antanas Mockus, an eccentric former university professor who held the post from 1995-97, was named mayor.

In San Vicente del Caguan, the largest of five southern municipalities the FARC(Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,) controls openly an independent was elected mayor even though the rebels informally backed his opponent.

Only candidates Luis Pérez Gutiérrez and Guillermo Gaviria Correa from the Liberal Party to the gubernatorial in Antioquia and to the mayorship in Medellín, won the elections.

29

Belarus

Legislative elections, 2nd round in 53 districts. Results : Pro-government candidates swept Belarusian parliamentary runoff elections No opposition candidates won seats in the first round of voting on Oct. 15, and several of those who made it into the runoff dropped out, saying the election was rigged in favor of pro-Lukashenko candidates. Most opposition parties boycotted Sunday's runoff.Turnout in the second round was 52%.

29

Turkey

National holiday : Anniversary of the Declaration of the Republic (29 October 1923).

Shortly afterward, a conference opened at Lausanne to revise the Treaty of Sèvres. The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) established the present boundaries of Turkey, except for the disputed region of Alexandretta (Iskenderun). Turkey was to exercise full sovereign rights over its entire territory, except the Zone of the Straits, which was to remain demilitarized. Under a separate agreement negotiated at Lausanne in 1923, approximately 1.5 million Greeks living in Turkey were repatriated to Greece, and approximately 800,000 Turks living in Greece and Bulgaria were resettled in Turkey. Turkey was formally proclaimed a republic in 29 Oct., 1923, with Kemal as its first president.

29

Lebanon

New members of governement. Cabinet's policy drafting committee is chaired by Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri, with its deputy chairman being Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares. The committee also includes seven members: Minister of Displaced Marwan Hmadeh, Minister of Energy and Water Resources Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Beydoun, Minister of Finance Fouad Seniora, Minister of Defense Khalil Al-Hrawi, Minister of Interior Elias Al-Murr, Minister of Administrative Reform Fouad Al-Saad and Minister of Culture Ghassan Salameh.

31

United States

Former secretary of housing and urban development (1981-89) Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., died.

01

Algeria

National holiday : Anniversary of the Revolution, (1 November 1954).

A radical group of Muslims seceded in 1954 from Messali's MTLD, formed the National Liberation Front (FLN ; its military arm was called the National Liberation Army or ALN), and attacked police posts and other government offices in the Batna-Constantine region. In the following months the revolt gradually spread to other parts of the country. The MTLD was reorganized into the Algerian Nationalist Movement, which, led by Messali, unsuccessfully competed with&emdash;and at times fought against - the FLN.

01

Antigua and Barbuda

National holiday : Independence Day (1 November 1981, from UK).

Antigua, with Barbuda and Redonda as dependencies, became an associated state of the Commonwealth in 1967 and achieved full independence within the Commonwealth in 1981.

02

Philippines

Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas resigned from the cabinet being the second minister to quit the government after President Joseph Estrada was accused of links with gambling syndicates.

03

Dominica

National holiday : Independence Day (3 November 1978, from UK)

Hostilities between the British and the Caribs led to the virtual extinction of the Caribs, who number about 500 and occupy a reservation on the eastern side of the island. Dominica gained full independence in 1978.

03

Panama

National holiday : / Independence Day (3 November 1903, from Colombia ; became independent from Spain 28 November 1821)

The new state, proclaimed in Nov., 1903, was under the aegis of the United States, and the canal and American interests in it became the determinants of Panama's history. The Hay&endash;Bunau-Varilla Treaty with the United States established the Panama Canal Zone, controlled by the United States, and authorized U.S. intervention in Panamanian affairs if necessary to protect the zone.

03

Philippines

House Speaker Manuel Villar told reporters he and his group of congressmen were resigning from the ruling coalition and would support impeachment of Estrada.

03

Philippines

Senator President Franklin Drilon announces his resignation from President Joseph Estrada's ruling party during a news conference in Manila. Drilon resigned with two other senators over allegations that Estrada received millions of dollars in payoffs from illegal gambling lords.

04

Yugoslavia

The new Cabinet, proposed by President Vojislav Kostunica, won approval in both chambers of the federal parliament from the deputies of Yugoslavia's two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.The new government also includes members of the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, once allies of Milosevic, including Zizic.

Prime minister : Zoran Zizic (SNP), Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for international economic relations : Miroslav Labus, a prominent economist (DOS- Democratic Opposition of Serbia,) , Foreign Minister : Goran Svilanov leader of the DOS and Finance Minister : Dragisa Pesic (SNP)

04

Austria

Michael Schmid Minister of Infrastructure, Future, & Innovation from right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) resigned.