Turkey - Democracy at stake: Turkey orders Istanbul re-vote, posing questions for democracy

Turkey will hold fresh elections for the mayor of Istanbul after the ruling party of president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the first vote, in which an opposition MP beat Erdogan's candidate, contained errors.

Markets saw it as further confirmation of the country's slide into one-man rule, with the lira dropping against the US dollar. The decision could "severely damage" Turkish voters' "trust", the Council of Europe in Strasbourg said.
 
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TURKEY- Municipal Elections: Sore loser AKP leader Erdogan creates excuses not to accept Istanbul loss

The pot is declaring the kettle black. Turkey's Erdogan decries vote 'theft'

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Turkey Democracy under corrupt Erdogan is a farce: Erdogan's AKP party which in 2018 Presidential Elections called Erdogan the winnner in just three hours, is now asking for recount after recount in Municipal elections they lost

Corrupt Erdogan's AKP party demands another full vote re-count in Istanbul they lost.

 And the AKP calls that democracy? In the world where democracy is practiced it is usually called, being a sore loser, or worse, a lack of Democracy.

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Turkey: Erdogan and AKP show their real faces following losses at the Municipal elections in Turkey. Local and foreign observers call Government sore losers and abusers of their powers

Mr Erdogan and his AKP party are showing their real manipulative faces following their losses in major Turkish cities during the municipal elections in Turkey by not accepting most of the results.

Protests have been lodged by the EU and the US to Turkey for this undemocratic manipulative behavior by the Erdogan Government following the Municipal Elections

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TURKEY:Political Earthquake as Erdogans AKP gets clobbered in municipal elections

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TURKEY MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: Opposition sweeping all the big cities with AKP trying to fiddle with the votes in Istanbul

"Turkey's main opposition candidate says 'very clear' he won Istanbul" -

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The Netherlands: Local elections 2018: what the parties say about integration

Democracy In Action. Not only Dutch Armenians, but also Dutch Turks, Dutch Moroccans, Dutch Kurds, Dutch from Suriname and Antillean decent and many other nationalities, who immigrated to the Netherlands, will be running in the upcoming Dutch municipal elections on March 21.

In Amsterdam alone there are 28 parties participating in the municipal elections. The Dutch municipal elections of 2018 will be held in 335 municipalities in the Netherlands. This election will determine the composition of the municipal councils for the following four years.

Ahead of the March 21 local elections, Dutch News asked the main parties in the 10 Dutch cities with the biggest international populations to set out their position on three key issues: housing, integration and jobs.

Here are their answers to the question: ‘Local authorities have a key role to play in integrating new arrivals and ensuring they learn Dutch. How is your party planning to encourage the international community to integrate fully into local life?

Click here to read the complete report: Local elections 2018: what the parties say about integration DutchNews.nl

Netherlands: Municipal elections - Government coalition parties suffer major loss - Wilders PVV also among losers

The Dutch government coalition parties all suffered major losses in Wednesdays municipal elections.

With 77% of the votes counted the biggest loser was the government coalition party PVDA ( Labour party) which lost more than 243 council seats around the country ( dropping from 863 to 620 seats) . The other government coalition party VVD (Conservative Party) lost 104 council seats country-wide, dropping from 1002 to 898 seats

Biggest winners were the Socialist party  (SP) who gained 159 seats, going from 186 to 345 seats and the D66 ( Democratic party) which gained more than 200 seats - going from  414 to 614 seats.
Wilders right-wing Eurosceptic anti-Muslim party dropped  from a total of 17 to 16 seats.  

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