The relevant authorities in Malta, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and the Republic of France had informed the European Parliament of the election of Francis Zammit Dimech, Dennis Radtke, Jonathan Bullock, France Jamet and Nosheena Mobarik with effect from 24 June, 24 July, 1 August, 21 July and 8 September as replacements for Therese Comodini Cachia, Herbert Reul, Roger Helmer, Louis Aliot and Ian Duncan respectively.

These provisions were amended in three ways: to increase the time that the Chief Electoral Officer has to issue an advance ruling or interpretation note from 45 to 60 days, while also reducing the consultation period from 30 to 15 days; to require that the Chief Electoral Officer also consult with the Commissioner of Canada Elections before issuing an advance ruling or interpretation note; and to give advance rulings precedential value for the Chief Electoral Officer and the Commissioner of Canada Elections with respect to similar activities carried out by other political entities in order to better promote consistency in the applicati ...[+++]on.

However, we are now hearing rumours that there will be no proposal on the mid-term review of the budget until after the European Parliament elections and after the German federal election in September.

J. whereas on federal elections day EU Observers witnessed the same type of irregularities as on 14 April 2007, namely ballot box stuffing, alteration of official result forms, theft of sensitive polling materials, vote buying and under-age voting,

He has given commentary on the Alliance leadership race of 2000; the Calgary civic election of 1998; the Alberta provincial elections of 1989, 1993 and 1997; the Canadian federal elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000; the Alberta and federal government budgets of 1993, 1997, 2000 and 2001; the Quebec referendum of 1995; the Canadian federal election of 2000; and the Alberta provincial election of 2001.

This allowed the TMG to monitor the transition to civil rule mainly through the placing of 10.000 Nigerian electoral monitors for each of the three principal elections in 1999: not only on 20 February (National Assembly) and 27 February (Presidential) but also on 9 January (State Assembly).