Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

Since a national interpretation cannot be avoided it is unfortunate that the elections were not held in a way to maximize party responsibility and the educational effect of mass political participation.

Determined to find a course that would reunite the nation and not alienate the South, Lincoln urged that speedy elections under generous terms be held throughout the war.

That same year, first parliamentary and presidential elections were held.

The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

The Prime Minister and Cabinet is formed by the political party which gains a simple majority in the general elections held in Barbados.

These elections constitutionally must be held no longer than every five years apart, however elections can be called whenever the Government so chooses to seek a new mandate or loses a vote of no confidence in Parliament.

Each of the elections since independence in September 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule.

General elections are held at least every 5 years.

The next elections are going to be held in 2013.

In 1995, Burkina held its first multiparty municipal elections since independence.

Members serve four-year terms ; elections are held every four years, or earlier in the relatively rare case that the Bundestag is dissolved prematurely by the president.

Hopes were raised among the Balkan ethnicities of reforms and autonomy, and elections were held to form a representative, multi-ethnic, Ottoman parliament.

The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.

Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.

In 1991, following growing pressure for a more pluralistic society, multi-party elections were held for the first time.

However, in November 1992 elections were held for an enlarged Legislative Assembly and the Government was soundly defeated, casting doubt on constitutional reform.

After the elections, Mr. Jefferson was appointed Minister and leader of government business ; he also held the portfolios of Tourism, Aviation and Commerce in the Executive Council.

Internal and international pressure led to multi-party presidential elections being held in 1992.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Czech voters returned a split verdict in the June 2002 parliamentary elections, giving Social Democrats ( ČSSD ) and Communists majority, without any possibility to form a functioning government together due to Vladimír Špidla's strong anticommunism.

At the end of the Conference on 27 January 1960 it was announced that elections would be held in the Congo on 22 May 1960, and full independence granted on 30 June 1960.

The elections for Ethiopia's first popularly-chosen national parliament and regional legislatures were held in May and June 1995.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

In parliamentary elections on 20 June 1995 the NNP won 8 of the 15 seats and formed a government headed by Keith Mitchell.

In June 2005, presidential elections were held for the first time since the coup that deposed Ialá.

In the general elections of June 1996 the Democratic Party tried to win an absolute majority and manipulated the results.

In the 1997 unrest in Albania the general elections of June 1997 brought the Socialists and their allies to power.

Although Albania has made strides toward democratic reform and maintaining the rule of law, serious deficiencies in the electoral code remain to be addressed, as demonstrated in the June 2001 parliamentary elections.

On June 5, 2008, Ice-T jokingly stated that he would be voting for John McCain in the 2008 American elections.

The three-party coalition made up of the LDP, New Komeito, and the New Conservative Party maintained its majority in the Diet following the June 2000 Lower House elections.

In the 5 – 6 June 1993 elections, with a turnout of over 90 %, eight of Latvia's 23 registered political parties passed the four percent threshold to enter parliament.

Following the withdrawal of Syrian troops in April 2005, Lebanon held parliamentary elections in four rounds, from 29 May to 19 June.

In June 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father would agree to internationally monitored general elections, and would step down if he lost them, but his offer was refused by the rebels and ignored by the UN Security Council.

In the June 2004 parliamentary elections, the CSV won 24 seats, the LSAP 14, the DP 10, the Green Party 7, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party 5.

On June 15, 1999, Malawi held its second democratic elections.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

In National Assembly elections in June 1988, multiple UDPM candidates were permitted to contest each seat, and the regime organized nationwide conferences to consider how to implement democracy within the one-party framework.

Single-party presidential and legislative elections were held in June 1979, and Gen. Moussa Traoré received 99 % of the votes.

The MPRP won a clear majority ( 46 of 76 seats ) in legislative elections on June 29, 2008.

Though a minority of WASG members opposed the merger of the two parties scheduled for June 2007, the new party – The Left – was on Germany's political stage before the federal elections.

Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.