In March, following the Spanish elections at which the pro-American People's Party government was defeated, Latham sparked a new controversy by committing a Labor government to withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq by Christmas.

President Robinson sparked controversy in his term in office when he refused to appoint certain Senators recommended by the Prime Minister Basdeo Panday following the elections in 2000 and in 2001 when he appointed the Leader of the Opposition Patrick Manning to the position of Prime Minister after a tied election.

The 1989 Round Table Talks led to Solidarity's participation in the elections of 1989 ; its candidates ' striking victory sparked off a succession of peaceful transitions from Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe.

The insurgency was sparked by the rigging of state elections in 1987.

SS HB X was also one of the four key figures in the early reform period sparked Ciganjur Declaration urging the government to hold elections as soon as possible, because President BJ Habibie had neither Constitutional nor legal right to resume the presidency of Suharto who had just resigned.

In January 2007 ( before municipal elections, in which Polish party also participated ), Lithuanian TV program Savaitės komentarai on the TV3 station sparked a scandal claiming that the article was insulting the Lithuanians.

In the midst of the ongoing controversy and violence, however, the interim government planned legislative and executive elections.

His second-term elections marked the start of repeated political violence.

Further, in the aftermath of the national elections of December 2007 and the violence that subsequently engulfed the country, a commission of inquiry, the Waki Commission, commended its readiness and adjudged it to " have performed its duty well.

Becoming increasingly intolerant of opposition, Kaunda banned all parties except UNIP, following violence during the 1968 elections.

He removed the SLPP party from competitive politics in general elections, some believed, through the use of violence and intimidation.

Recent elections have seen decreasing election violence between the SLFP and the UNP, compared to the period 1977 – 1994.

* In Algeria a long period of violence in the north African country starts by the cancellation of the first ever held democratic elections by a group of high-ranking army officers.

According to other social contract theorists, citizens can withdraw their obligation to obey or change the leadership, through elections or other means including, when necessary, violence, when the government fails to secure their natural rights ( Locke ) or satisfy the best interest of society ( called the " general will " in Rousseau, who is more concerned with forming new governments than in overthrowing old ones ).

After the disputed election of 1876 resulted in the end of Reconstruction, Whites in the South regained political control of the region, after mounting intimidation and violence in the elections.

In the latter part of the 1980s, Natal was in a state of violence that only ended with the first democratic elections in 1994.

White Democrats calling themselves " Redeemers " regained control state by state, sometimes using fraud and violence to control state elections.

There was little or no combat, but rather a state of martial law in which the military closely supervised local government, supervised elections, and tried to protect office holders and freedmen from violence.

Widespread violence in Bangui followed the March 1981 elections, which took place following a French operation to depose Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1979 and replace him with David Dacko.

As a result of the spike in public violence and the political instability of the constitutional monarchy, a party of six members of France ’ s Legislative Assembly was assigned the task of overseeing elections.

Despite Taliban and other anti-government forces stating they intended to disrupt the elections, the polling day went by with minimal violence.

Following the violence at the aborted national elections of 1987, the 1990 elections were approached with caution.

Although his campaigning was limited due to fears of violence, elections passed without significant incident.

Critics claim electoral fraud, with voter suppression and violence, was used when the political machine did not work and elections were just a ritual to simulate the appearance of a democracy.

" Because of similar insurgent paramilitary violence in other areas of the state, especially during campaigns and elections, federal troops remained in Louisiana until 1877, when they were removed on orders of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.

It used violence against officeholders, running some out of town and killing others, and acted near elections to suppress black and white Republican voter turnout.

While the 2002 elections were hailed as being free of violence, they conferred little legitimacy on Sassou Nguesso's regime due to the lack of meaningful participation by opposition parties.

In the build-up to the April 2007 presidential elections there were renewed outbreaks of violence in February and March 2007.

Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by political violence on both sides.

During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

After the general elections, President General Yahya Khan attempted to negotiate with both Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami League to share power in the central government but talks were failed when President Yahya Khan authorized an armed operation ( codename Searchlight ) to attack the Awami League.

All over the country, the political parties had favored the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of Muslim League.

The nexus of Communist Party of Pakistan | Communist Party, Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal | Marxist-Leninist and Awami League won the 1954 elections for East Pakistan.

Uncomfortable with the workings of democratic ststem, unruliness in the East Pakistan parliamentary elections and the threat of Baloch separatism in West-Pakistan, Bengali President Iskandar Ali Mirza issued a proclamation that abolished all political parties in both West and East Pakistan, abrogated the two-year old constitution, and imposed the first martial law in the country on October 7, 1958.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

* 1958 – President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.

As oppose to tradition military dictators, Musharraf called for hold a nationwide political elections in the country after accepting the ruling of Supreme Court of Pakistan.

The One Unit program of Mohammad Ali Bogra was met with quiet the harsh opposition, civil unrest, and the threats of returning of Muslim League and Pakistan Socialist Party in the upcoming elections threatened the technocracy of Pakistan.

The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).

After the Awami League won the 1970 national elections, negotiations to form a new government floundered, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War by which the eastern wing of Pakistan seceded, to become Bangladesh.

On 16 November 1988, the first open political elections in more than a decade were held and Benazir Bhutto won major provinces of Pakistan and had the largest percentile for seats in the National Assembly — a lower house of Parliament.

Recently Pakistan and Greece have accepted this model to hold elections and overcome political stalemate.

Besides organizing elections, it would rewrite Afghanistan's constitution and oversee the return of the more than five million refugees who had fled to Pakistan and Iran.

In 1997, the XIII Amendment ( Thirteenth Amendment ) to the constitution of Pakistan was passed, stripping the President of the power to dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections, effectively reducing the Presidency to a ceremonial figurehead.

On assuming the presidency, General Yahya Khan acceded to popular demands by abolishing the one-unit system in West Pakistan and ordered general elections on the principle of one man, one vote.

But the results of the first and the last general elections in united Pakistan were simply disastrous from the standpoint of national unity and demonstrated the failure of national integration.

The Awami League had fought the elections on the basis of their six points formula, which committed them to restructure the existing federal system in order to ensure maximum political autonomy for East Pakistan.

In political terms, therefore, Pakistan as a nation stood divided as a result of the very first general elections in twenty-three years of its existence.