A controversial newcomer to Moroccan politics, the Authenticity and Modernity Party won the most seats in Friday's communal elections. Experts believe the results show that voters are regaining faith in politics.
According to the official results for the presidential elections in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reelected with a vast majority for a second turn in the first round of the elections.
Despite some incidents in Kabylie and protests by opposition parties who have questioned the official turnout figures, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won re-election with 90% of the vote.
The new Israeli Government with Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister and all the ministers.
On 10th of February 2009 Israelian voters elected their new parliament, the Knesset. Today the official election results were published.
Tehran - Mohammad Khatami, Iran's former moderate president, yesterday announced he would stand in the June presidential election as the country's beleaguered reformists attempt to deprive Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of a second term.
Beirut - Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt criticized the verbal attacks against Egypt and other Arab states and called for focusing on uniting the Palestinian factions in order to confront the Israeli aggression against Gaza.
By Imrane Binoual for Magharebia in Marrakech Liberal politicians from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania met for the first time in Marrakech last week to discuss accelerating the Arab Maghreb Union.
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