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COVID-19

Local government budget delays are impeding Nepal’s COVID-19 response

April 6, 2022 LPSAManager

Six months into the fiscal year 2021/22, 24 of Nepal’s 753 local governments have yet to approve their annual budget and plan, failing to deliver on what is arguably their most critical constitutional role. With […]

Asia

Local democracy or elected despotism in Punjab, Pakistan?

February 1, 2022 LPS Initiative

Less than a year after assuming power, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) fulfilled its promise of radically reforming local government legislation in Punjab. Punjab’s 2019 Local Government Act introduced a party-based directly elected mayoral system. Well established […]

Middle East & North Africa

Istanbul Elections Suggest Cracks In Support For Ruling Party

June 23, 2019 LPS Initiative

One important aspect of a decentralization is that it expands the space for political competition beyond the national stage, and provides an opportunity for opposition candidates to prove their worth to the electorate—for instance, as […]

Africa

Elections Rwanda Style

February 23, 2016 LPS Initiative

For entire month of February, Rwandans will continue with the process of voting their grassroots leaders. Voting officially began on Monday (February 22, 2016). This normally happens after every five years in all the 36,000 […]

Africa

Tanzania President asked to intervene in mayoral polls

December 22, 2015 Jamie Boex

Tanzanian opposition party Chadema yesterday urged newly elected CCM President John Magufuli to intervene in what they termed as a ‘defilement’ of democracy by the ruling party in mayoral elections especially in areas where the […]

Middle East & North Africa

A first: women voting and running in local Saudi elections

December 10, 2015 LPS Initiative

Saudi activist and women’s health researcher Hala Aldosari is excited about next weekend’s elections in Saudi Arabia. It will be the first time women will be able to stand side-by-side with men as candidates. Women will […]

Asia

How Many New Mayor Jokowis on December 9?

December 7, 2015 LPS Initiative

On December 9, 2015, Indonesians will elect nine provincial governors, 36 city mayors and 224 regents in the country’s first simultaneous local executive elections nationwide. Since the fall of long-term autocrat Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia […]

Africa

Elections in Tanzania reflect greater political competition

November 3, 2015 LPS Initiative

Elections were held on October 25, 1015, in the United Republic of Tanzania, with more than 12,000 candidates from Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar—including 1,039 women—running  for the Presidency, Parliament,the Zanzibar House of Representatives, and local District […]

Europe & Central Asia

As Ukraine Moves Toward Decentralization, Challenges Loom

November 3, 2015 LPS Initiative

On Sunday, October 25, Ukrainians went to the polls to elect mayors and representatives to municipal councils. Under normal circumstances, local elections would go more or less unnoticed by international observers, but with no elections […]

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