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First-term Councillor Leland Cheung made a recommendation yesterday to check the legality of using a runoff election procedure in this year’s mayoral election to speed up the process. The proposal was unanimously passed...
...Doing it the way we’ve always done it has served us well in the past," Councillor Craig A. Kelley said. "However, I would like to find out whether [the runoff] is a legal option...
...make good on his promises of economic reform. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her predecessor Viktor Yanukovych--both seen as more Moscow-friendly--were the top vote getters, prompting Russia to unfreeze ties with the former Soviet republic. The two will face each other in a Feb. 7 runoff...
...Serbian President Boris Tadic, whose victory last year in a tight runoff election was seen as crucial to the country's further integration with Europe, submitted the application on a trip to Sweden, the country that currently holds the E.U. presidency. "This is indeed a great day for Serbia. This day represents a crossroads," Tadic said. "Today we are entering a stage which is very difficult, which demands deep and painful reforms." Swedish Prime Minster Fredrik Reinfeldt described the move as "a new beginning for Serbia," but warned, "the road to membership is long and demanding." (See pictures of riots...
Parker's opponent in the runoff was a fellow Democrat, Gene Locke, who was also familiar to voters. A lawyer and lobbyist for the city of Houston, he won the backing of Houston's business leadership. An African American, Locke could have pulled key support from the black community but ran a "pretty bad campaign," according to Murray. The late revelation that two members of his finance committee had supported Hotze's anti-gay PAC did not help Locke with moderate Republican voters, who saw the issue as not central to the vote. The business establishment, which originally felt that...