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In Pakistan, the President’s authority to set the election date following the dissolution of the National Assembly is defined in Article 48(5) of the Pakistani Constitution. According to this article, when the President dissolves the National Assembly on the advice of the Prime Minister, general elections must take place within 90 days from the date of dissolution. This provision ensures the swift filling of seats resulting from the assembly’s dissolution. On August 9, Pakistan’s President, Arif Alvi, dissolved the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament…

The European Parliament has recently been criticised by political parties, parliamentarians, and the European Parliament for a recent resolution that deals with the country’s future elections and the treatment of the opposition, calling it an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a “sovereign state”. The European Parliament unilaterally adopted a harsh and unintelligible resolution calling on Egypt to hold fair, free and just presidential elections and to stop suppressing opposition voices in the run-up to the elections. The resolution also criticises…

The word “Maldives”, for most readers will probably, firstly, mean “heaven on earth” (primarily a tourist one) and, secondly, lead to a question of perplexity: why does it appear at all (“in our crazy time”) in the publication, which discusses various aspects of the escalating situation in the geopolitical region, where the focus of the current stage of the “Big World Game” is shifting to? Nevertheless, this dwarf state with a total population of half a million people living on a group of coral islands that stretch from north…