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Parliamentary Elections: Poland

(09/10/2011 to 09/10/2011)

Parliamentary elections to both the Sejm – the lower house of the Polish parliament – and the Senate will be held in Poland on 9 October 2011. The last election, in 2007, resulted in a Civic Platform–Polish People's Party government. All seats of both houses are up for re-election. Presidential elections are due in 2015.

Presidential Elections: Cameroon

(09/10/2011 to 09/10/2011)

A presidential election will be held in Cameroon on 9 October 2011. President Paul Biya is standing for another term. Long-time opposition leader John Fru Ndi is also standing in the election.

Liberia - General Elections

(11/10/2011 to 11/10/2011)

The 2011 Liberian general election is scheduled to be held on 11 October 2011. The presidency, as well as all seats in the House of Representatives and half of the seats in the Senate, will be up for election. The election will be overseen by the Liberian National Election Commission (NEC).

 

International Day for Disaster Reduction

(13/10/2011 to 13/10/2011)

More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities or urban centres. Urban settlements serve as nations’ economic engines, but they can also become generators of new risks: failed infrastructure and services, environmental urban degradation, increasing informal settlements and almost a billion slum dwellers around the world. This makes many urban citizens more vulnerable to natural hazards.

The International Day for Disaster Reduction takes place within the framework of the World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2010–2011. The theme of the Campaign is “Making Cities Resilient: My city is getting ready”.

World Food Day

(16/10/2011 to 16/10/2011)

“Food prices – from crisis to stability” has been chosen as this year’s World Food Day theme to shed some light on this trend and what can be done to mitigate its impact on the most vulnerable.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

(17/10/2011 to 17/10/2011)

At the Millennium Summit, world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half by the year 2015 the number of people living in extreme poverty – people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

17 October presents an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognise that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.

The theme of the observance this year is "From Poverty to Decent Work: Bridging the Gap".

Argentina - Presidential and Parliamentary Elections

(23/10/2011 to 23/10/2011)

Argentina will hold national presidential and legislative elections on 23 October 2011. Mercosur parlamentarians will also be popularly elected for the first time.

Also for the first time, on 14 August 2011 open, simultaneous and mandatory primaries will take place to select the candidates of each political party or coalition.

The President and Vice-President will be chosen in a two-round election, unless in the first round a candidate gets 45% of the vote, or 40% of the vote with at least 10% margin over the second placed candidate.

Presidential Elections: Bulgaria

(23/10/2011 to 23/10/2011)

Presidential elections will be held in Bulgaria on Sunday, 23 October 2011.

The second term of current President Georgi Parvanov expires in January 2012. Thus he is ineligible for re-election.

Elections for Tunisia's Constitutional Assembly

(23/10/2011 to 23/10/2011)

Elections for Tunisia’s Constitutional Assembly are scheduled to take place on 23 October 2011. The elected Assembly will be in charge of drafting a new constitution and paving the way for future legislative and presidential elections. The elections, first set for 24 July 2011, were postponed in order to ensure transparency and to give Tunisians more time to adjust to their new political body.

General elections were also scheduled to be held in 2014 but were brought forward after former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali´s departure from Tunisia in January 2011, as a result of the Tunisian revolution. The current head of state and acting president is Fouad Mebazza and the prime minister is Beji Caid Essebsi.

United Nations Day

(24/10/2011 to 24/10/2011)

24 October marks the anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Charter, signed in 1945. Every year, this public holiday is celebrated around the world with exhibitions, meetings and panel discussions on the accomplishments of the organisation, as well as an international concert which is held at the General Assembly’s Headquarters in New York.

Presidential Elections: Ireland

(27/10/2011 to 27/10/2011)

The next Irish presidential election is due to take place on Thursday, 27 October 2011.

The 7-year presidential term is renewable once.

Two constitutional referendums and a by-election for a vacant Dáil (Lower House) seat in the Dublin West constituency will take place on the same day.

Presidential Elections: Kyrgyzstan

(30/10/2011 to 30/10/2011)

A presidential election will be held in Kyrgyzstan on 30 October 2011, two months before the term for the interim government in the transitional period expires in December 2011.

Acting president Roza Otunbayeva, a former Soviet diplomat, came to power on 7 April 2010 during a popular revolt that toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

A new president of the Central Asian republic will take office on 1 January 2012.

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