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European Council Summit
(01/03/2012 to 02/03/2012) BrusselsEU leaders meet at the European Council to review the economic situation in Europe and to decide on the next steps for the following 6 months. Other issues to be discussed include the situation in Syria and the preparation for several international meetings, including the summits the G8 and the G20 (19-20 May and 18-19 June, respectively) and the Rio + 20.
Parliamentary Elections: Iran
(02/03/2012 to 02/03/2012)Iran will hold parliamentary elections to elect 290 members for the Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami).
Iran has a unicameral Islamic Consultative Assembly and the members are elected by qualified plurality vote for 4-year terms. 5 seats are assigned to religious minorities.
Presidential elections: Russia
(04/03/2012 to 04/03/2012)Russia’s presidential election will be held on 4 March 2012. The president is elected for a 6 year period and is responsible for appointing the prime minister.
The main candidates are Vladimir Putin (United Russia), Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Communist Party), Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov (A Just Russia), Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Liberal Democratic Party) and Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov (independent candidate).
Vladimir Putin served as the second president of the Russian Federation (1999-2008) and is the current prime minister of Russia (since 2008), as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus.
International Women’s Day
(08/03/2012 to 08/03/2012)The main theme in this year’s International Women’s Day is “Empower rural women. End hunger and poverty”. Rural women play a decisive role in developed nations as well as in developing nations in matters such as agricultural production, food security and poverty reduction in their communities.
Parliamentary elections: Slovakia
(10/03/2012 to 10/03/2012)Parliamentary elections will be held in Slovakia to elect 150 members for the National Council of the Slovak Republic. Members are elected through a flexible-list proportional representation system for 4-year terms.
Legislative elections: El Salvador
(11/03/2012 to 11/03/2012)El Salvador will hold elections to choose 84 members of its Legislative Assembly. The country has a unicameral system and members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system for 3-year terms.
The main parties competing in these elections are Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the Nationalist Republican Alliance and the Grand Alliance for National Unity (GANA).
Presidential elections: Timor-Leste
(17/03/2012 to 17/03/2012)The president is elected by absolute majority through a two-round system for a 5-year term. He is also in charge of assigning the prime minister.
UN representatives welcome these elections and assure they will be transparent and fair.
Incumbent president Jose Ramos-Horta, who is eligible for a second and final term, has announced that he will seek nomination to be the candidate. He had initially been reluctant to run for reelection, but a draft movement collected over 120,000 signatures in favour of his candidacy, prompting him to run.
Presidential elections: Guinea Bissau
(18/03/2012 to 18/03/2012)Guinea Bissau will hold an early presidential election on 18 March 2012 following the death of president Malam Bacai Sanhá on 9 January 2012.
Prime minister Carlos Gomes Júnior resigned on 10 February 2012 to become a presidential candidate.
The president is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system for a 5-year period. The president designs the prime minister.
Presidential elections: Senegal (2nd round)
(18/03/2012 to 18/03/2012)The 2nd round of Senegal's presidential elections will be held on 18 March 2012 to elect a president for a 7-year period.
The runoff will be held between Abdoulaye Wade, of the Senegalese Democratic Party, and Macky Sall, of the Alliance for the Republic.
The first round took place on 26 February 2012, amidst controversy over the constitutional validity of a third term for incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade.
Legislative elections: Gambia
(29/03/2012 to 29/03/2012)Gambia will hold legislative elections to elect 48 members to the National Assembly by plurality vote in single-member constituencies for 5-year terms. Five members are appointed by the president for the same period.
Incumbent president Yahya Jammeh (APRC) has been in power for 17 years since 22 July 1994; he seized power in 1994 in a military coup, was elected in 1996, and re-elected in 2001, 2006, and 2011 in disputed elections.
Parliamentary elections: Mauritania
(31/03/2012 to 31/03/2012)Mauritania will hold parliamentary elections on 31 March 2012. It was originally set for 1 October 2011, then delayed to 16 October 2011, then indefinitely delayed per the opposition's demands to join reconciliation talks.
In the Senate (Majlis al-Chouyoukh), 53 members are elected by indirect vote for 6-year terms and 3 members are selected for the same period. At the National Assembly (Majlis al-Watani), 81 members are elected in single- and multi-member constituencies for 5-year terms and 14 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system for the same period.
