The national elections next year are part of a process that began nearly a decade ago, when the king introduced nonparty elections for Parliament.

In an effort to make the system more accountable, the Government has introduced multi-candidate elections for most elected posts.

I wish the Syrians the best of luck in getting Assad to introduce free and fair elections.

To counter criticism, Taya introduced multiparty elections in 1992, which he won, but electoral fraud was massive.

But the party has no plans to seek that approval by introducing democratic elections, even though there is debate among senior leaders about political reform.

Two months earlier, a governmen-sponsored referendum proposal on whether introduce direct popular elections for the presidency failed because the turnout did not reach 30%.

The vote had been called after the failure of a September referendum on the coalition's proposal to introduce direct elections for the presidency.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to introduce direct elections to police authorities.

We spent decades opposing Communism by trying to introduce free elections around the world - only to tell ourselves that our elections do not matter.

Although they may have introduced competitive elections, they may not strengthen further democratic institutions beyond the basic requirements.