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Since the last presidential election on 25th October 2009, the human rights situation has worsened recently in Tunisia. In a widely-contested election, President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was re-elected to a fifth mandate. Since the presidential

The PES denounces the exclusion of Dr. Mustapha Benjaafar from the presidential elections in Tunisia. The decision of the country’s Constitutional Council to declare his candidacy invalid is based on dubious reasoning and amounts to an

Documents PES High Level Advisory Group on Turkey - Meeting with Olli Rehn, European Commissioner , Brussels, 15 June 2006 Members of PES High Level Group on TurkeyEurope's new neighbours: A post-enlargement strategy for European foreign policy,

The Legislative elections held in Albania last Sunday 28 June 2009 were extremely important for the country’s future. The PES regrets that incidents occurred during the voting and the counting process. Both main parties traded accusations blaming

Philip Cordery, Secretary General of the Party of European Socialists, declared that the latest arrests against Democratic Society Party (DTP) representatives in Turkey are worrying. The PES Secretary General strongly condemned the arbitrary

The Party of the European Socialists warmly congratulates the Lebanese people for the successful legislative elections last Sunday, June 7th. It will enable Lebanon to strengthen its democratic institutions, the independence and sovereignty of the

Commenting on the controversy in Italy over the return of migrants at sea to Libya, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said "Italy is breeching international law and quite possibly EU policy. Berlusconi is wrong to flout international law and