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Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports on the reformists campaign to try and win the upcoming elections in 2009.
Conservatives in Iran are looking to increase their majority in a second round of parliamentary elections, while reformists are just hoping to gain enough support to get their voices heard.
Reformists are hopeful that the ‘failing economy’ in Iran will encourage people to vote for them.
82 of 290 seats are being contested in a system that is stacked against them. The best the reformers can hope for is to gain from their opponents’ mistakes.

Serbs are getting ready to go to the polls to elect a new government.

The pro-western Democratic Party wants to maintain close links with Europe but nationalist leaders are advocating closer links with Russia instead.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Belgrade on the election battle.

Nepal’s politicians have been holding their final rallies ahead of this week’s election, the first in a decade.

But with ex-rebel Maoists and over 100ethnic groups vying for power, some fear the country could see a return of its 10-year civil war.

Al Jazeera’s Jane Dutton has taken a political journey through the capital, Kathmandu.

Zimbabwe’s economy has long been a contentious issue, with annual inflation running at 100,000 per cent, the highest in the world.

The government has tried to increase output by giving farmers free tractors, but critics say the machinery amounts to a bribe ahead of elections.

Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa went to Matebeleland to hear about one farmer’s daily struggle.

The results are being tallied in Pakistan’s long-awaited parliamentary elections.
Sporadic violence on polling day killed at least 20 people, and the fear of attacks appears to have kept turnout low.

It’s estimated only 42 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots on Monday.

But the first unofficial results suggest most of them backed opposition candidates.

Pakistan’s election commission is not expected to confirm the result until later on Tuesday.

Tim Friend reports.