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• Date: 26/07/2011

  Landslide victory for a Tamil coalition in Sri Lankan local elections

  Results of local elections expose gap between Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam despite government efforts to win over the Tamil population in the north and east of the island • Tamil parties conquer 17 out of 20 seats in areas formerly held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

• Date: 13/07/2011

  Denmark and the Faroes at loggerheads over islands' proposed constitution

  

  Denmark's Prime Minister warns against the proposal for a new constitution, which doesn't include any reference to Denmark, and says Faroes must be ready to accept full independence should the proposal be endorsed · An agreement over devolution was signed in 2005 between Denmark and the Faroe Islands.

• Date: 12/07/2011

  South Sudan: Questions and Answers

  

  South Sudan is the world youngest country after its declaration of independence on 9 July. This marks the culmination of a political process started in 2005, when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ending 22 years of war was signed. Those agreements resulted in a timetable by which South Sudan would have a referendum on its independence. The vote was held last January, and the outcome was a resounding ‘yes’ which prevailed with nearly 99% of the ballots.

• Date: 13/05/2011

  Carwyn Jones sworn in as Wales's first minister

  

  Labour leader to pick up a government without his former Plaid Cymru allies · Welsh labour fell one seat short of an overall majority in last week's election and is set to govern through partial deals with other parties

• Date: 09/05/2011

  DUP and Sinn Féin set to further dominate Northern Irish political landscape

  

  McGuinness and Robinson

  Both parties slightly increase their number of MLAs at Stormont · Stable share of vote across communities · Peter Robinson (DUP) to stay on top of Northern Irish government, Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) to fill the post of deputy prime minister · Alliance Party could get the Justice minister's position

• Date: 09/05/2011

  Scotland to call a referendum on independence

  

  Impressive majority in Scottish Parliament election gives the SNP the capacity and legitimacy to call the vote · Alex Salmond thinks of organizing the referendum in the second half of the term · The UK government has announced that it will not block the vote · No party had achieved an overall majority in Holyrood since 1999, when the Parliament was established

• Date: 06/05/2011

  Bildu allowed to contest elections after new ruling of Spanish Constitutional Court

  Judges consider there is no reason enough to bar the coalition from the elections · Bildu leaders thank Basque society for its pro-democracy mobilization

• Date: 03/05/2011

  Huge blow for Bloc Quebecois in Canadian federal election

  

  Gilles Duceppe. / Photo: Louperivois

  Pro-independence party only gets 4 seats, their worst result ever · The New Democratic Party obtains 58 out of 75 contested seats in Quebec · BQ leader Gilles Duceppe resigns · The Conservatives get an overall majority in the House of Commons

• Date: 02/05/2011

  Spanish Supreme Court bars Bildu from elections

  

  Bildu leaders.

  The ruling says that some members in the pro-independence coalition are linked to outlawed Batasuna · Bildu denies the charges and will appeal to the Spanish Constitutional Court · EA and Alternatiba, both coalition members, have always opposed ETA violence

• Date: 28/04/2011

  Independence referendum regains momentum in last phase of Scottish election campaign

  

  Opinion polls predict that the pro-independence SNP and Greens could gather an overall majority in next week's vote · Labour asks Salmond “not to hide” his plan “for independence” · SNP leader predicts that Scotland could achieve statehood in 2018