Peru vian police clash with Campesino s in the town of Carhuamayo (department of Junín), leaving two dead and more than 20 people injured, during a protest against mining pollution. Strikers are demanding the government hand over $58 million from the Privatization of a state electricity company for the cleanup. {Link without Title}
At the end of the First Count of elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly , and reflecting the early Tallies the Democratic Unionist Party attracts the highest popular vote, with Sinn Féin coming second, the Ulster Unionist Party third and the SDLP fourth. Minor parties like the Progressive Unionist Party , the Alliance Party and the UK Unionist Party suffer major collapse, with the Women's Coalition losing all its seats. Later counts are expected to boost the middle ground UUP and SDLP, who show greater possibilities of picking up inter-party transfers than the more extreme DUP and Sinn Féin. Nevertheless, Sinn Féin is widely expected to have more MLA s than the SDLP, a reversal of the results in the 1998 Assembly elections. It is too close to call whether the previous larger UUP or the Rev. Ian Paisley 's DUP will have more seats after all counts. The final results will not be known until late on Friday, when all six seats in each Constituency are filled. The election was held under PR.STV . {Link without Title}
Plans for the handover of power in Iraq have to be revised after senior Shiite s object to indirect elections. {Link without Title}
Larry Spencer of the Canadian Alliance party makes public statements stating his desire to recriminalize Homosexual behaviour in Canada to combat what he claimed was a conspiracy by the homosexual community to infiltrate social institutions to recruit children into the "homosexual lifestyle". He was quickly denounced by numerous public figures including his own party leader, Stephen Harper , who also made him resign his position as Family Issue Critic in the Canadian House Of Commons with an apology. However, commentators have noted that these inflamatory homophobic statements have placed the pending vote on the proposed merger with the Progressive Conservative Party on December 6 in jeopardy by illustrating fundamental differences between the parties concerning social attitudes.
