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Elections in Abkhazia gives information on election and election results in Abkhazia. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.

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Abkhazia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five term by the people. The People's Assembly has 35 members, elected for a five year term in single seat constituencies. Abkhazia is a one party dominant state. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. The last elections seems to show a development towards a multi-party system.

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	Abkhazia at AllExperts (3200 words) Abkhazia or (Abkhaz: Aphsny, Apkhazeti, or Abkhazeti, Abhazia) is a region of 8,600 km² (3,300 sq.mi.) in the Caucasus, which is de jure an autonomous republic of Georgia (, Abkhaz:), but has proclaimed independence after the war in the early 1990s. To the southeast, Abkhazia is bounded by Samegrelo; and on the south and southwest by the Black Sea. Abkhazia was made an autonomous principality of the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century â€" a status it retained until the 9th century, when it was united with the province of Imereti and became known as the Abkhazian Kingdom. Elections: Information from Answers.com (5415 words) Elections are commonly understood as the processes of voting for public office or public policy, but they are also used to choose leaders and settle policy questions in private organizations, such as corporations, labor unions, and religious groups. The election of a president and vice president is an indirect election. Elections may involve a selection by a very restricted group, such as a legislature, or it may be broadly extended to universal adult suffrage.
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