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Calmy-Rey elected president with poor result

This content was published on Dec 8, 2010 Calmy-Rey won just 106 votes among 233 parliamentarians present, recording the worst result in a presidential election in nearly a century. Correspondents say the poor result was to be expected following a report by a parliamentary committee last week which found she had exceeded her authority in handling a diplomatic crisis with Libya. In response,…