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American Foreign Policy After the Mid-Term ElectionsNEW YORK – Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term elections on the basis of foreign policy.
Back then, very few people outside Chile thought that a ruthless dictator could be removed through the ballot box.
Seizing the CenterSANTIAGO – The international press is having a hard time labeling the political positions of Emmanuel Macron, the winner of the first round presidential ballot in France.
This bears little in common with the essence of democracy, which consists not merely in ballot boxes, but in the separation of powers.
Across dozens of countries, people have been airing their grievances against the status quo through social media, protests, consumer choice, and the ballot box.
These voters are unlikely to turn against the party, thus buffering any existential threat to its dominance at the ballot box and putting a damper on reform efforts.
But his courage and example may help to accelerate the dawn of the day when China’s participation in international affairs is aided by the expertise and oversight of civil-society groups, an independent media, and an engaged citizenry able to express its views through the ballot box.
This week, Putin told the United Russia party that he will place his name at the top of its ballot for the parliamentary election scheduled for December 2, which could enable him to become Russia’s new prime minister after the presidential election due in March 2008.
In 2008, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe refused to accept his loss in a first-round presidential ballot and forced his opponent to drop out for the second.
Syria has many minorities whose numbers are too small to secure representation through the ballot box, and thus need to be protected by other means, such as political arrangements and institutions aimed explicitly at guaranteeing minority rights.
Among them:Elections: these are confined to an Islamic discourse, and all candidates and parties must secure the imprimatur of the highest Islamic authority in the land before they can be listed on a ballot.
They themselves are divided, with preferences ranging from Sharia rule in one form or another to a “Turkish model” involving mild Islamism capable of achieving mass support through the ballot box.
Europe’s Opportunity in HollandeBRUSSELS – Rarely has an election resonated so widely across the European Union as the French presidential ballot has done.
But America’s misbegotten democratic message has ended up alienating both its conservative regional allies, as it gave a new lease on life to political Islam, which can use the ballot box as a route to power, and the Islamists, whose electoral gains are then rejected by the US.
But the problem for Cowen (and for the EU) is that this level of support does not seem to translate to the ballot box: the Irish rejected EU treaties on two of the last three occasions when they were asked to vote.
The only difference is that only one candidate was on the ballot back then, whereas nowadays there are several, to make the exercise seem more credible.
While chavismo arrived in power via the ballot box, its leaders wished it had done so with bullets, like their hero Che Guevara.
And if elected officials have failed to take necessary precautions or demonstrated a sense of resignation, voters will let them know at the ballot box.
Already, he has ensured that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of embezzlement, giving the government an excuse to bar him from the ballot.
For starters, the Israeli middle class and younger voters took the social protests of the summer of 2011 into the ballot box.
So, for many, seeing images of a well-run voting process (the ink stains prevented voters from casting more than one ballot) was proof enough that things had changed.
But as voters, they must wait before they see any results delivered by the choice they made at the ballot box.
For a democratic-minded president to co-habit (as the French call it) with the very man who sought to sabotage Ukraine’s last presidential ballot would, I knew, provoke institutional paralysis and political chaos.
Eurozone governments will need to serve their citizens rather than some abstract European ideal, and live by the discipline of the ballot box and the market.
By emphasizing the ideological divide between him and Hollande, Sarkozy is also being led to court, more openly than ever, the extreme-right electorate of Marine Le Pen’s National Front, as if he sensed that she might not find enough signatures to qualify for a place on the ballot.
While Bush is not on the ballot, Romney has not really distanced himself from the Bush administration’s policies.
Yet something funny happened between these movements’ origins as spontaneous, inclusive street protests and their later success at the ballot box.
They have asserted themselves in recent years by using the power of the ballot box to claim power on the basis of caste, religion, ethnicity, and other sectarian appeals.
Regional administrations also possess their own instruments of obstruction, including propaganda outlets in the regional media, as well as the ability to manipulate ballot papers.
Under the current system, Egyptian citizens can only show up on the day of a presidential referendum every six years and say yes or no to the single name that appears on the presidential ballot.
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