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Even if that issue can be sorted out, a campaign in Scotland to link it to the EU rather than to London will continue to command the attention of the government and civil service for the foreseeable future.
During the Brexit referendum campaign, the Leave camp openly stoked hostility toward outsiders.
In 2010, not long after the right-wing populist Fidesz party came to power, government officials fired a number of MTVA journalists who had been critical of Fidesz during the election campaign.
But it has been granted something of a reprieve, thanks to Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May’s sheer incompetence during the recent parliamentary campaign.
For starters, he tackled the endemic corruption that had been undermining the credibility of the CCP (and, by extension, China’s governance model), by launching an unprecedented anti-graft campaign that reached the highest levels of the Party’s leadership.
Many expected Xi’s anti-corruption campaign to be a temporary initiative, intended to pave the way for implementation of the aggressive economic reforms announced at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in 2013.
Instead, the campaign has become essentially a permanent feature of Xi’s administration.
The rumor spread through social media, and a right-wing talk show host named Alex Jones repeatedly stated that she was involved in child abuse and that her campaign chairman, John Podesta, took part in satanic rituals.
To accuse, during an election campaign, a US presidential candidate of personally murdering children is not petty, and civil libel law provides no adequate remedy.
It also depends on the likely impact of an exit campaign on transnational solidarity.
Similarly, on immigration, Tuck claims that, despite the insufferable xenophobia dominating the Leave campaign, the only way to overcome racism is to let Britain’s people “feel” sovereign again by returning control of their borders to London.
But once locked into this EU, a political campaign to exit it is unlikely to steer national politics in the direction of leftist goals.
Nostalgia was a driving force behind the leave campaign, as was the desire to punish the scoundrels in charge.
One of the most important lessons of the Brexit campaign is that when politicians try to manipulate society’s emotions to their own ends, as Prime Minister David Cameron did, things can quickly get out of hand.
June 23, 2016, will not go down in history as the UK’s independence day, as Boris Johnson, London’s former mayor and a leader of the Leave campaign, promised.
Livni, at last widely accepted as a leader worth her salt, spoke loudly of peace with the Palestinians in the last day of her campaign.
“Earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks,” Obama preached in his famous campaign speech in Berlin, “but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.”
With India’s sluggish economic performance having rightly dominated the campaign, the question of what foreign policy the new government should pursue remains unanswered.
As a result, the campaign was quiet, almost cautious.
Despite a frenzied public relations campaign by regime officials, only half of all eligible voters participated.
That does not mean that we should launch a campaign for insect rights.
We still do not know enough about insect subjective experiences to do that; and, in any case, the world is far from being ready to take such a campaign seriously.
In the coming months, I will campaign in Greece, as leader of our Greek party (MeRA25) running in Greece’s national elections, in Germany as a candidate for the European Parliament, and in the rest of Europe on behalf of European Spring.
When asked about Trump’s behavior, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager and now a White House counselor, replied, “He’s the president-elect, so that’s presidential behavior.”
Trump himself has responded to questions about his campaign rhetoric with a simple “I won.”
Worried by the protests, Khrushchev tried to cool off the anti-Stalin campaign.
This second anti-Stalinist campaign lasted two years, which was not nearly enough to change the country’s mentality.
That ballot, however, is already having an international impact, in part because South Korea’s failure to ratify an important new intelligence-sharing treaty with Japan is widely seen as a result of campaign politics.
That is why Chinese President Xi Jinping has been engaged in a comprehensive anti-corruption campaign – often misrepresented as a power grab – since assuming office in 2012.
Inside Thailand’s Hidden WarLEEDS – Thailand’s former prime minister, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, recently ignited a furor when he proposed that the separatist campaign in his country’s Muslim-majority southern provinces might be solved politically, with a form of self-rule.
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