Candidates
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With a presidential election looming in October 2015, most potential
candidates
(even those from her own party) are quickly distancing themselves from her authoritarian style and troubled economic legacy.
One drawback here is that cooperation among
candidates
may be discouraged by the race to join.
With 12
candidates
knocking at the door and others on the horizon, today’s members cannot tarry.
Candidates
include Suharto himself (he certainly had some foreknowledge of events), acting with or without United States support, and even the British Foreign Office.
Croatia's economy and traditional access to Europe could have placed it among the first
candidates
for European integrations had its political and social elite any notion that this was advantageous.
HDZ has as many
candidates
as it has factions, and these are numerous.
Although Iranian citizens had the right to elect their president, the
candidates
had to be vetted by the Council of Guardians, half of whom were picked by the unelected Supreme Leader.
The only
candidates
allowed to run were men with impeccable religious credentials, loyal to a regime whose most important decisions are made by unelected clerics.
Communists always had a tendency to dismiss the differences between
candidates
in liberal democracies (let alone “managed” ones).
What are opposition
candidates
to do when they are asked to take part in elections that they know they cannot win, or that, even when they can win, will give them only minimal authority?
And, because democracy is about institutions as much as about individual candidates, it is also good for citizens to exercise their right to vote.
Mousavi’s campaign, and its aftermath, showed clearly that those who professed to see no difference between the candidates, except in style and presentation, were wrong: even if the election was rigged, the voices of opposition to clerical authoritarianism were heard.
With income stagnation, faltering economic opportunities, and a loss of faith in progress fueling widespread discontent, voters backed
candidates
who promised to return power to the “people” and to shake up systems that mainstream political leaders had “rigged” in favor of a corrupt “elite.”
Economic Fairness and America’s Presidential ElectionSTANFORD/NEW YORK – Voters in the United States have shown their anger this year by turning out for anti-establishment candidates, both Democratic and Republican, in large numbers.
In response to this growing resentment, both parties’ presidential
candidates
have promised to reestablish economic fairness and reform the tax system.
The three most prominent anti-establishment
candidates
have proposed starkly different tax plans.
Why are voters who believe that the tax system is unfair supporting
candidates
offering such radically different solutions?
It is likely no coincidence that the one thing all of the presidential candidates’ proposals have in common is the elimination of privileges for the richest taxpayers.
Both Democratic and Republican
candidates
have pledged to repeal the carried-interest provision that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to pay a lower rate than other earners.
Moreover, some notable candidates, such as Senator Hillary Clinton, supported the invasion of Iraq, while the Democrats are more protectionist than the Republicans and are financially unpredictable.
In their eagerness to embrace development policies that are proven failures, all of the
candidates
in the presidential election scheduled for December 18 appear unaware of this risk.
It is a paradox, indeed, that all
candidates
in Bolivia promise social and economic change when they all are basically looking at the past for inspiration and are in thrall to the same model of development.
The promises to care for the poor and disadvantaged that are being made by all the
candidates
will turn out to be as empty as all the other rhetoric about justice and equality that Bolivians have heard in their long, sad history.
One of those
candidates
was Santos, Uribe’s former minister of defense, who had delivered some of the military’s hardest blows to the FARC.
In fact, while opposition
candidates
were given fair exposure on private TV and radio, the EU Head of Mission observed various cases in which their state-controlled counterparts privileged the government’s parliamentary
candidates.
For example, Bolivia TV devoted 62.7% of its news bulletins to the government party’s candidates, whereas the seven opposition parties combined mustered only a 37.2% share.
Ukrainian Democracy and Its CynicsMOSCOW – “A pox on both your houses” may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political
candidates
on offer in an election.
His election is being challenged in court by other candidates, and Western backing could play a role in stabilizing his government.
Given the differing views of President Dmitri Medvedev and former President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – the main
candidates
in next year’s presidential election – many Russian bureaucrats prefer to avoid offering bold initiatives regarding BMD or other strategic arms-control issues until they know who the next president will be.
The gaffe also opened the door for Republican attacks – this being a standard campaign strategy that has dogged wealthy major-party
candidates
(as they all are) since George H.W. Bush was astonished by a grocery scanner.
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