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This artifice calmed the markets temporarily, but the candidates became wary about falling into a Brazilian Catch-22.
"Free" radio and TV time for the candidates began on August 20, and Serra immediately began an intense negative campaign against Gomes.
Though women have long been active in Kuwaiti public life, they were enfranchised only last year, after a long and difficult campaign, by a parliamentary vote, and accounted for just 28 of the 249 candidates.
Islamist candidates were in an awkward position, seeking support from women voters, whose participation they opposed.
Indeed, three members of the outgoing parliament who supported the government were not candidates, having lost in their tribal primaries.
The major opposition candidates – Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Patrick Utomi of the African Democratic Party (ADP), Atiku Abubakar of the Action Congress (AC), and Orji Uzor Kalu of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) – reject the results and are calling on Nigerians to protest peacefully.
It may not happen as quickly as they would like, and the candidates may not always be ideal.
Meanwhile, the left-wing Euroskeptic Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 19.5%, putting the total share of voters who chose candidates of non-traditional parties – Le Pen, Macron, and Mélenchon – at nearly 65%.
But the fact that parties and candidates that reject the status quo are gaining ground, particularly among young people, reflects profound political polarization, which generates governance challenges that could impede reform.
Egypt’s voters overwhelmingly chose the revolution over the old regime, and shattered the myth that the push for change is an urban, middle-class, Cairo-based phenomenon: the eight revolutionary candidates received more than 16.4 million votes.
But, rather than uniting to improve their chances, their popular support was split among three candidates, two of whom – Morsi and Aboul Fotouh – placed among the four front-runners.
Reelection is permitted only for candidates nominated by the same party for which they originally ran, and the enabling legislation for independent candidates, ballot initiatives, and referenda remains unclear.
Carpet Bombing History in AmericaNEW YORK – Ted Cruz, one of the Republican candidates for the US presidency, recently said that his solution to the turmoil in the Middle East would be to “carpet bomb” the Islamic State (ISIS) and see if “sand can glow in the dark.”
With such rhetoric from their candidates, it is no wonder that, according to a recent poll, some 30% of Republican voters (and 41% of Trump supporters) favored bombing Agrabah, the central (and fictional) location of the Disney film Aladdin.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
Competitive elections for lower-level party posts have already been held, with votes for provincial and national party congresses showing electoral slates with 15-30% more candidates than positions.
Ultimately, this campaign will prove remarkable for the lack of serious attention paid to the candidates’ programs.
A suicidal denial of reality seems to unite the candidates and their supporters, best formulated as follows: “Don’t address serious issues, such as the national debt, during the election campaign, and we will not expect you to confront them seriously when you are in power.”
In the more distant future, the countries would also be admitted as candidates for full membership.
And the subsequent fevered discussions about Trump’s core beliefs – maybe he was a crypto-Democrat, who had, after all, donated to Democratic candidates at one time and sympathized with Democratic positions (such as on abortion) – missed the point.
Moreover, too many have made prior commitments – for example, promising never to increase taxes – that they find hard to break, especially ahead of elections that both sides deem to be of defining significance for the country’s future, reflected in the candidates’ campaigns, which are getting nastier by the day.
Only 15% would vote for Hamas MP’s or a Hamas presidential candidate, compared to 55% for Fatah candidates.
So, a first question for Latin America should be how do the candidates differ on treating the undocumented countrymen already in the US?
While the far right in the Republican Party would prefer these immigrants return home—a move that would be devastating to Latin America as well as the United States—all of the presidential candidates have clearer heads.
The most recent Congressional legislation makes the path to citizenship almost as difficult as the trip across the border, and all three candidates supported that bill.
Latin Americans might even ask — do the candidates really care about us?
Go ethanol the candidates agree.
Given what the candidates have said so far about Latin America, that’s a trend unlikely to change.
The US does not have party-line elections, so voters can either punish a party (usually the one that has been in charge) by voting against all of its candidates; fully support a particular party; or split their tickets by voting for one party’s presidential candidate and another party’s congressional candidates.
Senate candidates who have stood apart from Trump have been faring better than those who have not.
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