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An attempt at a primary to choose Fatah candidates backfired, owing to fraud and the losers’ refusal to honor the results.
Rival Fatah candidates then split the party’s vote, allowing Hamas an easy victory.
Corporate behavior and governance has emerged as a campaign issue for US presidential candidates.
Conversely, the OAS mission decided that it could not conclude which of the two leading candidates won.
The two other candidates who participated did not recognize the result, given the many violations that took place.
Some of the most qualified candidates (in both developed and developing countries) have not received the support of their own governments that the political process seems to require.
For example, rather than nominations from governments, which often are reluctant to support excellent candidates from opposition parties, an international nominating committee could put forward names.
Similarly, changes in voting procedures (public voting by countries, rather than through constituencies, or a requirement that candidates win the support of a majority of developing and emerging countries) could persuade more emerging-market officials to put their names forward.
One of the leading candidates to be the IMF’s next managing director has turned out to be a Frenchwoman, Christine Lagarde, who, as France’s finance minister, helped lead her country through the Great Recession.
Politics is not always kind to good candidates.
This same tendency is apparent in the anti-elite, anti-system rage that has erupted across Europe, reflected in the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum; the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party’s continued rise; far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the French presidential campaign; and the Austrian elections this year, where for the first time since World War II no “establishment” candidates made it to the final ballot.
Of the four main opposition parties that fielded candidates for the 469 parliamentary seats in contention, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) took the bulk of the votes in the southwest of the country, felling such PDP stalwarts as House speaker Dimeji Bankole and Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In the name of reducing US inequality, presidential candidates in both parties would stymie the aspirations of hundreds of millions of desperately poor people in the developing world to join the middle class.
The idea that a large number of voters should designate the presidential candidates of the major political parties was born in the United States, and we French have long believed that such things were American to the core.
Choosing candidates has been an affair confined solely to political parties.
But, while the participants represented only a limited part of the electorate, 2.6 million voted in the first round, and more than three million in the subsequent run-off between the two top candidates, confirming broad public acceptance of the process as legitimate and valuable.
In fact, at a time of widespread alienation from the institutions of representative democracy, direct citizen participation in nominating candidates is probably an irreversible trend.
True, despite certain contested events in the days preceding the Socialist run-off, the level of brutishness among candidates was limited.
More generally, it remains to be seen how willing the rival candidates in party primaries will be to reunite under the same political banner for the election.
The obvious candidates will not or cannot take on the role: Britain has excluded itself;France is paralyzed until next year’s presidential election and possibly beyond; and Spain cannot even form a government.
On merit, some of the obvious candidates for the Fund job, such as Brazilian Arminio Fraga, and Egyptian-born Mohamed El-Erian, are not European.
If there is a formal leadership contest, it seems likely that several rival candidates will aim to stand.
A high turnout in favor of pro-democracy candidates is expected, although this won't guarantee them a majority in the legislature because of Hong Kong's unusual political structure.
Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.
Affluent cities, where university graduates concentrate, tend to vote for internationally-minded, often center-left candidates, while lower middle-class and working-class districts tend to vote for trade-adverse candidates, often from the nationalist right.
US presidential candidates have also rediscovered the strength of the demand for national and social cohesion.
This finding demonstrates that the threat of attack can affect voting behavior; indeed, it implies that if all Israeli voters were within range of the rockets, right-wing candidates would capture 2-7 more seats in Israel’s Knesset (parliament).
Voters who feel threatened will be inclined to elect candidates who are less interested in making concessions to a country’s perceived enemies.
When such candidates come to power, the space for negotiations narrows, and the chances of brokering a settlement between opposing sides decreases.
It turns out that female candidates do not face a single gender gap, but rather multiple gender gaps.
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