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candidates, half of whom will be newcomers to politics.
But I see that as an improbable outcome, given the growing diversification of Muslim identities in the new context of political freedoms, secular parties’ efforts to keep the Muslim Brotherhood within electoral politics, and the profiles of the three leading presidential candidates, none of whom want the Egyptian Revolution to be captured.
Two other candidates stand out.
Faced with meeting the constitutional requirement of getting votes from each state in the Federation, the candidates and their handlers have gone out of their way to avoid taking positions that ruffle feathers.
In fact, a number of potential East European candidates have already emerged, with some said to have begun actively soliciting support.
The fact that all five of these candidates are well known in diplomatic circles, and four have direct UN experience, refutes the old canard that Eastern Europe does not have a credible candidate to offer.
If, as some fear, the Kremlin vetoes all East European candidates, a representative from the Western Europe and Others Group, such as former New Zealand Prime Minister and current UN Under-Secretary-General Helen Clark, could stand a chance, especially given the appeal of finally selecting a woman for the role.
The 2006 election, in which I finished a close second out of seven candidates, featured an unprecedented level of public exposure, with candidates meeting with UN regional groups, addressing the annual African Union summit, and even participating in a debate on the BBC.
Given the importance of the UN secretary-general’s vision, candidates should have the opportunity to share their ideas and goals publicly, as I was committed to doing.
Though efforts to share one’s vision can win a candidate wide expressions of support, they can do the same for his or her opponents – and, in the election of a UN secretary-general, Security Council members can vote for as many candidates as they like.
In 2006, South Korea launched a yearlong, amply-financed outreach campaign that targeted all 15 Security Council members with official visits in their capitals, and that often dangled significant bilateral carrots – gestures that other candidates had neither the time nor the resources to offer.
At the moment, candidates from the center-left Democratic Party of Korea are leading in an effort to end nine years of conservative rule.
With all major presidential candidates emphasizing the importance of fixing the chaebol problem, changes on this front are possible.
Committee members occasionally confessed privately that often several candidates could be found who equally deserved a prize.
Even scientists who frowned upon the Swedish committees’ limitations and sometimes odd choices nevertheless still nominated and lobbied for candidates, knowing that if successful, a winner can draw attention and money to a research specialty, institution, or national scientific community.
One week before the poll, some opposition candidates have yet to air even one campaign ad on Egyptian television.
But almost all of the parties put female candidates at the end of their lists; as a result, only nine women were elected to the parliament.
Prime candidates are diplomacy and foreign policy (including development and humanitarian aid), immigration, border control, some infrastructural projects with European-wide network effects, large-scale research and development projects, and regional re-distribution.
Such platforms may have reduced the cost of political organizing, and thus candidates’ overall dependence on money, while providing an efficient alternative fund-raising channel.
So, too, will other groups that focus on similar issues, such as environmental sustainability, which has not been a major focus in the current US presidential campaign (the three debates between the candidates included no discussion of climate change, for example), but surely will be in the future.
Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia are all candidates, with the latter probably posing the most difficulties.
Park Geun-hye, daughter of Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea from 1961 to 1979, is now one of the two likely candidates to succeed President Lee Myung-bak.
Many of its candidates seek office not to work for Ukraine’s betterment, but to gain parliamentary immunity from prosecution.
If parts of his legislative program do pass, they will become a further source of grievance, and candidates like Min will likely receive more donations.
Likewise, Run for Something is working to fill the pipeline of Democratic candidates at all levels.
Bush/Gore: There is a DifferenceBOSTON/ROME: Any reader of non-US newspapers could draw two conclusions about America’s electoral campaign: 1. that there is little difference between the two candidates; 2. that a mere detail – a slip of the tongue, a false step, a piece of gossip – could decide the election.
The fact that in the weeks before the elections the candidates court undecided voters by trying to appear as centrist as possible should surprise no one.
The only area where there doesn’t seem to be much difference between the two candidates is foreign policy, and this is a good sign for the world, because it portends stability in America’s posture and, above all, cooperation between the two parties even if one of them were to control Congress and the other the Presidency.
Why, then, do candidates spend enormous amounts on campaigning?
Nor are Italians reassured to learn that Berlusconi fielded a number of candidates during the recent European Parliament elections whose only discernible qualification was that they were pretty young girls who had possibly spent some time in the prime minister’s company at his Sardinian Villa or Roman Palazzo.
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