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Regional elections are regularly manipulated, often by disqualifying leading opposition candidates.
The first election campaign that I got involved in was some 50 years ago, in New York, where all of today’s candidates – Republican and Democrat – recently traded blows, with Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton emerging triumphant.
One cannot imagine those Republicans from the 1960s campaigning alongside the two leading GOP candidates today.
Abbas wants all the candidates to be included on national lists, which would allow for proportional representation of all major Palestinian factions and groups.
Many – but not all – of the Republican candidates back the TPP; the politics on the Democratic side is more hostile to the deal, making it potentially risky for any Democratic candidate to support it.
One can expect many of the Republican candidates to be critical of any proposed deal.
Democratic candidates are more likely to be sympathetic to whatever is negotiated; but there are certain to be differences among candidates on both sides.
One hopes that what emerges from the parties’ nominating processes is insight into how the successful candidates answer three big questions.
The lack of diversity among candidates for the top jobs suggests that the selection process is far too narrow and inward-looking.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has allegedly banned politicians from giving interviews on the subject, so the journalist had no choice but to seek other candidates, perhaps more “intellectual,” but with no authoritative information to offer.
For the groups which benefited from market reforms and privatization, Boris Yeltsin and Viktor Chernomyrdin remain the favorite candidates for next June's presidential race.
The emergence of anti-establishment and non-traditional political parties and candidates on both sides of the Atlantic is complicating even the most basic elements of economic governance, such as enactment of an active budget in the United States.
Now, however, both are fraying, and no candidates to replace them have yet emerged.
While staid TV pundits ask the usually vapid questions during presidential debates in the United States, candidates know that the really important thing is to get laughs on the comedy shows of David Letterman or Jay Leno.
Although none of the aspiring candidates for the US presidency can match him in terms of zaniness, similar trends are plain to see.
One hopes that all of the current candidates vying for the US presidency will be up to the challenges – both perennial and unanticipated – that they will face.
Indeed, Suu Kyi now enjoys far greater freedom of movement than she has at any time since she received the Nobel Peace Prize 20 years ago, and the NLD recently announced that it will field candidates in the forthcoming by-elections to the country’s newly established parliament.
So both countries would be prime candidates to support solidarity houses.
Neither of the two main candidates, though, has promised to tackle the country’s key challenge: transforming Sri Lanka from a unitary state into a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.
In a recent survey of nine European Union countries, 72% of the educators who responded reported that new graduates are qualified to meet prospective employers’ needs, though 43% of employers reported that candidates do not possess the required skills.
While companies may, in theory, recognize the value of bringing together talent from a variety of backgrounds, they tend to recruit candidates with a familiar set of skills, experiences, and qualifications.
Though candidates tend to rollback from protectionist stances once they come to power, the Democrats’ control of both houses of Congress may not give Obama that leeway.
2. the second option is to enlarge NATO to all candidates in one fell swoop, including therefore the Baltic states as well as the Central European countries, along with Romania and Bulgaria.
More significant was Barroso’s call for European political parties to nominate candidates to succeed him in the 2014 parliamentary elections.
While the largest Europarties – the European People’s Party and the Party of European Socialists – have presented presidential candidates in the past, a Europe-wide electorate had never before been explicitly linked to the filling of this appointed position.
Equally ominous, the banning of hundreds of candidates for alleged ties to the Baath Party signals a return to sectarian politics, which could reignite a sectarian civil war.
Doing so might well mean a retreat from the pre-election banning of candidates, and would demonstrate a maturity among the Shia political elites that they have not yet shown.
If a new Albert Einstein is hidden somewhere among the hundreds of candidates, only the future will tell!
It is also contrary to one of the fundamental premises on which democracy rests: that voters can make informed choices between contending candidates.
That uncertainty ended when America succeeded in limiting invitations to three chosen countries, surprising those Alliance members who supported other candidates.
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