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Argentina is set to hold legislative elections this October, and Mexico and Brazil will hold presidential elections next year, with populist candidates expected to perform well.
Indeed, most candidates, notably Sarkozy and Hollande, might have been too cautious: the current crisis and possible future threats received little emphasis, which means that it may be difficult for Hollande to claim a mandate for any painful reforms that he will have to propose.
The Guardian Council's barring of over 2,000 mostly reformist candidates from participating in the parliamentary elections was the last straw.
The current epidemic of ideology, in which advisory committees are shut down and reassembled with new members, and candidates are subjected to loyalty tests, seems old hat to some observers.
In any case, what's really worrisome is not that the Bush administration examines candidates for compatibility with its "values."
Last weekend, the Assembly of our German party, Demokratie in Europa, elected me to lead its list of European Parliament candidates.
But Bedaquiline has yet to prove its capacity to treat drug-resistant TB effectively, and there are very few other candidates in the pipeline.
And, although several new vaccine candidates have passed preliminary clinical tests, BCG will remain the only available vaccine for years to come.
New candidates, of course, must meet common standards.
In addition to other opposition candidates, much attention has focused on Ahn Cheol-soo, Dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University, who is a successful entrepreneur and a charismatic figure for South Korea’s young and independent voters.
The main reason for the increase in the number of women MPs was the introduction of a quota system, according to which South Korea’s political parties should ensure that 30% of their candidates are women.
Moreover, 10% of government funding to political parties is now used for the advancement of women in politics, with each party establishing institutions for training women MPs and candidates.
“That’s illegal,” I kept saying when the candidates spoke of “killing bad guys” rather than arresting or extraditing them to face criminal charges.
Having grown up with presidents and presidential candidates tossing around the Bond meme virtually without challenge, they thought I was making things up.
Both candidates had just told the entire world that they planned to continue to engage in what are, according to both US and international law, criminal acts.
Candidates who are adequate - and who are widely seen to be adequate - are the key to the Court's legitimacy.
It is only through an open, transparent process that the best candidates - those who give the greatest guarantees of independence - can be identified.
In France, more than 7% of voters cast their ballots for Trotskyite and Communist candidates in the first round of the presidential election, while the Socialists, who received 27% of the votes, are much more left-leaning than Germany’s Social Democrats.
Sound policy aimed at reviving the economy seems beyond the grasp of both candidates.
All we can do is vote the rascals out, sometimes by voting for candidates whom we would not take seriously in more normal times.
A few years ago, a clown named Brozo, with a large red nose and a bright green wig, was Mexico’s most popular political commentator on television, actively courted by all candidates running for national office.
Mr. Lavin himself should take the initiative, and work out with Mr. Lagos a series of legislative initiatives – including some that require a constitutional reform – on which both candidates agreed during the campaign and that would enhance Chile's democratic system.
The relationship between Americans and their government is a burning issue today, and two of Clinton’s fellow candidates – Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, and Bernie Sanders – have, each in his own way, challenged her on it.
I recently helped to launch an effort to refocus state-level US politics around sustainable development, through a set of America’s Goals that candidates for state legislatures are beginning to adopt.
The most likely scenario at that time horizon is a multi-polar system of one or several key international currencies, with the euro (assuming its survival) and China’s renminbi being prime candidates to second the US dollar in this role.
There are many worthy candidates, but I recommend former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
What candidates promise on the stump is not always what they do in office.
A Big Data program that used this search result to evaluate hiring and promotion decisions might penalize black candidates who resembled the pictures in the results for “unprofessional hairstyles,” thereby perpetuating traditional social biases.
Both candidates refer to deaths of American military personnel in Iraq, but there has been less attention to the war’s civilian causalities.
Here, the candidates’ goals are virtually identical: they both support a cap-and-trade system to make deep cuts in US greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.
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