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Indeed, the number of excellent emerging-market candidates is remarkable.
When Turkey’s leaders say they have at least ten good candidates, they show that politicians often don’t know what the job requires.
(No country has ten good candidates.)
I count nine emerging-market candidates who are unusually well qualified to lead the IMF.
To this end, federalists backed an idea first proposed by former European Commission President Jacques Delors and included in the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, adopted in 2007: Political parties should nominate candidates for President of the Commission, and the election to the European Parliament should decide who gets the job.
His votes are needed by both remaining candidates and it is likely they will tend to split equally between Left and Right, for he cannot commit himself to clearly support one candidate over the other.
The key strategic move for the two remaining candidates will be to attract the votes of the Center without losing their core Leftist or Rightist constituencies.
The opposition would participate in, and almost certainly win, the June 2012 general election, and all of the opposition candidates have agreed that, whichever one of them wins the presidential election, the country’s super-presidential constitution should be overhauled.
Putin needs a credible rival, not the same old Kremlin-linked candidates – the communist Gennady Zyuganov, the nationalist buffoon Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and the purported liberal Grigory Yavlinsky – to join the race.
In the past, he has usually installed a loyal non-entity in that position, and he has many possible candidates, such as the remarkably ineffective Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller.
Indeed, the only elections in China in which truly independent voters choose candidates occur at the village committee level, but this democratic mummery is staged mainly for the benefit of outside observers.
All other Chinese elections share two main characteristics: candidates are selected to preserve party leaders, and the leaders decide the number of candidates.
In equal quota elections, the leaders present three candidates, leaving voters the task of picking one.
By presenting voters with more candidates than positions, Deng Liqun, a member of the ultra-left Old Guard, was denied a seat.
All the candidates remain handpicked by the leadership, even if the least popular figures can be removed.
Republican candidates, running highly charged anti-Obama campaigns, trounced their opponents.
And, though there is no shortage of candidates lining up to succeed him in 2016, one might wonder, after his experience, why anyone would want the job.
Indeed, foreign policy was not an issue of contention among the four presidential candidates.
In terms of style and tenor, Khatami’s presidency will almost certainly be less strident than any of the alternative candidates who were allowed to run.
This test will not select the best candidate, but it will eliminate at least some candidates with priorities that no decent political leader should have.
There are plenty of great potential non-American candidates.
Votes will be cast in 828,804 polling stations scattered throughout the country for over 5000 candidates from seven national political parties and several state and other parties.
Independent candidates can choose from an assortment of alternatives, ranging from a cricket bat to images of various large animals.
Second, Kashkari has articulated – in appropriate central-bank language – precisely the same view that the remaining Democratic presidential candidates are putting before the voting public.
The Republican candidates for president this year, as usual, propose massive tax cuts, focused on the rich, without a plan for how to pay for them.
In my view, voting for candidates who will enact the right policies is a far more direct strategy for addressing inequality – and much else – than voting for those who want to break up the banks to reduce the amount of money available to dissuade voters from supporting the right candidates.
Party leaders select family members and other loyal followers as candidates for elections, with absolutely no consideration of their abilities to fulfill ministerial responsibilities, resulting in cabinets that are simply not capable of managing the problems confronting the country’s national and state governments.
The system falters when voters cannot make informed decisions based on candidates’ platforms.
Comparisons were made with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria’s civil war; and, with the US presidential election campaign shifting into high gear, some Republican candidates accused Obama of isolationism.
Recent speeches by the US presidential candidates show that debate about the first two questions has already begun.
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