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Current practice is blatantly unfair, because it excludes candidates from small countries from competing for the vacated seats.
After all, member governments would still pick the candidates, and there can be no escaping politics in what is essentially a political process.
If member governments are intent on bad candidates, it will be impossible to avoid them.
Make America Trade AgainCOPENHAGEN – No matter how much some US presidential candidates may deride free trade, it remains the backbone of the American economy.
They are tired of the status quo, and the presidential candidates are right to address their concerns.
Speaking as a former NATO secretary general and former prime minister of a longstanding American ally, I urge the US presidential candidates to stop bashing free trade and begin working toward a balanced approach, one that eases economic anxiety while ensuring American prosperity in the decades to come.
Others aspiring to advance similarly inward-looking agendas – be they nationalistic European parties seeking to roll back international connectivity or US presidential candidates proposing tariffs that could well trigger retaliation from trading partners – should take note.
Because the latter groups are those that have benefited the least from globalization, they were the most likely to reject supranational institutions (in the case of Brexit) or establishment candidates (in the case of Trump).
Moreover, there is no guarantee of success; indeed, for each successful product, there are as many as nine equally promising candidates that fail.
The Kremlin abandoned democratic procedures, controlling which parties were allowed to run and their candidates, while Putin’s United Russia monopolized media coverage.
Many young people who passionately supported Clinton’s Democratic primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, have ignored Sanders’s own admonitions to support Clinton, and are saying that they’ll vote for third-party candidates, which would help Trump.
This is the background against which the candidates will head into face-to-face debates, which tend to play a large (even excessive) role in shaping US elections.
It also helps us understand why Menem is now running ahead of other candidates in the polls for next year's presidential elections: along with rising inflation, the number of poor is rising fast too.
Republican candidates have signaled sympathy with racist sentiment since Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign.
Such “dog-whistle” tactics allowed candidates and their supporters to deny that they were explicitly endorsing racism.
And so he did what flailing candidates often do: he shook up the staff.
A Future-Oriented US Fiscal PolicyNEW YORK – At last, Republican candidates in the US presidential campaign have begun focusing on the economy.
Two other Republican candidates, Ohio Governor John Kasich and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, have also raised constructive reform ideas.
With so few presidential candidates recognizing the link between reforming Social Security and Medicare and ensuring broadly shared prosperity, the US faces serious risks.
We should not lose sight of the fact that almost half of the French electorate voted for Euroskeptic and anti-establishment candidates in the first round.
Unlike most candidates, Obama maintained this transformational rhetoric even after it secured him his victory in the 2008 campaign.
The very reason that led a majority of the French to say “no” to the referendum on the European Union’s draft Constitutional Treaty in May 2005 may lead them to vote for Bayrou, the most pro-European of all candidates.
This would not be enough for Bayrou in ordinary times, but today, on both sides of the political divide, opponents of the main candidates seem ready to join forces with him and betray their respective camps.
What makes Bayrou potentially so strong is the fact that widespread reservations about the two leading candidates are influencing the calculus of militants and politicians alike.
The list of eligible candidates for the Ibrahim Prize begins with those who were democratically elected and left office constitutionally within the preceding three years.
In a typical year, there may be as few as three candidates who meet these qualifications.
The Ibrahim Prize was established only in 2007, which means that the candidates have served most of their terms in office at a time when the prize could not have influenced their behavior.
In a genuinely open, merit-based contest, the 25-member Executive Board’s deliberations should have been preceded by debates between the candidates.
Nowadays, the Republicans control most state legislatures, enabling them to win a majority of House seats despite lacking the support of a majority of the American public; in the 2012 congressional election, Democratic Party candidates countrywide received 1.4% more votes than Republicans.
And the level and tone of political debate – for example, within Facebook groups created by presidential candidates or their supporters – are worrying.
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