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This month, the new mayors took office without the electoral
commission
(CSE) having made public 100% of the votes, an open violation of Nicaraguan electoral law.
The
commission
suggests policies that could be implemented sooner.
For example, in recent testimony before Congress, James Woolsey, a
commission
member and former CIA director, urged the use of hybrid gasoline/electric vehicles that could charge their batteries overnight with cheap off-peak electricity; energy efficient ethanol made from cellulose; and a ten-mile-per-gallon increase in fuel-efficiency requirements.
Supervised by a blue-ribbon
commission
of college presidents and distinguished jurists, they have all been honest, fair, and peaceful, with the results accepted by winners and losers.
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing loans that are clogging the economy’s credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship.
In response, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed a commission, headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, to investigate the causes and propose measures to address them.
I am appointing a
commission
to establish a truth and reconciliation process to put the accounting of these horrors before our own consciences and before the world.
But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the chain of
commission
goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the chain of command.
Since May, the EU
commission
on trade policy has been preparing strict new rules to manage Russia's exports to the Union.
For example, the 1995 Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone established a
commission
that, “failing consensus,” can make decisions by a two-thirds majority.
For example, the
commission
recommends arrangements to ensure that any movements and exercises of military units are reported.
The 1988 reforms established France’s system of publicly funded political parties, and required all elected members of the National Assembly to provide full financial disclosure to a newly created
commission.
In 2000, a prime minister’s
commission
on Japan’s goals in the twenty-first century called for just that.
The
commission
will be seen as a facilitator of the discussion, rather than a leader or a dominant player.
The problem has been that because we have lacked an independent judiciary, we have not had an independent election
commission.
But in the last 16 years it has begun to reap the fruits of genuine democratic competition, because an independent judiciary and electoral
commission
gives people confidence that their vote can make a difference.
The German Navy’s large supply ships – those most useful for refugee rescue operations in the Mediterranean – will be out of
commission
for 18 months, owing to a lack of spare parts.
Commission
after commission, expert after Nobel prize-winning expert, gave DDT a clean bill of health.
A new
commission
established by Bhutan, to be chaired by its prime minister, should generate the technical tools needed to orient economics to human well-being on a shared planet.
Following Bhutan’s lead, the international community must support the
commission
to hammer out the details of the measures, accounts, and financial mechanisms required for a new economic model based on the well-being of all of the planet’s citizens.
Bhutan’s new
commission
provides an invaluable opportunity to begin constructing a roadmap for a new multidimensional model of sustainable welfare economics, founded in human well-being.
The technicality the
commission
cited would be absurdly funny if its potential results were not so incendiary: the CEC objected to the fact that the Tymoshenko bloc candidates listed only their home towns on the party list, not their precise street address.
At the September 2015 summit between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two leaders agreed to establish an expert
commission
to study the GGE proposal.
But the new
commission
that Durao Barroso, Portugal's former Prime Minister, has appointed risks becoming imprisoned by the bureaucracy again.
It has asked Trevor Manuel, a long-time South African cabinet minister, to lead a
commission
to look into the matter.
In his political afterlife, he chairs a major international
commission
on multilateralism, runs the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, and has been a thoughtful advocate – respected highly both in Washington and Beijing – for strategies to manage better the US-China relationship.
But, in judging leaders, we need to pay attention to acts of both omission and commission, to what happened and to what was avoided, to the dogs that barked and to those that did not.
This
commission
is committed to the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal, which aims, by 2030, to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.”
With these priorities in mind, the education
commission
will deliver its recommendations at the UN General Assembly on September 18, when the Secretary-General will receive and act on them.
Brexit should be seen as a punishment for events like the 2014 European elections, when it was evident, even before anyone voted, who would become the head of the EU commission, who would lead the EU parliament, and which of the parliament’s factions would be the largest.
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