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However, the contest is more accurately seen as one between an open and an introverted Turkey; between civilian, democratic rule and military tutelage; and between a globalizing and a protectionist economy.
Not surprisingly, the Venezuelan opposition – which lost the last presidential contest by one percentage point – has little confidence that UNASUR’s involvement will ensure a credible election.
Interestingly, all three candidates in the CDU leadership contest raised concerns about Germany’s partnership with Russia on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
It would seem that they are of the same mind as Manfred Weber, the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat in the contest for the European Commission presidency, which will be decided after the May 2019 European Parliament election.
(The Bush-Gore contest was unusual in that it wasn’t settled until December 12, more than a month after the election, when the Supreme Court, in a partisan and highly controversial decision, voted 5-4 to end the recount in Florida, handing the presidency to Bush.)
In fact, this contest dates back to 1947, when India gained independence and democracy became the country’s defining feature, while China turned to Communism with the success of Mao Zedong after the Long March.
Kishore Mahbubani has argued recently that we need to recognize that in China, as elsewhere, a significant internal contest between hard- and softer-liners is taking place.
He was simply a loser in a contest with those who felt threatened by his ambition and ruthlessness.
Some projections do have En Marche !, the political movement that Macron founded a year ago and that will contest the elections under a new name, La Republique En Marche !, emerging as the biggest parliamentary group, but suggest that it will fall short of a majority.
Moreover, the current civilian-led interim government engages in at least some negotiations about the new democratic rules of the game with virtually all of the major political actors who generated the revolution and who will contest the elections.
The obvious conclusion is that the contest for UN Secretary-General is about neither vision nor the best resume, language skills, administrative ability, or even personal charisma.
These conflicts have undermined regional security, impeded investment planning, and sparked an undeclared military contest between China and its regional counterweight, the United States.
Under QPC, which was part of the constitutional reforms that France implemented in July 2008, any citizen involved in legal proceedings can now contest the constitutionality of a legislative provision.
As a result, the party will most likely be unable to contest national elections next year, all but ensuring that Hun Sen will win another term as prime minister.
Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.
To win this high-stakes contest, democratic societies must look beyond battlefield victory and focus on winning hearts and minds through the power of ideas and the promise of meaningfulness – just as the Islamic State has done.
Indeed, Putin sometimes likes to frame it as a contest pitting him against the power of financial markets.
While he will not run as a candidate (he is already a senator for life), he formed a centrist coalition – affiliated with neither the left nor the right – to contest the election, and has declared his willingness to resume his leadership role if the coalition is victorious.
The US and China are in a race to be the world’s worst polluter;America has long won the contest, but in the next few years, China will claim that dubious honor.
The Republican contest is almost egregiously distasteful, with the exception of the performance of Governor John Kasich of Ohio.
As a result, politics has become a contest about credibility.
Indeed, the abstention rate for a presidential election had never been higher before the contest between Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.
In May 2019, when the European Parliament election takes place, the European Spring will contest them via the national parties we have established, or allied with, across the continent.
No, this time, the temptation will spring from China, which well understands Europe’s significance in its emerging geopolitical contest with (and against) the US.
Keynes did say – and it was a very important insight – that a capitalist economy resembles a beauty contest, with judges voting not for the most beautiful contestant, but for the contestant whom they believe their colleagues will find most beautiful.
This will be a contest about Europe and the future of European democracy.
And this is coinciding with an escalating climate crisis and a global contest for predominance in artificial intelligence, the risks of which are still largely unaccounted for.
What nobody anticipated was that the crushing defeat of the Communists at the polls for all but one of the seats we were allowed to contest made it impossible for the Communists to form a new government, even if the numerical majorities were still on their side.
In 2000, he wrote about a poetry contest in Cuba run by the dissident group Reflection.
A majority of French teachers saw the wearing of headscarves as the work of an organized movement that aimed to question the religious neutrality of schools – and even to contest, as the Roman Catholic Church did centuries ago, the very principles of the Enlightenment.
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