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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.
Indeed, given that no Islamist party has ever governed
democratically
in an Arab country, Tunisia (together with Egypt) is undertaking an historic experiment.
The US, France, Canada, and other major donor countries must not miss this historic opportunity to give vital help to Preval’s
democratically
elected new government.
Rather than handing institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund more power, we need a new Bretton Woods conference to make them
democratically
accountable and less ideological.
Whereas donors will dominate IFFEd decision-making, the GPE operates more democratically, with equal representation of donor and recipient countries and strong participation from civil-society organizations.
A few months ago, Evo Morales became Bolivia‘s first
democratically
elected indigenous head of state.
For now, the world should celebrate the fact that Bolivia has a
democratically
elected leader attempting to represent the interests of the poor people of his country.
This will require not only novel solutions to emerging problems, but also a credible means to implement change
democratically.
It will be hard for Israel to launch a large-scale attack on Hezbollah if it is participating in a semi-stable Lebanese state headed by an internationally recognized president, with a pro-Western prime minister and a
democratically
elected parliament, teeming with tourists, and buffered by 10,000 UNIFIL troops in the south.
But a
democratically
elected government should be judged on its politics, not on the rhetoric of a populist politician, however vulgar and repulsive.
There can be no real democracy when we have a massive concentration of capital and power in the hands of the few; when multinational corporations challenge the power of
democratically
elected representatives; when organized criminals can buy off police officers, judges, and politicians; when monopolization of the media erodes fundamental freedoms.
And yet Mohamed Nasheed – the Maldives’ first
democratically
elected president, who was just sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for unnamed “terrorist offenses” by the military-backed government that overthrew him in 2012 – seems to have fallen off the world’s radar.
This outraged Ukrainians in the country’s more pro-EU western regions, spurring protracted popular protests that ultimately toppled Yanukovych’s corrupt but
democratically
elected government.
After all, Hamas was
democratically
elected, but was forbidden from ruling and besieged in Gaza.
To be sure, there is always the possibility that Greece’s increasingly dire situation will finally catalyze the creation of a
democratically
legitimate pan-European bailout fund that provides automatic and unconditional relief to struggling countries.
More precisely, this phenomenon entails the growing number of
democratically
elected political leaders who do not confront alternative leaders able to gather the disaffected into a viable opposition.
In 2009, when South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics Corporation negotiated a deal to lease as much as half of Madagascar’s arable land to produce cereals and palm oil for the South Korean market, the ensuing protests and military intervention toppled a
democratically
elected president.
South Asia’s False SpringNEW DELHI – From the armed coup that recently ousted the Maldives’ first
democratically
elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, to the Pakistani Supreme Court’s current effort to undermine a toothless but elected government by indicting Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on contempt charges, South Asia’s democratic advances appear to be shifting into reverse.
But, despite our status, we agreed to give up the leadership position afforded by the Constitution in the belief that power-sharing and respect for the rights of all Iraqis is the only formula for governing the country
democratically.
To be sure, in the short term, some authoritarian modernizers (for example, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew) serve their countries better than
democratically
elected leaders (for example, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi).
This implies that the overthrow of Egypt’s
democratically
elected president, Mohamed Morsi, will have much broader repercussions.
Nonetheless, the overthrow of a
democratically
elected government by the military cannot be glossed over.
Zia’s death brought to power another
democratically
elected civilian prime minister: Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of Zulfikar Ali and the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country.
As the
democratically
elected representatives of the American people, they alone can determine what those interests are.
There have also been explicit interventions, from the covert removal of Iran’s
democratically
elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, to the more recent military intervention in Iraq, which led to a quarter-million Iraqi deaths.
Egypt’s Revolutionary ResetCAIRO – Whether or not Egypt’s first-ever
democratically
elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was pushed aside by a military coup may be debatable, but it is undeniable that the June 30 protest that triggered his ouster was the largest mass movement in Egypt’s history.
In the Palestinian territories, Gaza’s
democratically
elected Hamas government and the
democratically
elected president of the Palestinian Authority are locked in a seeming death grip, which has seen Gaza fall into an economic black hole and paralyzed as it also allowed space for Israeli intransigence.
In Egypt, supporters of the
democratically
elected President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood are still battling the army and security forces, which deposed him in July.
Morsi’s subsequent victory in the presidential election therefore set up an epic battle over the future of the parliament and the constitution, as Morsi attempted to protect the
democratically
elected parliament while the military fought to dissolve it.
These choices were made democratically, in parliaments, as part of budget decisions.
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