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Kenya’s Unity TestNAIROBI – Kenya’s fiercely contested presidential election in March, and its disputed outcome, has left the victor, Uhuru Kenyatta, with a daunting challenge: to unite a country riven with ethnic violence and distrust.
Although this election was accompanied by far less violence than the previous presidential vote in 2007, the opposition candidate Raila Odinga’s second consecutive defeat has only re-enforced his supporters’ fears that they are once again being cheated out of power.
In Italy’s general election in March, the populist Five Star Movement and the far-right League party together won more than 50% of the vote.
As the presidential campaign approaches the November election, the Republicans will of course continue to attack Obama.
Moving Beyond PutinomicsMOSCOW – Dmitry Medvedev’s election as Russia’s new president was virtually guaranteed.
Belief in Bush's honesty led many voters to prefer him to Albert Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
It also launched an antitrust probe against Russian gas giant Gazprom, and criticized human-rights abuses during the crackdown on demonstrations that accompanied the March election that returned Vladimir Putin to the presidency.
In early April, a disputed election victory by Moldova’s ruling Communists triggered protests.
Opposition leaders and democracy watchdogs say Moldova’s election process was fundamentally flawed.
The country’s broadcast media, especially its television stations, gave a disproportionate amount of air time to the ruling Communists during the election campaign.
In the long run, the US and EU should support civil society organizations in pressing Moldova’s government to guarantee more equitable distribution of television time, to stop police harassment of opposition political leaders and workers as well as journalists, to reform the police and end the ruling party’s abuse of state institutions, and to allow all political parties more opportunity to inspect election rolls and monitor polling stations.
The secular liberal forces’ political fragmentation and lack of organization cost them dearly in the parliamentary elections six months ago, and, in the second round of the presidential election, a majority of Egyptians chose Morsi over a restoration of the old regime.
But it was their efforts that made the presidential election possible in the first place, and many now believe that close collaboration with the Brothers is the only available option that can restore some of the spirit of an endangered revolution in which they were the protagonists.
Having imbibed the most important of her father’s values, she held a free election, which she overwhelmingly lost.
Whereas in the United States, a majority of the poor do not vote, – turnout in Harlem was 23% in the last presidential election – in India the poor turn out in great numbers.
The Ahmadinejad government’s popularity has plummeted, as evidenced by recent local election results.
Iraqi leaders were well aware of the decreased participation in the election by a significant portion of Iraq’s multi-ethnic and multi-confessional mosaic, particularly the Sunni community.
Pursuing such a desperately risky gamble against the expressed wishes of a parliamentary majority would trigger a constitutional crisis that could be resolved only by appealing to voters – either through a general election or a new referendum.
The opposition Labour Party would demand a general election, but the Conservatives, split as they are over Europe, would unite to block this.
Once the election gambit failed, Labour would almost surely support a referendum, which is backed by 85% of its members.
If voters rejected “no deal” in favor of no Brexit, May’s hardline opponents would be silenced, and her position as Prime Minister would be secured until the 2022 election.
The Elephant’s ChoicesNew Delhi – A month after they first queued to vote in India’s mammoth general election, the country’s voters will learn the outcome on May 16.
The election, staggered over five phases – involving five polling days over four weeks, rather than one “election day” – will determine who rules the world’s largest democracy.
That alone makes the election results due on May 16 worth the world’s attention.
This represents a massive shift from the 2008 election, when Congress gained 96 seats, compared to the BJP’s 78.
The Battle for Churchill’s BustNEW YORK – The election of the United States’ next president is surely the most important contest in the democratic world.
Mitt Romney, his Republican opponent in November’s election, has vowed to restore it if he wins.
The second is the election, also to be held in 2014, of a new Afghan president – a process that needs to permit the United States and its NATO allies to claim plausibly that they are handing the country over to a legitimate government.
A New Chance for GreeceATHENS – On September 20, Greek voters will go to the polls – yet again – in a snap election called by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
The political system has been strained by the rise of populism and extremist forces on both the left and the right – and now, as the coming election highlights, there is the risk of renewed government instability.
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