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In 1967, another Labour government, led by Harold Wilson, was damaged by a devaluation spurred by a speculative attack;Labour lost the subsequent general election.
Again, Labour lost the next election and the party split.
Although the Conservatives did manage a narrow victory in the next election, the party’s internal fissure over European integration deepened, and by the end of the 1990s, Labour was back in power (and would remain there for more than a decade).
Turkey's "conservative democrats" in the Justice and Development (AK) Party came to power in the first election thereafter, in November 2002, and were quickly able to marginalize radical elements among both the Islamists and secularists.
Intelligent speeches, spirited debates and clever slogans were conspicuous by their absence in this election.
Blair made the fatal mistake of setting his own limit to his tenure of office by saying that he would not contest a fourth election as leader of the Labour Party.
Can it be the same President Oscar Arias who (barely) won the recent presidential election in Costa Rica and now returns to power after 20 years?
Yet the party might have a better sense of what is viable not just today, but also tomorrow – at the next election, for example.
SINGAPORE – With his shocking victory in the US presidential election, Donald Trump has made history – and made a lot of people very afraid.
She had attacked her predecessor during the election campaign for being fork-tongued about Iraq, saying one thing to US President George W. Bush and another to the Finnish people.
The opposition, still smarting from its narrow defeat in last autumn's election, accuses him of not having told the truth about Germany's weak economy and the consequences for the national budget.
And he will have a hard time winning over his more cautious European counterparts, not least German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose room for maneuver was crimped by her party’s poor showing in last weekend’s federal election.
Both candidates are United States senators with little experience as executives, so their ability to manage the crisis has become a central issue in the election.
In 2004, shortly before the election, Osama bin Laden released a video tape that may have helped President Bush defeat Senator John Kerry.
And certainly the election of the first African-American as president would do wonders to restore the soft power that the Bush administration squandered over the past eight years.
Indeed, Refah could well do even better in the next election.
Depending on its decision, a presidential election may be held in the next few months.
In the United States, among the candidates still competing for the Republican Party’s nomination to challenge Barack Obama in November’s presidential election, Ron Paul stands out for arguing consistently that government is the problem, not the answer, with regard to banking.
Beyond this question lies another: whether Europe will agree on its final negotiating stance before France’s presidential election next spring and Germany’s general election next autumn.
Ethiopia’s Struggle for DemocracyWhen we in Ethiopia’s political opposition agreed to participate in the election that the government called in June, we were under no illusion that the process would be faultless.
So we knew that there would be problems with the election, that voting would not be clean in the way Western countries take for granted.
About a month before the election, the government began to shut down the political space it had opened.
Its election campaign took on a vilifying tone, charging that the opposition was bent on destroying ethnic groups through genocide.
Growing Out of US LeadershipBEIJING – Donald Trump’s election has been greeted around the world with justifiable bewilderment and fear.
His victory – following a fact-free, vicious election campaign – has trashed the brand of American democracy.
But, while Trump is impulsive and occasionally vindictive – a potentially fatal mix in an already fragile world – his election should be a spur to challenge failed ideas and to move beyond excessive reliance on the United States’ inevitably imperfect global leadership.
If Trump’s election stimulates a more thoughtful approach to trade liberalization, it may deliver some benefit in this area, too.
So the impact of Trump’s election on the US and global economy might be mildly positive, at least in the short term.
As for climate change, the election of a man who purports to believe global warming is a Chinese hoax created to damage American business is clearly bad news.
He went so far as to support the election of an extreme nationalist, Tomislav Nikolic, who was an old ally of Milosevic’s, as the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament.
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