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For starters, the dollar has shot up since the election only because Trump has promised to enact deep tax cuts and ramp up spending on decaying infrastructure and America’s supposedly “depleted” military.
In an earlier election many people voted for the liberal Union of Freedom party not because they agreed with its program but because they hated the rival Catholic and nationalist parties.
The year just ended, highlighted by the election of a French president much to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liking, demonstrated that, ultimately, it does not really matter who rules in Berlin and in Paris, or how much they like each other.
Learning the Lessons of IraqNEW YORK – The Iraq war has been replaced by the declining economy as the most important issue in America’s presidential election campaign, in part because Americans have come to believe that the tide has turned in Iraq: the troop “surge” has supposedly cowed the insurgents, bringing a decline in violence.
The struggle to secure the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, the true winner in last Sunday’s presidential election, as Ukraine’s new president is not one that we sought.
More and more members of a governmental machine that thought it could impose a fraudulent election on Ukraine’s people are shying away from imposing that choice by force.
First, they are clearly worried that the Kuomintang, which lost last year’s local elections in a landslide, will lose the general election in January as well.
For his part, President Donald Trump is already accusing China of doing so, as he did throughout the 2016 election campaign.
Ukraine faces a crucial presidential election in 2009 or 2010 (and Moldova will hold elections in March 2009).
After getting its fingers badly burned at the last election in 2004, Russia is clearly tempted to intervene again.
Europe and Anti-EuropeLONDON – The European Parliament election has set off a painful process of rethinking not only how the European Union works, but also what it is fundamentally about.
Before the election, pro-Europeans regarded the upcoming vote as evidence that a new pattern of EU-wide democracy was emerging.
No obvious European leader emerged from the election, and political haggling among EU governments over the next Commission president is likely to be prolonged and to look anything but democratic.
The election outcomes in France and Britain reflect both countries’ deeper deviations from the European pattern.
Moreover, it was heading into an election cycle, which increased the rigidity of its position.
BRUSSELS – The surprise result of the United Kingdom’s general election, which will return Prime Minister David Cameron and the Conservative Party to power for another five years, suggests that Britain’s voters prefer the devil they know to the devil they don’t.
The question mark over the UK’s future within the EU had been widely seen throughout continental Europe as key to this election, yet it received barely any attention as a campaign issue.
The main message of the election result is that British voters do not welcome the fragmentation of the political system and the rise of smaller parties leading to a new era of coalition governments.
The clear loser in this election is the anti-EU UK Independence Party.
Because EU membership figured so little in the UK’s election campaign, it is difficult to gauge the country’s mood on the issue.
Business leaders have swung belatedly into action with warnings of the serious economic consequences of Brexit, but voting intentions – as the election has plainly demonstrated – are opaque.
For British voters, this election was all about Britain.
But the view of many European politicians and commentators that this election was about much more than the UK is also true.
Congress plays a large role in trade policy, and the near certainty that the Democratic Party’s majority in Congress will grow after the election means that protectionism will grow as well.
During his election campaign, Modi once said that Hindus and Muslims could either fight each other or fight poverty.
Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood would win a general election.
The resulting economic insecurity for the working and middle classes is most acute in Europe and the eurozone, where in many countries populist parties – mainly on the far right – outperformed mainstream forces in last weekend’s European Parliament election.
France RevivedNicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election in May in part because he attracted a substantial portion of the far right’s supporters to his conservative banner.
Age, not social class, will determine the outcome of June’s election.
Without a voice for their concerns, Iran’s young people face the prospect of increased frustration, whatever the outcome of the election.
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