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And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.
You can see it in college graduation patterns, in job projections, in our marriage statistics, you can see it in the Icelandic elections, which you'll hear about later, and you can see it on South Korean surveys on son preference, that something amazing and unprecedented is happening with women.
And before each elections, the newspapers and the polling institutes put together what they call "an election compass" which consists of a number of dividing issues that sort of separates the two coalitions.
She is traveling because she was out of the country at the time of the elections.
You really believe that if there are democratic elections in Egypt now, that a government could emerge that espouses some of the values you've spoken about so inspiringly?
Which leads us to the last one, which is: our elections.
As you may have noticed, our elections in Canada are a complete joke.
In 1950, Turkey had the first free and fair elections, which ended the more autocratic secular regime, which was in the beginning of Turkey.
But without freedom of speech, you can't have free and fair elections.
In terms of the political changes, they have introduced village elections.
I wanted to document on film the 2008 presidential elections.
And I realized that, when I'd left the country, free and fair elections in a democratic environment were a dream.
A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections.
However, there would be one major side effect: if we replaced elections with sortition and made our parliament truly representative of society, it would mean the end of politicians.
They knew that elections were aristocratic devices.
And then, when it becomes impossible to patch over the cracks in the current system, we must step up and replace elections with sortition.
And this was at the beginning of elections.
And the European elections, the last European elections, we became the largest party and the most coveted youth demographic, sub-30.
So the government decided to have the elections once again.
And the Americans who are in the room, are you not afraid that your presidents are going to govern on the basis of what they said in the primary elections?
Words like equality and fairness and the traditional elections, democracy, these are not really great terms yet.
As with the Arab Spring, during the recent elections in the Congo, voters were able to send text messages of local polling stations to the headquarters in the capital, Kinshasa.
In Afghanistan, for example, we haven't just had one election or two elections.
We've gone through three elections, presidential and parliamentary.
In Pakistan, in lots of sub-Saharan Africa, again you can see democracy and elections are compatible with corrupt governments, with states that are unstable and dangerous.
We went through a period of feeling that the lesson learned from Bosnia was that elections held too early enshrined sectarian violence, enshrined extremist parties, so in Iraq in 2003 the decision was made, let's not have elections for two years.
The result was that I found stuck outside my office a huge crowd of people, this is actually a photograph taken in Libya but I saw the same scene in Iraq of people standing outside screaming for the elections, and when I went out and said, "What is wrong with the interim provincial council?
In Afghanistan, it could have meant instead of concentrating on the big presidential and parliamentary elections, we should have done what was in the Afghan constitution from the very beginning, which is to get direct local elections going at a district level and elect people's provincial governors.
During elections and referendums, you're not being asked, "What do you think?" You're actually being asked, "How do you feel?"
Women won 17.5 percent of the National Congress in the first elections ever in 52 years.
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