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Uncertainty is also coming from other directions: Italy will hold a constitutional referendum by the end of this year, and France and the Netherlands will hold elections next year.
But it is likely that parochial interests will become even more dominant, at least until major elections are complete.
In the near term, this means a focus on the US Federal Reserve’s impending rate hikes and the upcoming elections in France and Germany.
While the 1988, 1992, and 2000 elections were also quite consequential, the policy shifts were not nearly as large as in 1980 and 2008.
Regardless of the outcome of this year’s presidential and congressional elections, various Republican state governors are likely to gain a higher national profile.
Moreover, a recent national poll dealt yet another blow to the center-left SPD, indicating that if elections were held today, the party would be outperformed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
As a result, both parties and their coalition will become increasingly unstable over time, a trend that would be accelerated by their poor performance in the 2019 European Parliament election, not to mention in Germany’s upcoming state and local elections.
To be sure, elections empirically demonstrate support for particular politicians, parties, and even policies.
But, usually, elections do not register the intensity of that support.
Given the variety of the figures on the Council, there will be natural pressure from within Libya and beyond for a quick move to elections of some sort.
Rwandans should not be ashamed to value economic and administrative strength more than fair elections.
Every militia, every ministry, every Shia political faction, has its own guns, goons, and death squads – while the Sunnis continue to use the stockpiles of weapons they accumulated under Saddam to fight a rear-guard action against the new order, apparently legitimized by elections.
This is the little noticed result of the last parliamentary and presidential elections.
Last summer there was little doubt that the coming parliamentary elections would make the Luzhkov/Primakov Fatherland-All Russia party (OVR) the biggest fraction in the Duma.
A new inter-regional movement, Unity, founded only in September ‘99, dominated the parliamentary elections last December on a platform that could be summarized in two words: Vladimir Putin.
As in most recent European elections, immigration loomed large, but as usual, Sweden was out of step with other countries.
National elections in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Germany this year will likely challenge the principles of openness and integration.
Recent elections in the Netherlands and France suggest that Trump may be serving as a deterrent, rather than a boost, to populist extremism in Europe.
The speech that I gave on 16 June 1989, at Imre Nagy's reburial exposed everyone's silent desire for free elections, and an independent and democratic Hungary.
At the third democratic general elections in 1998, Hungarians voted for a radical break with the past.
As a result, Indians will follow the unfolding US elections, like everyone else, with more than passing interest.
Cynics might add that even if Aung San Suu Kyi is pardoned, she may yet still be detained on political grounds or face other barriers aimed at preventing her from competing in the elections promised in Myanmar for 2010.
Moreover, some ASEAN member countries, like Singapore, have explicitly called for Aung San Suu Kyi to be allowed to participate in the 2010 elections.
Could the regime be seeking ways out of its isolation in the run-up to the 2010 elections?
If this can be done, the chances of progress in the run-up to the 2010 elections will be strengthened.
Scapegoating the EU to paint over domestic problems might pay off in elections, but it will also lead to national isolation.
It holds elections, but more as a nod to modernity than to represent the people’s will.
In Cote d’Ivoire, we will help organize elections before year’s end – a major stride toward recovery and democracy.
The result of the first round of elections to the National Assembly is the clearest indication yet of how successful Macron has been in recasting French politics.
This year’s voting departed markedly from previous National Assembly elections in several other key respects, beyond the support shown for Macron’s new political grouping.
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