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But it had political checks and balances that constrained even the military, and power changed hands on numerous occasions through increasingly fair and free elections.
Who would have believed, after the last two elections, that the American public was capable of electing such a candidate?
Shades of GrayIt takes a very close look at the results of the recent elections in the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia to find among the list of “Others” the tally for “The Greys”: they got 0.1% of the vote.
They make up their own minds and contribute to the unpredictability of modern elections.
An ordinary Chinese citizen’s role in political life is largely limited to participation in local elections.
But the predominant goal should be to support the creation in Egypt of a pluralistic society that defends the rights of all to political participation and free and fair elections.
In the long term, any crackdown on the Brotherhood would lead its members and supporters – already bitterly disappointed in democracy – to reject elections entirely.
The Rise of German IsolationismBERLIN – In Germany’s recent regional elections, voters delivered a resounding rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union.
This patronizing view conveniently ignores the fact that in the last four elections, Thaksin and his allies won by lopsided margins.
Israel’s life in a bubble was also exemplified by the two major religious parties in the elections.
The good news is that these elections make such a change of alliances politically inevitable.
And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February’s rigged elections demonstrate.
The parliamentary elections to be held on March 31 st will provide an answer to the main question everyone asks about Ukraine: can we overcome our lack of belief in ourselves, overcome our fears, to win a true democratic independence?
It is the West’s responsibility to persuade Russia to support the elections – and to guarantee that the needed constitutional reforms will be decided in Kyiv, not in Dayton.
Now Obama faces defeat in the mid-term elections at the hands of Republicans whose past policies created many of the problems that weigh him down today.
The solutions to these problems do not lie in elections or representative democracy alone.
Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy.
An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.
Similarly, while competitive elections are essential to any democratic system, a “winner-take-all” attitude to electoral outcomes, with the victor concentrating power, is incompatible with democracy in the long term.
Well-functioning democracies are embedded in complex constitutional and other laws that separate executive, legislative, and judicial power, and that protect freedom of speech, assembly, and peaceful dissent by those who lose elections.
Because there are no direct elections for the top two federal offices in what remains of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro agreed in 1992 to share them.
The trouble with current premier Momcilo Bulatovic is that his party gained fewer votes in Montenegro's elections than Djukanovic's party.
Elections would be held and democratic politics would begin.
The governing coalition of President Milosevic seems ready to accept early elections.
Perhaps it fears that its popularity will further decline, and would prefer to go into elections while it still has the advantages of counting the votes, controlling state television, and establishing electoral districts.
That part of the opposition led by Draskovic also wants elections, but doesn't reject the idea of an interim government.
Unless Montenegro's Djukanovic can be prevailed upon to work with the opposition in order to strip Milosevic of power by stripping him of his puppet prime minister, elections and compromises are the way to a democratic Serbia.
Street protests should concentrate on getting from Milosevic fair conditions for elections and acceptance of international monitoring (but, needless to say, not from NATO countries).
Brazilian Democracy on the BrinkRIO DE JANEIRO – With Brazil’s presidential and state elections just days away, the country’s citizens are frustrated, disillusioned, and angry.
Poland’s recent elections were the first in which the postcommunist left was irrelevant.
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