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But political parties advocating for implementation of Sharia have lost ground in successive elections from 1955 to 2009.
With the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy all facing populist insurgencies – and at least the first three holding elections this year – the Brexit and Trump shocks have naturally provoked anxiety that the next domino to fall will be one of these EU founding members, followed perhaps by the entire EU.
Just as presidential elections in the United States matter for the entire world, mayoral elections in Moscow matter for Russia’s national politics – and thus for its economy.
For starters, this is the first Moscow mayoral campaign since President Vladimir Putin canceled subnational elections in 2005.
All have in common not only economic and policy weaknesses (twin fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing growth and rising inflation, sluggish structural reforms), but also presidential or parliamentary elections this year.
Most political prognosticators are expecting large losses for Democrats in the November 2010 mid-term elections over this issue.
Fifth, Obama announced a new series of stimulus proposals just weeks before the mid-term elections.
Thus, a prime minister who gained massive support from voters only two and a half years ago, won mid-term elections, survived two confidence votes in Parliament, and still enjoys high approval ratings is constantly under pressure.
Not surprisingly, the League is calling for new elections in the spring, whereas Berlusconi would prefer to widen the government’s majority by bringing back Casini – a path beset with hurdles and hazards.
That is why, if fresh elections are to be held, Berlusconi may well turn them into a personal referendum.
Most of the 375 million or so people eligible to vote in the European elections on June 4-7 probably have only a hazy idea, or none at all, which explains why voter turnout throughout the European Union is likely to be disastrously low.
Thirty years ago, when the first elections to the parliament were held, almost two-thirds of the electorate voted, but over the years, participation has dropped steadily.
The European elections are themselves curious and unsatisfactory; there are no obvious EU-wide issues that people can vote for or against, and, with the average MEP’s constituency numbering well over half a million people, the vote is not a test of personal popularity, either.
In most parts of Europe, the elections will be an opportunity for protest votes on national issues.
Paradoxically, though, great deal hangs on the elections’ outcome.
Of those who said they wouldn’t be voting in this year’s European elections, 64% cited “lack of information” as the reason, with 62% complaining that their vote “wouldn’t change anything.”
And no wonder that voters in almost two-thirds of eurozone countries have turned out the incumbents in their most recent elections.
Witness the contest between the government and protesters after the Iranian elections in June 2009, in which the Internet and Twitter played crucial roles, or the recent controversy between Google and China.
In the context of American presidential elections, “debate” is something of a misnomer.
In past elections, when there sometimes really was not much political difference between Democrats and Republicans, this made a certain sense.
Because non-Americans cannot vote in US elections for him (a pity for Obama, who would probably win a global vote by a landslide), we have to depend on the judgment of that 17% of undecided voters watching television this month.
American Foreign Policy After the Mid-Term ElectionsNEW YORK – Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term elections on the basis of foreign policy.
But the fact that foreign policy did not materially affect the November elections does not mean that the results will not affect US foreign policy.
Tunisia adopted its new constitution on January 27, thus clearing the way for what will be the most secular and fairest elections in any of the region’s countries.
Resolving this generational struggle peacefully will require democratic elections within Fatah for membership of both the Revolutionary Council and the Central Committee.
Donald Payne, a leading member of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Ana Gomes, a member of the European Parliament from Portugal and head of the EU’s observation team in the 2005 elections, have sought to tie non-humanitarian aid more closely to Ethiopia’s conduct on press freedom and other human rights.
Elections conducted according to such a constitution are unlikely to produce legitimate results.
The good news is that the junta has agreed to put the draft to a popular referendum early next year, although that probably means that the promised elections will not be held until August, at the earliest.
Central bankers have of course been known to help incumbents before elections, by allowing inflation to drift up and keep employment booming.
Genuinely free and fair local elections, with the participation of all displaced people and refugees, will never be possible without a substantial international presence.
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