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The upcoming elections in Spain, Turkey, Denmark, and Portugal – not to mention next year’s US presidential election – will present their own versions of these challenges.
In February 1996, Kohl urged that Nato put enlargement on hold until the Russian and US presidential elections passed.
If America’s Democrats lose in the mid-term elections this November, there is a risk of persistent fiscal deficits as Republicans veto tax increases while Democrats veto spending cuts.
If I had suggested to my superiors at that time that the UN would one day observe and even run elections in sovereign states, conduct intrusive inspections for weapons of mass destruction, impose comprehensive sanctions on the entire import-export trade of a member state, or set up international criminal tribunals and coerce governments into handing over their citizens to be tried by foreigners under international law, they would have told me that I did not understand what the UN was all about.
In the past year alone, it has organized or assisted in elections in over 20 countries – often at decisive moments in their history – including Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, and Burundi.
That question will be on the lips of many of Romania’s reformers and democrats when going to the polls next week for general and presidential elections.
They have learned that China can have a greater impact on Taiwanese voters through trade and making people feel richer than by threats – even threats to fire missiles – which had been China’s electoral tactics in previous Taiwanese elections, particularly when a pro-independence candidate looked popular enough to win.
For almost two decades, Taiwan’s presidential elections have attracted global attention not only for the robustness of Taiwan’s democratic culture, but also for the perennial question of whether the winner would seek formal independence for Taiwan.
The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan has enabled farmers and fishermen in southern Taiwan to prosper by selling agricultural and fisheries products to the enormous Chinese market, and the Kuomintang received higher support in the region than in past elections.
As Hillary Clinton, Obama’s rapidly fading rival for the Democratic nomination is finding out to her dismay, policies can be an overrated commodity in presidential elections that really matter.
In France, the forthcoming Presidential elections will pit Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin against the Gaullist incumbent, Jacques Chirac; so it is urgent for the Socialists to up-date their European thinking.
After a year-long campaign costing $2.5-6 billion (estimates vary widely), President Barack Obama has won a second four-year term, with 49 states reporting their results on election night (Florida, for the second time in four presidential elections, did not).
After the recent elections in the Netherlands and France, a growing chorus is now proclaiming that “peak populism” has passed.
In Iran, much of the middle class backed the most moderate of the candidates acceptable to the country’s Islamic guardians in June’s presidential elections.
It might have been expedient for US President Barack Obama to take a tough stance on China on the same day as Republican primary elections, but it was counterproductive in terms of the rare earths market.
To be sure, he is constantly treading a fine line between jittery markets, EU demands, and partisan maneuvering ahead of national elections in less than a year.
One year later, EU leaders reconvened in Tallinn and adopted a “Leaders’ Agenda” to “guide EU action up until the European Parliament elections in May 2019.”
And it would be absurd to think that Russian President Vladimir Putin will refrain from interfering in Ukraine’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections.
He already had a following, but only last year did his movement formally enter the political arena by taking part in 100 local elections.
In contrast, Russia’s timing suggests that Vladimir Putin seeks to accomplish its aggressive aims ahead of the US elections, thus avoid beginning relations with the next president on an overtly confrontational note.
The decision by Hamas to join the political process by participating in the upcoming legislative elections shows that even this hardline Islamic movement has concluded that our conflict needs to be addressed by political rather than military means.
But, whatever you do in the next few months to win the forthcoming parliamentary elections, please remember that the support that Kadima has received from the Israeli public derives precisely from the fact that it has taken a moderate centrist position.
The current thinking about eventual political solutions envisage provisional elections, followed by a constitutional process that the warring parties accept.
The impression Putin's presidency creates is of autocracy punctuated by elections.
Europe’s New Mission in AfricaThe EU’s military mission to ensure free and fair elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has shown what the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) can achieve in Africa.
Of course, it is not easy for reformers to win elections.
Reformers can win elections if they are better at public communication than the populists.
If not for that, the results of the 2005 elections would most likely have been quite different.
Israel’s New RealismKadima’s victory in Israel’s elections is the country’s most important political turning point in 30 years, if not longer.
Fearing threats to their vast economic empire and their grip on high politics, the generals decided to end the reforms, overturn the results of Algeria’s first democratic parliamentary elections, and remove Benjedid from power.
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