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The Uttar Pradesh elections gave Modi a strong mandate.
Across Central Europe since 1989, elections have oscillated between right and left.
Despite the fact the region is still recovering from decades of communist mismanagement, the political right's fragmentation helped the political left, in some cases represented by former Communists, to win democratic elections regularly.
Likewise, polls and elections signal the ascent of populists across Europe, while financial markets’ vulture-like behavior stems from the cynical calculation that the EU lacks the wherewithal to restore its credibility.
Speaking from the heartland of the troubled South, I can attest to the fact that the need for austerity has been the leitmotif of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government, a course that gained explicit popular support in the recent elections.
As the recent hacking of the Democratic Party in the United States shows, it has cyber capacities that enable it to be enormously meddlesome in Western elections.
In short, moderate political forces still enjoy the support of more than 70% of Germans – in contrast with, say, Austria, where the far right was able to gain 36% in the first round of presidential elections.
Since the last European elections, however, the continent’s politics have undergone a profound transformation, with 41 new parties winning seats in national parliaments since 2014.
Earlier this year, they staged partial, and tightly regulated municipal elections, with no independent opinion permitted to influence when and how the ballots were held.
Experience from European elections suggests that investigative journalism and alerting the public in advance can help inoculate voters against disinformation campaigns.
It will become part of the background noise of elections everywhere.
The best way to avoid a confrontation between the people and the security forces is a process of genuine reform leading to elections and a government of national unity.
The king was compelled to hand power back to the political parties, while a peace agreement emerged that ended the conflict, bringing the Maoists into an interim parliament and government and promising elections to a Constituent Assembly.
Given that the elections to the Constituent Assembly needed to ensure their representation, a complex system of quotas was devised.
Even with the spread of democratic elections, the region’s leaders tend to come from the ranks of soldiers (Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe), family dynasties (Togo, Kenya, etc), or university professors, lawyers, and economists (Ghana, Malawi, Liberia).
But are the results of the parliamentary elections due this coming January truly a foregone conclusion?
In the past, that dividing line separated right and left, but the line at the forthcoming elections will run between the federal center and the regions.
That discontent will likely gather momentum as elections near, which may be enough to stop the federal authorities from meeting their strategic goal of winning an unchallengeable majority of seats in the new Duma.
So the real issue in the forthcoming Duma elections will be how powerfully regional elites confront Putin.
After all, if politicians could not win elections by taking money from some-including future generations, which will have to foot a portion of the bill-and giving it to others, they would have to work much harder to display some ability in producing public benefits for all.
Politicians are willing to go to great lengths to please their supporters and win elections.
This October local elections will be held.
The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.
So the announcement that he wants competitive presidential elections is an important first step.
The real groundswell this time seems to have come from the close timing and positive outcomes of recent elections in Iraq, Palestine, and to a lesser degree in Saudi Arabia.
Elections across Europe and in the US have repeatedly demonstrated that automated social networks can be exploited to undermine democracy.
And assessments of how the shutdown will affect the Republican Party’s fortunes in the 2014 midterm elections are rife.
But the country’s social and economic divisions will ultimately find political solutions, through elections and the efforts of millions of Americans to achieve fundamental reforms.
European stocks even rose in the week following last month’s inconclusive Italian elections.
But his party, the Civic Democrats (ODS), lost the June 1998 elections to the Social Democrats (CSSD), whom Klaus vilified before the elections as a threat to democracy.
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