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Nonetheless, the participation rate over the last decade is comparable to average turnout in American congressional elections.
More generally, while public interest in the campaign remains far below that seen in national political contests, it has become stronger than in recent pan-European elections, despite the rise of nationalism and Euro-skepticism.
Egypt’s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.
By using the “emergency law,” which has restricted freedom since 1981, together with censorship and rigged elections, Egypt’s government treats its citizens like serfs.
Although his position was weak (on a good day he ranked in the low 90s on a list of Russia’s top 100 politicians, while on a bad day he was absent from the polls altogether), his candidacy in the 1996 presidential elections made casting a ballot worthwhile for at least some Russians.
It would have been too bad had such an exciting event, (after all, Russia remains new to the business of electing presidents, and novelty imparts a festive air to our elections), become just another occasion to register dissatisfaction.
If Gorbachev did not have a chance to win last year's elections, he at least had the chance to run in them.
Economic interests are supplanting ideology as the motor of politics, and money serves as the key instrument in elections.
Since then, the government has installed an unconstitutional Constituent Assembly with full powers, deregistered the three main opposition parties, sacked elected mayors and deputies, and stolen three elections.
The best scenario would be free and fair elections to choose a new government.
But it defies credulity to think that a regime that is willing to starve millions to remain in power would yield that power in free elections.
In Eastern Europe in the 1940s, Stalinist regimes consolidated power despite losing elections.
The fact that the Maduro government has stolen three elections in 2017 alone and has blocked the electoral participation of the parties with which it is negotiating, again despite massive international attention, suggests that success is unlikely.
It is a classic prisoner’s dilemma: all countries are better off if they contribute to a common cause, but the pressure of national elections impedes politicians’ ability to champion that cause.
He has thus become Turkey’s most powerful leader since the country began to hold contested elections in the years immediately following World War II.
With the fall of the dictatorship, attention focused naturally on elections.
But, as post-1989 developments in former communist countries have shown, elections are a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for democratic consolidation.
When elections did take place – parliamentary and presidential – liberal, secular candidates were easily defeated by the Muslim Brotherhood, which had spent decades building an effective network of social and educational services.
So far, the EU has offered to support democratization in Tunisia and Egypt by helping to organize free and fair elections, establish political parties, and reform the police, courts, and local administrations.
For example, even though Obama carried Ohio in the last two elections, its current congressional delegation is 75% Republican.
Though elections may not be free and fair, massive electoral manipulation is rare and the days when only males, whites, or the rich could vote are long gone.
Representation without restraint – elections without the rule of law – is a recipe for the tyranny of the majority.
This should come as no surprise, as the Chinese government does not plan to hold free and fair elections soon.
Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.
Elections must instead be part of a comprehensive process of normalization: they should neither be a deal-breaker nor a non-issue.
Policymakers would pressure it to continue serving up growth for free, particularly in the run-up to elections.
Since 1997, 55-61% of voters have voted for democratic candidates in Legislative Council elections.
Above all in France, because there is a real possibility that the present conservative government could be thrown out of power by a socialist victory in the parliamentary elections in the spring of 1998.
This means ratifying a new treaty on European political integration before the 1998 elections, probably by the middle of next year.
Foreign Policy ForgottenDENVER – For many foreign audiences, the United States’ primary elections for the 2012 presidential vote – which will, alas, continue to rage into the summer – must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy.
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