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Meanwhile, Donald Trump in the United States and Marine Le Pen in France could very well win their countries’ upcoming presidential elections.
These reserves are put to better use by assisting the IMF in maintaining an open and stable financial system and prevent crises like these from recurringMitt and the MoochersWASHINGTON, DC – The Republican Party has some potentially winning themes for America’s presidential and congressional elections in November.
Only last July, the AKP was overwhelmingly re-elected in free and fair elections to lead the government.
This may be why the Armenian Patriarch urged ethnic Armenians in Turkey to vote for the AKP in last July’s elections.
Given that the AKP’s true power base is its support in democratic elections, any attempt to impose Sharia would risk alienating many of its own voters.
A report by Mueller on Trump’s attempts to obstruct the investigation is expected soon – timed to fall well ahead of the US midterm elections in November.
Although Tunisia, the movement’s birthplace, held multi-party elections in November 2011, disillusionment runs high.
And, while presidential elections are expected to be held in Egypt this month, Tahrir Square remains a theater of bloody protests against the military council that has ruled since former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall.
For Libya, where general elections will be held next month, the situation has become alarming.
International monitors and Western leaders have lauded the elections, which the Arab League deemed “free and transparent” and the European Commission called “a step forward in the reform process that started in April 2011.”
The Algerian National Front, which received nine seats, has denounced the entire process as fraudulent, and has formally requested that the elections be invalidated.
Does the seamless dissemination of targeted propaganda on Facebook still pose a risk to democratic elections?
It is time for Europe to catch up, first by establishing its own special prosecutor to investigate attacks on recent elections, but also by tackling other crimes that arise from the abuse of data.
A poster of Giorgos Pantzas, a Syriza candidate in the 2012 parliamentary elections, proclaiming “No to the Fourth Reich” and “we are not afraid of the bullets of the Germans” helped him to get elected.
Ironically, fate has yoked his survival to George W. Bush, who could not recall the name of this Pakistani leader at the time of the US presidential elections.
It is also reflected in the risk of substantial voter abstention, unusual for a country that takes presidential elections very seriously.
(Here lies another difference from previous elections, which were largely shaped by one or two major issues.)
That is why much of the world – at least the democratic part of it – is watching this most unusual of French elections unfold with bated breath.
It is not that politicians were “bought” in a simple sense; rather, they convinced themselves that financial innovation opened the gate to greater general prosperity, increased home ownership, and, of course, popular support in elections.
When the center left won elections in the past two decades, it did so under a powerful security-oriented leader: Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Sharon (after his conversion), and Sharon’s successor, Olmert.
In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty scandals.
This idea would play well in the Democratic primary elections (which start in early 2016).
The mere thought of such examples leads to the clear conclusion that democracy is not just about elections.
But it is harder to use the rule of law to undermine law than it is to use popular elections against democracy.
"Elections plus" must mean, therefore, democracy plus the rule of law.
That is true even if one takes into consideration the record-low voter turnout in the recent legislative elections.
When Serbia’s new leaders look around, indeed, they can see real progress in the region: in Croatia, which has blazed a democratic trail since elections earlier this year; in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which has nearly concluded negotiations with the EU for a Stabilization and Association Agreement, the first country to do so; in Albania, which is persevering with political and economic reforms; and in Bosnia, where refugee return has accelerated.
Most quoted the OSCE's finding that the elections were riddled with "serious shortcomings."
Those elections were flawed.
This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.
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