Elections in sentence

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Nevertheless, the elections represented significant progress.

At the same time, 17% of all candidates were women, far more than in earlier elections.

Defying such sour predictions, voters clearly felt that elections matter.

Equally important, no newspapers were closed, stories suppressed, or journalists harassed, as occurred in earlier Kazakh elections.

At the same time, the process as a whole further legitimizes elections in the eyes of people accustomed by Soviet rule to dismissing all votes as charades.

Kazakhstan's elections mark a big step forward.

The defeat of the Democrats in the mid-term elections in 1994, followed by the Monica Lewinsky affair, hampered the effectiveness of one of America’s most energetic and gifted Presidents.

Likewise, elections become less vulnerable to corruption and fraud when voters are properly registered.

Overthrowing a totalitarian regime and organizing elections may be hard, but the harder task is to go from voting to establishing a true democracy.

A Tale of Two ElectionsLONDON – Individual elections do not always enhance democracy – a useful reminder that the ballot box is only one part, albeit a central one, in any free, plural society.

Of course, there are also magnificent examples of elections that strengthen both the stability and the institutions of a community.

But turnout for these elections has been falling in several countries.

But there is another reason for the lack of interest in the EU elections.

So the questions that dominate national campaigns have little impact on European elections.

This is especially true in India, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Indonesia, all of which suffer from multiple macroeconomic and policy weaknesses – large current-account deficits, wide fiscal deficits, slowing growth, and above-target inflation – as well as growing social protest and political uncertainty ahead of elections in the next 12-18 months.

The reason is simple: as the 2006 elections approach, reforms have been shifted off the political agenda.

While it is true that presidential elections in an age of social media and infotainment are as much about personalities as they are about party loyalties, perhaps more so, parliamentary elections are much less likely to follow this template.

How many seats either will have after the mid-June parliamentary elections is anyone’s guess.

His success at expanding access to health, education, and housing has enabled him to win three general elections – each with a greater share of the popular vote than previously.

For now, it is promising to learn that the proposed law would pertain only to the period preceding elections – a delicate moment in the public life of a democracy.

Now the Social Democrats’ popular support hovers at around 30%, and the last two elections yielded the worst results in a century.

Lula's LegacyMEXICO CITY – The first round in Brazil’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for October 3, may turn out to be the only round.

As an opponent of the military dictatorship that ruled his country years ago, Lula advocated respect for human rights, free and fair elections, and representative democracy.

Pensioners have the highest propensity to vote (73%); students and the unemployed are among the least likely to turn out for elections.

If Zenawi consolidates his hold on power in the parliamentary elections due this May, the world should expect the stability that he has brought to take deeper root.

The results of Iran’s recent municipal elections were humiliating for Ahmadinejad and his supporters.

Those elections would have been unthinkable in Nazi Germany.

The tide has turned in part because voters in recent elections seem to have shifted from the center left to the center right, or at least re-confirmed their more conservative convictions.

As recently as June 7, the Bolivarian countries were able to block Honduras’ re-instatement into the OAS, despite the essentially free and fair elections that were held there last November.

As his term winds down (the next presidential elections are two years away), he will be even less inclined to involve Mexico in foreign adventures.

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