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Now that it ventured to the other side of the world and fared poorly, it is unlikely to want to pursue other futile projects, such as reforming the OAS, deterring further confrontation between Venezuela and Colombia, or ensuring free and fair elections in Nicaragua.
The result of the US midterm elections was also good news.
Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.
The most fundamental of these values is democracy, understood to entail not merely periodic elections, but also active and meaningful participation in decision making, which requires an engaged civil society, strong freedom of information norms, and a vibrant and diversified media that are not controlled by the state or a few oligarchs.
So far, nothing new: the RN and the UDI – which differ mainly in their attitude towards the military government from which they emerged (the RN being the more self-critical) – have been the main challengers in all the previous elections.
Perhaps observers believe that a clear result in November’s elections, one way or the other, would help to settle things.
At one moment he is the “responsible” world leader who speaks charmingly to the international media about moderate Islam; at the next, he is the cunning conspirator who rigs elections, destroys political opponents, breaks promises on relinquishing power, enters into mutually beneficial relationships with mullahs, and castigates human-rights activists as “Westernized fringe elements” that “are as bad as the Islamic extremists.”
Now that the DPJ has won the most recent upper- and lower-house elections, Ozawa’s faction has become the largest by far within the party.
Three weeks before last September's elections, opinion polls gave it 7-8 % of the vote.
Practically, this must all be wrapped up before mid-December, when a new president should, and must, be elected in free and fair elections supervised by the UN and the OAS.
People do vote against crime and corruption as we could see in the Ukrainian and Belarussian elections in 1994.
Gubernatorial elections this November will force Kurdish political contenders to offer opposing programs, and some candidates will seek electoral advantage via populist calls for independence.
As Democrats focus on Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, Trump’s ties to Russia, and the details of Trump’s closed-door conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July, they will be faced with the prospect of signing off on increased defense spending or else appearing dithering and hypocritical on Russia.
But elections by themselves don’t bring democracy.
Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, loves elections.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been holding elections for 27 years.
Elections are meaningful only if they are perceived to be free and fair, which requires independent referees.
So it is a shock to us that the US State Department keeps talking about free and fair elections and abolishing the state of emergency, but without mentioning the reinstatement of the judges – including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – that Musharraf illegally dismissed.
If the judges are not reinstated, how can there be free and fair elections?
So all our elections, except for one in 1970, have been rigged.
And, as past US elections have made clear, rhetoric may well bear little relation to reality.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Germany, not to mention the United States, extreme right-wing, authoritarian, populist, and anti-establishment political forces have gained power – or at least increased their influence over the government – by participating in democratic elections.
Less than a year after his narrow victory over opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential elections, Tymoshenko was arrested on trumped-up contempt charges.
Europe and the rest of the world are aware of this; but they don't vote in American elections.
Elections are either canceled or faked.
Vladimir Putin’s massive electoral triumph in this week’s Duma elections has put the lie to that notion.
The US may be one of the world’s most successful democracies, with regular elections and a representative government that is supposed to be – in Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase – “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Elections provide people with the opportunity to vote, but that is not the same thing as giving them a voice, much less ensuring that raised voices are listened to.
Though analysts differ on whether this populist wave is fleeting, whether it will seriously harm European Union policymaking, and whether it will be sustained in national elections, they tend to agree on at least one thing: support for such parties is often grounded in anti-migrant sentiment.
To the Victors Go the FoilsNEW YORK – A surprising number of elections and political transitions is scheduled to occur over the coming months.
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