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To escape their current rut, European leaders must follow Renzi’s example, using the populists’ platforms – from social networks to local elections – to regain popular support for a project that is critical for European countries’ collective future.
What is clear is that the recent elections in Iraq and Palestine, together with the swelling protests against Syria’s distorting influence on Lebanon’s democracy, have reinvigorated debate about political reform within Egypt.
Other provisions include curbing the far-reaching powers granted to the President in the 1971 constitution and introducing direct presidential elections with multiple candidates.
The next scheduled presidential election is not until 2012, as are elections to the Senate, whose assent is needed for most legislation.
One alternative, called “parliamentarized presidentialism,” retains direct presidential elections, which many societies still demand.
At the January meeting of the ECB’s Governing Council, for example, Trichet virtually pre-announced that European interest rates would be increased in March just before the April French elections.
Even the Italian elections in late February seem not to have upset markets too much (at least so far).
The recent congressional elections, which strengthened the opposition, could be a sign of general discontent with Venezuela’s current institutional arrangements – and with the deterioration of its democracy.
Moreover, Nicaragua’s record on democratic consolidation is also poor: the 2008 municipal elections were criticized by observers and the opposition as fraudulent, and the separation of powers has been seriously weakened by Ortega’s desire to remain in power after his term expires in 2012.
Little did the world know then, economies would collapse, currencies would become worthless, elections would be stolen, regimes would fall.
Rarely has one country intervened so heavily in another country’s elections as Russia did here.
The most obvious risk is that the elections are not concluded or that Yushchenko is denied executive power.
Ukraine needs early parliamentary elections, but that is constitutionally difficult to accomplish.
If Europe conveys the impression that its friendship with America depends on who wins the US presidential elections, it is likely to freeze the transatlantic relationship for years.
In functioning democracies, the political drama usually remains confined to elections and referenda – such as the British vote to leave the European Union and the US presidential election, won by the populist outsider Donald Trump.
The joint declaration by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, calling for a “broad-based government” and “free and fair elections” in Egypt stands in stark contrast to the embarrassed silence that was heard at the outset of Tunisia’s democratic uprising.
Applied to Greece, this view implies that the country’s fiscal crisis resulted from an overreaction by world financial markets to local political difficulties (excessive spending by the Greek government before last year’s elections).
Nearly all the major institutional reforms, such as strengthening the legislature, holding village elections, and building a modern legal system, were launched in the 1980’s.
And, indeed, when it comes to China, Trump is betting that a hostile tone, backed by reckless but impressive threats, will divert American voters’ attention from serious domestic problems ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Supported by roughly 15% of the population, the party had some success in the latest European Parliament elections, as well as in national and local polls.
The IMF, for a change, did a good job, providing interim financing and throwing its political backing behind Lula after the elections.
Nor is it easy to create consensus in Israel, especially as its political parties prepare for elections next year.
Bill Clinton’s administration began with a lack of discipline, a failed attempt at health-care reform, and a loss for the Democrats in the 1994 midterm elections.
It ended with another three elections that attested to increasing political polarization.
(In France, moreover, the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, showed its strength in the first round of December’s regional elections, though it eventually failed to win any).
At any given moment, some countries may have voted for radical parties, while others have not (or simply have not held elections).
Whenever the government does address basic public welfare issues, its efforts merely produce dependent individuals who submit to the will of a self-selected group of leaders who are "elected" from time-to-time by fake elections.
Since Ortega reclaimed the presidency in 2007 (he had left office in 1990 after losing an election to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, and lost presidential elections in 1996 and 2001), his regime has steadily slid toward authoritarianism.
The two-party system worked reasonably well for two centuries, because both parties had to compete for the middle ground in general elections.
As a consequence, activist-dominated party primaries took precedence over general elections.
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