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The main objective now is to strive for free and fair elections that will ultimately lead to a legitimate and responsible government.
Through this electoral legitimacy (no matter how rigged the elections), Russia's governors secured enormous weight in the political system.
One of the main power bases of the governors is their decisive influence over the voters in their regions who will decide the outcome of this December's parliamentary elections, as well as the presidential elections next June.
By adding the governors to his electoral machine, Primakov has stolen the men who turned the last presidential elections Yeltsin's way.
After the elections, governors may demand that they get direct control of the pork.
The combative pacifist Gregory Yavlinsky of Yabloko and Sergei Stepashin, the former prime minister and architect of the Chechen War, now stand uneasily atop a joint party list for the December Duma elections.
But in Poland's elections of last year the Freedom Union received less than 5% of the vote - much closer to a "normal" level of support for a liberal political movement.
Brexit should be seen as a punishment for events like the 2014 European elections, when it was evident, even before anyone voted, who would become the head of the EU commission, who would lead the EU parliament, and which of the parliament’s factions would be the largest.
After all, by pushing the middle-class tax hikes to a later date, they have designed their plan to get them through the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 general election.
And a stunning defeat in parliamentary elections surely marks the beginning of the end of 16 years of churlish chavismo in Venezuela.
The standard boom-and-bust cycle provides a plausible interpretation: incumbents could win elections only so long as commodity revenues remained high.
Once oil and soybean prices collapsed, according to this view, no anti-democratic antics short of suspending elections (which was intensely rumored in Venezuela) could save the populists from defeat.
In his influential 1997 essay “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy,” Fareed Zakaria coined the term to describe countries that hold elections (of varying fairness) to choose their leaders, yet at the same time restrict civil liberties and democratic freedoms.
That is exactly what happened in Argentina and Venezuela during the run-up to the recent elections.
Three elections were held in Latin America in 2011.
Still, two out of three is not bad in a region where, previously, if elections were held at all, disputes about the outcomes were the norm.
Latin America will witness two important elections in 2012, in Venezuela and Mexico, and one non-election, in Cuba.
In Cuba, there will be no elections, but matters may come to a head next year.
Apparently, winning elections is not enough.
For example, in Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, a billion-dollar banking scandal has spurred a wave of public protests calling for fresh elections.
Central banks need the flexibility to adapt policy to rapid structural change in the economy – and to clean up the mess that elections often leave behind.
What the EU has learned from the results of the last parliamentary elections in Bulgaria is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the leverage of Brussels over new member states increases rather than diminishes after they join.
Democracy promotion by the United States and the European Union generates ridicule when it extends only to elections producing winners found palatable, as Gaza’s vote for Hamas in 2006 did not.
But democracy is not just about the free elections and the constitutional rule of the majority.
Yet, paradoxically, Myanmar’s gradual opening following the 2011 elections and the installation of Thien Sein as president may offer India some measure of vindication.
Maroni’s nostalgia for the lira is little more than a transparent-- and irresponsible-- election ploy by Italy’s Northern League, an attempt to divert blame for the country’s present economic troubles onto Romano Prodi, former EU Commission president and center left candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
The German public — hungry for economic recovery and tired of excuses -- has not been fooled by the euro and ECB bashing of its present government, and handed German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a decisive defeat in the recent North Rhine-Westphalia elections.
No wonder health care is such a big issue in the US midterm elections this year.
Brazil's Watershed ElectionOn October 6th, Brazil will hold its first round presidential elections in a vote that is seen as a referendum on President Fernando H. Cardoso's eight years in power.
When three members of parliament sought to question the Prime Minister – their right, under the Kuwaiti constitution – the parliament was dissolved and elections called.
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