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In the 2005 national elections, barely 40% of those eligible voted, the lowest total since the advent of free elections after the communist period.
This hope was reinforced through the 1990s and 2000s, when officials began to experiment with elections at the village level, and the CPC leadership changed regularly after two terms.
Instead of moving towards peace and democracy, the situation in Iraq remains so dangerous that Paul Bremer, the American occupation leader, is using instability as his rationale for avoiding democratic elections this year.
In a recent joke, an interviewer asks Putin what happened to his favorite dog's puppies, whose birth he proudly announced during last December's parliamentary elections.
These "technologies" range from producing decoy political parties and legally persecuting opponents to publishing fake polls and falsifying elections.
Of course, electorates have been cheated, bribed, and blackmailed for as long as there have been elections.
Created by the presidential administration two months before the December parliamentary elections, "Motherland" split and practically collapsed two months after its amazing victory.
At least seven general elections will be held in European Union member countries this year (and France will hold regional elections in March).
Greece has already voted (electing a government that so far seems unable to move beyond intentions and commitments), and the coming months will bring elections in Estonia, Finland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Portugal, Poland, and Spain.
Within Japan, there is growing controversy over the Hatoyama government’s push for a law that would allow particular foreign residents on the island to vote in local elections.
So far the answer has been no, and the midterm elections make it far less likely.
In the midterm elections, which Trump himself described as a referendum on his presidency, the Democratic candidates for both the House and Senate vastly outpolled their Republican opponents.
Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, widespread popular movements against rising inequality and elite greed are becoming highly salient issues in looming national elections.
The trend is reinforced as elections become more expensive in both countries, leaving politicians increasingly dependent on contributions from wealthy donors who demand policies that are favorable to their interests.
Typically, losers of Nigerian elections accuse their opponents of cheating and ask the courts to determine the “real” winner.
It is likely that the Guardian Council, which can veto legislation and bar candidates from standing in elections, will use its power to shift the balance in favor of Ahmadinejad’s conservative critics.
Since the 1970s, no government has maintained a majority in the Bundesrat for very long, with the opposition in the Bundestag gaining a majority in the Bundesrat after mid-term state elections.
His legitimacy rested on free elections and his project for economic and social justice.
Early elections would divert attention from a serious effort to discover what really happened, although a new cabinet and resignations by autonomous judicial and investigative bodies would help restore faith in these key institutions.
Its fairly well-developed political parties competed on a level playing field, elections were held when the constitution so required, and transfers of power occurred without violence.
This has to be one of the most sobering lessons from this past year: outrageous lies and hollow promises can win even the most consequential elections.
On the left, catastrophic results for the ruling Socialists in municipal elections in March revealed the depth to which Hollande’s popularity has sunk.
At that point, however, Macron will face a whole new set of challenges, starting with legislative elections that are scheduled for June.
In fact, the Catholic nationalist right has won around 30% of the vote in Polish elections since 1989 with consistently anti-Semitic, anti-EU, anti-immigrant, and anti-Russian appeals.
Whatever happens in the March 2012 presidential elections, the political mobilization of the middle class will eventually lead to democratization.
The army leadership ordered elections, permitted the formation of a civilian government, and then stage-managed the political process from the wings.
This led some to support the Algerian government's military crackdown after Islamists won the first round of 1991 legislative elections.
The recent elections in Bosnia show that the electorate is still ethnically oriented.
In North Africa, two Islamist parties have come fully to power via democratic elections: al-Nahda (Renaissance) in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, and the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in Morocco, both of which now lead new coalition governments.
Supporting closer ties with India has become a rare example of bipartisan US foreign policy, and it can be expected to continue regardless of which party controls the White House or Congress after this November’s elections.
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