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Another Fine Italian MessROME – A game of smoke and mirrors: this is how Italy’s current electoral campaign appears – both to Italians and the wider world.
The latter option, once unthinkable, is possible because Berlusconi is not running the type of inflammatory electoral campaign that he has in the past.
With public debt expected to stand at 102% of GDP in 2009, rising inflation, and growth of just 0.2%, it will be difficult to keep electoral promises.
So, how can the world escape a cul-de-sac constructed by the short-term perspective of financial markets and electoral politics?
Thus, alternatives will have to be found despite the fact that they all hit groups whose votes governments need for electoral survival.
As a result, Syriza stands to earn a crucial premium under Greek electoral law, according to which the party that gains the most votes is allocated an extra 50 of the parliament’s 300 seats.
Populist parties, both on the far right and the far left, are gaining electoral traction.
Glory in foreign policy is no guarantee of future electoral gains.
For most of the nineteenth century and well into the Cold War era, re-election of a sitting president was generally prohibited in the great majority of Latin American countries, owing to a general fear of leaders remaining permanently in power, abetted by the prevalence of electoral fraud.
With Latin America’s most recent democratic transition, which began in the 1980’s, national constitutions and electoral laws were gradually reformed and modernized.
And so long as the crisis persists, such leaders will continue to resonate with voters, regardless of electoral outcomes.
Although many democracies are plagued by serious maladies – such as electoral gerrymandering, voter suppression, fraud and corruption, violations of the rule of law, and threats to judicial independence and press freedom – there is little agreement about which solutions should be pursued.
At the same time, core governance institutions, like central banks and electoral commissions, should be depoliticized, to prevent their capture by populist opportunists.
The main opposition Socialist Party’s weak electoral prospects are also helping Sarkozy.
Of course, protests were raised, notably from the right, regarding the primary’s constitutionality, the legitimacy of using public facilities for a “private” election, and the legality of using electoral lists that sometimes include confidential information.
Indeed, in Greece’s recent elections, after five years of recession and 20% unemployment, extremist parties from both ends of the political spectrum made substantial electoral gains.
Thaksin’s sins are voluminous, and became the basis of the rise of his yellow-shirted opponents, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which entered the electoral arena as the New Politics Party.
Etemad, a moderate Iranian newspaper, warns that Iran’s support for Maliki has alienated too many Iraqi Sunnis and Kurds over the last eight years, and that, given Iraq’s multi-denominational character, majoritarian democracy based on a unified Shia electoral bloc “will certainly mean the continuation of the crisis in Iraq.”
This was most evident in the maps of the electoral geography of voting for “Leave” and “Remain” in the United Kingdom’s June referendum on European Union membership.
Germany is not the only European country where right-wing populists have made electoral gains in recent years.
Electoral losses or not, you can’t overthrow your chancellor without having a convincing replacement waiting in the wings.
In addition to causing death and destruction, terrorism can have a significant psychological impact on voters and electoral outcomes.
Instead, the news broke, and the opposition Socialist Party received a dramatic electoral boost.
Pensioners’ power - Pensioners are the electoral base of today’s left-wing parties.
Various governments have flirted with pension reforms, but none has progressed far and still survived the electoral test.
In August, opposition candidates like Sergio Massa and Mauricio Macri attracted substantial electoral support with their business-friendly, anti-inflation campaigns, making them likely presidential candidates in 2015.
The observers are to request explicit approval for any visit, interview, or meeting to be carried out at the office of any electoral authority.
The organization is also obliged to abstain from making public statements of any kind until after the results are announced, and to keep all comments and suggestions they make to electoral authorities – including their final report – strictly confidential.
OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro has repeatedly offered to field an electoral mission, only to be indignantly rebuffed by Maduro.
Judging by Rouhani’s resounding electoral victory, it seems that Iranians are willing to give him the chance to attempt to finish what he started.
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