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Its Peace and Security Council met and expressed the AU’s categorical rejection of any attempt to create a fait accompli that undermines the electoral process.
It is vital that Africa and the international community take a stand against such strategies – not only to defend the votes of Ivorians, but as a signal to others in the future that legitimate electoral results must be respected.
In Germany, where European Union policies have been highly controversial since 2008, the electoral campaign was remarkably colorless.
That is a serious problem for Europe’s leaders: the electoral earthquake is big enough for them to feel compelled to respond to their citizens’ economic and political discontent; but they do not know what that response should be.
Clinton says that, judging by Bush’s electoral campaign, the security issues that seemed to concern him most were Saddam Hussein and the construction of a large-scale antimissile defense system.
Electoral success, it appears, fades fast nowadays.
And not only the right: liberal intellectuals like Mark Lilla of Columbia University are making the increasingly persuasive case that identity politics is bad electoral politics.
The candidate who crosses the threshold of 270 electoral votes wins the presidency.
In almost every state, a candidate who wins 50.1% of the popular vote is awarded 100% of its electoral votes.
Congress convenes and “counts” the electoral votes; but this, too, is a mere formality.
Now, here’s where it can get convoluted, and possibilities for mischief arise: if no one wins 270 Electoral College votes, the election goes to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation casts a single vote, regardless of how many voters the delegation represents.
The EC claimed that it delayed the announcement on Gujarat so that the electoral Code of Conduct (which would restrict government spending in the state) would not impede flood relief.
Politicians, on the other hand, lie during electoral campaigns and once in office, with few or no consequences.
The recent electoral triumph of Yukio Hatoyama’s untested DPJ thus confirmed the popular wish not to follow America’s free-market model.
By the time I became Finance Minister that February, after Syriza’s electoral victory, the bank run was in full swing and stocks were in free fall.
The problem with such intrusive oversight is that political issues that incite the strongest passions -- such as determining electoral lists -- are suppressed when an international body offers and imposes its own solutions.
Likewise, a reform program cannot be implemented if inequality, poverty, and social frustration strengthen extremist political parties, such as Greece's overtly fascist Golden Dawn party or France's far-right, anti-Europe National Front, which now boasts 25% electoral support.
But, while African solutions for the constitutional, electoral, and economic questions that the country faces are sought and debated, the reality of torture and abductions is an urgent matter that literally cries out for immediate intervention.
But I see that as an improbable outcome, given the growing diversification of Muslim identities in the new context of political freedoms, secular parties’ efforts to keep the Muslim Brotherhood within electoral politics, and the profiles of the three leading presidential candidates, none of whom want the Egyptian Revolution to be captured.
Using his case to stoke fear of an Islamic threat to society might make electoral sense for Sarkozy.
Other decisions have dealt with taxation, social legislation, or electoral laws.
The reverberations are being felt around the world, and they will continue to have an impact – far beyond Europe – on public policy, electoral politics, media freedom, and more.
Polls indicate that, despite a rigged electoral system, his party will suffer serious setbacks.
Add to this the disillusionment with the BJP of the “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” (so called because they are enumerated in the Constitution) and the ruling party’s electoral weaknesses become clear.
And they regard this outcome as the worst-case scenario, one that implies a delay of any further economic measures, deep policy uncertainty, and the risk of an even less favorable electoral outcome.
Indeed, far from being an electoral revolution, only two of those elected – Barghouti and Muhammad Shtayyeh, who has headed PECDAR, the Palestinian agency that promotes transparency and economic development – can be considered at all critical of the Fatah establishment.
But the Communists also have themselves to blame for their electoral debacle.
By splitting the "reform" vote, both parties failed to win any seats in the Duma because neither surpassed the 5% electoral threshold.
The fleeting humiliation of an electoral defeat is just a footnote that was by and large inevitable.
The most urgent, feasible, and relevant steps involve electoral and legal reforms aimed at avoiding a repeat of the current protests over the presidential vote.
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