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By contrast, Hamas has entered electoral politics only recently, but it is fresh from impressive victories in the recent municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza.
Regardless of the electoral scheme that emerges from this process, Abbas is determined to incorporate Hamas into the Palestinian political system.
With most of its original leadership having been killed by the Israelis in recent years, Hamas’s new leaders seem willing to consider a new stance, as demonstrated by the party’s electoral participation.
Bush’s electoral defeat was blamed on that supposed betrayal.
The seemingly interminable moment between two electoral rounds, a moment in which France seemed to waver, has passed.
Of course, the gap between winners and losers – which broadly corresponds to the electoral map – is not unique to Britain; it has incited populism and other forms of anti-establishment politics across the West.
Scores of volunteers are deployed in electoral campaigning at a grassroots, door-to-door level.
Its electoral program calls for constitutionalism, separation of powers, citizenship-based rights, and the protection of women’s rights.
The middle class has taken charge, while a long-repressed Islamist contender has entered the fray of electoral politics.
WASHINGTON, DC – Last month, Emmanuel Macron pulled the proverbial rabbit from the electoral hat.
But whether Macron, a political newcomer, is more than an electoral wizard will depend on the success, or failure, of the economic program that his government enacts.
Clearly, the United States is now deeply divided in electoral terms.
Gerrymandering – the drawing of electoral boundaries to benefit a particular political party – is no longer necessary.
One frequently hears the assertion that democracies’ electoral cycles are poorly suited to implementing long-term, forward-looking policies.
In an ideal world, these choices would be the focus of electoral debates and parliamentary work.
This means regular elections, a democratic constitution, and civil society, coupled with electoral fraud, skewed representation, human rights violations, and restrictions on civil liberties.
That influence is bolstered by the electoral rules’ inherent bias in favor of powerful parties.
Indeed, no electoral system creates a greater vote-seat distortion than France’s two-round majoritarian system.
While a semi-presidential system like France’s could enable Italy to suppress symmetric bicameralism and reform the worst aspects of its electoral law (known as porcellum, or “the crap law”), thereby improving governability, it would create as many problems as it would solve.
But the presidential and parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the end of November will likely be Africa’s most daunting electoral challenge so far.
That ambivalence might explain the shrugged shoulders at news that DRC electoral registers had allegedly become swollen with hundreds of thousands of fake names.
If Suu Kyi is permitted to campaign free of restraint, for both her own seat and to boost the electoral chances of her NLD colleagues, it will be clear that Thein Sein and his government are truly determined to bring their country in from the cold.
The Times later apologized, conceding that it was not the politicians who were targeted in Palin’s campaign, but their electoral districts.
But India takes electoral convulsions in its stride, and the results triggered no turmoil in financial markets.
But recent electoral successes for at least two of the regional parties – the Trinamool Congress, which rules West Bengal, and now Samajwadi – have fueled speculation that they might be tempted to bring down the central government in order to emerge stronger after early polls.
It might seem that India has too much democracy – elections in one state or another every few months, a fragmented political establishment (with more than 40 parties represented in Parliament), and electoral processes that do little to strengthen a stable system built on two dominant parties.
Ironically, Trump, the self-declared outsider who lost the popular vote and squeaked into office by winning the Electoral College, finds himself, for the moment, in some ways more protected than the party man Nixon, who won the 1972 election by overwhelming popular as well as electoral margins.
Of course, a Westerner might argue that Merkel has an electoral mandate, whereas Xi does not.
With an effective state, and an inclusive and functioning electoral system, Abbas could then disarm his own Fatah-based militia.
As for the pro-change forces, Minister of Information Salah Abd al-Maqsud, a leading figure in the Muslim Brothers’ media wing, will control a sector that continues to attack the group and Morsi, even after his electoral victory.
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