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What has changed is Britain’s domestic politics: a prime minister too weak to control his roughly 100 anti-European backbenchers (call them the “High Tea Party”) in the House of Commons, and a Conservative establishment wary of the UK Independence Party’s rise, which could cost the Tories enough votes on the right to give Labour an electoral advantage.
A ludicrously short three-year electoral cycle makes it almost impossible to govern in a campaign-free atmosphere.
Nonetheless, there are messages in our experience that resonate not just domestically, but also for parties in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere that share some of the ALP’s social-democratic and center-left ideological traditions, and that are also struggling to win or retain electoral support.
According to the European Union’s electoral observers, there was a “serious loss” in the election’s democratic quality, while Nicaragua’s own election monitors, its chamber of commerce, and the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church called the voting “not transparent” and demanded the resignation of the entire Supreme Electoral Council.
Unfortunately, the OAS – though bound by the Inter-American Democratic Charter – has failed to act, revealing that it is not prepared to address the gray areas of electoral fraud.
Ortega’s re-election to a third term, prohibited by Nicaragua’s constitution, completes the last stage of a “coup from above,” in which a government that came to power as a democratically elected political minority in 2006, uses its control of state institutions – the courts and electoral machinery, in particular – to undermine the rule of law.
In most of Latin America, electoral fraud has become a thing of the past.
The November 6 elections set a record for lack of transparency, so much so that the EU observers declared them to be “not verifiable,” while the OAS envoy, Dante Caputo, confirmed that his observers were arbitrarily expelled from 20% of the electoral boards selected for monitoring.
His behavior reflected his conviction that only party control of the electoral apparatus can guarantee an overwhelming parliamentary majority.
Excessive reliance on debt finance has undermined basic tenets of democracy, with government finance increasingly determined not by electoral cycles and political deliberation, but by repayment schedules.
As a result, the lesson about the economy’s electoral salience is being subtly reformulated.
And the perception can be far removed from reality, which means that the more the prevailing political wisdom assigns decisive electoral importance to the economy, the greater the temptation to view monetary policy’s impact on asset prices, and not on long-term growth, as crucial.
Whether the debacle reflected the BJP’s unfortunate choice of coalition partners or its emphasis on growth when too many Indians had not benefited from it, the lesson for politicians was that growth did not provide electoral rewards.
Political and/or electoral risk can be found in all of them, loose fiscal policy in many of them, and rising external imbalances and sovereign risk in some of them.
Only the presence of the ECC, particularly its international commissioners, and the hope that it would ensure at least some fairness into the process prevented the electoral controversy from erupting into open conflict.
Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in dubious electoral practices, compromise their courts’ independence, or discriminate against minorities.
But a closer look at voting data reveals many challenges in Pakistan’s push for electoral equality.
But how can the status quo be changed, and female electoral turnout increased?
For starters, the electoral system is tipped sharply in Labour’s favor.
They devised an electoral system whereby Poles would not vote for candidates of their choice, but would cross out those they did not want – which is to say, each and every communist.
The generals subsequently worked hard to limit Thaksin’s electoral power.
But the practice of electoral politics also gives us reason for optimism.
When Islamist groups are denied access to electoral politics, their cause takes on a mythic aura.
Also in the 1990’s, largely thanks to the leadership of then-President Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico adopted non-partisan federal electoral institutions that in 2006 proved able to resolve successfully a disputed election.
The political opposition would have little capacity to organize an effective campaign in an environment in which Mugabe has shut down independent media, rewritten electoral rules, and used the police to pummel – literally – his adversaries.
For now, however, the SADC should, at long last, tell Mugabe that he must step aside, and it should take responsibility for managing an electoral process whose result Zimbabweans will recognize as fair, thereby providing the legitimacy needed for recovery to begin.
This culminated in poor electoral results for the ruling coalition in November 1999.
That does not mean forcing it to follow an unrealistic and potentially dangerous electoral ritual just because it is embedded in UN regulations.
Indeed, the vote ended the post-communist period in Poland, as the heirs to the Polish Workers’ Party, the Democratic Left Alliance, did not achieve the 8% threshold needed for electoral coalitions to gain parliamentary seats.
And the party has a track record of contradicting its own electoral platform: Back in 2005, for example, after promising “Polish solidarity” with the poor, it eliminated the top tax bracket and the inheritance tax.
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