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It is swaying in fierce electoral winds, it was made exclusively in the USA without Mexican help, and it doesn't contain enough candy.
Whatever electoral strengths Le Pen in France or Donald Trump in the US may have, they will almost surely fail in their quests for their countries’ highest offices.
She owed her power to a divided opposition and a first-past-the-post electoral system.
The electoral numbers perhaps best explain the immigration equation’s importance in today’s presidential campaigns.
After stalling for two and a half years, the day before the draft constitution was due to expire, the government hastily pushed through Parliament an alternate draft that preserved strong presidential powers, weakened the bill of rights, and rigged the electoral percentages needed to win the presidency.
Anticipating the 2007 election, the government announced the creation of 47 new electoral districts.
These steps barely veiled an agenda intended not only to guarantee electoral victory, but also to cement political dominance by the Kibaki’s ethnic group.
And if the electoral numbers break down right, she could conceivably assemble a collection of regional and left-wing parties and stake a claim to rule India.
They were also expected to give an electoral boost to Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel who, severely undermined by Hamas’s devastating campaign of suicide terrorism, was on the verge of electoral defeat at the hands of Benjamin Netanyahu.
After his electoral victory, Renzi received early kudos from Blair himself, who claimed that “Matteo has the dynamism, creativity, and toughness to succeed.”
In a political system still feeling the aftershocks of two major earthquakes – the June 2016 Brexit referendum and, a year later, the humiliating electoral setback of the Conservative Party that spearheaded it – there is a clear opportunity for newcomers.
Of course, as Blair suggested, Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system, based on single-member constituencies, implies huge advantages for the established political parties.
Our responsibility is to ensure that we are doing better in each of these areas by 2017, when the current electoral term expires.
Over the past decade, the electoral system was “improved” in such a way that no outcome can lead to a change in the federal government.
Moreover, the opposition’s chances of benefiting from a free and fair election will be enhanced, owing to greater external scrutiny of the election than there was in 2007, when no international electoral observers were present.
Turn Left, Turn RightWARSAW: Electoral fortunes in the transition countries now swing like a pendulum.
Still, there is a kind of normalcy to these electoral shifts.
But in early September, Brazil’s electoral court ruled that Lula’s previous conviction on (dubious) corruption charges disqualified him from running.
Moreover many of these emerging markets face political and electoral risks.
The key to Iran’s new era, however, lies more in the new internal balance of power among Tehran’s political factions than to electoral mandates.
Each time India has voted has been the world’s largest exercise in electoral democracy.
The process involves four million electoral officials and 6.1 million police and civilian personnel.
The numbers involved are so huge that the elections will be staggered over five phases, ending only on May 13, with electoral and security personnel being moved from state to state as polling is concluded in each place.
The electoral rolls carry photographs of every individual voter, as does each voter’s identity card.
In Moldova, citizens continue to protest a controversial electoral law that favors the country’s two largest political parties, at the expense of smaller movements.
This strengthened Hamas, contributing to Hamas’s electoral victory.
For the League, delivering on its electoral pledges is particularly urgent, as it is eager to cement its lead against its former center-right allies – notably, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia – and even M5S before next year’s European Parliament elections.
Manipulation of ideas and electoral processes by cash payments has a long history, and Hitler and Stalin were pioneers in radio attacks.
All have been free, fair, and without corruption under an electoral law drawn up, surprisingly, by the country’s last Bolshevik-style parliament.
It will need to convince Labour politicians that collaboration with Brexit is electoral suicide, and persuade pro-EU Tory rebels that a rebellion would not be futile.
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