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Instead, those factions’ ever-suspicious members may well begin to question the long-term viability of the system that Putin has constructed.
Abbas wants all the candidates to be included on national lists, which would allow for proportional representation of all major Palestinian factions and groups.
In fact, the PDP has splintered into three warring factions, drastically reducing Obasanjo’s chances to control the succession.
By contrast, when former President Jiang Zemin became General Secretary of the Communist Party following the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, he was able to rely on capable and loyal officials in Shanghai to run the bureaucracy; he then expanded his support base by co-opting other factions in the 1990s.
The attempt to manipulate rival factions, and the use of military power to achieve Moscow’s aims, are familiar to the Tajiks and the Georgians.
Although Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang have already been selected as the next president and premier, respectively, Party factions remain preoccupied with behind-the-scenes horse-trading as the composition of the Politburo Standing Committee is determined.
If, in the meantime, the political system has not acquired more institutional cushioning, and the presidency’s unique legitimacy remains – like today – based merely on the public’s approval of an incumbent surrounded by shady and bickering Kremlin factions, there would be a high risk of chronic destabilisation.
The constraints Putin faces are not constitutional but are formed by the three factions that make up his government.
But, as under Yeltsin, it is the oligarchic faction that dominates, for it controls the Presidential Administration, the Council of Ministers, two centrist parliamentary factions, and much of Russia’s oil, aluminum, railways and nuclear industries.
Kremlin policymaking is largely an interplay between these three factions.
The real problem in policymaking is forging agreement between Putin’s three factions.
The other factions thought that he deserved the hostile criticism that followed in the wake of the Kremlin’s bumbles, and the liberals hoped that this debacle would reinforce independent media.
All three factions applaud the downfalls of media oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, but for different reasons.
After 9/11, several movements, factions, leading jihadists, and individual militants were highly critical of Al Qaeda’s behavior, and began to move towards non-violence, depriving Al Qaeda of tens of thousands of supporters.
Several of its factions still uphold armed tactics, including terrorism.
An official split among embattled and embittered rival factions may very well take place when the ANC chooses a new leader later this year.
This model is being hailed internationally as a possible compromise formula for ending intractable conflicts where atrocities cannot go unpunished but incentives must be found to disarm warring factions.
Despite the cosmetic nature of the “reforms,” other regime factions, most notably those led by Saif al-Islam’s brothers Mutassim, al-Sa’adi, and Khamis, challenged them.
Will his chosen successor belong to one of the Kremlin’s feuding factions?
Elsewhere, that sad pattern of fragmentation has taken hold: Peronismo in Argentina and the Christian Democratic factions of Venezuela, Colombia, and Chile all are politically weak amalgamations.
Despite his apparent grip on most levers of power, Hu lacks the authority of a Deng Xiaoping, and thus must strike a balance among the CCP’s major factions regarding the division of spoils at the top.
The likelihood that factional dynamics will wreak havoc on policymaking has, however, diminished due to significant change in the nature of CCP factions during the past decade.
Beginning with the era of ex-president Jiang, most factions no longer divide along ideological lines.
And because political factions will disagree (as they should) voters will be able to have their say as well.
Should the Al Saud dynasty fall and the country splinter into rival territories ruled by jihadi factions and tribes, the civil wars in Syria and Libya will seem like minor conflicts in comparison.
The Islamic State argues that all Muslims, including all jihadist factions, must acknowledge the caliph as their leader if they are not to live in sin.
Warring factions do not even recognize the notion of unaffiliated noncombatants, and flout international norms of war.
RAMALLAH – When representatives of the two major Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, signed a new reconciliation agreement in Cairo on October 12, the focus was not on those actually doing the signing, Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad and Deputy Head of the Hamas Politburo Saleh al-Arouri.
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.
All Iranian factions blame today's economic crisis on the ruinous 1980-88 war with Iraq as well as on continued US sanctions.
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