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But they also entail the re-election of representatives and senators, recourse to referendums for constitutional amendments, and independent candidacies.
All members of the presidential election commission are Mubarak appointees, and the new election rules eliminated any independent challengers.
This was a major step toward fairer elections, as the judges’ professional union has remained fairly independent over the past half-century of executive power grabs.
In other words, if countries want to make their own fiscal decisions independent of their eurozone partners, they cannot expect those partners to step in and save them later.
Indeed, can central bankers be truly independent?
This has been shown in recent reports by KPMG/Mercados and Civitas, an independent think tank.
Instead, companies are making independent – and often irrational – investment decisions, which sometimes lead to large losses.
That is why the world needs an independent, internationally recognized legal body to which communities and activists can turn to address environmental crimes.
And they should always disclose their interests, so that proprietary analysis is not mistaken for an independent perspective.
The daughter of the founder of independent Burma, Suu Kyi is now engaged in perhaps the most delicate task of her remarkable political career – trying to engineer a true democratic transition from decades of military dictatorship.
An independent board would oversee the state plan’s administration, relying on a competitive bidding process to select investment managers.
For these reasons, I believe very deeply that, in this stormy region, swept by so many ill winds, threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that accompanies them, the rebirth of an independent Kurdish nation and state will mark an advance.
So the Kurds will soon – very soon, I hope – be free, with their own independent nation-state.
The key to success, according to the Global Ocean Commission’s final report, will be the creation of an independent, transparent mechanism for monitoring, measuring, and reporting on the essential actions needed to achieve the SDG 14 targets, as well as additional UN conferences between now and 2030.
Countries should consider establishing politically independent energy agencies with high technical expertise.
We do not even seek the creation of an independent Kurdish state – just a guarantee of Kurdish rights in a unified Syria.
Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice; independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement; local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias; and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.
For example, in the energy sector, independent power producers are working with governments to provide electricity to 620 million Africans living off the grid.
According to their manifesto, they “expect Navalny to defend the rule of law, support independent courts, and ensure that officials are really accountable before society.”
Gazprom’s ambitions for gaining control of pipeline and energy transport infrastructure must be slowed, which requires allowing independent producers to prosper.
Indeed, independent producers already account for 20% of domestic gas sales in Russia.
Within a year, Polish workers were striking for the right to establish independent trade unions, staging two weeks of sit-ins at state-owned factories to achieve their goal.
In the mid-1980’s, there were about 1,000 independent, uncensored journals in Poland.
Solidarity gained the opportunity to create independent media and a grassroots political organization.
Here, prospects for Congressional approval look more promising, owing to strong voter support, with surveys showing that large majorities of Democratic, independent, and Republican voters support an increase.
Britain may or may not join the Euro, but the policies adopted by Labour – privatization, low budget deficits, low inflation, an independent central bank – are precisely those it would need if it did decide to join.
Some organizations--the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to cite two examples--greeted the referendum results with skepticism, citing the lack of independent foreign observers during the voting.
Putin's real problem is that Khodorkovsky is too powerful and independent for the straitened politics he wants.
Four independent TV channels have also been taken over by the state, and no criticism of Putin is permitted in significant media.
By balancing between ex-KGB people and big businessmen, he seemed independent of both.
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