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Havel was the first important Czech politician to criticize this trend, warning against excessive partisanship and arguing that political parties would become internally weak but outwardly authoritarian if they did not draw inspiration from a vibrant civil society.
Gillard proved herself to be a highly competent transactional politician: ruthless in grabbing the ascendancy when Rudd seemed to be faltering in the polls; highly effective in negotiating with cross-benchers to keep her minority government alive; and successful in gaining huge local and international attention for her passionate parliamentary assault on her opponents’ perceived misogyny.
A smart or cynical politician would see that if somehow middle-class households’ consumption kept up, if they could afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they would pay less attention to their stagnant paychecks.
The former politician spoke passionately: “Populists are at least honest.
It means engaging in costly behavior that is sufficiently extreme that a conventional politician would never want to emulate it, yet not so extreme that it would turn the reformer into a populist and defeat the purpose.
Humala is no novice politician rising to victory on charm and luck.
Toledo, a Stanford graduate and a moderate politician, supported Humala during the campaign and provided him with economic advisers, which proved to be decisive in establishing the credibility of Humala’s retreat from radical policies.
Particularly important for Sarkozy – a politician who wants to get things done – is that the German model can be implemented in France with the right sort of political leadership.
Armenia frequently sees skinheads attacking reporters covering opposition rallies and once severely beating a leading opposition politician.
In these circumstances, every French politician has known for the last 20 years that France has been living with a growing risk that isolated incidents might coalesce into a critical mass of violence.
A living example of this is Afzal Lala, a Pashtun politician associated with the Awami National Party who, despite all the threats from the bloodthirsty Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, remained in Swat through the recent fighting.
For any politician, the battle against political apathy in a media-glutted society is as difficult as the battle against the rival candidate.
Then everyone will denounce this honest politician for having wrecked internationalism.
Right, Left, and MacronPARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron, once viewed as the quintessential centrist, has lately been labeled a right-wing politician.
No politician has publicly stated that US solvency requires such draconian adjustments, because the American public is far from agreeing to the sacrifice needed.
Though headed by a veteran politician formerly of the National Religious Party, the second position on United Jerusalem’s candidate list was filled by Aryeh King, a far-right activist who ran for the Knesset (parliament) with a party called Strength to Israel.
Right or wrong, Gorbachev is that rare politician who admits his culpability for every drop of blood shed in Russia during his years in power.
And, of course, it would also have meant entrusting Britain’s fate to a politician who, though now regarded as an indomitable leader, was widely distrusted at the time.
Then there was the father of modern European populism, the late Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, who had no hair at all.
No other British politician, even during the war, wore the kind of zipped-up boilersuit Churchill adopted.
But why is Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who is not an elected politician (and has promised not to run for election), so hesitant?
Such strong incentives to hoard rather than spend can keep demand low and falling, and unemployment high and rising, for a much longer time than even the most laissez-faire-oriented politician or economist had ever dared contemplate.
Under normal circumstances, an American politician would be in trouble for having employed a figure as compromised as Manafort.
Hariri was the leading Sunni politician, and after his murder both communities found themselves in opposing corners with respect to Syria.
For a political outsider challenging the quintessential establishment politician (the Democrats’ Hillary Clinton), it was an effective tactic.
It is a brave politician who points out how much liberalizing trade and opening up markets have increased our overall prosperity.
A European politician heads the IMF, its board of directors is far more weighted towards Europe than is justified by Europe’s economic relevance, and it is rushing to ease lending conditions to Europe just as EU members are suffering deep insolvency problems.
Notably, the meeting took place under the watchful eye of four members of the Russian secret police (FSB) and was chaired by the Russian politician Sergey Nazarov.
A politician notorious for leaping onto every available conspiracy theory went so far as to suggest foul play.
It is time for believers to pester their clerics – and non-believers to hound those who believe – to provide what no politician can: an injunction to respect all people, regardless of their beliefs.
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