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Should Nepal adopt a parliamentary system, an executive presidency, or some combination of the two?
If he wins the presidency, he has said, he will seek to control media criticism.
While his presidency has been widely criticized, it also had significant achievements: legalizing gay marriage, making France a party to the Paris climate agreement, and restoring some balance to social-welfare spending.
Hollande’s biggest flaw was that he could not incarnate the presidency: he simply did not look or sound particularly presidential.
But he has consistently ruled it out, and launched an independent bid for the presidency in November, most likely with an eye toward the long term.
Like Macron, Mélenchon is also standing for the presidency outside of the Socialist fold.
In pursuing the latter, Hollande’s presidency marked a rupture in Socialist politics; the party never explicitly endorsed this new trajectory, and many on the French left now resent Hollande for what they see as a betrayal of their principles.
A Trump presidency would mean the opposite.
In Europe, French politicians moved up the parliamentary ladder in the Fourth Republic, and could aspire to climb to the presidency in the Fifth.
The president – to be directly elected in the future given another AKP-initiated amendment that was approved by a referendum in 2007 – thus maintains the predominant role, which underscores the AKP’s confidence that it will continue to control the presidency in the years ahead.
He, too, offered to share power – retaining the presidency, with its privileges and clout, while ceding the premiership, with its portfolio of troubles but no real power.
This week, the opposition's Stipe Mesic won Croatia's presidency.
In the short time since the decision to elevate Gauck to the presidency, the granite beneath Merkel’s feet has become political quicksand.
There also must be limits on the power of the central government and the presidency, a degree of regions autonomy, and rule of law – in short, the rudiments of a modern state and democracy.
In fact, he was just released from another term in prison when the "Velvet Revolution" of November 1989 catapulted him into the presidency.
Europe's Obama ChallengePARIS – Will the year 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency mark the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations, or will the old divisions linger, nurtured by the depth and gravity of the economic crisis?
The timing is perfect: Italy takes over the EU’s rotating presidency in July.
But some observers worry more about the prospect of a Trump presidency.
On the contrary, until the Egyptian army removed him from the presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was coming to be seen by many as America’s man in Cairo.
A Mousavi presidency could lead to foreign policies that incorporate engagement with the United States and European Union on a number of issues, including Iran’s nuclear program.
Former President Khatami, meanwhile, is reviled by the fundamentalists and the top brass of the Revolutionary Guards, who repeatedly obstructed his reform agenda during his presidency.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is wary of Mousavi, who served as Prime Minister during Khamenei’s presidency in the 1980’s.
During the campaign, he did not try to hide his preference for a strong executive presidency and unabashedly supported the AKP – violating the neutral stance that Turkey’s constitution requires the president to maintain.
In the second year of his presidency, Trump’s administration will likely set its sights on trade, suggesting that the prospect of more trade wars will increase substantially.
German officials and elected members of the European Parliament wield many of Brussels’ levers of power, including the parliament’s presidency, currently held by Martin Schulz.
Trump’s Republican colleagues in the race for the US presidency, such as Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Marco Rubio, stoke similar fears about refugees.
An American friend of mine speculated that, “We might be one terrorist act away from a Trump presidency.”
To be sure, Saakashvili became famous as Georgia’s justice minister for submitting corruption charges against the Shevardnadze family, and early in his presidency was able to reclaim for the state $15 million dollars of the Shevardnadze fortune.
That pose as democracy’s guardian earned Shevardnadze independent Georgia’s presidency at a time when the country was vulnerable to civil war.
So here are ten likely consequences of the Trump presidency, divided equally between the good and the bad.
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