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Moreover, although Bush has given mainly national security reasons for his seeming change of heart, America’s federal system, helps the country get around even a roadblock as powerful as the president, as “localism” promotes eco-political initiatives at the state level and even within municipalities.
Political climate change has also been brought about by people like Jerome Ringo, the president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) , whose 4.5 million members make it one of the largest environmental organizations.
Many mergers and acquisitions require the president’s personal approval.
So Amien Rais' assurance that Megawati will remain president until 2004 will not have injected a greater urgency into her presidency.
That reception was, of course, intended to nurture India’s collective ego, which had sensed a Sino-centric tilt to American policy ever since Obama became president.
There is a great deal of money to be made by cozying up to the Russian and Chinese regimes (as the US president knows only too well).
And European citizens would likely object if the EU suddenly abandoned its principles simply to appease an unpredictable US president.
“I speak English more fluently than the former president,” the Socialist leader insisted, referring to the outgoing Nicolas Sarkozy.
“But a French president must speak French!”
Hollande is unlikely to be less friendly with America than was Sarkozy, regarded by many as France’s most pro-US president.
So do Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and, indeed, Merkel herself.
In a recent interview, Hollande declared that, “France is not just any European country, and its president is not just any world leader.”
The president may have “saved” 1,000 jobs in Indiana by bullying and cajoling the air-conditioner manufacturer Carrier; but the US dollar’s appreciation since the election could destroy almost 400,000 manufacturing jobs over time.
But, as the vacillation in financial markets since Trump’s inauguration indicates, the president’s inconsistent, erratic, and destructive policies will take their toll on domestic and global economic growth in the long run.
But Obasanjo’s adversaries have joined the battle, and the president lacks the two-thirds majority needed in both the federal and state legislatures to remain in power after next year.
Northern governors oppose a third term for Obasanjo because they believe it is now their turn to choose Nigeria’s president under a deal, struck with their southern counterparts when democracy was introduced in 1999, for regional rotation of the presidency.
Indeed, even southern governors who are not reliable Obasanjo allies appear determined to maintain their influence within the central government by ensuring that the country’s next president is a southerner.
Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue in exchange for their support for a northern president.
The Right Way to Judge Chinese GovernanceHONG KONG – Following China’s “two sessions” – the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body – all Western observers, it seems, are discussing the removal of the two-term limit for the president.
By removing the presidential term limit, China’s leadership is improving its chances of success, by opening the way for Xi and his vice president, Wang Qishan, to go further in realizing this vision.
He doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed, after all, as “the president of Africa.”
“The administration plans over a number of years to put a substantial amount of money into agricultural development,” Obama’s choice for Secretary of State for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, said in advance of the president’s trip.
In 1957, when legal segregation seemed entrenched in the US, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, used the occasion of his country’s independence from Britain to highlight the injustices experienced daily by black Americans.
The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.
Indeed, no French president would ever think of exporting democracy.
As de Gaulle wished, the French president has powers without equal in any other Western democracy.
Military and foreign affairs – what the French system deems the president’s “reserve domain” – are always in the president’s personal control.
But when president and parliament are controlled by the same party – Nicolas Sarkozy’s current situation – the “reserved domain” knows, in practice, no limit.
But what Guterres may not realize, or at least doesn’t publicly acknowledge, is that Uganda’s strongman president, Yoweri Museveni, has instigated or exacerbated many of the conflicts from which the refugees now living in his country have fled.
Kennedy’s speech provoked a highly positive response from his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, who called in the US envoy and told him that the speech was the finest by any American president since Franklin Roosevelt.
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