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The president.
This president is very much in charge.
But that is its flaw: it stands only for the president.
The regulations governing clearances are straightforward: the president has the power to deny access to official secrets if someone is found to have compromised classified information or is at risk of doing so.
The presidency of Mohammad Khatami, an avowed reformer, who served eight years, beginning in 1997, convinced the Supreme Leader that his authority would be assured only if the presidency was held by a subservient fundamentalist such as the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Several ayatollahs opined that such talk about the Mahdi is unbecoming of a president or, worse, indicative of an unstable leader.
China’s Hidden DemocratizationSHANGHAI – Since Xi Jinping was anointed as China’s new president, reports of official repression of dissent have hardly abated.
China’s president and prime minister are both limited to two five-year terms.
He was the first Arab president to be criticized on state-owned TV (that is, without the critic disappearing afterwards).
Participation in the Winter Olympics and willingness to sit down with Trump have already given the North a propaganda boost, and a summit with the US president will confer legitimacy on Kim.
The US constitution assigns senators the responsibility to confirm, by majority vote, the president’s cabinet nominees.
And besides, the constitution gives the president wide latitude in foreign policy.
It was only when another moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, took office in 2013 that hope for a negotiated solution could be revived.
Néstor Kirchner, Cristina’s husband and Argentina’s current president, did not want to run for office again, despite being legally permitted to do so and voters’ preference for him over her.
In Argentina, unlike in the US, re-election is unlimited, as long as the president does not exceed two consecutive periods in office.
“Buy two for the price of one,” Bill Clinton joked about ruling couples when he first ran for president in 1992.
No one believes that such an edifice can be detached from the government, or that he will abstain from taking part in his wife’s decisions as president.
Néstor and Cristina will be dealing with a parliament that is much weakened: laws passed by legislators close to the government allow the president to “correct” the budget and issue “necessary and urgent” decrees that substitute for laws.
But the US president’s first instinct should be to defend the international order against rising threats, while making adjustments to account for new realities.
After all, this is a president who campaigned on a platform of “America first” nationalism, bet on the far-right French populist Marine Le Pen, and applauded the outcome of the Brexit referendum, even musing that other countries should consider following the UK out of the EU.
It is now up to Europe’s leaders and the Trump administration’s more responsible members, such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis, to prevent the US president from harming the EU.
And, in a speech of great depth, Mohamed Morsi, the first Egyptian president to visit Iran since the Islamic Republic’s birth in 1979, firmly rejected the Syrian regime, as he did in a subsequent appearance before the Arab League as well.
2.During a recent visit by U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson, Ireland’s former president, Iran pledged not to sponsor attempts to kill Salman Rushdie, the author of the “Satanic Verses” who was sentenced to death by the late Ayatollah Khomeini for blasphemy against Islam.
Moreover, the Lisbon Treaty will probably start being implemented during the French presidency, with nominations for the future EU leadership, including a permanent president, and steps to shape the future European External Action Service, essentially an EU foreign ministry.
A Star is JailedBANGKOK – Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US$15 million in bribes and kickbacks.
There is no underplaying the significance of the court’s unanimous decision to convict the first Philippine president ever to undergo a criminal trial.
For US President Barack Obama, the breakthrough is a chance to cement his legacy as a transformative president, like his models Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt – even if, in ending nearly six decades of failed policy, he more closely resembles Richard Nixon, who presided over the opening to China.
Perhaps the most prominent such scandal concerns the string of revelations tying Trump’s administration to Russia, including the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over “misleading” the vice president about the nature of his pre-inauguration conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the US.
No highway or airport named after a US president will come close.
Perhaps Trump will follow the example of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan’s first president for life, and start renaming the months of the year, beginning with “Trumpuary.”
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