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For the United States, Brexit would be a betrayal of a key element of foreign policy championed by every American president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The problem is no longer too much power in the president’s hands, but too much power in the hands of “veto centers” – including public-sector unions – that are blocking much-needed reforms, including in the health system.
In the short order of June 19, the court said that “the Election Commission shall issue a notice for disqualification and the president is required to take necessary action to ensure the continuation of the democratic process.”
Upon receiving this notification, the CEC was to inform the president that the national assembly needed to be reconvened to elect Gilani’s successor.
The president, the prime minister, and the speaker of the national assembly chose to ignore the court’s order, limiting themselves to responding to a petition moved in the court by the main opposition party.
Under the constitution’s 18th amendment, signed into law by Zardari in the fall of 2010, the president was required to give up almost all executive authority to the prime minister who, along with his cabinet, is accountable to the parliament.
Indeed, Pakistan’s constitution also requires that the president, once elected, must resign from the political party that supported his or her candidacy.
The Consequences of Korean ExtremismSEOUL – Once again, the Korean peninsula is experiencing one of its periodic bouts of extremism, this time marked by the suicide on May 22 of former president, Roh Moo-hyun, and North Korea’s second test of a nuclear device.
Last June, shortly after the successful international agreement on the indefinite extension of the Treaty banning the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the newly elected French president Jaques Chirac announced that France would conduct a final series of tests on Muroroa Atoll.
On the other hand, in Brazil, despite an ongoing corruption scandal that has toppled one president and could topple another, investors recognize that the country’s institutions are working – albeit in their own cumbersome way – and they have priced risks accordingly.
Yet, upon becoming president, he did not simply maintain Chile’s free-market system; he deepened it, signing free-trade agreements with a slew of countries.
Sadly, in making this choice, the president has opted to turn away from the classic American vision engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, expressed in Emma Lazarus’s poem, which begins, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
During Kenya’s democracy movement in the 1990s, one of the most influential was Wahome Mutahi, a humorist who skirted state control to parody the authoritarian president, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi.
In Mutahi’s case, the use of his own family in his parodies was a device intended to demonstrate that petty domestic despotism was no different from the political tyranny orchestrated by an autocratic president.
And, backed by his parliamentary majority, he was recently able to fill vacant judicial posts, making him the most powerful president in Bolivia’s contemporary history.
Coming from a president who won global sympathy – and a Nobel Peace Prize – for his moral stance, the claim that the NSA’s activities are justified because “that’s how intelligence services operate” is particularly disappointing.
In fact, Snowden’s warning that “any NSA analyst, at any time, can target anyone, from a federal judge to the president” suggests that NSA head Keith Alexander – dubbed “Emperor Alexander” – could already be more powerful than Obama.
In the wake of June’s Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s triumph earlier this month in the United States’ presidential election, France, too, could fall victim to destructive populist forces, if voters choose the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen as their next president.
Austria, another German neighbor, may well be about to elect the far-right nationalist Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer as president.
To be sure, France’s two-round voting system, which ensures that the president obtains the support of a majority of voters, makes it extremely unlikely that a radical candidate like Le Pen can take power.
Jens Weidmann, the president of the German Bundesbank, remains openly skeptical.
US President Barack Obama understands – probably better than any previous US president – the significance of international law, which is why he wants to bring countries like China fully within its strictures.
America’s muddled messaging, delivered by a president unskilled in policy nuance or diplomacy, has inflamed a critical relationship, and in turn, jeopardized the fight against ISIS.
Donald Trump’s election as US president has triggered a surge in positive economic sentiment, because he pledged that his administration would aggressively pursue the policy trifecta of deregulation, tax cuts and reform, and infrastructure construction.
MOSCOW – The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitri Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow, America’s president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika .
There are no easy and quick fixes to education – every US president since Gerald Ford in the mid-1970’s has called for educational reforms, with little effect.
Obama in IndiaNEW DELHI – Barack Obama, the sixth American president to visit India since it gained independence, arrives at a trying time, both for the United States and for India.
It is both demeaning and tedious to treat an arriving US president as a stars-and-stripes Santa Claus, to be presented with lengthy wish lists.
Indeed, Obama is placed in a unique position for an American president, a position that he appears to comprehend, though his opponents in the US do not.
The Next Phase of Climate ActionFEZ – Last November, while much of the world was trying to unpack Donald Trump’s election as US president, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 22) was held in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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