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Having openly predicted that the left will lose the 2017 election, he is cutting his ties to Hollande’s government so that he can position himself as the left’s savior in the 2022 presidential race.
With French politics divided between the left, right, and far right, a split within any bloc almost guarantees that bloc’s exclusion from the second round of next year’s presidential election.
This week, Putin told the United Russia party that he will place his name at the top of its ballot for the parliamentary election scheduled for December 2, which could enable him to become Russia’s new prime minister after the presidential election due in March 2008.
It has been said that presidential democracy only strengthens Russian political culture’s tendency to favor rulers with a “strong hand,” whereas a parliamentary system would allow for a more “horizontal” distribution of power.
Putin's Soft AuthoritarianismA joke making rounds in Moscow nowadays goes like this: Americans didn't know who their President was two months after their last presidential election, but we Russians knew who was going to occupy the Kremlin two years before our recent election.
On the eve of the 2017 French presidential election, many political commentators repeated the mantra, “never two without three.”
Trump harped on this issue often during his presidential campaign.
When US President Barack Obama could not implement his original vision of health-care reform, he sought to compromise with his opponents by basing the reform on a plan developed by a conservative think tank and implemented in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney, Obama’s opponent in last year’s presidential election.
In Kenya’s presidential election, held last month, 51% of registered voters were below the age of 35 years.
The Trouble with HopePARIS – America’s presidential election campaign is being followed in Europe with passionate interest.
But Europeans’ interest in this presidential election cannot mask the fact that what they expect from it is far from clear.
So Europeans are right to be fascinated by America’s presidential election.
In the US, alligator-filled moats and electrified border fences have featured in the current presidential campaign.
But, on the radar of gloom and challenge, one bit of good news – the result of the presidential election in Zambia – scarcely made a blip.
Kenya erupted in violence in 2007, after a presidential election in which the voting, and the subsequent counting of ballots, was deeply suspect.
In 2008, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe refused to accept his loss in a first-round presidential ballot and forced his opponent to drop out for the second.
The consequences of HDZ's collapse shaped the presidential contest.
No American presidential candidate is likely to be comfortable talking about the US as anything other than Number One.
The real danger of the current presidential crisis and its solution for Merkel lies elsewhere, namely in the political calculations that made Joachim Gauck, the new German president, a candidate in the first place.
As a rule, German presidential elections are highly charged events, because they can be an early indicator of emerging new political majorities.
Indeed, all major legislation and reforms are likely to be stalemated until 2013, following a new presidential election.
Second, by the end of Vladimir Putin’s second presidential term, Russia’s modernizing dreams had been shattered.
Doing Well by Doing GoodBERKELEY – If you get most of your ideas about government from speeches by America’s Republican presidential candidates, it’s easy to believe that the US federal government is incapable of doing anything right.
Under “the moribund,” as the Constitution came to be known, Venezuela not only had eight peaceful presidential transitions, but also enjoyed the fruits of democratic pluralism and strong civil and political liberties.
Of course, how the politics plays out will depend on what happens in the US mid-term congressional elections in November, as well as how key figures position themselves for the presidential election in 2016.
And, in view of Hamas’s close links with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, whose political party backed Morsi’s successful presidential run, Israel has restrained its response to terrorist and rocket attacks from Gaza.
In the United States, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is taking Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, to task – quite credibly – for her close ties to Wall Street, eagerness to invade foreign lands, and readiness to embrace free-trade agreements that have undermined millions of workers’ living standards.
After all, confrontations like this are not unusual in Latin America's rigid presidential systems.
Presidential systems therefore risk lengthy stand-offs that threaten democracy--as in Venezuela today.
But over the last decade, Latin American politicians have made presidential systems more flexible by finding innovative ways to remove unpopular presidents.
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