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Members of the presidential military staff were told to carry handguns.
The surprise decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow direct and competitive presidential elections may be a giant step for democracy in Egypt and the Arab World.
Under the current system, Egyptian citizens can only show up on the day of a presidential referendum every six years and say yes or no to the single name that appears on the presidential ballot.
So the announcement that he wants competitive presidential elections is an important first step.
In previous Tunisian presidential referenda, Bin Ali routinely received 99% of the vote; he now got 96%.
I have announced that I intend to contest this upcoming presidential election as a way of opening debate on these essential reforms.
As the United States and South Korea rush to deploy THAAD before the South’s snap presidential election on May 9, China is ramping up economic sanctions, in the hope of compelling the next president to reconsider.
Lukashenko is running for a fourth consecutive presidential term in December.
The Putinization of MexicoMEXICO CITY – Prior to Mexico’s just-concluded presidential election, public disaffection with the state of affairs in the country was palpable.
But the barriers to such measures – say, to make the tax system more progressive – are well known, especially against the backdrop of a presidential election campaign.
The social contract in the US has frayed badly, and this is likely to play an important role in the upcoming presidential election, as voters express anger that the American Dream is increasingly out of reach.
The Brexit referendum and the US presidential election in 2016 also revealed that Facebook provides significant relative advantages to negative messages over positive ones.
But one possible reading of Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election is that voters these days care less about responsibility than “authenticity.”
Democratic AlliancesAmerica's foreign alliances have become an issue in this year's presidential election campaign.
Klaus, Zeman and their parties also agreed to work together to limit presidential power and the independence of the Central Bank by changing the Constitution, as well as to change the electoral law in their favor.
The vertical dimension shows the ratio of Democratic to Republican votes in the 2008 presidential election.
Figure 1: Personal Responsibility Index and Ratio of Democratic to Republican votes (2008 presidential election) – click to enlargeCan Multiparty Democracy Work in Multiethnic Malaysia?
Morsi was able to rule without restraint, trampling freely on citizens’ fundamental rights, because the military regime that assumed control after Hosni Mubarak’s 2011 ouster scheduled presidential elections before a constitution was adopted.
Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets of Moscow and other big cities to demand a fair vote and real choices in the subsequent presidential election.
The French Cul de SacPARIS – As France’s presidential election looms, the country is approaching a breaking point.
The refugee crisis and the Brexit calamity that it spawned have reinforced xenophobic, nationalist movements that will seek to win a series of upcoming votes– including national elections in France, the Netherlands, and Germany in 2017, a referendum in Hungary on the EU refugee policy on October 2, and a rerun of the Austrian presidential election on December 4.Rather than uniting to resist this threat, EU member states have become increasingly unwilling to cooperate with one another.
On average, since the inception of the Standard and Poor’s composite stock index in 1926, the reward for putting your money in the market has been about 16 percentage points lower per presidential term under Republicans than under Democrats.
With the current presidential term lurching to such a calamitous close that the incumbent is probably worried about being remembered as George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush, the correlation between presidential party and economic outcome demands some kind of explanation.
The Red and the BlueCondoleeza Rice’s replacement of Colin Powell as US Secretary of State shows that America’s recent presidential election continues to produce powerful reverberations.
This year’s presidential vote proves that America’s democracy is healthy, but that some things could be better.
RAMALLAH – Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has stunned the world, with many – particularly US allies – feeling more than a little concerned about what his leadership may bring.
While the approach may not seem very presidential, it works, at least when carried out by a master marketer who plays fast and loose with the facts.
China’s exchange-rate policy and its bilateral trade surplus with the US were major issues in America’s presidential election, and concerns over Chinese foreign investment are ubiquitous.
Now, however, the wave has suddenly receded: following Emmanuel Macron’s big wins in France’s presidential and legislative elections, we are supposedly living in a “post-populist moment.”
Get tough with China, both stressed in the presidential debates, and the pain will ease.
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