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Another wrong turn is the proposal recently embraced by two American presidential candidates to temporarily scrap taxes on gasoline.
And, while presidential elections are expected to be held in Egypt this month, Tahrir Square remains a theater of bloody protests against the military council that has ruled since former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall.
There, leading politicians who choose to call themselves “fiscal conservatives” – such as Paul Ryan, now the Republican Party’s presumptive vice-presidential nominee to run alongside presidential candidate Mitt Romney in November’s election – care more about cutting taxes, regardless of the effect on the federal deficit and total outstanding debt.
Ironically, fate has yoked his survival to George W. Bush, who could not recall the name of this Pakistani leader at the time of the US presidential elections.
It is also reflected in the risk of substantial voter abstention, unusual for a country that takes presidential elections very seriously.
The founder of the rational expectations revolution, Robert Lucas, is endlessly quoted as having stated in 2003 in his presidential address to the American Economic Association that the “central problem of depression-prevention has been solved, for all practical purposes, and has in fact been solved for many decades.”
Break Up CitigroupWASHINGTON, DC – America’s presidential campaign is already well underway.
Potential Republican presidential candidates have hesitated to take up this issue in public – perhaps feeling that it will inhibit their ability to raise money from Wall Street.
The US presidential candidate who says this in 2016 – and says it most convincingly – has a good chance of winning it all.
Multi-million dollar bonuses on Wall Street and in the City of London have become routine, and financial firms have dominated donor lists for all the major political candidates in the 2008 US presidential election.
Indeed, it is a key issue in Nigeria's approaching presidential election, given President Obasanjo's high-minded but failed struggle to curb it.
But there is one potential obstacle that cannot be avoided: the May presidential election.
In the first round of the 2010 presidential election – in which only 49% of the electorate participated – Santos obtained 47% of the vote.
Likewise, France’s recent presidential election bolstered those who argue that Europe must grow its way out of its debt-heavy public sector, rather than aim for immediate fiscal orthodoxy.
Transparency’s Diminishing ReturnsPARIS – Transparency was a central theme in the 2017 French presidential election.
In 2017, the High Authority, for the first time, published all presidential candidates’ asset-disclosure forms on its website.
George H.W. Bush said it best when he was campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in April 1980.
On April 27, 2007, the Turkish Armed Forces issued a statement opposing the presidential candidacy of Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister at the time, warning that if Gul was elected, Turkey would descend into chaos.
But a more interesting comparison is with her other presidential contemporary, George H. W. Bush.
If that is true, France’s 2017 presidential election is an eternity away, and any speculation at this point is premature, even imprudent.
Today, a significant majority of French voters cannot stomach the prospect of seeing either leader on their television screens for five more years (the duration of a French presidential mandate).
Against this background, while Sarkozy may well become the UMP’s president in November, when the post is contested at a special party congress, his selection as the UMP’s presidential candidate is far from assured, given the resurrection of Juppé.
A weaker French economy, shakier public finances, and the coming presidential election are all combining to alter the balance with Germany.
Even the United States is seeing alarming signs, with the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, Donald Trump, directing vitriol – and arguably inciting violence – toward journalists during his campaign rallies.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in 2005 that “the fundamental character of regimes matters more today than the international distribution of power,” and Senator John McCain, a US presidential candidate, has urged removing Russia from the Group of Eight advanced countries.
While it is true that presidential elections in an age of social media and infotainment are as much about personalities as they are about party loyalties, perhaps more so, parliamentary elections are much less likely to follow this template.
The presidential candidates of the traditional center-left Socialist Party and the center-right Republicans were indeed trounced by Macron, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the grassroots appeal of either party has suddenly evaporated.
They may be down following their presidential candidates’ defeat in the first round of the presidential election, but they most definitely are not out.
Politicians on the left have long urged moving to a Sixth Republic, a goal that topped the manifestos of both Hamon and the far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Similarly, it was not Putin who enacted a constitution with an enormously powerful presidential government and a weak system of checks and balances, nor did he start the slaughter in Chechnya.
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