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In Argentina, as in many Latin American countries, presidents have so much power that other governmental institutions’ authority fades, eradicating the boundaries between the executive and the state.
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and even George W. Bush and their supporters created the current system, in which tax rates and eligibility thresholds are not punitive disincentives to enterprise.
Presidents used to propose paths to a balanced budget.
And voters ended up re-electing presidents like Carlos Menem of Argentina, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, and Alberto Fujimori of Peru precisely because they were able to overcome the debt crisis, balance the budget, and bring down inflation.
It is not utterly absurd, therefore, that voters want to like the look of their presidents, quite apart from the merit of their policies.
Hollande’s victory thus may be a sign that democratic countries have become reluctant to be led by flamboyant or charismatic presidents or prime ministers.
Even so, hawkish American liberals and hardline conservatives are comparing Obama’s leadership unfavorably with supposedly tougher presidents like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.
In many ways, the Cold War made things easier for US presidents.
In fact, Li’s leadership of the NPC may turn out to be the key to dismantling one of the last barriers to Xi’s political ambitions: the two-term limit for presidents, established in the constitution.
Many people can stomach questionable means if they consistently generate positive ends, but this has not been the case with Kim, who is among the worst presidents in World Bank history.
Second terms can often be productive times for US foreign policy, largely because presidents cannot seek a third.
Presidents in their second terms often apply old-fashioned American pragmatism to tough issues, which they often cannot do during their first terms, when reelection is their first priority.
While oil has made a few presidents and princes staggeringly rich, the rest of the population has received little benefit.
This group, which included former presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, European Union commissioners and senior diplomats, sent a set of proposals to EU leaders in May.
All other central bankers, finance ministers, and even presidents run a distant second.
The name itself makes it a winner, and the presidents can enjoy watching the fireworks between suave British spy Bond (Sean Connery) and his fetching Russian KGB counterpart Tatiana (Daniela Bianchi).
The Refugee Problem in New YorkNEW YORK – Every September, many of the world’s presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers descend on New York City for a few days.
Having already run roughshod over nepotism norms, why not, appoint his wife Vice President, as the presidents of Azerbaijan and Nicaragua have done.
And under presidents de Gaulle, Pompidou, and Giscard d'Estaing that faith was not misplaced.
This proposition has been disproved many times, and the economic advisers to those presidents have disavowed it.
The fact that the two most recent presidents have not lasted indicates how difficult governing France has become.
Today, two largely dissimilar presidents, Emmanuel Macron in France and Donald Trump in the United States, are its leading avatars.
In the US, that meant that virtually all presidents had either served in Congress or as state governors, with the only modern exception being Dwight Eisenhower, whose background as an Army general stood in for political experience.
But over the last decade, Latin American politicians have made presidential systems more flexible by finding innovative ways to remove unpopular presidents.
I can think of no better way to restore confidence in these two venerable institutions than to finally open up the way their presidents are selected.
Three of India's Presidents have been Muslim, as have been innumerable cabinet ministers, ambassadors, generals, and Supreme Court justices, not to mention cricket captains.
The Arab media would still be heaping uncritical praise on the region’s presidents and their families, while development programs would be looted by them.
But the Republicans didn’t reckon on two things: that as people gained access to health insurance (some 20 million by this year), it became popular – as did Obama, who ended his second term as one of America’s most liked presidents.
Presidents get credit and blame for whatever happens, whether deserved or not.
These were the core findings of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy that I convened, together with former presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and César Gaviria of Colombia.
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