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These wicked acts, stemming from a distorted interpretation of a great religion, did not stop French voters from electing Emmanuel Macron, a man who knows that vigilance requires us to respect all members of our community.
In France, voters just elected a new president out of hope, not despair; and in the UK, we will soon hold another free and fair election in June.
Uruguay's voters divided along lines of ideology, not old loyalties.
The irony of this yearning is that, instead of encouraging policies that would get the economy humming, discontent drives many voters back to the tried and failed policies of the past.
Five earlier presidential bids by Jorge Batlle failed, many believe, because he promised daring, free-market ideas that frightened voters.
Angela Merkel was recently reelected for a third term as German Chancellor;Britain’s voters elected Margaret Thatcher three times as Prime Minister; and France has had a female prime minister.
Indeed, even if Greece’s debt is restructured beyond anything imaginable, the country will remain in depression if voters there commit to the troika’s target in the snap referendum to be held this weekend.
In both settings, leaders are expected to act in the best interests of the wider community, not simply their own constituencies, whether voters or shareholders.
With his jingoism and hair-trigger temper, Trump’s election seems to be wholly the result of many voters’ wishful thinking and stubborn passivity.
And among German voters, nothing could undermine support for the European project more than yet another set of broken promises.
Today, on the eve of the French presidential elections, opinion polls show that three-quarters of French voters believe that France should distance itself from the United States.
Despite French voters’ rejection of a new constitution for the European Union in 2005 (in part a protest vote against Chirac), all three candidates recognize that the EU has been an important means to enhance French power in world affairs.
For politics must entail convincing voters that there are things which the politician recognizes or comprehends better than they do, and that it is for this reason that they should vote for him.
Lebanon’s Example to IraqIraq’s voters have spoken.
American presidents, like star athletes in team sports, get both too much credit and too much blame from voters and historians for what happens on their watch.
In the event of a downturn, voters will be quicker to blame Trump than they have been in giving him credit for today’s boom.
South Korean voters of all ages and regions have welcomed Park as a candidate for their country’s leadership.
Come presidential election-day in 2012, South Korean voters will pick the candidate who embodies pragmatism and centrism over a partisan or ideologue.
Many conservatives hold government in deep disdain; only 17% of conservative voters in the US and Europe say they can trust their country’s political leaders.
One consequence of this cynical treatment of political ideologies is the wild swings in voters' preferences seen in various Central European countries.
As geopolitical competition heats up, voters will turn to tough leaders whom they trust to uphold narrow national interests.
For example, the decision to join such an alliance – or even to implement an agreement that allows a foreign country to base its troops on Ukrainian soil – could require the approval of a qualified majority of, say, two-thirds of voters or regional legislatures.
With Trump poised to make such imprudent decisions, will US voters hold him accountable?
Experience from European elections suggests that investigative journalism and alerting the public in advance can help inoculate voters against disinformation campaigns.
With the recent election of the anti-austerity Syriza party, Greek voters stood up against external control over their country by the “troika" (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund), Germany, or anyone else.
But British voters, it is now clear, weren’t fooled.
But what May hoped would seem like a clear, even powerful, stance was actually a vague, fatuous, and rather transparent ploy to avoid the question that voters never had a chance to consider: “What kind of Brexit should the UK pursue?”
It is, of course, impossible to know now whether any such vote would actually give British voters the opportunity to rethink Brexit itself.
The answer is that fiscal policy is the key tool politicians use to attract and maintain the support of a winning coalition of voters, say retirees, public employees, and middle-class homeowners, while imposing the costs on the losers.
It is not necessary to please 100% of the voters, only enough to win.
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