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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).
Few voters seem to care about Sarkozy’s quick and determined response to the 2007 global financial crisis.
Though Juppé, like Sarkozy, is no stranger to scandal – he was temporarily barred from public office for abuse of public funds during Chirac’s tenure as mayor of Paris – his age is reassuring to French voters, who consider him wiser and mellower now (he was also widely viewed as Chirac’s scapegoat).
Austerity and its DiscontentsAusterity is always a bitter pill, and one that a growing chorus of political and business leaders, economists, and voters is refusing to swallow.
While the percentage of voters backing the government is relatively unchanged, 0.6 million of the 6.1 million Greeks who voted in the July 5 referendum on continued “extend-and-pretend” loans with stringent austerity strings attached did not turn out.
The loss of so many voters in little more than two months reflects the electorate’s dramatic change in mood – from passionate to glum.
Last January, when I stood with him, we asked voters to back our determination to end the “extend-and-pretend” bailouts that had pushed Greece into a black hole and operated as the template for austerity policies across Europe.
While voters wisely prefer that he and his cabinet, rather than the conservative opposition, implement a program that an overwhelming majority of Greeks detest, the reality of the austerity agenda will test public patience.
France’s new president has lost no time in acknowledging voters’ dissatisfaction and the continuing lure of populism.
While Austrian voters rejected the possibility of the European Union getting its first far-right head of state, Italians delivered a stinging rebuke to their government – and opened the way for populist forces to come to power.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s decision to make good on his promise to resign if voters rejected his government’s proposed constitutional reforms has thrown Italian politics into disarray, and an early general election is likely.
At a time of substantial economic challenges – Italy’s output has been stagnant for a decade, and its public finances remain precarious – the populist Five Star Movement, which has pledged to hold a referendum on continued euro membership, may well tempt voters.
Their anti-chaebol rhetoric, together with calls for “economic democratization,” has won strong support among voters – and has rattled the chaebols.
At the same time, Park is working to placate discontented supporters and attract swing voters by blaming the conglomerates’ greedy business practices for breeding anti-chaebol sentiment.
Voters complain that outgoing President Lee Myung-bak’s pro-business government – which issued pardons to scores of convicted chaebol executives – gave up on distributive justice and participatory democracy.
The country’s voters now must determine who will challenge the chaebol on their behalf.
After all, “fake news” can take many forms, and sometimes it is disseminated without any malign intention to manipulate voters or sway an election.
But there also really are fundamental differences in values and economic philosophies, as well as in economic interests, leading to a fairly consistent positioning of voters on the right or left.
Dismissed out of hand in the go-go 1980s as a contributor to the previous decade’s stagnation, it is increasingly viewed as a means to stem working-class voters’ defection to right-wing populist parties.
And yet, an uneasy coalition government seems unlikely to address the concerns that drove voters to reject the entrenched ruling elite in the last election.
In fact, Japan’s leaders had little incentive to pursue bold reform, because voters consistently failed to demand it.
Growing concerns about China’s rise encouraged Japanese voters to support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his bold reform program.
Liberal democracy can be saved only if mainstream parties can regain voters’ trust.
The Moral of SandyCOPENHAGEN – When “superstorm” Sandy hit the east coast of the United States on October 29, it not only flooded the New York City Subway and became the most important factor for 15% of US voters in the presidential election a week later.
Unless voters hear about the positive impact that their generosity is having, they will inevitably focus on issues closer to home.
As with the MDGs, the next set of goals could help to align groups doing the work, remind voters what their generosity supports, and allow us to see where we are making progress in delivering solutions to the poor.
The tide has turned in part because voters in recent elections seem to have shifted from the center left to the center right, or at least re-confirmed their more conservative convictions.
Her appeal to voters is simple: “I am a woman, and you have never tried a woman, so be modern and try one now.”
Her support is particularly strong among women voters.
When the voters decide in the spring of 2007, their choice may depend more on negative than positive considerations, as it did in 2002, when Chirac faced the odious nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round.
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