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The EU can heave a sigh of relief that the UK’s membership will not be a political football to be kicked around in an unruly melee of coalitions, and that British voters apparently favor the status quo rather than the unknown.
Even though Britain is not a member of the eurozone, the Brexiteers’ call to “take back control” captured the frustration many European voters feel.
To the surprise of many seasoned observers, foreign policy is having only a modest impact on voters.
A third reason for the modest impact of international issues on voters’ choice of the next president is another surprising development: more agreement between and among the leading candidates than meets the eye.
When the country holds a referendum on its EU membership on June 23, many voters may be unwilling to vote to remain.
Much rides on Prime Minister David Cameron’s ability to persuade voters that staying in the EU is worth it.
Should voters choose to leave, negotiating the terms of Brexit could take years.
All of these gains will be tested, however, as voters in 18 countries go to the polls this year.
But many African leaders and publics have recognized these deficiencies; in some countries, such as Ghana, education has even become a deciding issue for voters.
For the first time, voters in the country that is the world’s largest consumer of illicit drugs in general, and marijuana in particular, approved propositions legalizing possession, production, and distribution of cannabis – and by relatively broad margins.
The PRI retained power in those states: voters did not make them pay for their share of responsibility for the violence.
But more than 60% of voters stayed away from the polls.
With the voting age set at just 16 years, Iran has roughly 48 million eligible voters.
In previous elections, younger voters have turned out in greater numbers than their elders, leading some to predict that half of the voters will be in the 16-to-29 age bracket.
The number of potential first-time voters (16 to 19 years old) is estimated at six million.
No candidate can be elected president of Iran without significant support among younger voters.
Like all Iranians, younger voters are focused on economic issues, particularly the difficult combination of high inflation and high unemployment.
Given their dissatisfaction, it would be natural for young voters to take out their frustrations on Ahmadinejad.
If Iran fails to qualify, this could turn some young voters against the incumbent.
Moussavi, Iran’s prime minister between 1981 and 1989, is barely known to young voters.
Former President Mohammad Khatami, who openly considered trying again for the office, would have been a strong candidate for young voters.
And let’s not forget that US voters have no appetite for more military action in the Middle East, even if the price is years of civil war and the implosion and fragmentation of a country bordering Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon.
In this sense, Sarkozy resembles US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has won the support of a swath of angry voters by portraying himself as the savior of a once-great country in decline.
Do the reasons voters ended his presidency four years ago still hold?
Whatever success the SPD has had playing the coalition game, the party’s participation in yet another Merkel-led government stands to cost it growing numbers of lower- and middle-income voters.
Vocal opposition from moderate voters is obviously one such cost, though the radical right may be indifferent to it.
The decision by a slim majority of UK voters to leave the EU may have been motivated mostly by domestic issues such as political dysfunction and immigration, but the Skripal episode has made it clear that the costs of departure will be felt first on the foreign-policy front.
In a sense, “Leave” voters were right that the EU is out of touch with the times, but not for the reasons they thought.
Still, immigration has remained a hot-button issue across Europe, owing to the shock of the initial refugee crisis, which still reverberates in voters’ minds.
Russian voters vote don't vote a party line, they vote the mass media line.
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