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Trump was elected with over 60 million
votes
– some three million fewer than his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
He is more performer than policymaker, eager to win
votes
however he can.
First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their
votes
– something that few, if any, urban consumers do.
In interwar Europe, parliamentarism in many countries was plagued by frequent
votes
of no confidence, bringing down governments and leaving states rudderless for long periods.
But there’s only so far she can go in the general election without losing the
votes
of independents.
At the same time, the participation of small countries, many of them poorer nations, is not being overlooked: the IMF agreement calls for a tripling of so-called “basic votes,” which ensures that these countries’ voices will be better heard.
That law prevents any shareholder who controls more than 20% of voting shares in Volkswagenwerk GmbH (VW) from casting more than 20% of the
votes
in a shareholders' meeting.
It also decrees that a majority of more than 80% of shareholder
votes
is required for important decisions in the company.
Raisi’s campaign has received a boostfollowing the withdrawal of another hardliner, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the mayorof Tehran, who garnered one-third as many
votes
as Rouhani in the 2013 election.
The Lega Nord, led by the charismatic Umberto Bossi, holds the decisive
votes
in Parliament to keep the Berlusconi government afloat.
A presidential candidate four years ago who ran on a green, socially conservative, but strongly pro-democratic platform, Silva received nearly 20 million
votes.
Ideally, deliberations and
votes
result in rational decisions that use the current state of knowledge to deliver policies that advance citizens’ wellbeing.
If the Security Council members whose
votes
will elect the next Secretary-General think that this is an issue, they will decide accordingly.
Indeed, the last meeting of the International Monetary Fund – which recognized China as the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity – concluded without increasing China’s share of
votes.
To put this in perspective, China was left with a slightly higher proportion of
votes
than Italy, whose economy is one-fifth the size, and just one-quarter of America’s vote share.
They championed recall
votes
as a way to remove leaders and officials serving vested interests rather than citizens.
Regardless of the outcome of the Brexit referendum (like many outsiders, I hope Britain
votes
to stay and advocates for reform from within), the British vote, along with similar strong centrifugal political trends elsewhere, should bring about a major rethink of European governance structures and institutional arrangements.
Politicians around the world trade favors for cash needed to win elections, and they often use that cash to buy the
votes
of desperately poor people.
This sense of a rigged game alienates citizens and leads them to reclaim their democratic dignity by casting protest
votes
for figures like Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, or Donald Trump.
When the Turkish Parliament attempted to elect the president on April 27, Gul did not receive enough
votes
to win on the first ballot.
In the race for votes, Ghana’s current-account deficit increased, owing to heavy fuel subsidies and a 47% increase in payouts to public-sector workers.
That temporary progress reflected the economic recovery and congressional
votes
to limit spending on defense and nondefense discretionary programs.
But the high abstention rate in this election – the first with automatic registration and non-mandatory voting – also means that Bachelet will become President with fewer
votes
than any of her predecessors since democracy was restored in 1990.
Direct
votes
on issues like trade rules or immigration policy will gut Europe’s representative democracy, just as direct
votes
on membership threaten to gut the EU itself.
In this context, when politicians campaign for
votes
by advancing antagonistic and divisive identity politics, they sow the seeds of animosity, mistrust, and violence within their own societies.
France, on the other hand, has been the beneficiary of this discrimination — yet it bashes the euro and
votes
No into the bargain.
The Swiss public was so convinced of the benefits of heroin-assisted therapy that, in two nationwide votes, voters endorsed the policy, despite domestic political opposition and criticism from the International Narcotics Control Board.
Given that most Japanese are still allergic to military force, securing the necessary
votes
would have been impossible.
Uncertainty about whether the Obama administration can marshal enough
votes
in Congress to ratify the TPP has now been compounded by proposed legislation that would impose tariff duties on countries that engage in “currency manipulation.”
The speech was Cameron’s answer to the recent defections of two of his Conservative Party MPs to the anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party, which he fears could steal Conservative
votes
in the general election next May.
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