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Having won the most votes in two consecutive Duma elections, the Party now made a serious strategic blunder, exposing itself to attack by putting a number of major businessmen--or oligarchs--on its candidate list.
The "reformist" bloc will be replaced by Rodina (Motherland), a new patriotic alliance that was created to take votes away from the Communists, and received 9.1% of the vote.
In the critical vote for repeal that brought his political career to an end, Peel won only 106 votes from his Conservative Party, while 222 Tory MPs opposed him.
This control is ostensibly democratic – the "Kremlin bloc" of parties holds a majority of votes.
A minority of 35% of the votes in the European Council would be enough to block an agreement that minimizes the economic costs of Brexit.
Currently, the EU contains a bloc of countries – the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries – with favorable views on free trade – that controls roughly 32% of the votes in the European Council.
The referendum majority on June 23 was much narrower than that in Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, or the negative votes on EU treaties in Ireland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, all of which were subsequently reversed.
Moreover, Yushchenko used his year in power mostly to disappoint those whose votes he now needs.
And in the race for Georgia’s 6th district seat, Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, gained more votes than any other candidate, falling just short of the 50% threshold that he needed to win outright.
After several requests to the American Psychiatric Association, I was granted complete access to the hundreds of unpublished memos, letters, and even votes from the period between 1973 and 1979, when the DSM-III task force debated each new and existing disorder.
Even if one subtracts the votes cast by Russian soldiers (5% of the total), most of those who participated in the vote supported keeping Chechnya in Russia.
First, the fundamentalists benefited from years of political organizing and activism, and thus were better able to mobilize their supporters, whereas the liberals, who led the uprising against the former regime, lacked nationwide organization and had little time to translate their newly acquired political capital into votes.
Likewise, whether the Senate votes to confirm ultra-conservative Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court will depend on how many phone calls Senators receive.
In the most recent elections, Zimbabweans made their choice known, despite serious obstacles and widespread repression, with the MDC’s presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, gaining more votes than Mugabe.
But the Russian Constitution requires a two thirds of Duma votes to pass a constitutional amendment.
The general was elected, but in a single constituency district, perhaps demonstrating that his ability to pull in votes is not all he cracks it up to be.
Another powerful impediment to the victory of an establishment candidate is the weakness of party machines and the almost religious belief in the powers of the media to deliver votes.
How did President George W. Bush manage to get three million votes more than Senator John Kerry, and, in addition, to have a Republican majority elected in both houses of Congress?
“Find me another 100 votes in Congress,” he said.
I don’t know whether Obama’s leadership might have found those votes, but I do know that the US has not mustered the national effort to respond effectively to the Horn of Africa’s needs.
By contrast, the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has nine members, four of whom are appointed from outside the bank, and all votes are individually recorded; nobody is allowed to hide behind an institutional view.
Congress depends on the support of a number of coalition partners, as well as backing from non-government parties like Samajwadi that do not support the BJP-led opposition, to pass the annual budget and survive parliamentary confidence votes.
To overcome a filibuster, the proposal’s supporters must muster 60 of 100 votes, rather than a simple majority.
Many observers regard the lobbying process as a kind of legalized corruption, in which huge amounts of money change hands, often in the form of campaign financing, in return for specific policies and votes.
The desire of Republicans to defeat the Democrats could lead them to use every maneuver to block votes and slow legislative reforms.
In this context, even if Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU does emerge with the most votes next year, it will need help to build a new Europe, with more joint responsibilities for countries in Europe A and flexible arrangements with countries in Europe B. Specifically, the pro-European elements of the CDU must work with allies on the left – namely, most of the Social Democrats and the Greens.
In fact, Europe’s Trump-supporting nationalists, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen in France, attracted far fewer votes than opinion polls anticipated.
Under Yeltsin, deputies’ votes were routinely purchased; now the Kremlin’s FSB faction pressures deputies by reminding them of their past bribe-taking.
Such measures would likely require parliamentary votes in countries across the eurozone, where many governments would face intense public opposition – no matter how obvious the need.
For example, Florida (with 16 more electoral votes than Louisiana and where the president’s brother governs) received its requested funding to protect its wetlands.
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