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Even the selection of Beijing as the site of the 2008 Olympics benefited from “African votes.”
But with a wafer-thin majority in Parliament, it is not clear that she has the votes she needs.
The rhetoric of reform was dropped as President Kibaki handed out title deeds of national trust and parkland to gain votes.
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With more than18% of the votes he tripled his score of 2002.
His votes are needed by both remaining candidates and it is likely they will tend to split equally between Left and Right, for he cannot commit himself to clearly support one candidate over the other.
With less than 11% of the votes in what will be the last campaign of his career, he turned into an “ageing detail of History”.
The key strategic move for the two remaining candidates will be to attract the votes of the Center without losing their core Leftist or Rightist constituencies.
With the defeat of the Clashfern amendment by 314 votes to 119, much of the bill’s original form remains intact.
If the opposition parties keep their promise to unite behind whichever opposition candidate receives the most votes in the first round,ampnbsp;Wade will most likely lose in the run-off.
The term political science first became popular in the late eighteenth century to distinguish it from all the partisan tracts whose purpose was to gain votes and influence rather than pursue the truth.
It is rumored that Sergei Kiriyenko, the Kremlin’s first deputy chief of staff, is targeting 70% turnout, with 70% of those votes going to Putin.
But the independent pollster Levada Center reckons that, despite strong support for Navalny in Moscow, he would not obtain more votes today.
According to the CCP Charter, all of those positions (save the leadership of the Military Commission) should be determined by the votes of members of the 16th Central Committee.
In holding that referendum, he and his party bypassed the official institutions that oversee Mexican elections, not only selecting the polling sites themselves, but also counting the votes.
The effects of their activities can be seen in the conduct of foreign policy and in attempts to mobilize votes against the government.
Disoriented by the Kremlin's massive black propaganda, voters, especially the less educated and economically wounded, cast their votes for it, a political bloc without a recognizable face or program.
Regional governors, ministers and other federal authorities were instructed to support these parties during the election campaigns as well as when counting the votes.
Votes will be cast in 828,804 polling stations scattered throughout the country for over 5000 candidates from seven national political parties and several state and other parties.
In this election, as in previous ones, votes will be cast on electronic voting machines invented in India, which combine the virtues of simplicity, reliability, and ruggedness.
He had no party support, no big money, but he somehow managed to place second with 17 % of the votes, more than what the governing party achieved.
The alternative to such engagement is a very roundabout strategy that would achieve more enlightened policies by weakening the ability of the rich to buy votes.
In Britain, where detailed analyses of the votes actually cast in the Brexit referendum are now available, the group most directly affected by low-wage competition from immigrants and Chinese imports – young people under 35 – voted against Brexit by a wide margin, 65% to 35%.
Until gains are made in these areas, the threat to America’s democratic process will grow, resurfacing every time the country votes.
The MSZP was even honorable enough not to buy votes by making promises that the country could not afford, instead asking voters to continue biting the bullet of sound reform policies.
The votes for Brexit and Trump are often described today as an ineluctable result of deep socioeconomic factors like inequality or globalization.
If Hillary Clinton’s popular majority of three million votes was distributed slightly differently among the states, the phrase “President Trump” would be as laughable today as it was in January 2016.
However, on financial matters (in particular the distribution of profits and losses), the voting rules are different: the Executive Board does not participate and the votes of the national central bank presidents in the Governing Council are weighted by their respective capital shares.
“They should respect our votes.”
The National Front in France, the United Kingdom Independence Party, and far-right anti-immigration parties in Sweden, Denmark, and Italy are picking up votes and shutting down informed public debate on a tough policy question that has no easy answers.
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