Its task was to frighten people at elections so that they voted for the Fascists. |
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These elections will be a signal of whether he can match oratorial style with ballot box substance. |
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Millions of Americans will vote in the November elections with e-voting machines. |
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Are there any others out there who find comfort in the stub of pencil on a string and other mildly eccentric aspects of elections past? |
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Both men want to contest local August 10 elections under the banner of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. |
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Republicans rule both chambers of Congress and the midterm elections are nearly two years into the future. |
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Right now, elections are drawing nigh, the date is to be announced on Sunday. |
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She's also considering going back to paper elections with voting booths so that students can see there's an election going on. |
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Many payments to politicians were made at times when local and general elections were in the offing. |
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Japan has just completed what are without question the most watched elections of the postwar era. |
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If the agreement held, the positions in the new government would be taken up and elections held within a year. |
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In recent elections soft money has become a way for wealthy individuals to contribute large amounts of money to the political parties. |
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However in practice there has to be some sort of body of people whose daily work is attending to government so we have elections every few years. |
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On 25 May there were elections all over Spain for regional parliaments and municipal councils. |
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Let them take to active campaigning now, contest the elections next time, and later perhaps, even become Ministers. |
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Regional elections in the early 1990s shifted the reform agenda from liberalization to subnational independence and central state dismemberment. |
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And that base is especially strong in the primary elections that determine the nominee for President. |
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If not, the cost and time spent on the 2004 elections could be null and void. |
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It is doubly disingenuous to claim that problems with security make elections difficult. |
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California used a plurality rule for nomination and election in regular elections but used an open primary with runoff for special elections. |
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He said there had been no clear statement on what the minimum level of participation in elections was, or should be. |
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This is particularly true here, where elections are mostly fought on race, not ideas. |
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The Government suffered a backlash in the local and European elections because of the ailing health service. |
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Councillors from all three parties in Bolton have been wrangling over political power since the local elections on May 1 left a hung council. |
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In 2001, when the panchayat elections were announced, Bhagwan Devi was encouraged to contest as a ward member. |
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How are you going to get big voter turnout when everybody seems to think these elections are a big yawn? |
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It also said it would fight all future elections under the banner of the ruling African National Congress. |
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The public are wising up because if recent past elections are anything to go by apathetic turn outs just keep getting worse. |
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He had been de-selected for the council elections and must have been miffed. |
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Seniors vote in very large numbers, particularly in midterm elections when most people don't vote. |
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The media can still play a decisive role, however, especially in close-run elections or congressional votes. |
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But by 1800, contested presidential elections were a regular feature of American government. |
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That is, that elections are as much about electioneering as they are about principle. |
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Moscow insists on portraying U.S. encouragement of free media and elections as a plot to extend Western influence at Russia's expense. |
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On the face of matters, experience in Western Australian Liberal Party elections now appears to be a disqualification. |
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The French who abstained in large numbers during the European parliamentary elections were already Euro-sceptics. |
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If genuinely free elections were permitted, power would inevitably shift towards tribes in the South, predominantly the Ewe. |
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But the key to winning the elections will be whether they can mobilize their diehard supporters. |
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Perhaps they will be re-elected in the next elections by default, with no-one having voted! |
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Officials exude confidence that the projects would gain good speed once the elections are over. |
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The left needs to meet the challenge of right wing candidates in union elections next year. |
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For most of its history, California used closed primary elections to select the nominees of each party for state offices and Congress. |
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The elections of the 1990s and 2000 have been a time of challenges to the viability of America's venerable two-party system. |
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Hondurans will go to the polls to vote in presidential, parliamentary and local elections next month. |
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Indeed, his refusal to postpone elections provided additional evidence, if any were needed, of his cluelessness. |
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Way back in the last century in rural areas elections were fought and won at the church gates and also in the local towns. |
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As they barrel toward elections that once held bright promise, the issueless Democrats are girding for a new round of recriminations. |
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Ballots for Council elections and for the election of officers shall be mailed by first-class mail. |
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The question is what is the need for advancing the date of elections by a few months. |
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After the widely hailed tripartite elections of September 28, the country now needs to move forward. |
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Perhaps it is true that scientific opinion polls are inappropriate for a society that has never known free and fair elections before. |
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Its members see the key to local elections as a focus on communities, particularly those that feel alienated from the Westminster bubble. |
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The Iraqi Shias have produced a unity ticket for the elections under the direction of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Iraqi Shia cleric. |
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People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here. |
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The elections are significant only insofar as they affect the outcome of the ongoing battle for change. |
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He expects a big turnout in the elections following the events of last year. |
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The violent countdown to elections often obscures how that country is charting its new course on the world stage. |
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The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government. |
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However, it is likely that, under these circumstances, the polling percentage will be very low and threaten to reduce the elections to a farce. |
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But immediately after the elections violence broke out and several houses were set on fire and people were attacked and killed. |
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The UN has already experience in supervising elections under very improvised conditions. |
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Mozambicans voted last month in elections that went totally uncovered by the British press. |
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In the European elections in 1999, halfway through the Labour government's term, the Conservatives did remarkably well in the popular vote. |
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The 1973 legislative elections were very close, and the vote of the right was squeezed by the left as its realignment paid off. |
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And they kept hammering away right up until the elections that ETA was a prime suspect. |
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With the party leadership preoccupied with the elections the decision on his successor is pending. |
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Members voted overwhelmingly in favour of annual elections in a recent ballot. |
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It established civilian rule in the territory under its control and held elections for a National Assembly. |
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It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs. |
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He expressed the hope that stability during gubernatorial elections might signal the return of security and order in the province. |
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We are prepared to have one person, one vote elections and to give up our absolute power. |
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He is concerned that future elections could be decided by fraudulent voting manipulated by unscrupulous cartels and the like. |
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On the other hand, perhaps they saw the law on presidential elections as a chance to nobble their rivals before they even got to the start line. |
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Their policies have to deal with the real world of interest groups, elections and media distortion. |
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The turnout, in fact, was nearly double that in the municipal elections a year ago. |
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If this Party is to continue to win elections in North Carolina, it cannot be divided against itself. |
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To top it off, the last two municipal elections have barely produced an effective council. |
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This year, the elections will be held in four regencies and one municipality in West Java. |
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He is slated to lead depressed Argentina until elections for a new president in March. |
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It is much easier to win elections by preaching hate and fear than understanding and honesty. |
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It specifies only elections and leaves the take part clause suggestive and unelaborated. |
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This report was understood to detail the escalation in human rights abuses since the presidential elections last March. |
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Chen took candidates for the legislative elections to the temple to pray for success. |
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These amakhosi would not be officially elected, but after the elections amakhosi of an area would come together to appoint their representative. |
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Alongside the BiH state elections, there were also elections to the parliaments at entity level and in the Croat-Muslim Federation's cantons. |
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After all, it took a drubbing in the last local council elections and lost control for the first time in years. |
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Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic. |
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The elections of the 1990s and 2000 have been a time of challenges to the viability of America's venerable two party system. |
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Last October's local elections revealed it to be a formidable force, outspending and outpolling the competition. |
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It was more than just a pact of convenience over elections or some specific campaign. |
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To overcome this crisis democratically and pacifically, the majority of people are asking him to announce elections or simply resign. |
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Law students make their limited grade option elections for law courses ONLINE at the Law School Registrar's Office Web site. |
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Informed sources are indicating that after next weekend the imminence of the elections will effectively end any space for agreement. |
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With elections round the corner, staunch nationalists might want to know if such anti-national matters are important. |
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The novelties introduced by these elections were many, interesting, and ripe with consequences. |
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The Communist Party used to win all the elections and ran local governments. |
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In other local parish and town council elections many are uncontested because there are more seats than candidates, or the same number. |
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The group will be entering a country where political tensions threaten to reach boiling point, with looming elections and bitter infighting. |
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No sooner are the local elections over than the government's decentralisation plan has hit the buffers. |
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All three companies argue that staggered board elections protect shareholders in a takeover attempt. |
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This council must make up for all the underspending or they will find themselves out at the council elections this year. |
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By the time the first multiparty elections took place in April 1993, however, the country had already begun to fall apart. |
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It soon, however, also opened a Pandora's box of questions about just how internationally compliant Egyptian presidential elections could be. |
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Everyone was on pins and needles to see if the elections went off smoothly and fierce legal battles could be avoided. |
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The contingents of the Soviet Army on the territory of Estonia also participated in the elections of the Supreme Soviet, electing four deputies. |
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Not only that, but many observers noted that the low turn-out on elections day may be put down to the apathy of many potential voters. |
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But how do you have free and fair elections under an occupation, under a foreign occupation? |
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Electors in Eden will receive a ballot paper by post for elections to the European Parliament. |
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Referendums and elections should be held with plain old paper ballots, marked by voters with a sturdy pencil. |
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Commentaries overwhelmingly support the elections and offer intelligent and well-constructed viewpoints on a variety of election-related topics. |
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This 'puppetry' as you call it is only temporary until the final elections are held. |
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Both economists were fascinated by the perplexities of elections and voting under simple majority rule. |
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He bowed out of politics after receiving 1133 votes, his lowest poll in the four elections he fought over a nine year period. |
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It is a remarkable coincidence that the elections were held on the eleventh anniversary of these dramatic events. |
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It has brokered a deal with the ruling African National Congress and will contest future elections under the banner of that party. |
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In your capacity as an elections official, I appeal to you to weigh in on the side of democratic principles. |
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He chronicles the many elections of the period 1932-3, but offers little explanation of the psephological trends the polls indicated. |
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With elections round the corner, the irritation is bound to touch nightmarish levels. |
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The secessionist government boycotted the elections in order to bolster its claims for international recognition as a separate state. |
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With elections in the air again, the party is rolling out the old three-card trick. |
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Both Bush and Allawi affirmed on Thursday that elections would be held as promised. |
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But these problems are mounting and Republicans may have to take their lumps in the midterm elections instead. |
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Let's quickly dismiss the heretical view that the elections are about local and European issues. |
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The loss of Labour's majority in last week's local elections has upped the political stakes as opposition parties try to negotiate the best deal. |
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Upper house elections are held every three years, with roughly half the seats up for re-election. |
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They doggedly believe that EC should just clerically run the elections which must be ordered by them, for their benefit, at their convenience. |
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What I don't understand is why they don't just have elections for two houses of parliament. |
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Why would he say that when he himself is politicking like a true politician with elections just around the corner? |
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Also, the fact that party partisans are put in charge of running the elections is crazy and is an obvious conflict of interest. |
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It is a grim irony lost on them, for which they will pay dearly in elections to come. |
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Like elections in the United States and Europe, Canadian elections are ideological battlegrounds. |
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Mr Nolan is no stranger to the political stage, having run in both the local and general elections in the past. |
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The Greater London elections also saw a slate of socialists winning substantial votes. |
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They also keep tabs on the temporary Los Angeles polling places set up so Iranian expatriates can vote in elections in Iran. |
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The party won a resounding victory at the parliamentary elections on a ticket of law and order, and tax cuts. |
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Might the increase in the number of elections and referendums have induced election fatigue? |
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The agreement provided for qualified majority rule and elections with universal suffrage. |
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The unspoken concern here is that incumbents might use the advantages of incumbency to position themselves to win the elections next January. |
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Many irregularities happen during elections and genuine voters are often deprived of their right. |
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At the last elections in May 2002, about 15,000 electors chose a postal vote. |
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Fourth, the president must take immediate, urgent, essential steps to guarantee the promised elections can be held next year. |
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Interestingly, these PR projects began to multiply after gubernatorial elections were done away with late last year. |
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But what is sometimes overlooked is that the upcoming elections could determine who controls Congress for the next 10 years. |
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The Green Party, hoping to pick up a few extra seats in the Super Thursday elections on June 10, have spent this week rebranding themselves. |
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Turnout is also very low in elections for local councils, devolved institutions and the European Parliament. |
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They would be allowed to vote in elections for municipal assembly members and the head of the municipality they live in. |
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The next battles were over the first direct elections to the European Parliament. |
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And he can make so much trouble if he doesn't get the elections he wants that it is not worthwhile crossing him. |
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In 1176 Pope Alexander III resolved the dispute by declaring the cities to be joint-sees and ordering the chapters to hold elections together. |
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The local party kept my vote, but in the Euro elections I went for UKIP for a variety of reasons. |
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Very few other Asian and African countries have held elections with such regularity as India. |
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As I said, the opposition to the elections is a national, not a denominational or sectarian, movement. |
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In all presidential elections but one since 1900, Missouri has backed the winning candidate. |
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At the last European elections British Green MEPs were elected for the first time. |
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Well, it actually is looking more and more like the forces are aligning for there to be new elections within a week or two. |
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The governors would be elected by regional parliaments rather than by popular elections as is the case now. |
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Kubba advocates quick national elections for a second, broadly representative council to perform functions such as drafting a constitution. |
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Recently the parliamentary elections were held in Uzbekistan which become an important landmark in further democratization of the country. |
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Australia is perhaps only weeks away from elections for a new federal government, yet we see the usual lacklustre, boring politics. |
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Whole elections would turn on the questions about gold, silver, bimetallism, and the central bank. |
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Your know, you guys have got tons of great ideas but you won't be able to do anything with them unless you win some elections again. |
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Democratic candidates in presidential elections over the past half-century have won an average of 46.1 per cent of the popular vote. |
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The local elections were expected to cost 300 billion kwacha, which could be used to fund hospitals and maintain roads, he added. |
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In these elections it advocates an extreme rightwing programme, reeking of nationalism and xenophobia. |
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But the moves for exemption are likely to prove highly contentious, coming as they do in the run-up to elections to the Scottish parliament. |
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The party's electoral fortunes also revived in the state elections and by-elections. |
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Her analysis demonstrates how off-cycle elections reduce voter turnout and amplify the power of organized interest groups. |
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For the past three elections the Labour Party has issued a manifesto of its aims and objectives. |
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Scarborough councillors had been recommended to rule on the scheme before local elections intervened. |
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The date of county council elections across England, the first Thursday in May, has long been tipped as the most likely date for the poll. |
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The 1984 elections were hailed as fair by both the international media and observing organisations, something that has not happened since. |
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Should the elections be held freely, there is no telling what the outcome will be. |
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This is a serious development which could threaten free elections and representative democracy itself. |
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Held under these conditions, the elections could only be expected to deepen such schisms. |
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He also lacerated Dr Cowley's record in relation to the recent European elections when he attempted to support two candidates. |
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To avoid different voting systems, the betting is that STV will be recommended for parliamentary elections too. |
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In past years they never voted in local elections because they still officially resided in their hometowns in Oaxaca. |
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Mori stated that if the no-confidence motion were passed he would call general elections rather than resign. |
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This volatile issue was used to mobilize voters and swing elections at all levels. |
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Until a few days ago, there was hardly any news in Danish newspapers and magazines about elections in India. |
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On Monday, the elections committee met and decided to reschedule the election. |
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As the 1998 midterm elections approached, Republican lawmakers had no desire to alienate the conservatives who formed their core constituency. |
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The closeness of voting in marginal seats in both state and federal elections demonstrates that our individual votes do matter. |
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The loud protestations from the government that it opposed the cancellation of the North's elections do little to help its case. |
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In 2003, the legislative elections were cancelled due to this intransigence. |
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As soon as it was over the purged Councils annulled the results of the spring elections in 49 departments, leaving 177 vacant seats. |
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As the November elections approach, there are those who will say that one must simply accept the inevitable and vote for the lesser of two evils. |
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Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout. |
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Ever since the disputed elections of 2000, opponents have protested against the worsening economic situation and lack of political dialogue. |
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With the forthcoming London mayoral elections in June, the three main candidates have thrown their hats into the ring. |
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Last month, a referendum in Egypt approved constitutional changes allowing competitive elections for the presidency. |
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He added that it has always been the stand of his party that elections can never lead to a solution to the issue. |
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The elections last year saw each of the five nations either re-elect their leaders or keep the ruling party in power. |
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With the May elections looming, the last thing it wanted was to impose a big tax increase. |
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Fortunately, uncontested elections seem to be the exception rather than the norm in Boroondara. |
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He works as a civil servant in a local job centre, and stood as a candidate in the 10 June elections for the London Assembly. |
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Also, the proportional representation system used in the Assembly elections means that votes do not translate directly into seats. |
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Thursday's elections have proved how far removed from reality the perceptions of the Blair leadership really are. |
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Punch cards have averaged a residual vote rate of 2.5 percent in presidential elections and 4.7 percent down the ballot. |
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Its elections a few months ago were a sham, a transparent attempt to provide a democratic cloak for a body which is anything but democratic. |
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Was the hype akin to a practice run for parliamentary and presidential elections this fall? |
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If these elections had taken place anywhere else in the world they would have been denounced as undemocratic and unfair. |
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In recent times, the voter turnout in elections has hovered around 50 percent, with young voters in particular staying away in droves. |
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She said the voter turnout in the coming elections would be between 50 per cent and 60 per cent at the most. |
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Interestingly, in one of my classes at university on Thursday we discussed the elections for a few brief minutes as a sidetrack. |
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Dare one hope that those in charge of our destinies after elections will appreciate the necessity? |
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Mixed feelings swell up inside me when I consider the issue of postal ballots in the local elections this year. |
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But those elections may not prevent the country effectively dividing into three autonomous regions. |
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He heads a Commonwealth troika tasked with taking action on the country following controversial elections held in March. |
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He had been elected onto the town council at the local elections in May last year. |
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And with elections for local bodies round the corner, political parties are likely to try their best to get maximum political mileage out it. |
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The recent European elections revealed a deep disaffection with mainstream politics. |
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The oligarch helps the politician win elections through the normal legal machinery of the mass media. |
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The whole idea of elections is that there should be a choice between a number of candidates. |
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The chief ayatollah of the Shiite Muslims in Iraq says he wants direct democratic elections to take place. |
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His vote share grew and in the Assembly elections he led the party in securing 45 per cent of the ballot. |
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Already overshadowed by political complexity the elections will also take place against a backdrop of violence. |
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My recommendation is that we get general elections out of the way now and start the ball rolling. |
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Sunday's parliamentary elections brought a convincing win for the center-right. |
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Ray predicted that violations would be rampant during both legislative and presidential elections and during the ballot counting. |
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Their attitude toward the aborted Algerian legislative elections is illustrative. |
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Our elections should be a contest of policies, unclouded by bigotry or racism. |
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The Democrats lost the mid-term elections because the Greens did not rattle their cage. |
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Voters in the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville have been going to the polls in the first elections for an autonomous government. |
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The EC announced elections to be held now on December 10 after it was satisfied that now free and fair elections can be held. |
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The guerrillas are alleging that the secular process of American-sponsored elections will result in un-Islamic laws. |
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After a peaceful transition, the elections produced the first representative, multiparty National Assembly. |
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In May 1994, a new constitution was approved, and then the first multiparty elections took place. |
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The Western ideal for representative democracy involves free, multiparty elections and maintenance of civil liberties. |
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The elections for the county council take place at the same time and in the same polling stations as the general election. |
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Politics needs money to win elections and influence and pays little attention to the sources of this money. |
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Boucher refused to speculate when asked if the action could lead to the imposition of emergency or postponement of general elections in Pakistan. |
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The series of television debates in the American presidential elections has seen ratings soar. |
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The Constitution of the Second Republic of Gambia provides for elections by universal suffrage for adults eighteen and older. |
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People's concerns over the summer were dominated less by impending elections than by electricity bills. |
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Hounslow was the first council in the country to webcast a meeting and since then we have webcast local elections and other key council meetings. |
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We learned from past elections that the nation's fate depends on whom the people choose as the president. |
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Persistent showers and overcast skies did not stop the people of Antigua and Barbuda from going to the polls in general elections on Tuesday. |
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There, elections seem to stretch to eternity and back in an endless loop of dollar-drenched democracy. |
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In 1991 Poland's first fully democratic elections saw twenty-four parties gain seats in the Sejm and further fragmented the Solidarity camp. |
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It has superintended two general elections, two municipal elections and numerous by-elections. |
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It is not known yet whether there will be a by-election or if the vacancy will stand until the town council elections in May. |
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For many years successive elections and by-elections results have shown that almost the same number of people cast their votes. |
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Party divisions led to huge losses in by-elections and local government elections until the party at the grass roots seemed close to extinction. |
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During the elections for the aedileships a fight broke out and numbers of people were killed. |
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Pollsters are predicting that next month's European elections could result in a historic three-way tie in Scotland. |
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The mob attempted to rush the doors to the 19th floor elections office, and several people were trampled and manhandled in the process. |
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In many recent elections the polls were open from 8am to 10 pm but yesterday the opening hours were 9am to 9pm. |
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I've been watching a great deal of coverage of the imminent US Presidential elections on TV and reading about it in the papers. |
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Compared to the results of the national elections held last September 22, the reversal is no less dramatic. |
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He cites both the 1970 and 1992 elections, when the polls suggested a clear Labour lead, and the elections delivered surprise Tory victories. |
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Party wheel horse Kevin Shelley, the secretary of state, has told county elections officials they can take their time in verifying signatures. |
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Meanwhile, Kerry students have called for Saturday to remain the polling day for all elections in the future. |
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We're all thoroughly in agreement that these first-past-the-post elections are a bad thing. |
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A few years ago, when rectorial elections rolled around at St Andrews University, a group of us decided to run Germaine Greer for the post. |
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With midterm congressional elections approaching rapidly, both parties have said that passage of drug coverage will be critical to their success. |
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And then, in the aftermath of the stolen elections that year, the contradictions suddenly turned very ugly indeed. |
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It is exactly these regularly held elections and the freedom of the press that have brought realism to Russian foreign policy and purged it of ideology. |
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Many Iranian M.P.s have been jockeying for power in the lead-up to parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. |
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Not even the Presidential elections aroused much interest locally. |
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This, it should be said, gets to a broader point that is important to reiterate whenever elections are on the horizon. |
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Free and fair elections also include a well-informed electorate. |
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In the elections nowadays, after the polls close, the ballot boxes are opened and ballots counted openly in front of any interested citizen who wants to attend. |
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The election process was almost interrupted by hundreds of student protesters who forced their way into the university's central office where the elections took place. |
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Moreover, new members are now eligible to be nominated to run in general elections or party polls instead of having to wait for between two to five years. |
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Next May sees full council elections across England and Wales, and the BNP is aiming to pick up seats in target areas such as West Yorkshire and Barking, east London. |
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Surely the administration's desire to be shut of that country, at least in appearances before the November elections must play a part in these hopes. |
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Getting money for elections from party headquarters, are you codding me? |
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Thereafter the London Government has to choose between calling fresh elections or putting the North's devolved government and parliament into cold storage for a period. |
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Today, there are problems because when those vying for offices fail to win the polls, then the elections have been rigged and the issue should be settled physically. |
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On the one hand, the elections this month gave them a poke in the eye. |
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It is a commonplace in Germany that elections are decided by the middle. |
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All the signs lead one to believe that elections will lead to a theocracy. |
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Sono told the court he had voted at national level for the African National Congress in the 1994 elections and his provincial vote went to the Inkatha Freedom Party. |
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He had acted as personating agent for the party at successive elections and was always to the fore at Church gate collections and fund raising events. |
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As long as they remain reliant on the multinational forces, it will be difficult to create a national consensus that will allow the elections to succeed. |
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And in the 1994 elections they went on to win a House majority. |
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The coming local elections are well and truly a family affair, with seven husband and wife teams joined on party lines as well as by marriage lines to fight seats. |
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He decided to wait until after the elections before making a move. |
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As they prepare for presidential elections in November, Congolese fear their country will become the next Ivory Coast. |
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Yet the rosters of presidential candidates in recent elections have been composed almost entirely of sitting or former senators, governors, and vice presidents. |
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And with a history of elections marred by rigging, voters were particularly sensitive and vocal about hints of irregularities. |
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The cost of running all these elections and the challenged elections all return to the union too, so the government attempted to bleed the unions with this legislation. |
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It is a motto today's liberals and progressives would do well to hang on the walls of the political campaign war rooms in the elections of the coming years. |
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He confounded all opinion polls by coming second in the presidential elections, as a result of which he entered the run-off elections against him. |
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The discovery of a crate of 1,000 uncounted postal ballots from last year's local elections has raised fresh doubts over the safety of postal voting. |
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Clearly, monkeying around with elections is an idea whose time has come. |
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On another note, all elections should be held only after the monsoons, and after all the candidates have been forced to walk on foot through the city during the rains. |
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He lost his job after a shock defeat at the local elections in June. |
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He faces a tough few months, with rebellions likely on the European constitution as well as the terror laws before the crunch local elections in May. |
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As we gird our national loins for the mid-term elections in November, here is a brisk primer on the movement. |
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Opposition politicians refuse to participate in new elections unless he steps down, and the rebels say they will lay down their weapons only when he is ousted. |
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The only way Republican leaders will change their tactics is if they lose a few elections in a row doing it. |
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This is compared to the voter's signature on file at the elections office. |
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It is impossible, with the best of wills to conduct free and fair elections under occupation with a war of attrition taking place between rebels and occupiers. |
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Sources in the ministry say any decision on this matter could acquire a political hue, so it is better to defer the decision till the elections are over. |
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Wilders, in fact, is putting all of his political effort into the European Parliament elections coming up in May. |
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Shia proponents of the elections will argue that while the process may be marred by violence, the process in the long term could end terrorism in Iraq. |
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In elections last May, however, the Flemish separatists won big, which could eventually pave the way to a partitioned nation. |
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I have little doubt that the elections will be only a game of musical chairs that will yield a government of the parties already collaborating with the occupiers. |
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