• Although third-party candidates rarely win elections, they can have an effect on them through vote splitting and other impacts. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, systems of proportional representation are uncommon, especially above the local level and are entirely absent at the national level (even though states like Maine have introduced systems like ranked choice voting, which ensures that the voice of third party voters is heard in case none of the candidates receives a majority of preferences). (wikipedia.org)
  • In the United States, if an interest group is at odds with its traditional party, it has the option of running sympathetic candidates in primaries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Candidates failing in the primary may form or join a third party. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt made a spirited run for the presidency on the Progressive Party ticket, but he never made any efforts to help Progressive congressional candidates in 1914, and in the 1916 election, he supported the Republicans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another consequence of the weak regulations is the rise of a new class of mega-donors, individuals capable of giving candidates sums so vast they instantly become a force to be reckoned with - again, even in presidential elections. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • The final weeks leading up to the elections were characterized by uncertainty, as polls showed a potentially fragmented incoming congress and a close race among the five presidential candidates vying to compete in a second-round runoff. (ned.org)
  • Thus, the parties and their candidates ignore states such as Wyoming and Oklahoma, which are reliably Republican, and they ignore states such as Massachusetts and Maryland, which are reliably Democratic. (ed.gov)
  • Civil service reform-the idea that candidates for federal jobs should have some qualification besides just their political affiliation or connections-became a popular cause among the Half Breeds. (nps.gov)
  • A few months before that, candidates from different parties explain their platforms to the public. (childrenfirstamerica.org)
  • He and others in this group, however, are younger than the 40 years of age required of presidential candidates by law. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Presidential candidates don't need a majority of votes to win the state. (11alive.com)
  • People occasionally ask me why I don't write about candidates, elections and all that kind of stuff. (counterpunch.org)
  • As the presence of female and non-white candidates in all types of political races makes clear, the political system has opened its doors to the previously disenfranchised. (counterpunch.org)
  • Moussa, who has become one of the top contenders in a May 23 presidential contest after the election commission barred ten presidential hopefuls, now faces an unpredictable battle against the two other major candidates- Muslim Brotherhood's head Mohammed Morsi, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who represents a moderate Islamist choice. (newstrackindia.com)
  • The majority of winners of congressional elections in the country are the candidates who have greater financial support. (dallasexaminer.com)
  • As UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen puts it , "The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly, and that the candidates taking office will not reflect the free choices made by eligible voters under previously announced election rules. (justia.com)
  • The fi rst 6 months of 2014 was characterized as an escape taken by the major candidates during presidential elec- tions. (bvsalud.org)
  • In some cases, ruling elites have prevented opposition candidates from running in elections or facilitating unfair coverage by state-run media. (lu.se)
  • Opinion polls indicate that Trump is by far the strongest contender to become the Republican Party's candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (wreg.com)
  • Editor's note: The David Horowitz Freedom Center has recently released "The War of Two Americas," a timely new pamphlet by Shillman Journalism Fellow Daniel Greenfield that crystallizes the country's current political divisions and the battle for the ideological soul of America. (frontpagemag.com)
  • It is not even certain that the two old machine parties, with their tentacles in the country's all-important petroleum industry and deep links to the military, would have allowed Obi to take office had he managed to win the most votes. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • LILONGWE/WASHINGTON, DC - On February 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country's May 2019 presidential election, and decreed that the poll must be rerun within 150 days. (project-syndicate.org)
  • In addition, the country's political history has given rise to dominant ideas, values and ideologies that imbue health system reform with a particular social meaning. (bvsalud.org)
  • But in the 2016 presidential election, the group threw its support behind Donald Trump. (wvxu.org)
  • VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin asserted Tuesday that the criminal cases against former U.S. President Donald Trump are political revenge that show the fundamental corruption of the United States. (wreg.com)
  • And, just as he did in the run-up to the last presidential election, Donald Trump is seeding the ground of skepticism and doubt about the integrity of the 2024 contest. (justia.com)
  • In Presidential elections, the majority requirement of the Electoral College, and the Constitutional provision for the House of Representatives to decide the election if no candidate receives a majority, serves as a further disincentive to third party candidacies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Given the nature of the Electoral College system, the two major political parties concentrate on winning the electoral votes of those states in which the preference of voters are divided evenly. (ed.gov)
  • The executive branch is run entirely by the president of the United States, who is elected through a system known as the Electoral College. (boundless.com)
  • Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro won a decisive victory on Sunday in Brazil's presidential runoff election. (vox.com)
  • Georgia's 2022 Senate race between incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker is officially heading to a runoff election. (11alive.com)
  • Can I register to vote before Georgia's Senate runoff election? (11alive.com)
  • Early voting for this year's runoff election will begin, at the earliest, on Nov. 26, according to state officials. (11alive.com)
  • Under the patronage system, the winners of congressional and presidential elections had the power to appoint whomever they chose to fill numerous federal jobs. (nps.gov)
  • Its leader, Gerald L. K. Smith, was the party's presidential candidate in the 1944 U.S. presidential election. (penelopethemovie.com)
  • Turnout totalled 64.6%, i.e. -8.10 points in comparison with the previous (invalidated) election on 22nd May last. (robert-schuman.eu)
  • Despite a higher turnout among previously non-voting blocs in the US population (African-Americans, young adults, and others), the trend towards centralization of power in the executive branch combined with the ever-expanding domination of the political system by the wealthiest members of US society has continued unabated. (counterpunch.org)
  • Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators. (lu.se)
  • For example, the 2020 presidential and congressional elections gulped down a whopping $14 billion, which is twice and thrice the cost of the 2016 and 2008 elections, respectively. (dallasexaminer.com)
  • American democracy barely survived the 2020 election , and little has happened since to fortify our democratic institutions or alleviate the authoritarian inclinations of one of our major parties. (justia.com)
  • In 2020, he spent months denouncing the use of mail-in ballots and raising questions about the procedures that would be used to determine the winner of the election. (justia.com)
  • And while "85% of Democrats believe that what Trump did in Georgia after the 2020 election was illegal," only 16% of Republicans shared that view. (justia.com)
  • No third-party candidate has won the presidency since the Republican Party became a major party in the mid-19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • His supporters, and Lula himself, consider his imprisonment political - an attempt to prevent his presidency again . (vox.com)
  • Understanding the factionalism in the Republican Party during this era helps one understand not only how James A. Garfield ascended to the presidency, but also that his murder was wholly political in nature. (nps.gov)
  • Many of this faction, including President Hayes, believed that the patronage system contributed to the scandals and graft that had recently embarrassed the party during the eight years of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency. (nps.gov)
  • The court ruled that the current presidency, exercised on an interim basis by the parliament's chairman, Mihai Ghimpu, since September 2009, does not amount to a presidential term of office. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • In contrast to Communist nations of the past, a key dimension of participation in Venezuela has taken in activity channeled along electoral lines.Under the Chávez presidency a record number of elections, including referenda, recall elections and party primaries, have been held. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • He is the first Austrian head of State to come from the Green party but the second ecologist to be elected to the presidency of the Republic of an EU Member State, after Latvian Raimonds Vejonis (Union of Greens and Farmers, ZZS). (robert-schuman.eu)
  • In year 2011, after election campaign for the presidency, we observed attempts to silence this theme. (bvsalud.org)
  • The winner take all system for presidential elections and the single-seat plurality voting system for Congressional elections have over time helped establish the two-party system (see Duverger's law). (wikipedia.org)
  • Professor Wattenberg conducts research on elections and political parties in the U.S. and other advanced industrialized democracies. (uci.edu)
  • But although the High Court's ruling is a promising sign of judicial independence in one of the world's poorest countries, the experience of Kenya suggests that rerunning elections may not necessarily restore faith in fragile democracies. (project-syndicate.org)
  • And even in Botswana, one of Africa's most well-consolidated democracies, former President Ian Khama supported an opposition petition to the high court to overturn the result of the 2019 election that returned the incumbent Botswana Democratic Party to office. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Third party (or minor party) is a term used in the United States for political parties other than the two major parties (the Republican and Democratic parties). (wikipedia.org)
  • Previously, Senator Lisa Murkowski won re-election in 2010 as a write-in candidate and not as the Republican nominee, and Senator Joe Lieberman ran and won as an independent candidate in 2006 after leaving the Democratic Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • it was a temporary name for the Republican Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • More money in politics has always been a boon for the Republican party. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • But over the past few years, radical deregulation has led to an era of mega-donors and unrestrained spending that has suddenly turned a seemingly undisputed Republican advantage into a strategic weakness, especially at the presidential level. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • There are principled arguments at stake here, and many Republican lawmakers no doubt believe that by deregulating campaign finance they are protecting the free speech rights of citizens to express their political views unimpeded by needless limitations. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • One main issue led to the split in the Republican Party: patronage. (nps.gov)
  • On the other side of the aisle, Half Breeds supported none other than James G. Blaine for the Republican presidential nomination. (nps.gov)
  • It lead to confusion on Romney as a candidate with many describing him as 'flip-flopping' on his views, seen as a moderate Republican who was uncomfortable playing as a tea party Conservative. (antiessays.com)
  • Nineteen of the twenty-three seats that were picked up by the Republican Party were in the Midwest states. (antiessays.com)
  • Jackson says the organization didn't abandon its anti-government extremism and become loyal members of the Republican Party. (wvxu.org)
  • Furthermore, the supervisory body of private schools are required include representatives of grassroots organizations of the Chines Communist Party, with more than one-third being faculty members, while public schools for compulsory education are prohibited from participating in the running of private schools and from converting to private schools. (createsend.com)
  • Rifts within the governing Alliance for European Integration (AEI) accompany the deep polarization between AEI and the Communist Party. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • On August 3 Moldova's constitutional court disqualified Vladimir Voronin, former president (2001-2009) and still popular Communist Party leader, from running again in the upcoming presidential election. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • With Voronin out of the contest, the Communist Party lacks a viable presidential candidate. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Voronin and his Communist Party continue to top the popularity ratings, scoring above 30 percent in the polls. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The Communist Party is urging voters to boycott the constitutional referendum. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • An invalid referendum would frustrate the presidential ambitions of Filat and Lupu, top rivals to the Communist Party. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • A presidential election by popular vote is the foremost example of a winner-take-all contest, which the Communist Party cannot win from the opposition (certainly not after Voronin's disqualification) against a strong governmental candidate backed by administrative and business resources. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The Communist Party is far better placed to influence outcomes in parliament, whether through negotiation or leveraged obstruction. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Each time, the redistribution of votes under the proportional system gave the Communist Party a larger share of parliamentary seats than their share of the popular vote. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • H. Ross Perot eventually founded a third party, the Reform Party, to support his 1996 campaign. (wikipedia.org)
  • Presidential ballots used in the first round of Madagascar's 1996 election. (ifes.org)
  • Rapport du KMF/CNOE" is a report from November 3rd 1996, available in French, by the National Council for the Observation of Elections ("Conseil National pour l'Observation des Elections" - CNOE) listing various observations about the First Round of the 1996 Presidential Elections in Madagascar. (ifes.org)
  • And it will be a place without the Constitution, without free speech or free elections. (frontpagemag.com)
  • P olitical factions or parties began to form during the struggle over ratification of the federal Constitution of 1787. (penelopethemovie.com)
  • We, The America First Party, wholeheartedly support 2nd Amendment rights as guaranteed by the United States Constitution and as given to us by Almighty God. (penelopethemovie.com)
  • The Ministry of Interior in collaboration with the NGO community was in need of help in organizing and training election poll observers and in monitoring voter registration and balloting procedures. (ifes.org)
  • [61] ABKHAZ ELECTION DEADLOCK CONTINUES Volume 8 Number 196 Friday, 15 October 2004 NOTE TO READERS: AFGHANISTAN VOTES 2004-05 -- Follow the vote count in Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, as well as the independent probe into accusations of widespread ballot fraud. (hri.org)
  • [4] This peaceful transition of leadership via the ballot box by which a military ruler was succeeded by a civilian nominated by the party he had founded has been described as "a unique development in the political-military systems in Bangladesh as well as in the Third World. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • His win represents a significant break in Brazilian politics, as voters abandoned the leftist party that had dominated past elections. (vox.com)
  • But voters have grown frustrated with the status quo due to a slew of political and economic crises. (vox.com)
  • The 63-year-old former congress member won about 55 percent of the vote, handily defeating the leftist Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad, who was backed by popular former President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva. (vox.com)
  • The average age of the current Congress leadership in each party is even higher, with Democrats approaching 70. (dallasexaminer.com)
  • The opportunity to pass this meaningful legislation is running out of time, and the political challenges are particularly concerning to me, not least because Congress adjourned for the election and will return afterwards only for a lame duck session. (medscape.com)
  • Some other presidential aspirants for next year's election are also in the same age bracket. (dallasexaminer.com)
  • A new presidential election was scheduled for January 10, 2021 along with a referendum on whether the country should transfer to a presidential system or government or keep its parliamentary system. (state.gov)
  • Moldova is headed for a constitutional referendum on September 5, to be followed by yet another round of double elections, parliamentary and presidential. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • It will be the third round of double elections (or fourth electoral round, counting the referendum) in just 19 months. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • A failed referendum would also force the immediate dissolution of parliament and elections to a new one that would again try to elect the head of state. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • He, too, came up via the machine system, once serving as governor of Anambra state and as the vice presidential candidate of the other big traditional party (and rival to Tinubu's APC), the People's Democratic Party, in 2019. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) held a series of round table discussions around the presidential elections that took place in Latin America during 2011. (ned.org)
  • As for the prosecution of Trump, for us what is happening in today's conditions, in my opinion, is good because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others democracy," Putin said at an Eastern Economic Forum gathering in Russia's Pacific Coast city of Vladivostok. (wreg.com)
  • Democratic elections can only occur when there is a democracy. (counterpunch.org)
  • For decades, America has been a leader in democracy and political stability. (dallasexaminer.com)
  • ElectionGuide is provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international non-profit dedicated to strengthening electoral democracy. (lu.se)
  • Political transitions and pressures - including the introduction of apartheid in 1948, anti-apartheid opposition, the transition to democracy, and corruption and governance failures - have alternately created political imperatives for reform, and constrained reform efforts. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the foundations of a political culture necessary to consolidate liberal democracy are still weak in most African states. (lu.se)
  • opposition parties protested the results. (state.gov)
  • Africa's most populous country has a new president, at least provisionally, pending legal challenges to the election by Nigeria's two major opposition parties. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The fact that African opposition parties increasingly turn to the courts when they lose elections indicates that perceptions of judicial independence are improving. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Since 2016, opposition parties in Nigeria, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia have challenged election results in court, citing alleged irregularities. (project-syndicate.org)
  • However, I do not necessarily think opposition parties' appeal to the courts is a sign of confidence in the judicial system. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The former army captain has promised to "quebrar o sistema" - break the system - and he capitalized on the political and economic turmoil in Latin America's largest country, promising to restore order in a country beset by violent crime and still reeling from a massive corruption scandal that touched all parties and politicians in Brazil. (vox.com)
  • The investigation of general and local crimes falls under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while certain crimes such as terrorism and corruption fall under the authority of the State Committee on National Security, which also controls the presidential security service. (state.gov)
  • Sattar died in 1985, so did not live to see Ershad imprisoned for corruption followed by the election of a BNP government led by Khaleda Zia . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • These youth-led popular protests have demonstrated against social injustice, fraudulent elections, corruption, insecurity, demanding inclusion to participate in governance and a life of dignity as equal citizens. (lu.se)
  • While there cannot be a one-size-fits-all explanation for the proliferation of coups, the causal factors include poverty, insecurity, poor governance, including endemic corruption and economic mismanagement, infrastructural deficit, poor socio-economic systems and institutions, and frustrated youths. (lu.se)
  • Manuel Alcántara is a renowned political scientist and scholar with over 24 years of research experience and numerous publications on parliamentary elites, political parties, and legislatures in Latin America. (ned.org)
  • In addition, Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and orthodox Communist parties in Latin America (unlike unorthodox Communist thinkers such as José Antonio Mariátegui) held ambivalent attitudes toward the peasantry, which was often considered an unstable ally due to its petty-bourgeois makeup. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Malawi has thus become only the second African country, after Kenya in 2017, to have had a presidential election annulled by the courts. (project-syndicate.org)
  • A most important political step has been taken,' Putin said during the signing ceremony in Beijing. (hri.org)
  • For the first half of its existence, Oath Keepers criticized politicians on the left and right for, in their view, not adhering to the political system envisioned by the nation's founders. (wvxu.org)
  • But with the latest election, this Nigerian system-which evolved in response to a horrific civil war in the 1960s, the military dictatorships that followed, and the powerfully centrifugal religious and identity divisions that have perennially loomed as threats to the nation's survival-seems now to have outlived nearly all of its remaining utility. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Lastly, the report provides a post-election analysis of and recommendations regarding election administration in Madagascar. (ifes.org)
  • Feeling the frustration of seeing the system work against my beliefs post-election, I wanted to move beyond agonizing, I wanted to organize, so I challenged myself to call my representatives. (huffpost.com)
  • Recent examples include Bill Walker of Alaska who was, from 2014 to 2018, the only independent governor at the time, and wrestler Jesse Ventura who was elected governor of Minnesota on the Reform Party ticket in 1998. (wikipedia.org)
  • The GOP edge in political fundraising has been evident at least since the Truman administration despite the vast changes in party ideology, coalition loyalty, technology and indeed America's social fabric. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • In Taiwan, the period immediately following the 228 Incident is known as the "White Terror" for the massive suppression, murder, and imprisonment of political dissidents, or anyone who the Kuomintang (KMT), known as Nationalists in English, perceived as a threat to its one-party rule. (fpri.org)
  • The states that will win and lose the election may be very different than has been the case in recent elections. (ed.gov)
  • Releases at regular intervals will provide up-to-date empirical information including recent elections or changes in government, coding suggestions from country experts as well as extensions to more countries and time periods. (lu.se)
  • The Supreme Court continued to eviscerate campaign finance regulations with the McCutcheon decision that effectively ended caps on political contributions by individuals. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • What's worse, the Federal Election Commission has also been rendered basically toothless due to continued partisan gridlock over even minor questions of campaign finance violations. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • Bolsonaro's showing on Sunday is even more remarkable because he largely began his presidential campaign as a fringe candidate in the Social Liberal Party (PSL), a once-marginal party that has also made significant gains . (vox.com)
  • Trump's campaign also released a statement after he was indicted in Georgia in which it elaborated on the charge that the indictment was politically motivated and designed to tamper with the 2024 election. (justia.com)
  • On August 29, 2016, in the midst of the presidential campaign, Secretary Clinton released an agenda for mental health care. (medscape.com)
  • Unlike in proportional representation, runners-up do not gain representation in a first-past-the-post system. (wikipedia.org)
  • I think Trump is very similar to Milei," said Constanza Trunsky, a psychology student, noting the points in common between Argentina's current political climate and the views Swift has expressed in the past, particularly her support for the LGBT community. (wboy.com)
  • Everything that is happening with Trump is the persecution of a political rival for political reasons. (wreg.com)
  • Obama was not the only one who ran under the assurance of political change when he took office, Trump did as well. (huffpost.com)
  • Trump has labeled each of them "election interference," and he has vehemently denied that he has done anything wrong. (justia.com)
  • Trump posted on August 14, "Those who rigged & stole the election were the ones doing the tampering, & they are the slime that should be prosecuted. (justia.com)
  • The belief that the election system is rigged against the former president, Collinson argues, is "deep-seated among many Trump supporters. (justia.com)
  • It looks like Trump is succeeding again in throwing America into an Alice-in-Wonderland world, where a person who is guilty of election interference presents himself as a defender of election integrity and a victim of election interference . (justia.com)
  • If he loses, Trump will again claim that the election was stolen from him. (justia.com)
  • The Kuomintang controlled the island while the party engaged in a war against the communists and Mao Zedong. (fpri.org)
  • The communists are admittedly in long-term decline from their peak of 50 percent support in the 2001 parliamentary elections, 45 percent in 2005, and around 40 percent in the two parliamentary elections of 2009. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The Chavistas ´ call for a democratic, peaceful, gradual path to socialism is the complete opposite of the one-party system that Communists defended in Eastern Europe, China and Cuba. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The process of democratization has been marred by the formation of political parties, rigging and winning elections, and state capture by a few elites. (lu.se)
  • Malawi's one-round presidential election was essentially a three-horse race, won by the incumbent Peter Mutharika with 38.6% of the vote. (project-syndicate.org)
  • But in politics it is especially useful when your principles match your political bottom line and improve your chances to win elections. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • This document is an excerpt of the Organic Law on Political Parties The excerpts address issues of money and politics, violations, and penalties. (ifes.org)
  • The Rise of Candidate-Centered Politics: Presidential Elections of the 1980's. (uci.edu)
  • He entered politics by joining the Krishak Praja Party of Bengali politician A. K. Fazlul Huq. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The last time a third-party candidate carried any states in a presidential race was George Wallace in 1968, while the last third-party candidate to finish runner-up or greater was former president Teddy Roosevelt's 2nd-place finish on the Bull Moose Party ticket in 1912. (wikipedia.org)
  • Neither of the other two were ever elected president in their own right, both being vice presidents who ascended to office upon the death of the president, and both became independents because they were unpopular with their parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • An interim government consisting of a military junta held elections in December 1958, and Betancourt was chosen president. (nationsencyclopedia.com)
  • Led by Conkling, Stalwarts encouraged former president Ulysses S. Grant to seek an unprecedented third term in the White House in the 1880 election. (nps.gov)
  • If this is defense, education, environmental protection, technological development, or healthcare system is up to the president and his advisors. (childrenfirstamerica.org)
  • The long overdue reform of Tajikistan's justice system must emphasize the actual independence of the justice system as a separate branch of power and guarantee its representatives safety from retribution from the government and president. (cacianalyst.org)
  • Mr. President, the results from the November 2010 midterm elections have exposed a divide between coastal cities and less-dense areas of the Midwest. (antiessays.com)
  • For the president-elect to make the next four years a success for Nigeria, he'll have to create a new political ethos for his country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • As Zia's Vice-President, Sattar organized, then led, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) although "Zia was the real leader. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • When was the last time a presidential candidate-not a president but a presidential candidate- ever released a thoughtful, potentially comprehensive position statement on mental health care? (medscape.com)
  • Cairo, Apr 19 (ANI): Former Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa has warned that if the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate wins the upcoming presidential elections, and if the political wing dominates the parliament, it may yield a one-party system that would brook 'no serious debate' in public. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Five years after the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, there are essentially no barriers to unlimited political contributions. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • Voronin and his party describe the constitutional court's decision as prompted by AEI's "panicky" need to remove their strongest opponent from the election (Politika TV, August 4). (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Then, one or both of the major parties may rise to commit for or against the matter at hand, or at least weigh in. (wikipedia.org)
  • this explains the sharp rise in support for the FPÖ, the leading party in the polls. (robert-schuman.eu)
  • dql) China announced new laws to reform its private education system for compulsory education. (createsend.com)
  • Kornblith's study of the contemporary Venezuelan political system spans constitutional reform, political institutions and parties and electoral processes, and has published extensively on those topics. (ned.org)
  • The nature of these reforms, and the policy processes by which they are achieved, will depend on context-specific factors, including the history of reform efforts and the political imperatives driving reforms. (bvsalud.org)
  • South Africa's pursuit of universal health coverage through a National Health Insurance is the latest in a nearly 100-year history of health system reform efforts shaped by social and political realities. (bvsalud.org)
  • We began the review by identifying peer-reviewed literature on health system reform in South Africa, and iteratively expanded the search through author tracking, citation tracking and purposeful searches for material on particular events or processes referenced in the initial body of evidence. (bvsalud.org)
  • and ideas, values and ideologies have been particularly important in constraining, and sometimes spurring, health system reform efforts. (bvsalud.org)
  • While these ideas and values increase opposition and complicate reform efforts, they also help to expose the inequities of the current system as problematic and re-emphasise the need for reform. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSION: Ultimately, this analysis demonstrates the context-specific nature of health system reform processes and the influence of history on what sorts of reforms are politically feasible and socially acceptable, even in the context of a global push for universal health coverage. (bvsalud.org)
  • On July 1st, after having interviewed 90 people for two weeks, the Constitutional Court cancelled the second round indicating that although there was no proof of any electoral fraud, irregularities had marred this election. (robert-schuman.eu)
  • The Kyrgyz Republic has a parliamentary form of government designed to limit presidential power and enhance the role of parliament and the prime minister. (state.gov)
  • After two nights of violence, the Central Election Commission annulled the elections and parliament approved an interim government led by Sadyr Japarov. (state.gov)
  • The totalitarian left has rejected the outcome of two presidential elections and our entire system of government. (frontpagemag.com)
  • As a prominent IRPT member, Makhmudov held positions in the IRPT Supreme Governing Council as well as the State Central Committee on Elections and Referendums as part of the post-Civil War reconciliation agreement between the government and opposition. (cacianalyst.org)
  • IRPT was subjected to substantial persecution from the government prior to the elections, forcing its leader Kabiri to flee the country after IRPT lost the elections. (cacianalyst.org)
  • Below, we will summarize each of the 3 branches of government, while also explaining the federalist system. (boundless.com)
  • The Chávez government has placed a premium on the incorporation of these excluded and semi-excluded groups [1] into the political, economic and cultural life of the nation and their participation in decision making, particularly in the local arena. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • That event on Lexington Green served as a coming-out party for Rhodes and Oath Keepers, a group that touts itself as a defender of the rights of Americans from what it views as a tyrannical government. (wvxu.org)
  • East Pakistan's Awami League emerged as the single largest party but was prevented from forming a government, precipitating East Pakistan's secession as Bangladesh. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • During the 1990s, the government promulgated non-party presidential and legislative elections. (louisville.edu)
  • Justice should be blind," McCarthy observed , "but Biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election. (justia.com)
  • Political Data Yearbook captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU. (lu.se)
  • The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) Political Data Yearbook documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms. (lu.se)
  • The study aims to investigate how political factors such as government policies and economic development impact carbon emissions and subsequently affect the fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). (bvsalud.org)
  • When I say "we," I am referring to our government, the media, the healthcare system, and even the population at large, which should demand its rightful due in the way of services, policy, legislation, and funding. (medscape.com)
  • The ferocity of political strife seems inversely proportionate to any spoils of governance in Europe's poorest country. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • The first is the state of health systems, which involves aspects such as governance, financing, delivery and access . (lu.se)
  • Since the New Deal, Democrats have been the party of unions, the working class and other groups whose ability to fund political campaigns, while not insignificant, pale in comparison to that of the GOP's traditional allies. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • In the past, reasonably wealthy people would be courted by presidential campaigns early and often. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • With few exceptions, the U.S. system has two major parties which have won, on average, 98% of all state and federal seats. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Awami League under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman emerged as the single largest party but with no seats in West Pakistan, where Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 's PPP was the largest party with no seats in the East. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The America First Party pledges its total allegiance to the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America. (penelopethemovie.com)
  • Second, " constitutional coups ," where leaders have changed constitutional term limits, rig elections, or abused human rights to perpetuate their tenure in office, as seen in Rwanda and Uganda , among other countries. (lu.se)
  • These Republicans strictly adhered to the patronage system and continued to believe that sectional appeals ("waving the bloody shirt") were still valid even after the Rutherford B. Hayes administration of 1877-81 began to gradually end Reconstruction in the South. (nps.gov)
  • The First Party System ended during the Era of Good Feelings (1816-1824), as the Federalists shrank to a few isolated strongholds and the Democratic-Republicans lost unity. (penelopethemovie.com)
  • The December 2021 Afrobarometer shows that most Africans prefer limiting presidential terms as it nurtures competition and participation and reduces the risk of coups. (lu.se)
  • This unofficial translation has been provided by IFES Thailand and the Political Section and Public Diplomacy Office of the US Embassy-Bangkok. (ifes.org)
  • He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame and has been a political science professor at the University of Salamanca in Spain since 1993. (ned.org)
  • According to author Kenneth D. Ackerman, "Senatorial courtesy-deferring to senators of the president's party on local positions-helped the party in power to build a national base. (nps.gov)
  • The ecologist candidate (Greens, DG) who was standing as an independent won 53.8% of the vote against 46.2% of the vote which went to his rival, populist candidate Norbert Hofer (Liberal Party, FPÖ). (robert-schuman.eu)
  • He pointed out that the Brotherhood had initially promised not to run a presidential candidate, partly from the same concern. (newstrackindia.com)
  • There have been presidential commissions, but not a position statement by a candidate in advance of an election. (medscape.com)
  • There have only been a few rare elections where a minor party was competitive with the major parties, occasionally replacing one of the major parties in the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The only three U.S. presidents without a major party affiliation upon election were George Washington, John Tyler, and Andrew Johnson, and only Washington served his entire tenure as an independent. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this to key post as Chief Election Commissioner, Sattar was responsible for supervising the 1970 elections, which led to a major political crisis between East Pakistan's Awami League, the Pakistan Peoples Party of West Pakistan and the military ruler Yahya Khan . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • BACKGROUND: Spurred by the WHO's endorsement of universal health coverage as a goal of all health systems, many countries are undertaking health financing reforms. (bvsalud.org)
  • It called the Georgia indictment a "FOURTH ACT of Election Interference on behalf of the Democrats in an attempt to keep the White House under Crooked Joe's control and JAIL his single greatest opponent of the 2024 election. (justia.com)
  • Firstly a member of the Social Democratic Party, Alexander van der Bellen later joined the Greens (DG). (robert-schuman.eu)
  • Generally speaking, this perspective is championed by those in the Democratic Party and others considered liberal or progressive. (counterpunch.org)
  • As a healthy individual, you are lessening the burden on the national healthcare system, freeing up vital resources for more medical research and development. (childrenfirstamerica.org)
  • Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York was the undisputed king of the patronage system, and the key weapon in his spoils arsenal was the position of Collector of the Port of New York. (nps.gov)
  • Grant was disheartened at Hayes's attempts to dismantle the patronage system and, in consultation with Conkling and other Stalwart allies, agreed to run again. (nps.gov)
  • Voting has not changed the most fundamental reality that needs to be changed-the reality that is capitalism, for it is this economic system that is ultimately responsible for the inequality and desperation that currently exists in so much of the world. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is borderline political gambling and desperation. (project-syndicate.org)