Russian-Lithuanian Post-Election Relations
The political pendulum in Lithuania has swung to the left. The right-wing conservative coalition was outvoted in the Seimas elections. A left-wing government is likely to be formed involving the Social Democrats as the senior partner alongside the Labor Party, founded by businessman Viktoras Uspaskichas, and Order and Justice, the party of ex-President Rolandas Paksas. But ...
... leading Islamist parties: initially, the election commission rejected nominees from the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Al-Nour Party, and later, only FJP managed to nominate a new candidate.
This is despite the fact that at the last parliamentary elections, held at the end of 2011, Islamists won a landslide victory, taking nearly two-thirds of seats in the People’s Assembly of Egypt (the lower house of parliament). Moreover, the number of Ikhwans was almost twice the number of Salafists in the ...
Where will Serbia go after the elections?
On the Serbian political scene there have been changes: the two political parties and even the two leaders have become major players, however the votes were equally divided in fact. Waiting for a change in Serbia? Apparently, Boris Tadic ...
... experts.
Election campaign in the USA is gaining momentum. The main competitor to the current head of the Oval Office, President Barack Obama is Mitt Romney. Hardly one of the candidates will succeed with convincing preponderance by the time of the elections. As usual, the American electoral race remains intriguing. But Romney has all the chances to become the new U.S. president.
In Russia, this perspective is seen without much enthusiasm. Republicans are known for a penchant for hard dialogue with ...
... by a mechanism thanks to which a large number of cantons enjoy broad powers and the role of the central government is minimal.
Obstacles hindering democracy
The following circumstances are main obstacles hindering democracy:
Huge transaction costs of elections, which are held once in several years because of this;
The citizens’ inability to directly affect the government’s political course between the elections;
The citizens’ incompetence in the majority of issues which are under ...
Pirates, red-greens and Polish Movement of Palikot: new players on the European political arena
Recent elections in Poland revealed some features of the contemporary political life common for many European countries. Despite the victory of traditional parties, new forces came up and in the future they may define the political landscape of the European ...
