Word: backrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make Megawati Sukarnoputri the country?s next president. The opposition leader, who won the biggest share of the vote ?- 34 percent ?- in the June 7 election, on Thursday broke her silence and demanded the reins of power. Megawati had remained circumspect during the subsequent glacial vote count as backroom negotiations continued among the country?s power centers, including the military, the ruling Golkar party (which polled 22 percent) and a plethora of smaller parties. Thursday?s announcement follows indications that the military may have offered to back her in November?s electoral assembly, in exchange for making armed forces commander...
...garnered 36 percent of the vote compared with Habibie?s 22 percent ? looks far from certain to inherit the spoils. A complex electoral process, which includes significant votes for the military and appointees of the provinces, means that despite the vote, the next president will be decided in backroom deals. "Many fear that the complicated mechanics of electing a president, designed by Suharto to minimize direct public participation, will be used to nullify Megawati?s electoral victory," says TIME Asia correspondent Anthony Spaeth. And that, of course, would leave Megawati?s supporters, who played the central role in the street...
...stacked-deck electoral system ?- within a whisker of holding on to power. Add to that an opposition vote split between Megawati?s secular Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle and various Islamic parties, and the country?s next president still looks likely to be decided in a series of backroom deals. Then again, no military-backed deal is going to enjoy much legitimacy if the vote-counters don?t get a move...
...Monday, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. Add to that an opposition fractured between secular and Muslim parties, and it?s likely that despite the democratic breakthrough, the country?s next president will be decided in a series of backroom deals...
...that burst into the open last week. Just 48 hours into the war, NATO Commander Wesley Clark called on Washington to send in the state-of-the-art AH-64 helicopter gunships as the best weapon against Milosevic's ferocious ground-level cleansing of Kosovo. After a week of backroom debate, a deeply reluctant Pentagon and White House agreed to deploy the Army's premier tank killers--but not to use them in battle. More than two weeks later, to great fanfare, the first of 24 began arriving in Albania along with their 5,350 attendant soldiers, where two aircraft...