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...first black female Senator, while Vice President José Alencar is a textile multimillionaire from the right-wing Liberal Party. Culture Minister Gilberto Gil, a pop music star, sports dreadlocks; Chief of Staff José Dirceu wears power suits and helped guide Lula from labor socialist to the more centrist "Brazilian Blair," as Brazilian and Wall Street pundits have taken to calling him. So far the mix of social crusade and fiscal discipline has won Lula an 84% approval rating - even though he has yet to score a real achievement - and unexpected applause from Wall Street, where frantic fear...
...Mitznah may face an internal revolt that could see Labor once again accepting the junior role in Sharon's government, but if not, he may have to look towards a narrower coalition of hard-line nationalist and religious parties. The wildcard in the current election, however, is the centrist Shinui party of Tommy Lapid, which has surged from the political margins on a platform of militant secularism. Lapid's peace policies are somewhat vague, but his challenge to the privileges of the ultra-Orthodox who are exempt from military service and study at state expense has proved so popular that...
...NETHERLANDS Fortuyn Lives The ghost of murdered conservative leader Pim Fortuyn looms large over the run-up to the Netherlands' Jan. 21 general election. In campaigning, many centrist politicians have adopted his controversial positions on issues like immigration, crime and education. Freedom and Democracy Party leader Gerrit Zalm has embraced the notion that the country can no longer take in immigrants: "The Netherlands is full," he now says in his speeches. Social Democrat leader Wouter Bos is doing a more effective Fortuyn impersonation - "Only Dutch to be taught in our schools" - and is leading in the polls. Ironically, Fortuyn...
...legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election, netting at least two seats. "Likud is corrupt and so is Labor," says Dan Goldenblatt, Green Leaf's deputy leader. "People are supporting us because they're fed up." An even bigger winner is the centrist Shinui Party. Ardently anti-religious and financially clean, Shinui is set to become the third-biggest party in the Knesset, which might force Sharon to become the first Likud leader to form a coalition without the religious parties...
...lifelong hawk who has fought for Israel since 1948, Sharon has reinvented himself as a centrist, at least by his Likud Party's standard. But he hasn't forgotten how to fight. As over 400 Israelis died in terrorist attacks in 2002, Sharon's soldiers killed more than 1,000 Palestinians--some combatants but many civilians too. He came to power promising peace, but Sharon knows best how to wage...