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GIVEN FOREIGN AND LOCAL SKEPTICISM, IS LIBYA REALLY REFORMING ITSELF? About the economy, quite possible. We have begun to apply the Green Book. It's what we call popular socialism and what Thatcher calls popular capitalism. Elections? What for? We have surpassed that stage you are presently in. All the people are in power now. Do you want them to regress and elect somebody to replace them...
...Parliament that his main focus would be promoting economic growth and job creation. Suitor Spurned GEORGIA President Mikheil Saakashvili unveiled an autonomy plan for the breakaway republic of South Ossetia as part of his efforts to reunite the country. Under the proposal, the province would have the right to elect its own local parliament, with control over education, policing and social policies. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity immediately rejected the plan; the republic has been effectively self-governing since the early 1990s and has close ties with Russia. A Breach of the Peace SUDAN U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said...
What's at stake? The January 30 poll will elect the 275 members of a National Assembly. The Assembly will elect a new president and two deputies, and the three of them will then appoint a new prime minister who will in turn choose a cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet must be confirmed by the Assembly, giving Iraq its first democratic government since the fall of Saddam. It will, nonetheless, be a caretaker government, primarily responsible for drafting a new constitution by August 15. If that draft constitution is approved in a nationwide referendum scheduled for October...
...these concerns, some members of the Bush administration have sought to downplay expectations concerning the success of the elections. Officials have begun emphasizing the fact that the vote itself is only the first step in a long process of constructing a new government. The National Assembly still must take office, elect a prime minister, establish remaining government agencies and field a police force able to maintain security. It will also be charged with the monumental task of writing a constitution to facilitate elections later this year or in 2006. Any one of these steps may undermine the project of establishing...
Still, the freedom to democratically elect one’s leaders is of fundamental importance, and the goal of eradicating tyranny worldwide is—if a bit outlandish—a worthy one in spirit. How to achieve such ideals in practice is, however, a more complicated question. Elections are a critical component of the long and arduous process of putting Iraq back together again, but elections do not always go well—nor are the results always welcome. Sunday’s vote may place the stability of Iraq in an even more precarious position; when American...