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...ASIA INDONESIA: For President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the biggest test will be the economy...
...politician who takes one position when the war is popular and another when it loses favor, one with an Arab group and another when reaching out to Jews, one when the country unites after attack and another when running for the highest office in the land. The person we elect to be our president for the next four years must be someone we can trust to do what he believes is right. The dangers we face are serious and require a consistent, principled approach. When dealing with issues of life and death, taking a step in one direction before scampering...
...election plan requires registering some 12 million Iraqi voters between now and January 31, during which time they will be asked to go to the polls and elect a 275-member constitutional assembly. That group will appoint a new caretaker government, and debate and adopt a new constitution for Iraq, which must be approved in a nationwide referendum by October 2005. The first elections under that new constitution would be held two months much later, which means that to cement their new order, Iraqis will be required to go to the polls three times in the space of a year...
...polling stations, voters will be asked to choose a political party rather than an individual. The election will be run on a proportional-representation list system - each party contesting the election offers a list of candidates to fill the number of seats proportional to the share of the popular vote it wins. A party that earns 25 percent of the overall vote, for example, would be allocated 69 seats in the 275-member assembly, to be filled by the first 69 candidates on its electoral list. They'll also be invited to elect provincial assemblies on the same basis...
...Yudhoyono's supporters insist the President-elect can be firm when necessary, citing the government's swift arrest and prosecution of the Bali-bombing gang, which happened on Yudhoyono's watch as security czar. "He is persuasive, not authoritative," says Sudi Silalahi, a retired three-star general and one of Yudhoyono's key advisers. Silalahi points to the success Yudhoyono had in stopping religious fighting in areas such as Poso and Maluku through lengthy negotiations and peace agreements. "He can use both methods," concurs adviser Rachmat, who is widely tipped for a senior Cabinet position. "If the road is straight...