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...Just over a decade later, the SNP is set to become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament. In polls leading up to the May 3 election, it's about six percentage points ahead of the Labour Party, which has not lost an election in Scotland for 50 years. That's not enough to form a majority government, but it's a powerful position from which to enter coalition talks, possibly with the Liberal Democrats...
...Bruce Crawford, the SNP's local candidate, brandishes no broadsword, greeting shoppers with more mundane vows to revoke an unpopular local services tax. This election is "not actually about independence," says Peter Lynch, professor of politics at Stirling University. "People want more from their Parliament, but they don't necessarily want that yet, if they ever...
...Turkey, the choosing of a President is rarely the dramatic affair that it is in the United States. Turkey's President isn't even directly elected by the voters - he or she is chosen by the elected parliament - and the office carries limited powers. Still, the President does have the power to veto legislation, and is also considered an important symbol of the Turkish state. That's why the nomination for President this week by Turkey's ruling party of the country's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, has reopened fierce debates about the place of Islam in the ferociously secular...
...affable moderate and one of friendliest faces of the political party that has dominated Turkey's parliament for the past five years. But like most senior officials of his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, his roots are in an Islamic grouping that was banned in Turkey in the 1990s. His Arabic is better than his English, as secular Turks like to point out. And his wife wears a traditional Islamic headscarf. (In fact, she petitioned the European Court of Human Rights to declare unconstitutional Turkey's law banning headscarves in public buildings, although she later dropped the case...
...election - parliament is to vote for a President in the coming weeks - would also give the ruling AKP control of Turkey's three top political posts: the Presidency, the Prime Minister's office and the Speaker of the Parliament. (In parliamentary elections later this year , the AKP is expected to be returned to power, albeit with a reduced mandate). The election to all three top positions of officials who "come from the same Islamic-rooted tree," writes columnist Metin Munir in the leading secularist daily Milliyet, augurs "the end of Turkey as we know it. "Turkey, he warned, is about...