Word: populists
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...several designed to take some political heat off President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Dogged at home and abroad by the reputation that she is more interested in cutting ribbons than crafting policy, the daughter of the man who founded Indonesia could badly use a bit of Dad's populist charm in dealing with Indonesia's myriad woes: economic stagnation, religious violence, allegations of terrorist networks, not to mention several secessionist movements. The high profile trials of Tommy Suharto, House Speaker Akbar Tandjung, 18 military officers accused of human rights abuses during East Timor's transition to independence, as well as a handful...
Prime Minister Tony Blair was among the many who came forward last Saturday to disagree vehemently. In his tribute he described her as a symbol of Britain's "decency and courage." Much earlier the populist Sunday Mirror had similarly gushed, "She has almost become a symbol of all that Britain wants to stand for . . . something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London." And as reassuringly familiar. Generations from now, her performance in that most deceptively difficult of jobs will be the standard by which the world's remaining monarchs are judged. The Queen Mother blended...
...work until dawn prayers. Though a devout Muslim, if he's a zealot about anything it's TV news: his office has a bank of 33 television sets so he can monitor all the available satellite channels at once. In contrast to more remote royals, Abdullah has become a populist prince, touring the country and even munching burgers in fast-food joints...
...also not above pulling populist levers to achieve his political ends. In explaining the planned expulsion of the Far Eastern Economic Review reporters, he suggested publicly they had offended the country's revered monarchy. (They hadn't, and weren't charged with violating Thailand's l?se majest? laws.) One of the ways he came to power was promising to give every Thai village about $23,000. He did?but now most of that money has been spent. In a by-election last month, Thai Rak Thai won only four of the 14 House of Representatives seats contested. Thais knew their...
...Republic, Slovakia and Hungary all face extremely close elections this year, in all likelihood the last national polls before accession to the E.U. Candidates are looking for an edge as campaigning heats up, and good old-fashioned populism is back in style. "There hasn't been this degree of populist rhetoric since 1989," says Jonathan Stein, an independent political analyst based in Prague. "Politicians are trying to show they are capable of defending national identity, but E.U. integration limits the scope for this to symbolic battles...