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...which reformers mingled with hard-liners. And that, supposedly, was only the start. On the same day that East Germany threw open its borders, Egon Krenz, 52, President and party leader, promised "free, general, democratic and secret elections," though there was no official word as to when. Could the Socialist Unity Party, as the Communists call themselves in East Germany, lose in such balloting? "Theoretically," replied Gunter Schabowski, the East Berlin party boss and a Politburo member...
Mladenov has said he will implement sweeping political and economic reforms but has not offered specifics. He said the "new socialist Bulgaria" will have more respect "for [human] rights and freedom for all Bulgarians...
...Half of the people in America don't vote," Sanders said, asserting that a democratic socialist party would unite and serve groups that typically do not vote in large numbers, and are traditionally ignored by the Republican and Democratic parties...
...Sanders said an increase in voters would expand the democratic process. "Even if the Socialist Party only got 10 percent of the vote, the people in power in Washington would have to listen," he said...
Deputies appealed for truly free elections, a coalition government and removal from the constitution of language declaring their nation a socialist state...