Word: unpopular
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...billion?so high that the Philippines must continue borrowing just to pay off the interest, a situation that could choke the economy's recent growth. The trouble is, the President has virtually no mandate to push through the painful fiscal measures needed to cut the mounting deficit. Unpopular plans to tax SMS messages and raise duties on tobacco and alcohol have already been scrapped. And Arroyo is now expected to deliver on a raft of expensive campaign promises that, politically, she can't afford to drop. Add an unresolved terrorism threat and the possibility of another "People Power" revolt...
...offered the blunt assessment that "there is never going to be a Western-style democracy in Iraq." The danger, however, is that if Allawi finds himself at odds with large sections of his own people, the U.S. could find itself in an uncomfortable position of having to defend an unpopular regime. That danger certainly increases to the extent that elections are postponed or placed in doubt. But Allawi clearly understands the need to win allies quickly among those who could cause him the most problems - not only has he affirmed that elections will be held, but he has also made...
...crisis decades in the making. The most visible element of that crisis right now may be the apparent inability of the authorities to eliminate the threat of al-Qaeda attacks within their own borders. But its causes may be rooted in a variety of factors ranging from an increasingly unpopular alliance between the ruling family and the United States - widely perceived in the Arab world today as a power hostile to Muslim interests - to a monocultural economy whose oil earnings are unable to meet the aspirations of a rapidly growing population. And the absence of democratic channels for the expression...
...voluble rival, Ahmad Chalabi, to whom Allawi is related by marriage. A Brahimi aide claims that Allawi's appointment also received Sistani's blessing, which the U.S. hopes may earn him some quick credibility. But some Iraqi leaders say Allawi's ties to U.S. intelligence and the widely unpopular Governing Council will undermine him. Says Sheikh Mohammed Basher al-Faidi, spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars, a powerful group of Sunni clerics: "This is a man who came into Iraq in an American tank. Is there anybody who honestly believes the Iraqi people will respect such...
...Iraqis, he goes and picks somebody from the GC?" he said. "What was the point of this long, complicated exercise, all those long consultations? And what happened to his ideas about picking technocrats to run the new government?" Asked whether Allawi's CIA ties would make him an unpopular choice in Iraqi eyes, he said: "That's one of the things Brahimi has to answer...