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 Polish presidential election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presidential elections were held in Poland on Sunday October 8.
Initially there were 13 candidates, but Jan Olszewski resigned a few days before the election, urging his supporters to vote for Marian Krzaklewski.
Electiosn were won by Aleksander Kwaśniewski, winner of the previous Polish presidential election, 1995, who stayed in office for the second term.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_presidential_election,_2000   (130 words)

  
 Map & Graph: Countries by Background: Background
Democratic elections in 1974 and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy; Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992).
On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the warring parties initialed a peace agreement that brought to a halt three years of interethnic civil strife (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995).
Though the first free elections were held in 1991, the political environment has been one of continued instability with frequent changes in leadership and coup attempts in 1995 and 2003.
www.nationmaster.com /graph-T/bac_bac   (11753 words)

  
 Polish Economic Reform: A Class Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
While the Polish solidarity government was the first in the region to launch a radical reform program, its "shock therapy" was watched and studied by neighboring countries with the hope of possible emulation as a success story.
In the so-called round-table negotiations in February, Solidarity was allowed to participate in the election of one-thirds of the seats in the Sejm, the crucial lower house, with the remaining two-thirds of seats reserved for Communist party and its allies.
Polish premier Hanna Suchocka Dec. 23 vowed to not give in to demands of coal miners and other striking workers in what was believed to be the largest industrial job action in Poland since World war II 1993 2-22: Polish labor Minister Jacek Kuron signed a three-way privatization pact with employers and trade unions.
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 Presidential Character Games: Baby Boomer and Beyond
The election of President John F. Kennedy marks the transitional period in the acknowledged boundary between the Baby Boomers (1943-1960) and Generation X (1961-1981).
Election '68 (CreaTek, 1967) does an excellent job of featuring the early candidates in caricature form on cards, and shows the probable front runners for each party on the cover: Richard Nixon for the Republicans; Robert Kennedy for the Democrats; Johnson "presiding" over both.
While the 1968 election was expected to be closely contested, there were no such expectations regarding the 1972 campaign.
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 Central Europe Review - Polish Election Overview
Kwaśniewski became the first Polish president to be re-elected, and the first one to accomplish such an achievement without run-offs.
Presidential elections, as it seems, put a sad end to the career of Lech Wałęsa, who received as little as 1.01 per cent of the vote.
The meaning of the presidential elections 2000 is that they have set pace for three main political trends in Poland.
www.ce-review.org /00/35/kosc35.html   (1313 words)

  
 Rafsanjani favored to win Iranian presidential election
Presidential elections have been called in Iran for June 17 and campaigning has been under way for more than two weeks.
Last year’s parliamentary elections ended in a victory for the conservatives, under conditions of a 50.6 percent turnout, the lowest since the establishment of the Islamic republic in 1979.
The front-runner among the presidential candidates is the embodiment of this programme: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jun2005/iran-j13.shtml   (1895 words)

  
 Presidential Elections in Poland are coming soon! - Polish Culture
Polish presidential elections will take place in the beginning of October and Aleksander Kwasniewski, an incumbent president and ex-communist is leading with a large margin according to polls.
Aleksander Kwasniewski, the present Polish President (since 1995) will receive according to all polls over 60% votes that means that he would easy have an easy win in the first round.
Jaroslaw Kalinowski a leader of Polish Peasant Party and Andrzej Leppert a leader of the radical farmers' trade union Samoobrona (Self-defence) are supported by 5% and 2% respectively.
www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art482.asp   (635 words)

  
 The French presidential election: What the figures reveal
Surveys published since the first round of voting in the French presidential election make possible a more precise analysis of the result, which allowed the neo-fascist National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to emerge as the challenger in the second round to the current French president, Gaullist Jacques Chirac.
The PCF presidential candidate, Robert Hue, first came to prominence two decades ago when, as mayor of one suburb, he led a vigilante attack on an immigrant workers’ hostel, claiming it was a source of crime.
There are only two possible solutions to the crisis of bourgeois democratic institutions expressed in the election result: a right-wing, fascist outcome, as personified by Le Pen, or a left-wing, socialist one, which means that the working class takes the initiative to become the dominant force in society.
www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/vote-a27.shtml   (1910 words)

  
 Faculty, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
At The Providence Journal, where he was a reporter from 1981 to 1995, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts.
In 1995 he was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant, and during the spring 1996 semester, he continued his research at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Huffman is a Principal at the Council for Excellence in Government in Washington, D.C., and participated in the council's 2000 Presidential Appointee Initiative, a joint project with the Brookings Institution.
www.journalism.umd.edu /faculty   (3522 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
After Mondale's landslide defeat in the general election, Hart was instantly proclaimed the Democratic frontrunner for the 1988 race.
His Presidential campaign was limited to his participation in the DC primary.
He first saw his name being mentioned as a possible Presidential candidate in the aftermath of a largely unpublicized speech he gave in February 2002 at a gathering of the liberal Americans for Democratic Action group.
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 BBC News | EUROPE | Walesa leaves Polish politics
But Mr Walesa gathered less than 1% of the vote in last Sunday's presidential election, won by the incumbent Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former communist who had already defeated Mr Walesa in 1995.
"The election results have indicated that I should step to the side of the political scene and withdraw from current activities," Mr Walesa said in a statement.
Correspondents say Mr Walesa's abrasive style led to his defeat in the 1995 presidential election and later his increasing isolation in Polish politics.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_973000/973926.stm   (342 words)

  
 Armenian presidential elections 1998 - Armenians Need Clean Election to Polish Image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But its reputation was damaged by the 1995 and 1996 elections, in which foreign observers reported irregularities.
One U.S. election observer in Armenia to monitor the vote said another election regarded abroad as flawed ``plus the oil card the Azeris possess might be enough to tip the diplomatic scales'' in the Azeris' favour.
They and ex-prime minister Vazgen Manukyan, who says he was the genuine winner of the 1996 election, are the only candidates with a realistic chance of chance of going into a second round vote, to be held in two weeks if no one wins outright on Monday.
www.asbarez.com /aol/election98/98031301.htm   (521 words)

  
 Polish National Election Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Polish NES (Polskie Generalne Studium Wyborcze) is aimed - among other objectives - at joining the international community of National Election Studies.
The idea emerged and was widely discussed in Poland at the end of 1994, and was finally accepted by the Polish National Science Foundation (Komitet Bada Naukowych) in 1997 and 2001.
The second wave of the project and its financial support is granted by the Polish National Science Foundation, also supported by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Szkołę Wyższą Psychologii Społecznej (SWPS) in Warsaw.
www.isppan.waw.pl /pgsw/pgsw1997/pgsw1997eng.html   (541 words)

  
 The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - April 2004 Archives
The poll found that if the presidential election due in November was held today, 46 percent of Americans would vote for Democrat John Kerry and 44 percent would vote for Bush — if independent Ralph Nader stayed out of the race.
Her deputy, Jamie Gorelick, currently a deeply conflicted member of the 9/11 Commission, famously wrote a 1995 memo augmenting “the wall” that has become the most unpopular structure since a certain concrete barrier collapsed in Berlin in 1989.
Consider the past seven presidential elections in which an incumbent ran (1964, ‘72, ‘76, ‘80, ‘84, ‘92, and ‘96) - that is, look at the final vote versus the last Gallup or Harris polls.
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 CNN.com - Poland prepares for presidential election - October 8, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Despite the president and his aides saying both videos were manipulated, his support has fallen by 10 percent or more in the overwhelmingly-Catholic nation.
If no candidate garners 50 percent of the vote, a second election run-off has to be called.
The post of president is largely a ceremonial one but carries considerable moral authority in the country of 39 million people.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/10/07/poland.elections   (510 words)

  
 Jefferson on Politics & Government: Presidential Elections
It may be said that if elections are to be attended with these disorders, the less frequently they are repeated the better.
"I prefer the Presidential term of four years, to that of seven years, which I myself had at first suggested, annexing to it, however, ineligibility forever after; and I wish it were now annexed to the second quadrennial election of President." --Thomas Jefferson to James Martin, 1813.
There is, however, but one circumstance which could engage my acquiescence in another election; to wit, such a division about a successor, as might bring in a monarchist.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/quotations/jeff1230.htm   (2205 words)

  
 Elster, Jon (1995), Transition, constitution-making and separation in Czechoslovakia
It was clear, however that with majority voting Civic Forum would have swept the elections, as Solidarity had done for the elections to the Polish Senate in June 1989 when they got all deputies but one.
Thus before the elections of June 1992 he proposed the adoption of a Slovak constitution before the federal one, the election of a Slovak president, the creation of a Slovak Central Bank (with emission rights in the common currency!), and even an independent foreign service.
In his electoral bill for the 1992 elections, he proposed to divide the country into small electoral districts in which voters would cast their ballots for individual candidates rather than for a party ticket.
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 Everything I Know Is Wrong: Election 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Today, attorneys representing the Kerry-Edwards campaign filed papers in Delaware County, Ohio to intervene in legal proceedings in defense of Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik and their legal counsel, the National Voting Rights Institute, who are seeking a recount of all votes cast for president in the Ohio 2004 general election.
Only a day after the election they have already begun to try to define conservatives as even further to the right, and therefore further out of the mainstream, by claiming that the only thing that got Bush elected was the 4 million Evangelical voters that the president magically activated.
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
www.everythingiknowiswrong.com /election_2004   (11564 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Belarus
The Belarusian economy in 2004 is likely to be hampered by high inflation, persistent trade deficits, and ongoing rocky relations with Russia, Belarus' largest trading partner and energy supplier.
Belarus has seen little structural reform since 1995, when President LUKASHENKO launched the country on the path of "market socialism." In keeping with this policy, LUKASHENKO reimposed administrative controls over prices and currency exchange rates and expanded the state's right to intervene in the management of private enterprises.
In addition, businesses have been subject to pressure on the part of central and local governments, e.g., arbitrary changes in regulations, numerous rigorous inspections, retroactive application of new business regulations, and arrests of "disruptive" businessmen and factory owners.
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/bo.html   (1093 words)

  
 Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - 2003 presidential election
Final report on the presidential election in Azerbaijan, 15 October 2003
Preliminary statement on the presidential election in Azerbaijan, 15 October 2003
The overall process reflected a lack of sufficient political commitment to implement a genuine election process.
www.osce.org /item/14394.html   (223 words)

  
 The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election - FP Grades The President
Iraq is far closer to success now, with an interim Govt, a national conference and elections on track, than in July 2003.
Polish troops got a hold of a batch of cyclosarin-laden munitions.
Poland said in a statement from Iraq that “beyond doubt the shells were from the 1980-1988 period, of the type used against Kurds and during the Iraq-Iran war.”.
www.command-post.org /2004/2_archives/014790.html   (3695 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Polish ancestry Politicians
Michigan state house of representatives, 1952 (Wayne County 1st District), 1972 (10th District); Presidential Elector for Michigan,
Governor of Michigan, 1982; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
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 Ukraine Elections News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
to hold a third round of presidential elections came as the decisive moment of the...
And their fellow Ukrainian, Anastasia Bezverkha, says when it comes to elections and democracy in their country, "We really need some examples." They are youth leaders...
the opposition in Ukraine successfully challenged the result of a presidential election which was widely...
www.einnews.com /ukraine/newsfeed-UkraineElections   (1062 words)

  
 Sassy Lawyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It’s the story of a Polish doctor who was imprisoned by the Nazi and later knighted by the Queen of England, and a Polish-Jewish journalist-writer who dug up old bones to expose the horrific experimental surgeries that the doctor performed for the Nazis.
The justice committee of the House of Representatives is set to begin its deliberations within 10 days on the merits of an impeachment complaint filed against President Arroyo on charges she rigged last year’s elections, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.
By the way, the Zuce statements were made during a Senate inquiry.
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 MM -- January/February 1995
In January of 1995, MOSOP obtained a May 12, 1994 memo from a government source that gives added weight to the Ogoni case.
To court international approval, the junta staged elections but kept Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and counted on pressure and manipulation to control the outcome of the vote.
Karen and Mon officials in early February 1995 publicly vowed to destroy the pipeline using “any means necessary.” The attacks on the Karen coincide with the February 3 signing of the final pipeline contract between Total/Unocal and Thailand.
multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm0195.html   (20953 words)

  
 Presidential Elections in Poland are coming soon! - Polish Culture
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August 05 Polish Culture Site Award: My Grandma’s Old Polish Recipes
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