Bring Back Egypt s Elected Government

an elected government responsible to its citizens

If an electorate doesn t rouse itself and hold its elected government accountable, it will be abused by that very government.

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The new center right government elected in the fall of 2006 has committed itself to continuing economic liberalization.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott s recently elected government provides a case in point.

The resulting government will then ask the occupation troops to leave, say, within a year.

The Shamir government would be defeated at the polls, and the incoming Labor government would declare a freeze on all settlement construction, even on buildings that had already been started.

Of course, a popular, democratically elected government and an independent judiciary in Islamabad complicate relations with the US.

According to the Turkish constitution, it is illegal for any agency, even the military, to try to overthrow a democratically elected government.

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If a government sprang from reasonably fair elections and the elected government is able to fill the most important political offices, the country is deemed electorally competitive.

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Our democratically elected government has worked with international partners and a growing number of private investors to turn things around.

Iranians vividly remember the overthrow, orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, of the elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953.

The elected government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2006 reviewed the deal, and the Liberian Senate is currently scrutinizing it.

Instead, the West should encourage governments to work with their parliaments to find their way towards more representative rule. History has shown that legitimate, democratic governments can do wonders in pushing tough and needed social and economic reforms.

History has shown that legitimate, democratic governments can do wonders in pushing tough and needed social and economic reforms.

Simultaneous debt reduction and structural reforms, we now know, will overextend any democratically elected government because they overtax its voters.

The soft coup of 1997, whereby a democratically elected government was forced by the military to resign, left deep scars in Turkish society.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s newly elected government had embarked on a series of ambitious reforms to meet the European Union s political criteria for membership.

The PiS led government, elected in 2005, inherited a fast growing economy, but did nothing to strengthen that legacy.

Pious Western sermons about the need to form a unified, democratically elected government sound utterly irrelevant, given the extent of social and political fragmentation.

Indeed, opponents of Thailand's recent coup, which displaced the democratically elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra, have even adopted the movie's famous three finger salute.

But it also faced opposition from a variety of other, far less democratically minded, forces, including holdovers from Hosni Mubarak s regime, who continue to wield influence in official institutions.

The judiciary, for example, dissolved the first elected legislative assembly.

Expectations of economic improvement are extremely high. The initial elected government may pay an early political price for failure.

The CIA and Britain s MI6 jointly toppled Mohammad Mossadegh s democratically elected government in 1953, in order to block Mossadegh s attempts to nationalize Iran s oil reserves.

It is possible that Europe could build up a strong presence in Iraq, including a military presence, if a future democratically elected Iraqi government should request it.

General Musharraf appeared on the national scene on October 12, 1999, when he ousted an elected government and announced an ambitious nation building project. Many Pakistanis, disillusioned with Pakistan s political class, remained mute, thinking that he might deliver.

But a democratically elected government should be judged on its politics, not on the rhetoric of a populist politician, however vulgar and repulsive.

General Musharraf appeared on the national scene on October 12, 1999, when he ousted an elected government and announced an ambitious nation building project.

The protestors march under the banner of the People s Alliance for Democracy, but the truth is that they have resorted to undemocratic means to topple a democratically elected government.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s newly elected government had embarked on a series of ambitious reforms to meet the European Union s political criteria for membership.

More recently, the US, France, and the UK toppled Muammar el Qaddafi in Libya, and the US worked with the Egyptian generals who ousted the elected Muslim Brotherhood government.

But never did the outcast faction actually represent the democratically elected majority.

After the previous government stepped down after similar protests in February 2013, the new government, elected in May, soon met with similar citizen dissatisfaction and new protests began on June 14, 2013.

The Bush administration, eager to have a democratically elected government in Pakistan to continue the fight against terrorism, was believed to have brokered the agreement.

If an elected government wants a bank to offer cheap credit to a group of enterprises so that they can hire more people, why should a supervisor be able to obstruct this democratic will?

ISLAMABAD Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan stands virtually alone today while facing the most serious challenge to his presidency possible impeachment by the new democratically elected government.

Even as the US rhetorically champions democracy in the Middle East, its first response to Hamas s victory was to demand that the newly elected government return 50 million in US aid.

To many in the West, it is clear that the Egyptian military has removed a democratically elected government and is now repressing a legitimate political party, killing its supporters and imprisoning its leaders.

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