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Month: July 2019

Death of an independent

Ross Perot was an eccentric and pathbreaking figure, but it's not entirely fair to see him as a proto-Trump.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Party matters, Personalities, Political issues 6 Comments 10 July 201926 January 2022

Greece’s Nazis drop out

Greece's centre-right wins a clear majority, courtesy of the electoral system rather than the voters.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe 2 Comments 8 July 2019

Election preview: Greece

Greece looks ready to shift back to the centre-right in Sunday's election. Its party system is yet to recover from the damage done by the financial crisis.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Party matters, Political issues 1 Comment 5 July 2019

A centre-left revival? Part IV: The European parliament

The centre-left seems to have missed out on getting its candidate up as the EU's next head of government, but its parliamentary position is stronger than it might look.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Party matters 6 Comments 3 July 2019

How to appoint a prime minister

Malcolm Turnbull may have had a hypothetical constitutional manoeuvre to block Peter Dutton, but would the same trick work against Boris Johnson?

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Charles Richardson Australia, British Isles, Constitutional law, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters 1 Comment 1 July 201926 January 2022

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