In Mexico, the presidency is up for grabs.

Mind you, this was not enough to win Stevenson the presidency in the 1950 s.

According to the polls, Valéry Giscard d Estaing, not François Mitterrand, should have been elected in 1981.

For example, each and every one of the Presidential hopefuls has received many calls to congratulate him for the good news .

Unfortunately, Khamenei thought so, too, and made sure that Ahmadinejad held onto his presidency.

The current constitution was adopted in October 1971, and has 211 articles, 30 of which concern the presidency.

In 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad relied on Khamenei s financial and political support to win the presidency.

Let me also commend the new Danish chairmanship of the Counter Terrorism Committee for the great deal of fine work it has done.

Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries debts.

If Khamenei holds fast, Mousavi cannot gain the presidency, but he will continue to represent the hopes of the majority of Iranians who differ dramatically with their government.

Welcome the incoming Greek Chairmanship in Office, and decide that the next meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the SEECP countries will be held in Thessaloniki in 2006.

After winning the presidency, Chen could have risen above theatrics by focusing on two Taiwanese strengths its economy and its unbroken humanist Chinese cultural tradition.

Despite these perceptions or perhaps precisely because of them Rowhani s presidency offers an unexpected opportunity for both the nuclear negotiations and a political solution in Syria.

But their failings do pose a dilemma for Democratic deficit hawk economists trying to determine what good economic policies would be should Barack Obama become president.

By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.

After winning the presidency in 2002, Álvaro Uribe vowed to defeat the guerrillas who have added terrorism to their repertoire mounting an offensive that employed all of the power of the state and its law enforcement authorities.

Moreover, if the March 8 coalition had won, it would have largely been on the back of Christian voters delivered by Aoun, who might have then demanded the Lebanese presidency, which is reserved for a Christian.

Throughout his campaign, Toledo insisted that he would do so, but he admitted his paternity only two years later, after the girl's mother turned to the Supreme Court for help.

It is not yet clear whether Goodluck Jonathan will be able to translate this sectional support into enough votes in the party primaries and beyond to retain the presidency.

Mind you, this was not enough to win Stevenson the presidency in the 1950 s. All the intelligent people in the country are supporting you, he was told.

Consequently, some analysts suspect a hidden opposition vote, such as occurred in Nicaragua in 1990, when Violeta Chamorrro won the presidency, or in Mexico in 2000, when Vicente Fox emerged victorious.

A McCain presidency would have offered no hope for a radical break with the military swagger and crony capitalism of the Bush years, on which the bilateral relationship with India was built.

Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries debts. But forebodings of crisis have become widespread in French business and economic circles.

Regional and international events have also emboldened the Egyptian opposition, not only to press for reform, but to focus on amending the constitution's articles that pertain to the presidency.

In the interest of the IMF s credibility and of the stability of the world economy Strauss Kahn should put the matter to rest once and for all, by declaring unequivocally his intentions regarding the French presidency.

Unable to find common ground with the Republican opposition, he cut deals with the other powers that immediately surround the presidency the military and security apparatus, big pharmaceutical companies, big banks, and big media.

I do not believe that corruption is coming to light just because law enforcement is somehow better, or because citizens, like the presidential staff who accused President Katsav of sexual crimes and harassment, are more courageous.

In September 2014, the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Iranian Parliament wrote a letter to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance demanding he refuse screening permits for eight films that appeared to be sympathetic to the public rebellion against Ahmadinejad s victory in the widely disputed 2009 presidential election.

Many Mexicans, as well as the country s foreign friends, fear that this turn of events heralds a return to the authoritarian, corrupt, and discredited past that Mexico had left behind when the National Action Party s candidate, Vicente Fox, won the presidency in 2000.

In Colombia, everything indicates that President Álvaro Uribe, erroneously labeled a rightist because of his fight against his country s guerrillas, will be re elected. Oscar Arias is winning in Costa Rica.

Otherwise, its turn at the G 20 s helm risks resembling the chaotic Czech presidency of the European Union in 2009, which confirmed some larger EU members belief that it is a mistake to let smaller countries do the driving.

Uribe s victory, and the emerging political consensus that it reflects, was remarkable for its peacefulness, in contrast to the violence that left wing guerrillas unleashed when he won the presidency four years ago.

Is he gambling on the chance of a Republican presidency in 2016? If so, he got the applause but, given the current polls, the latter motive would be quite a gamble.

In Egypt, with its 10 Coptic Orthodox Christian minority, the Muslim Brotherhood s Mohamed Morsi won the presidency in a free and fair election, after which Morsi resigned from the party, saying that this would allow him to represent all Egyptians more effectively, and promised that he would respect minority rights.