The city is regarded as a strong candidate for global city status.

Presidency Boni stood as one of 26 candidates in the March 2006 presidential election.

On May 7, 2009, Ashraf Ghani registered as a candidate in the Afghan presidential election, 2009.

Then once you have won the nomination, you move back to the center and run for the national elections as a centrist!

The selection of Joe Biden as vice presidential candidate made some bloggers suspicious of Democratic candidate Barak Obama.

When he did lose, he demanded a recount, not as a candidate, but in his capacity as Commander in Chief.

Subsequently, the Council was informed that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had withdrawn as a nominee for election by the General Assembly.

Talks are ongoing between the CPC, the ACN, which is fielding Nuhu Ribadu, the former anti corruption czar as presidential candidate, and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, a minor party running Ibrahim Shekarau as its nominee, to field a joint candidate.

So far, the only serious candidates to emerge for a Société Générale takeover are two French banks, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas.

But, given his questionable fit for the job in the first place, the girlfriend issue might have been disqualifying.

As the RPP candidate, he was elected without opposition for a six year term as President on 12 June 1981, receiving 84.58 of the vote.

As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then Governor Gray Davis.

Nuhu Ribadu, the respected former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has announced his intention to contest the presidency as the candidate of one of the opposition parties.

To clinch this deal, the Regions would dump their unelectable leader, Viktor Yanukovich, as their presidential candidate and adopt Yushchenko as their standard bearer.

Muhammadu Buhari, whom Babangida replaced as military head of state in 1985, is also expected to run, as the nominee of the Congress of Progressive Change.

As a presidential candidate, however, he joined the deniers a switch made clear when he accepted the party s nomination in Tampa, Florida, in August.

I asked if the connection of Juntos! with the PSOL party, which will support Senator Randolfe Rodrigues from Amapa as a presidential candidate this year, compromises the partisan independence of the group, to which he says

Although the film was not shortlisted as a nominee for the Oscar, it received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the BAFTA Awards in England.

With one demarche, Ortega dismissed the need for a party primary and designated himself as the Sandinistas nominee for next year s presidential election.

When Wolfowitz s name was first mentioned as a candidate to lead the world s premier development bank, the idea that the architect of America s failure in Iraq would be so rewarded was met by incredulity.

Navalny was registered as a candidate in the election and joined the campaign a day after being released from jail, following his conviction and five year prison sentence in a completely fabricated case.

Chirac is not about to present himself as a candidate to divide the conservative camp, and the new leniency surrounding his record may actually benefit Sarkozy, his impatient and rebellious heir.

The Jordanian delegation wished to reiterate its confidence in UNIDO and congratulate Mr. Yumkella on his election by the Industrial Development Board as its candidate for the post of Director General.

That, in fact, you couldn't have a functioning democracy if citizens didn't get a good flow of information, that the newspapers were critical because they were acting as the filter, and then journalistic ethics developed.

By the end of their discussion, they had made a double deal Brown would stand aside and support Blair as the next party leader in return, Blair would later give up the leadership to him.

If Denmark s prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen were to succeed as a compromise candidate between Juncker and Blair, as is widely suggested, the presence of two center right Scandinavians would present a problem.

It seems Dr. Abdullah's reading of the situation is more or less accurate while Karzai himself will not be standing, younger brother Mahmoud Karzai sounded out Qayyum Karzai, the oldest of the Karzai brothers, as a likely candidate during an exclusive interview with Pajhwak Afghan News outlet last year

While he will not run as a candidate (he is already a senator for life), he formed a centrist coalition affiliated with neither the left nor the right to contest the election, and has declared his willingness to resume his leadership role if the coalition is victorious.

He resigned in 2004 to run as Angela Merkel s candidate for the largely ceremonial office of President of the German Federal Republic, a job he performed capriciously until he abruptly resigned.

An aggressive debater, Kan is often mentioned as a candidate to succeed Hatoyama should he leave his post a live possibility, given the prime minister s plummeting approval ratings and strained relationship with Ichiro Ozawa, the kingpin of Hatoyama s Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).

Of course, not everyone being put forward by his or her government is a good candidate. When Turkey s leaders say they have at least ten good candidates, they show that politicians often don t know what the job requires.

So far, the only serious candidates to emerge for a Société Générale takeover are two French banks, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas. But should a credible foreign offer for Société Générale appear in the coming weeks and it well might another disruptive conflict between the Bank of France and the government may be in the offing.