It hopes to return to power before the oil bonanza.
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It hopes to trigger fresh elections and return to power.
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He has not ruled out seeking a return to power.
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He also does not want Prayut to return to power.
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He visited Iran and sought their blessing to return to power.
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In facing the many obstacles to her return to power, Mrs.
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Unfortunately, the fines will likely be flexible when Democrats return to power.
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An alliance between the two could have secured Najib's return to power.
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The latest surveys predict that Mr. Modi, 68, will return to power.
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Medicare for All will be debated if the Democrats return to power.
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When that time comes, Mr. Renzi could very well return to power.
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The party have until June 29 to agree to return to power-sharing.
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Despite being the front-runner, Jansa won't be able to return to power.
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But if he does return to power, what might Modi 2.0 mean for India?
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De-Chiangification was suspended during the KMT's return to power between 2008 and 2016.
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Kenny will need the backing of junior coalition partners Labour to return to power.
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But that will not be enough to return to power in 2018 or 2020.
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Years of unpopular post-2008 austerity smoothed the left's return to power in 2012.
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They're demanding the resignation of Añez and calling for Morales to return to power.
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In these free markets, regulators don't guarantee a rate of return to power suppliers.
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But the new case is an obstacle facing Mr. Sarkozy's bid to return to power.
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But since his return to power in 2006, both he and Nicaragua have been transformed.
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There is a lesson here for Democrats, as they contemplate a future return to power.
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The ensuing instability across the Taiwan Strait led to KMT's return to power in 2008.
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And it was, perhaps fittingly, Petro who Duque defeated to complete Uribe's return to power.
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Do you think the Workers' Party can return to power during next year's presidential elections?
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It's an explosive decision that appears to quash Mr. da Silva's bid to return to power.
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An event at the Brighton conference asked whether the party would return to power before 2080.
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It is here, in these suburbs, that the Democratic Party hopes to return to power nationally.
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In "The Locust Years" (1994), he wrote about the return to power of Charles de Gaulle.
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There's no question that it's all part of Ennahda's long-term plan to return to power.
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The result instead raises the question of a return to power for Puigdemont, who campaigned from Brussels.
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But he says he is after neither the collapse of the government nor a return to power.
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With a drumbeat of impeachment, Democrats made their return to power the political prerequisite for removing Trump.
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The first batch of exit polls predicted that Narendra Modi, the prime minister, would return to power.
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But a return to power would give Netanyahu the opportunity to pass laws shielding himself from prosecution.
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If the conviction is overturned, the canny politician could return to power and lead Brazil once more.
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Brazilian markets have rallied on the prospect of Bolsonaro stopping a return to power by the Workers Party.
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But some regional experts counter that Tehran is hedging its bets in case the militants return to power.
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The political left broadly believes the 2018 midterm elections are the starting point of their return to power.
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The leader of the center-left Democratic Party, and former prime minister, is seeking to return to power.
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Haddad, an economist, has been meeting with major investors to quell fears about a PT return to power.
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But over the next few years, he'd orchestrate the party's return to power and Yanukovych's 2010 election as president.
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Opinion polls predict Modi will return to power next year, but said the gap against the opposition was narrowing.
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In 2008, still stinging from the Bush administration's rebuke, Viktor Orbán began plotting his return to power in Hungary.
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Afghan officials have warned for months that a peace framework must ensure that the Taliban cannot return to power.
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Snap elections could give the far-right Freedom Party, currently leading in polls, a chance to return to power.
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Italy: Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant League party, pledged to return to power stronger than ever.
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Palang Pracharat -- which wants junta leader Prayut to return to power -- had 97 seats, according to the Election Commission.
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But with the return to power of Álvaro Uribe, some Colombians wonder whether either case will really be pursued.
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Education secretary, considered an "intellectual heavyweight " who played a key role in the Conservative party's return to power in 2010.
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In fact, recent opinion polls suggested that the center-right party New Democracy could return to power in fresh elections.
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With presidential elections this year, the possible return to power of Rajapaksa and peace dividends unreached, the crisis is deepening.
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He allowed former Confederate leaders to return to power by saying it was a state matter, not a federal matter.
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The chance that the leftist PT could return to power has spooked markets, helping send Brazil's currency near historic lows.
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For Ms Mendoza the spectre of allowing the Fujimori family to return to power made Mr Kuczynski the lesser evil.
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If liberals fail to recognize the division plaguing their party, they won't return to power for many years to come.
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The protests pose no immediate threat to Orban, who has strong core support which helped him return to power in April.
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Today, bin Laden may be dead, but the Taliban are still poised to return to power if Western troops leave abruptly.
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Gruevski, who still controls the biggest bloc in parliament and is expected to return to power, blames Soros for his downfall.
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Al From is founder of the Democratic Leadership Council and the author of The New Democrats and the Return to Power.
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The president had suspended parliament, a move Rajapaksa's opponents say is aimed at preventing it from rejecting his return to power.
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That's just one sign that Apple's focus may return to power users — the kind of users that could benefit from Setapp.
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The Nepali Congress, the leading opposition party, chose to back him, seeing it as their only way to return to power.
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Mr. Putin's defensive economic mind-set also reflects the desire of the voters who just rubber-stamped his return to power.
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With that in mind, and contemplating the Democrats' return to power in the House of Representatives, here's a little thought experiment.
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His disappearance four years later was often thought to be related to his efforts to return to power in the union.
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The election could mean a return to power for the Rajapaksa family, who ended the country's civil war by brutal means.
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Austria's most prominent anti-immigration lawmaker looks all set to return to power, not even four months since his premiership ended.
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But over the next few years, Manafort would help orchestrate the party's return to power and Yanukovych's 2010 election as president.
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Western governments are especially concerned that the return to power of wartime nationalist strongman Rajapaksa could endanger halting steps toward national reconciliation.
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Under the Good Friday Agreement, the British government has a duty to facilitate these talks and help parties return to power sharing.
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The prospect of Mr. Rajapaksa's return to power has revived fears of authoritarian rule and repression of the country's long-embattled minorities.
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GUATEMALA CITY — Jailed in the squalid barracks of a military base, members of Guatemala's once untouchable elite plot their return to power.
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Japan's commitment to South Korea has only been strengthened since, bolstered by Mr. Abe's return to power as prime minister in 2012.
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Mr. Ortega, Nicaragua's current authoritarian ruler, has been sowing the seeds of the present discord since his return to power in 2007.
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So while Frederiksen celebrates her party's return to power, politicians across Europe should be wary of following in her footsteps, analysts say.
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It allowed them to make a break with the failures of the past, clearing the way for their return to power and wealth.
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Stocks have been on an upswing on expectations that the incumbent government would return to power after the general election starting next month.
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At an all-hands meeting Tuesday morning, Uber addressed rumors that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick is plotting a return to power.
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Pence's party did return to power in Congress (and Pence joined it in 2000), but not by eschewing negative campaigning and personal attacks.
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But Iran's Hezbollah murdered the former prime minister of Lebanon, Saad's father, Rafik Hariri, to make sure he did not return to power.
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Here is our guide to the people and events that led to Mr. Mahathir's return to power and Mr. Najib's fall from grace.
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Court rulings have hampered Puigdemont's efforts to return to power since pro-independence parties won a slim majority in a December regional election.
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Four months after he was ousted as Austria's chancellor, 33-year-old Sebastian Kurz is set to return to power in Sunday's election.
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Mahathir championed the new car project last year, on his return to power following an unprecedented election win by his opposition coalition in May.
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The unexpected result sets the stage for the return to power of deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont who campaigned from self-exile in Brussels.
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Mr Hando scorns those who back a revival of the rescript but fail to mention the implication that the emperor should return to power.
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Monash University senior lecturer in Australian Politics Nick Economou told CNN he expected the Coalition government to return to power, with a tiny majority.
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The Egyptian government of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has locked up victims of the old regime, while allowing its remnants to return to power.
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Years later, while trying to return to power, he was convicted of corruption and human rights abuses and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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But the two Democrats are also giving a preview of what they'll likely do on their own if they return to power in November.
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Center-left Social Democrats lined up against center-right Civic Democrats, with the remnants of the Communist Party hoping for a return to power.
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But it is the grueling confrontation with the powerful military and the judiciary that poses the biggest challenge to Mr. Sharif's return to power.
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There is widespread apprehension in Afghanistan that any abrupt American departure could further embolden the Taliban and possibly hasten the group's return to power.
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After a primary election pointed to the return to power of Cristina Fernández in Argentina, courts have begun to stall graft cases against her.
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The former president appears eager to return to power, threatening to break from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, which is now led by Mr. Sirisena.
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Some voters fear that a President Duque would work to remove presidential term limits from the constitution, allowing Mr Uribe eventually to return to power.
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Pontormo painted "Visitation" following the expulsion of the Medici, and shortly preceding their bloody siege of the city and return to power starting in 1529.
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Benazir Bhutto served as prime minister twice and had returned to Pakistan in an attempt to return to power when she was attacked and killed.
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The former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has been accused by critics of willfully destabilizing his country's current government in an attempt to return to power.
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History teaches us that there is no reason to assume that the Democrats' successes this year will lead to a return to power in 2020.
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When he attempts to return to power and take over the city-state of Kathmandu, he finds that he has nothing to offer its citizens.
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Mahathir has accused Najib's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) of engineering a return to power so that its officials escape conviction in the 1MDB scandal.
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The new agreement offers no guarantee that the Taliban will not return to power, and the immediate reaction from the group was to declare victory.
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If the Republican Party fails to exercise leadership on our climate challenge, they risk a return to heavy-handed regulation when Democrats return to power.
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Analysts say that Morales could try to return to power, despite the fact that his own party has demonstrated interest in carrying on without him.
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Murillo also called it "worrisome" that former leftist Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was set to return to power as vice president next week.
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LIMA (Reuters) - In Peru, Hitler hopes to return to power in a small town in the Andes, despite a threat from a detractor named Lennin.
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Many of those who marched last week had helped bring down the government in 2015, only to watch some of the same faces return to power.
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Earlier this year, BJP's efforts to return to power looked to be on shaky grounds, especially after the party lost three key state elections in December.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely return to power for a second term will likely be positive for his country's growth, according to economists and investors.
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As much as political partisanship, that looks like self-preservation, since they had reason to fear the revenge of the PT should it return to power.
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That meant he won the support of just two outside his own party and one of the 15 independents he wants to return to power alongside.
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Rajapaksa's return to power has already triggered violence and economists warn it could pose dire consequences for Sri Lanka's democratic future, credit rating and financial markets.
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Mariano Rajoy, leader of the conservative People's Party (PP), is set to return to power this weekend, but his party no longer enjoys an absolute majority.
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In the political turmoil that preceded the 1967 Middle East War, Mr. Peres tried to negotiate a return to power for Ben-Gurion, who had retired.
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Then January will bring a new political balance on Capitol Hill as Democrats assume control in the House and Republicans return to power in the Senate.
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An exhibit in Kabul, Afghanistan, celebrates the achievements of ancient and modern women from Afghanistan and the region amid fears of a Taliban return to power.
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Law and Justice looks set to return to power, with a mandate to further consolidate its project of remolding Polish society in its nationalist, illiberal image.
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If Labour is ever to return to power, it must capture another 64 seats in Parliament; that requires a 3.6 percent swing away from the Conservatives.
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Analysts believe Fianna Fail is the more likely candidate, given its desperation to return to power and its control of a larger share of parliamentary seats.
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If Palang Pracharat secure their coalition, it's likely their only nominated candidate, coup leader turned prime minister Prayut will return to power for four more years.
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Or was he a scam, sold by an unprincipled wing of the conservative movement that needs to banished if the Republican Party is to return to power?
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Over in India, the Nifty 73.183 jumped 109.2.18% after exit polls showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to return to power following the country's general election.
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Now "the fear is that Haddad and the Workers Party will return to power and to the policies that took so many years to digest," he said.
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He aims to return to power at the vote due by May, but the PD has split under his leadership and his prospects seem to be dwindling.
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The lesson there surely will be taken into account if and when the Democrats return to power, and Republicans bequeath them a private insurance market in shambles.
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Johnson would then hope to win that election to return to power with a majority in parliament large enough to approve a no-deal exit if necessary.
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His best hope of a quick return to power lies in the crisis of 5-Star, which performed dismally on Sunday after its leader resigned last week.
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Promises to introduce the subsidy helped PiS return to power in 22012, when its socially conservative and nationalist agenda tapped into public frustration with Western liberal values.
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Their aim to block the military's return to power ultimately failed as Prayut was able to rely on the military-appointed 250-member Senate to secure enough votes.
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The conservative party ended the 71-year-long authoritarian grip of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI, in 20063, only to see it return to power in 2012.
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Maia said Rousseff's conviction by the Senate for breaking budget rules to boost public spending is all but certain and her return to power out of the question.
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Le Pen said there are similarities between Trump's platform and that of her own party as the National Front hopes for France's independence and its return to power.
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The Afghan government welcomes travel to what it considers safe areas, where Taliban militants, seeking to topple the government and return to power, are not deemed a threat.
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The guerrilla movement is opposed to any foreign troops on Afghan soil, and wants to return to power in Kabul and reimpose its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
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But Iranian resentment had been simmering since 1953, when the United States and Britain overthrew a democratically elected Iranian prime minister, allowing the shah to return to power.
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With that apparent victory, Mr. Mahathir, who led the country for 22 years before retiring at 78, would return to power as the world's oldest elected government leader.
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But Tehran also maintains close ties with Kabul and regional experts cast its relationship with the Taliban as hedging its bets in case the militants return to power.
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Similarly, George Mason insisted that a president who procured his appointment in his first instance through improper and corrupt acts might repeat his guilt and return to power.
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The profit-taking capped weeks of market gains as investors cheered on the chances that Bolsonaro would block a return to power of the left-wing Workers Party.
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It is not clear who was behind the emails, said Kurz, who hopes to return to power after a parliamentary election widely expected to take place on Sept. 29.
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Exit polls showed conservative incumbent Narendra Modi is likely to return to power with an even bigger majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday.
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The opposition conservatives were on track to return to power by a landslide, unseating incumbent leftists blamed for foisting a bailout on the country which critics say was unnecessary.
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A Cold War antagonist of the United States, Ortega served a single term as president the 1980s and has held office continuously since his return to power in 2007.
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The return to power earlier this year by the Democratic Progressive Party, which traditionally favors independence for the island, has rekindled the prospect of instability across the Taiwan Strait.
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Pelosi's return to power is notable: She's the second person in nearly 60 years to win back the position of House speaker after leading a party in the minority.
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If Democrats increase the size of the court to 15 in 2021, then Republicans will probably further increase its size to 85033 or more when they return to power.
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If the Senate agrees to put her on trial, as seems likely, Rousseff will be suspended for up to six months and would be unlikely to return to power.
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After losing the 1990 election, Ortega risked fading into history, but the former fighter managed to orchestrate a return to power when he became president in the 2006 election.
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A return to power for the three officials would represent a change of fortune for them and other "neoconservatives" who provided the intellectual backing for the invasion of Iraq.
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An election victory by Mr. da Silva would be a dramatic return to power for him and his party two years after the impeachment of his protégé, Dilma Rousseff.
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Kurz's return to power would see him take back the title of the world's youngest sitting head of government from new Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who is 34.
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Now, it is the divisions in the conservative ranks that are providing the progressives with an opportunity to return to power after a decade away from the presidential palace.
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The Labor party, which faced a strong challenge to return to power, was leading after three-quarters of votes were counted following Saturday's poll, according to Australia Broadcasting Corp.
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Another founder, George Mason, insisted that the president who procured his appointment in the first instance through improper and corrupt acts might repeat his guilt and return to power.
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Formerly one of the most powerful families in Westeros, the remaining members of House Targaryen now live mostly in exile on the continent of Essos, plotting their return to power.
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KOLKATA — The eastern border state of West Bengal is an important battleground in the 2019 Indian parliamentary election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is fighting to return to power.
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There were marches and rallies against the potential return to power of the Fujimori movement, and several violent clashes between rival activists, in Lima and other cities at the weekend.
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While the defeat surely spells the end of Najib's political career, for Mahathir, it represents the culmination of a stunning return to power, a decade-and-a-half after retirement.
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His return to power has drawn concern in New Delhi that China would tighten its grip on Sri Lanka, which is strategically placed at the head of the Indian Ocean.
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A Cold War antagonist of the United States, Ortega served a single term as president in the 1980s and has held office continuously since his return to power in 2007.
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WASHINGTON — House Republican retirements are continuing to pile up, a sign many members aren't enjoying their time in the minority and don't think they'll return to power any time soon.
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But early results showed the pro-military Palang Pracharat Party -- formed to ensure junta leader Prayut Chan-o-cha's return to power -- taking a slight lead in the popular vote.
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Mr. Chin said he believed Mr. Najib's public relations efforts were based on the belief that if his party were to return to power, he could receive a royal pardon.
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Her rapturous glance at the pen in her hand is symbolic of her own return to power and reflects her act of Handmaid name-sharing rebellion from earlier in the episode.
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Brazilian markets have rallied on the prospect of Bolsonaro stopping a return to power by the Workers Party, which investors blame for plunging Brazil into its worst recession in 2015-2016.
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A growing hashtag movement on Afghan Twitter, #MyRedLine, has gone viral as thousands of Afghan women declared their dedication to pursuing education and employment even if the Taliban return to power.
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But the party's left flank is convinced that a full embrace of progressivism is the only way to return to power, and it is ready to fight for the party's soul.
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This rally was given fresh legs by this weekend's snap election that saw Greece's opposition conservatives return to power, sparking hopes of a renewed focus on strengthening the country's economic recovery.
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Chief among his opponents has been Mr. Maliki, the former prime minister, who many say is working behind the scenes to undermine Mr. Abadi in an attempt to return to power.
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And Malaysia is renegotiating a rail deal after the shock return to power of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in May, illustrating the political risks China increasingly faces as its influence grows.
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The publicity drive, which includes a cooking display by Yingluck Shinawatra and the distribution of free books, could signal the family's intention to one day return to power, one expert said.
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It's an ode to the achievements of ancient and modern Afghan women, at a moment when the chance of a Taliban return to power threatens the progress of women's rights there.
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According to a report in The Guardian in 2007, Chavez flew to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua hours after his own ceremony to stand in support of Ortega's return to power.
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The papal sanction lasted for 35 years, despite the fact that Cardenal distanced himself from the party and became one of Ortega's fiercest critics after his return to power in 2007.
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"I think praying there is no financial meltdown before pro-regulatory forces return to power may be the least implausible path forward," said Jeff Hauser, director of the Revolving Door Project.
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But the Supreme Court held illegal the imposition of president's rule, as it is called in India, ordering that the dislodged Congress should return to power immediately, forcing Pul from office.
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Meanwhile, many Kurds have expressed a willingness to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad's return to power over the northern areas they hold in order to repel Turkey, which backs rebels fighting Assad.
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Why it matters: Brazil's hard turn to the right opens the door to the military's return to power as Bolsonaro sets the country on a new course for trade and foreign policy.
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Fernández's victory marks the left's return to power in Latin America's third-largest economy, as well as the reascendance of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who will serve as vice president.
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SINCE its return to power last May, Britain's Conservative government has made clear its intention to loosen the laws on Sunday trading by devolving decisions over shops' opening hours to local councils.
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Given the party's current minority position and struggles throughout the first half of 22019, it is clear that the Democrats need fresh leaders if they hope to return to power in Washington.
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Although proving himself a rare exception with remarkable political longevity, even Abe recently began to show signs of inertia as his support rate steadily declined since his return to power in 2012.
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Another video showed Mr. Renzi, a former prime minister who is waging an uphill battle to return to power, at a years-old news conference with President V. Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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Now, with national elections underway, and with most polling data indicating that Mr. Modi will return to power, the growing belief here is that a divisive Hindu-first agenda will only accelerate.
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A peace deal might ease Pakistan's strained relationship with America, and a return to power by the Taliban would be a blow to India, which has strong ties with Mr Ghani's government.
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Indeed, more can and must be done in order for the party to win back more governorships nationwide, to win back control of state legislatures, and to return to power in Washington.
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While the king eventually accepted the election outcome, he initially met with opposition members to see whether they could form a government rather than accept the return to power of the contentious Mahathir.
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Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad is confident opposition parties can defeat Prime Minister Najib Razak in the country's next general election — an event that could see the 91-year-old return to power.
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Bolsonaro has publicly criticized the possibility of former president Cristina Kirchner, a candidate for the Argentine vice presidency who in the past cooperated with Labor Party governments in Brazil, to return to power.
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A PSD ally, the Liberal-Democrat grouping is set to get about seven percent, which if translated into parliament seats could prompt a return to power for the leftists with a comfortable majority.
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Democrats who win back control of state legislatures — midterm elections are rarely kind to an incumbent president's party — will face the tantalizing allure of writing their own rules once they return to power.
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The Rajapaksa family was expected to return to power through both elections, but the turmoil has angered many Sri Lankans and hurt the already fragile economy as the important Christmas tourism season approached.
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After six weeks of voting, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for an unexpected landslide victory and will return to power with an even bigger majority than he won five years ago.
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The track, which unseated Billie Eilish's bedroom pop ballad "Bad Guy," which itself had dethroned "Old Town Road" on the Billboard charts, is a return to power for pop music's hit-making apparatus.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz has struck a coalition deal with the Greens to ensure his return to power and bring the left-wing party into government for the first time.
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Some Buddhist leaders and also victims of the Easter attacks have since expressed their desire for the Rajapaksa family to return to power, given the hardline stance they adopted towards Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Pro-democracy parties battling to block the military's return to power after Thailand's first election since a 2503 coup said Wednesday they have secured enough seats to form a government.
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But if Democrats want to return to power — not just in the White House, but in Congress and at the state level too — they need a strategy that appeals to more white voters.
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To reach such an agreement would require the Kuomintang to return to power in 2020, an unlikely prospect unless the party leadership charts a new path, despite President Tsai's current low approval ratings.
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His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa served as president for a decade and now leads the opposition after a failed attempt to return to power last year as prime minister, declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
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Sarkozy had done little to conceal his desire to return to power since taking the helm of France's main right-wing party in late 2014, but two months ago trailed Juppe in opinion polls.
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He later forged a dirty deal with a conservative rival that let him return to power with just 38% of the vote in 2006, and has since clung to office by nobbling democratic institutions.
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The BJP had won a mammoth 71 out of the 80 parliamentary seats in India's most populous state, paving the way for the saffron party to return to power in Delhi after ten years.
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Instead, his own party performed miserably, and the result raises the question of a return to power for Puigdemont, who campaigned from self-imposed exile in Brussels after Rajoy deposed him as Catalan president.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared victory on Sunday in Sri Lanka's presidential election, signaling the return to power of a divisive family credited for ending the country's long civil war through brutal means.
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The Stop Operation Soros campaign pushes the idea that international pressure — from N.G.O.s and Western governments — forced the recent fall of the right-wing government of Mr. Gruevski, who hopes to return to power.
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Salvini, the interior minister, has called for fresh elections, aiming to return to power as prime minister with a mandate to launch a big spending spree next year and challenge the European Union's fiscal rules.
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A loss would enable his archrival, former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to return to power, this time as vice president, in a dramatic comeback that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Mrs.
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Former Prime Minister Mahatir Mohamad's possible return to power is set to raise concerns among investors over the economic outlook, including his likely plans to scrap goods and services taxes which would hit government revenues.
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Maliki "has still enough support from large sections of the Shi'ite community, not necessarily to return to power, but to have the upper hand to decide who should be the next prime minister," Bahadli said.
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India's NSE Stock Futures listed in Singapore rose 210% and the rupee strengthened after exit polls showed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to return to power with an even bigger majority in parliament.
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In 2015, they marked the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's escape from Elba via a route that passed through town, still referred to as the Route Napoléon, in his fleeting 100-day-long return to power.
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The Koch political network remains generally opposed to many Democratic policies and does not want to see leaders like Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, return to power if the Democrats triumph in the midterms.
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But Mr. Hofeller's most lasting impact on Republican fortunes may well date to the 1980s, early in his career, when he pursued a counterintuitive strategy to speed the party's return to power in the South.
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In what would be another break with tradition, Wang Qishan, a close ally of Mr. Xi in his campaign against corruption and disloyalty in the party, appears set to return to power as vice president.
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One can no longer exclude the possibility that Brexit might have smoothed the way for a return to power of a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party wedded to the failed economic policies of the 85033s.
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Steve Bullock of Montana, who won re-election last year in a state that Mr. Trump carried easily, said he believed Democrats would have to do more than oppose the president to return to power.
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Mr. Gruevski's departure comes with strings attached: It is tied to an agreement on elections, which must take place in the next 100 days, and polls suggest that he is well placed to return to power.
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And this week, cracks in the Forza Italia edifice have grown more visible, as the option to abandon Lega as a long-term partner for a chance to return to power becomes a very real possibility.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful top Shi'ite cleric suggested on Friday that he had not abandoned his opposition to ex-prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is bidding to return to power in elections on May 12.
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Diaz, seen as more amenable to striking deals with the government, will face a more leftist rival, Pedro Sanchez, who tried to block Rajoy's return to power last year when he was leader of the Socialists.
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Brazilian markets have rallied on the prospect of Bolsonaro preventing a return to power by the left-leaning Workers' Party, which many investors blame for plunging the country into its worst recession in 2015 and 2016.
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Indian equity benchmarks witnessed a rally over the past seven sessions, fuelled by optimism that the current coalition government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi would return to power after the general election starting next month.
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He seems to invite the question hanging over him: If Mr. Karzai does not want to return to power, just what is he trying to achieve by increasing pressure on a government already on the brink?
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was set to return to power in the southern state of Karnataka after narrowly defeating its arch-rival Congress in a confidence vote on Tuesday.
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The Australian federal election has delivered a shocking result, with the right-wing Liberal-National government expected to return to power for a third term despite polls and odds having strongly favored the opposition Labor Party.
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She is marking her return to power with a string of events, including a women's tea, a dinner at the Italian Embassy featuring the singer Tony Bennett and a town hall-style meeting, televised on MSNBC.
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Salvini called for elections, aiming to cash in on his surging popularity to return to power as prime minister with a mandate to launch a big spending spree next year and challenge the European Union's fiscal rules.
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For pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politicians who had found themselves on the wrong side of a revolution, Manafort promised to be their best shot at a return to power — and an influential go-between with the United States.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Social Democrat-led government of leftist Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu won a vote of confidence by a comfortable margin in parliament on Wednesday, marking the grouping's return to power after a one-year break.
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That gives Democrats leverage—and, if they play their cards right, it gives them the power to either save Obamacare or move the country's health care system in a more progressive direction when they return to power.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN)Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staged a stunning election upset earlier this year to return to power aged 92, said he inherited a government lousy with corruption and with few trustworthy officials.
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A criminal investigation involving several people close to Matteo Renzi, including his father and his right-hand man, is muddying the image of the former Italian prime minister and threatening his prospects of a return to power.
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Much of the American left is now waking up, albeit a little too late, to what five reliably conservative justices could accomplish—and will demand that Democrats, should they return to power one day, respond in kind.
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Activists fear that the Rajapaksas could exploit the opening to return to power, just as the armed forces have gained sweeping powers, including the authority to arrest and detain at will, in the aftermath of the bombings.
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In a recent interview with Sky News, he said that if he could return to power now he would have more legitimacy than the first time around because back then some people thought he was a dictator.
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Critics of the peace process in Afghanistan worry that the plan may result in failures to protect minority groups in the country as well as the possibility of a return to power for the repressive, hardline Taliban.
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The protection of national development projects is an important plank in a "multifaceted strategy aimed at winning popular support for a return to power, or at least inclusion in some kind of future power-sharing arrangement," Crews added.
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Since the DPP's return to power in 21 China has cut the number of students it allows to study for undergraduate degrees on the island, from about 21,100 who began such courses that year to 800 in 2018.
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A return to power for Maliki would bolster Iranian influence in Baghdad, giving Tehran leverage in any conflict with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, which put new sanctions on the Islamic Republic following its missile test last month.
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Most recently, and in an example that best personifies the way in which the regime regards its return to power, Assad officials have begun callously issuing death certificates for individuals who were tortured to death while in detention.
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Millhiser calls for Democrats to kill the filibuster when they return to power and Scott Lemieux, writing in The New Republic, argued that Democrats should consider "packing" the court: adding Democratic-friendly justices to the nine-member court.
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Renzi quit as prime minister in December after losing a referendum on constitutional reform but is eager to return to power and is pushing for national elections to be held this year rather than early 2018 as scheduled.
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It is debatable whether AMLO, who was sworn in December 1, won July's election because of a longing by Mexicans to see the left return to power, or simply because of widespread disenchantment with their entire political class.
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The Taliban have adhered strictly to their position not to meet with the Afghan government until it has reached agreements with the United States, which it sees as the main force behind denying them a return to power.
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The party of the nationalist leader Matteo Salvini lost a regional election on Sunday that he had hoped would set the stage for his return to power — a prospect that once thrilled Europe's populists and menaced its establishment.
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Things took a dire turn as B.N.P., upon its return to power in 2001, drew much closer to Islamist forces like Jamaat, allowing the rise of terrorist groups, which killed top Awami League leaders and scores of civilians.
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The Carmichael mine has been a lighting rod for climate change concerns in Australia, and was seen as a factor in the surprise return to power of the conservative Liberal/National coalition in a national election in May.
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As the 81-year-old media tycoon campaigned tirelessly for Musumeci, betting that a victory in Sicily would be the springboard for a national return to power of the center-right, the ex-premier's sex scandals were no issue.
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The League remains easily Italy's largest party with more than 30% of votes, latest polls say, but a defeat in a key regional election last January frustrated Salvini's latest effort to bring down the government and return to power.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced growing opposition on Sunday in his own party to his bid to return to power next year, with three leading rivals snubbing a major speech and a fourth joining the race.
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Economists said the move could temper the self-styled populist's more contentious policies, even if it was also a clever ploy to return to power after struggling to win over the more moderate wing of the broad Peronist opposition.
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Backers of the military have warned Thailand could be plunged back into political unrest in case of a return to power for Pheu Thai, which has been under investigation for "outside influence", an inquiry that could see it disbanded.
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Pelosi won the Speaker's gavel for the second time, marking a historic return to power for the nation's first female Speaker and ushering in what Democrats promise will be a new era of oversight for Trump and his administration.
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As long as Trump is in power, there will be many more episodes like the Moore scandal, splitting the GOP further and providing an opportunity for the opposing party—a species worse than child molesters—to return to power.
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Veteran politician Mahathir, 94, led the country from 1981 to 2003, and made a surprise return to power in 2018 defeating an alliance than had governed for more than 60 years and one he himself had led as premier.
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As the effort to criminally pursue Mr. Salvini comes to a critical juncture, just weeks after a defeat in an important regional election thwarted his attempted return to power, he has seized upon it as a political life raft.
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Yanukovych's return to power was guided by the American political strategist Paul Manafort, who helped to reinvent his client as a businesslike manager—not necessarily likable but an antidote to the disastrous political circus overseen by Yushchenko and Tymoshenko.
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Critics of the peace process in Afghanistan worry that the plan may result in failures to protect minority groups in the country as well as the possibility of a return to power for the repressive, hard-line Taliban faction.
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India has a parliamentary system, and for Mr. Modi to return to power, his Bharatiya Janata Party must win a majority of the 2100 elected seats in the lower house of Parliament or form a coalition with regional parties.
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Conservative leader Mariano Rajoy is set to return to power this weekend after 10 months of effort to form a government amid bickering between political rivals on the left and right, some of whom have now decided to step aside.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Founded by former Nazis six decades ago, Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) long ago left the political fringes to establish itself as a mainstream party that could now return to power following a strong showing in Sunday's election.
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Televisa flooded its airtime with positive coverage of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, while suppressing critical news, helping the party govern autocratically for 71 uninterrupted years, and then contributing to its return to power in 2012 after a brief hiatus.
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Economists said the move could temper the self-styled populist's more contentious policies, even as many saw it as a clever ploy to return to power after struggling to win over the more moderate wing of the broad Peronist opposition.
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Salvini, the interior minister, called for elections, aiming to cash in on his surging popularity to return to power as prime minister with a mandate to launch a big spending spree next year and challenge the European Union's fiscal rules.
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Salvini called for an election, aiming to cash in on his surging popularity to return to power, this time as prime minister, with a mandate to launch a big spending spree next year and challenge the European Union's fiscal rules.
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Maliki's media office denied that the campaign against ministers in Abadi's cabinet was part of an attempt by the former prime minister to return to power and said the moves demonstrated parliament exercising its role to hold the government to account.
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He has spent the past few years burnishing his pro-European credentials, but some suspect he will now take a populist turn to engineer a return to power—or simply manipulate his replacement, Peter Pellegrini, from his perch as party chairman.
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Jobs and wind farm plans are among the regional issues in Schleswig-Holstein, a state of 2.3 million voters that juts north of Hamburg and borders on Denmark, where Albig hopes to benefit from his incumbency advantage to return to power.
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Backers of the military have warned Thailand could be plunged back into political unrest in case of a return to power for Pheu Thai, which has been under investigation for "outside influence" by Thaksin, an inquiry that could see it disbanded.
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"The residential sector has endured significant pain over the last few years, but the NDA government's return to power will reassure investors of stability and continued focus on growth," said Aashish Agarwal, head of consulting services at Colliers International India.
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Renzi resigned last month after a crushing defeat in a referendum on his plans to overhaul the constitution, but he remains leader of the ruling Democratic Party (PD) and is pushing for elections to allow him to return to power.
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The coalition government led by Najib's United Malay National Organisation (UMNO), which has ruled the Southeast Asian nation since its independence in 703, is widely expected to return to power in the election that will be held in the coming weeks.
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Their plight underlines the breakdown of Italy's ruling coalition and how immigration has become central to Salvini's plan to take his right-wing League party out of government, drag the nation to elections and return to power as prime minister.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's backsliding on Amazon conservation under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and a likely Peronist return to power in Argentina could delay or even derail ratification of an EU-Mercosur trade agreement that took two decades to negotiate.
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Since then, Mr. Putin has relied on Ilyin's authority at every turning point in Russian politics — from his return to power in 2012 to the decision to intervene in Ukraine in 2013 and the annexation of Ukrainian territory in 2014.
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Mr. Karzai's critics, especially those close to President Ashraf Ghani, accuse him of working from the wings to destabilize the government and exploit a moment of national crisis to try to return to power — or at least to force some concessions.
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Analysts are also divided over whether a win for Khan's PTI would actually be that substantially different to a return to power for its chief rival, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the party of disgraced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy, seeking to return to power as French president, denied on Tuesday receiving money from deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his election bid in 2007, calling claims by a Franco-Lebanese businessman a "crude manipulation".
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Others view him as the only option to prevent the return to power of the Workers Party, or PT, whose founder, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, is serving a 153-year prison sentence for graft and money laundering.
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For Mr. Modi to return to power in the coming general elections, which start on April 11, he and his Bharatiya Janata Party need to win a majority of the 543 electable seats in the lower house, the Lok Sabha.
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Now France seems ready to vent this slow-ripening anger in an election that could see the extreme right return to power for the first time since the 264s and Europe revert to a turbulence not seen since that epoch.
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Supporters hail Rajapaksa for winning a 26-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists a decade ago under his brother, then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, who attempted a return to power last year as prime minister but was blocked by a court.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge and private equity funds are seeking detailed legal advice over how to deal with any return to power of the opposition Labour Party, which has shifted sharply to the left since it was last in government.
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In one particularly fiery exchange, the Labour leader claimed that if the Conservatives return to power next month, U.S. health firms would be given "full market access" to the state-run National Health Service in a post-Brexit trade deal.
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But threats by left-wing PD rivals to split the party if he forces elections are jeopardising his return to power, and Renzi said he did not want to be seen as seeking a "re-match" after the referendum defeat.
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October's election was the first time there had been any doubt about whether the long-ruling BDP would return to power, after a spat between Masisi and former President Ian Khama, who backed his rival, seemed to throw the contest open.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to return to power with an even bigger majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, exit polls showed, a far better showing than expected in recent weeks.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Fernando Haddad, the Workers Party vice-presidential candidate who could be catapulted to Brazil's presidency if Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is barred from running, has quietly met with major investors to tame fears of a leftist return to power.
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HIGH STAKES Salvini called for an election, aiming to cash in on his surging popularity to return to power, this time as prime minister, with a mandate to launch a big spending spree next year and challenge the European Union's fiscal rules.
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On July 24th a poll by the Mainichi, a liberal newspaper, put support for Mr Abe at 26%, the lowest since his stunning return to power in 2012 after years in the political wilderness, and ten percentage points lower than in late June.
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Democrats don't want to water down the power of such congressional orders — particularly ahead of their soon-to-be return to power in the lower chamber — but the New York lawmaker disagrees with Goodlatte for the purposes of which they are being used.
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" Sheryl Gay Stolberg's story also noted that Pelosi "is marking her return to power with a string of events, including a women's tea, a dinner at the Italian Embassy featuring the singer Tony Bennett and a town hall-style meeting, televised on MSNBC.
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Everything suggests that in the real thing in October the Peronists will return to power in the form of Alberto Fernández, a social democrat, and his running-mate, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who ruled as a leftist populist from 2007 to 2015.
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Destabilized in 1958 by General de Gaulle's return to power and the foundation of the Fifth Republic, the Communists nevertheless remained the principal left-wing party in France until the end of the 1970s, when they were overtaken by François Mitterrand's Socialist Party.
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Voter opinion polls have consistently pointed to Angela Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister-party the Christian Social Union (CSU) gaining around 36 percent of the vote, hence making it very likely that Merkel will return to power.
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Prayut also changed electoral rules so it's more difficult for big parties like Thaksin's main opposition Pheu Thai to return to power through redrawing constituency boundaries to its advantage and introducing a new voting system that caps the number of party list lawmakers.
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His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party's defeats in regional elections last autumn raised the possibility of a return to power of the left-leaning Congress party, which most of India Inc views (with some justification) as anti-business, corrupt and fiscally feckless.
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A PT return to power would yank Brazil's economic policies to the left, with investors fearing the return of a state-led economy and with no attempt to continue the economic reforms that deeply unpopular President Michel Temer has partially pushed through Congress.
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Interest for Indian equities has seen a rise recently as the country heads for its general elections next week, amid hopes that the current coalition government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi would return to power, even though investors continued to maintain a cautious stance.
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Conservative President Mauricio Macri conceded defeat in Argentina's election Sunday night, paving the way for the country's Peronist center-left to return to power under Alberto Fernández as frustrated voters rejected the incumbent's handling of a bruising economic crisis that has sunk many into poverty.
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SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on Saturday, ending a day-long standoff to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption that derails his bid to return to power.
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In a note to clients on Friday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch foreign exchange strategists wrote that currency markets appeared "overly complacent" given recent polling data suggesting the Conservative Party could return to power, and could ultimately hurt the pound in the near term.
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Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, who was for years criticized for her extravagant lifestyle, are at the center of a wide-ranging graft investigation launched after a stunning election victory and return to power as prime minister in May by veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad.
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The Carmichael mine has been a lighting rod for climate change concerns in Australia, and was seen as a factor in the surprise return to power of the conservative Liberal/National coalition in a national election in May because of the jobs it promised.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz on Wednesday reached a coalition deal with the Greens to ensure his return to power and bring the left-wing party into government for the first time, a Greens spokeswoman and a source close to the talks said.
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The return to power of parties that lost the last election may mean renewed focus on the country's decades-old positive discrimination policy for majority Malays, who enjoyed preferential access to everything from public financing to a 30% quota for equity holdings in businesses.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz on Wednesday reached a coalition deal with the Greens to ensure his return to power and bring the left-wing party into government for the first time, a Greens spokeswoman and a source close to the talks said.
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The California lawmaker has skillfully navigated fraught political waters over the past few years to reclaim the gavel, and her return to power says something about her ability to run her caucus and her staying power during a time when speakers' tenures are often limited.
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Although Modi's party is poised to lose seats in Uttar Pradesh, which elects the most lawmakers out of all Indian states, the party's return to power will be on the back of a strong showing in other northern heartland regions and two eastern provinces, CVoter's polling showed.
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Voter quote) NEW DELHI, May 19 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to return to power with an even bigger majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, exit polls showed, a far better showing than expected in recent weeks.
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Fifteen Democrats voted against returning Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE to the Speaker's chair on Thursday, short of the dozens who originally pledged to oppose her return to power.
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Fine Gael has a comfortable lead in all opinion polls around or just below 30 percent, while Labour is at or below 10 percent, meaning that if the two can win enough added support to return to power, Fine Gael would be the clear senior member.
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Related: Justice Might Just Be Possible in the Case of Mass Forced Sterilizations in Peru Many Peruvians would regard a return to power of Fujimorismo as national ignominy, and some observers believe that Keiko's first round vote may be very close to her ceiling of possible support.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The federal judge who doomed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's bid to return to power by convicting him on corruption charges last year, agreed on Thursday to take a cabinet post in the government of the country's new president, Jair Bolsonaro.
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The outcome could deliver Israel a new prime minister for the first time in a decade — or represent a remarkable act of survival for Netanyahu, who is expected to use any return to power to attempt to shield himself from possible indictments in three longrunning graft cases.
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Key to the grueling search's length and the parade of tech executives who turned down the role seemed to be a toxic environment of infighting at the board; Kalanick seemed to be seeking a return to power even as other board members were doing their best to bury him.
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BOA VISTA, Brazil — Brazil's top court ruled early Thursday that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva can be sent to prison while he continues to appeal his corruption conviction — an explosive decision that upends the nation's politics and appears to quash his bid to return to power.
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Although Modi's party is poised to lose seats in northern Uttar Pradesh, which elects the most lawmakers out of all Indian states, the party's return to power will be on the back of a strong showing in other northern heartland regions and two eastern provinces, CVoter's polling showed.
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In a Nordic country used to a high level of state social care, Finns were shocked to hear of care homes leaving elderly patients all night in soaked diapers, a scandal that may play a part in helping the left return to power after 20 years in opposition.
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The return to power of the Freedom Party, which was founded by neo-Nazis after World War II, was concerning enough that Austria's president, Alexander Van der Bellen, took the exceptional step of eliciting several promises from the new government before he would administer the oath of office.
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With opposition parties — the Great Indonesia Movement Party, the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Prosperous Justice Party — increasingly supported by conservatives and radicals, including some who wish for the Suharto family's return to power, any hope for a more democratic society has been placed on Mr. Joko's shoulders.
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While Trump has used executive authority to curb immigration across the country and push for a new status quo on trade, both signature 2016 campaign vows, his efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act were a notorious failure — which Democrats say helped them return to power in last year's midterm elections.
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Imagine a Taliban back in power in Kabul that decides just the perfect present for their new allies and friends from ISIS -- who helped them return to power -- might be a small nuke that North Korea is willing and may very soon be able, to put on the black market.
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While Democrats like to say that they are the party of the young and that this portends their eventual return to power, they are led by a sclerotic band of elderly power brokers who bear a troubling resemblance to the party bosses of a bygone era of American political history.
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Two years later, a return to power — winning the House in November, winning the presidency in 57 — will hinge in large measure on how effectively Democrats can connect with voters who migrated to Mr. Trump (or who stayed home altogether, disillusioned by a Democratic Party many of them once supported).
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Travis Kalanick Is Already Plotting His Return to Power at UberFormer Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is down, but he somehow does not yet consider himself out,…Read more ReadIt's hard to overstate how unusual it is for a venture capital firm to file a lawsuit against the company that is its biggest investment.
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While 43 percent said they wanted Republicans to maintain their hold on Congress after the November elections, 47 percent said they would prefer to see Democrats return to power in both chambers for the first time since the tea party wave of 2010 swept the GOP into the majority the next year.
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He is riding a wave of anger at the establishment after the uncovering of one of the world's largest political graft schemes, opposition to a return to power by the leftist Workers Party (PT) blamed for much of that corruption, and fears about spiking crime in the country with more murders than any other.
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She said the long-time prime minister was thought to be considering taking one of three options: return to power and claim immunity to the corruption charges, ask for the corruption charges to be reduced to something less severe or strike a deal with the president to receive amnesty for all alleged political offenses.
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He also tapped Sérgio Moro, a federal judge known for his leading role in an anticorruption investigation that led to the downfall of dozens of powerful business leaders and politicians — and landed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in prison, crushing his bid to return to power and eliminating Mr. Bolsonaro's chief rival.
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Read: Trump's Betrayal of the Kurds Is as Incoherent as It Is Dangerous Omar Abu Layla told VICE News that "the entire population opposes this withdrawal and clearly rejects any withdrawal," fearing it will allow both ISIS cells to regroup and stage a comeback, and the oppressive Assad government to return to power in the region.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump and his conservative allies now see their effort to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as central to salvaging the Republican Party's fortunes in the midterm elections, and hope to use the fervent liberal opposition to his nomination to the Supreme Court as a graphic example of the threat posed by a Democratic return to power in Congress.
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Still, amid a growing skepticism of art institutions' purported progressiveness — and a week before a British general election that polls suggest will return to power the Conservative government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson — Mr. Abu Hamdan, Ms. Cammock, Mr. Murillo and Ms. Shani came to the conclusion that they could exert the greatest pressure by turning the authority of the prize inside out.
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DOHA, Qatar — In a sign that the Taliban see a peace deal with the United States as imminent, one of their top leaders released a rare audio message on Thursday seeking to ease the concerns of the insurgency's own fighters — and those of Afghans who fear that an agreement could let the Taliban return to power and roll back human rights.
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This is a policy of palliatives, and maybe it's better than the conceivable alternatives: stronger Israeli military action that results in more Palestinian casualties, and more international condemnation; a war to remove the Hamas leadership by force, which would be considerably bloodier without guaranteeing that Hamas won't return to power once Israel leaves; or full-scale re-occupation of the Strip, which leaves Israel with responsibility for the lives of some two million Palestinians.
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As to why Kalanick may have decided to forge ahead with something new instead of focusing on Uber, the Verge noted that with the recent resolution of certain power struggles on the company's board, the chances of any eventual return to power for him there have faded further:However, in a recent deal with Japanese telecom SoftBank, Uber's power structure shifted, diminishing Kalanick's control of the Uber board by diluting his shares and giving SoftBank control of two board seat appointments alongside a change to the voting power of shareholders.
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Rep. Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) on Thursday seized the Speaker's gavel for the second time in a dozen years, marking an historic return to power for the nation's first female Speaker and ushering in what promises to be a new era of oversight for President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and his administration.
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" Responding at Crooked Media, Brian Beutler wonders if even a thorough electoral drubbing would do the trick, since the extra-political institutional structure that allowed the Republicans to erode democratic norms would still be in place: "In a world where Sean Spicer remains respectably employable, corporate America loves regressive tax cuts, mainstream news outlets refuse to make pariahs of people who seek their destruction, and the cult of false equivalence remains the analytic foundation of political journalism, voters can 'boycott' Republicans in historic numbers, only to watch Republicans return to power unreformed a few years later.
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