Healthcare legislation has dominated the agenda in Washington since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2008. While the president and congressional leadership continue their battle to pass comprehensive healthcare legislation, focus has begun to shift towards November and the upcoming congressional mid-term elections.
Here is a breakdown of the upcoming 2010 Senate elections:
36 Senate seats are up for re-election.
25 incumbent senators – 13 Democrats and 12 Republican – have announced their intention to seek re-election.
11 Senators – 5 Democra…
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At 8 p.m. local Romanian time, after 99,81% of the voting ballots have been counted, the results of the first round of the race for Romanian Presidency are the following: incumbent President Basescu (Democratic Liberal Party) 32,43%, Mircea Geoana (Social Democrat Party) 31,16% and Crin Antonescu (National Liberal Party) 20,02%. The other runners are not even worth mentioning, as all of them scored under 4%.
First official results were barely published, that both Basescu and Geoana proclaimed themselves as winners. A life or death battle is to be expected in the next two weeks between the…
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Following is a guest post by Jim Rosapepe, former US Ambassador to Romania (1998-2001)…
Leading a post-communist country isn’t easy in the best of times. In much of Central and Eastern Europe, power has alternated between parties regularly. That was the political culture the West championed for the almost five decades of the Cold War — the dynamism of democracy, not the stability of one party rule. But to some, the grass is always greener. Now the complaint in many Western capitals — and not a few corporate boardrooms — is that Romanian politics is TOO dynamic…
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With one week to go until the Romanian Presidential elections, the stake of the game is to secure a place in the second round. While current President Traian Basescu (Democratic Liberal Party, centre-right) is expected to qualify for the next phase of the elections, the name of his future opponent remains unknown.
From all the plethora of candidates that announced their bid for Presidency, just two have real chances to enter the second round alongside the current President. Mircea Geoana, Senate chair and leader of the largest Romanian party (Social Democratic Party, centre-left) and Cri…
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