Sentence examples for democratic handover from inspiring English sources

Since the democratic advances of the early 1990s, Central African Republic is the only state to have had a proper democratic handover of power, in 1993.

The US secretary of state, John Kerry, has arrived in Kabul amid a tense standoff between Afghanistan's two presidential candidates that threatens to derail the country's first democratic handover of power.

Political differences were fought out within parties (often violently) rather than between them.The orderly and democratic handover from Mr Menem to Mr de la Rúa in 1999 was much celebrated in Argentina because it was the only such transition from one party to another since before 1930.

The first democratic handover of power in Afghanistan's history has been far from smooth: the deal for a unity government was cobbled together only after months of deadlock over a vote in which both Ghani and opponent Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory.

But many observers are watching the small mountain nation as it heads to the polls Saturday, one of just a handful of African countries that in the past has seen a peaceful democratic handover of power from one party to another.

ONE of the many differences between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, its closest neighbour, muses Jean-Max Bellerive, the stricken country's prime minister, is that it has seen just two democratic handovers of power compared with a dozen next door.

He said: "Throughout its extended history over thousands of years, our country has never witnessed a democratic peaceful handover of power".

And he, Badger, was leaving the burrow that very day and flying north to confront the weasels in Hartlepool, and effect a civilised, democratic and bloodless handover of power.

Mr. Brown covered big events like the Hong Kong handover, South Africa's first democratic election and the O. J. Simpson trial and anchored the program every Saturday.

It is a safe bet, moreover, that the SPD will hit him during the campaign with the taunt that he is a candidate for "half-chancellor", since he is careful not to rule out a quickish mid-term handover to a Christian Democratic underling.

Pakistan recently saw the first handover of power from one democratic government to another in its history.