The assembly elected him over Mrs. Megawati in October 1999 with high hopes that he would deliver democratic and economic reform.
Now, Mr. Piñera appears to have a fresh opportunity to be seen as the tough, modernizing force that voters were clamoring for when they elected him over former President Eduardo Frei, the candidate for the Concertación coalition, which had held power for two decades.
Is he going to stand up for the working families who helped elect him?" The battle over the CFPB leadership began soon after Richard Cordray announced his resignation as director on Friday, and selected his deputy, Leandra English, to act as interim director.
"I think the media missed what was the real story that was going to elect him, this grassroots empowerment over the Internet and they don't understand this and there are late to it and they just don't get it," David Fenton a PR wizard and consultant to MoveOn.org told me:.
Dr. Boyd said that the directors, who elected him to take over the post at their last meeting on Dec. 3, are likely to name his replacement as soon as the end of January.
The coalition that elected him has become divided over social issues, but cleaning house was perhaps the principal mandate of Francis' papacy, and the current scandal may remind everyone of that — including the Pope.
"They'll say, 'Oh, I'm just one person,' or 'It's just the same kind of people being elected over and over again,' " she said.
There would not necessarily be more citizen-legislators in the House, since in plenty of state and municipal offices the same representatives are elected over and over again for decades.
Brennan's one-time torture endorsement made a newly elected President Obama pass him over when the CIA director job was open in 2009.
Those elected take over their positions in late May.
