Moreover, this culture of dependency has sustained a government that stole an election, engaged in blatant corruption and shown signs of increasing brutality.
"They rigged elections, engaged in thuggery," Mr. Diab said, estimating that the N.D.P. remnants were now scattered among some 17 different parties, some new, some old.
It is customary for a party that loses an election to engage in a period of introspection as to the causes for its defeat.
In this view, Merkel, once she secures reëlection as Chancellor in September's election, might engage with Macron and other European leaders on a meaningful overhaul of the union, and, in particular, the fiscal and monetary straitjacket it forces all of its members to strap into.
He vowed to end election-rigging, engage Jordan's Islamists and deal with popular demands roused by the Arab awakening.
The list of emerging threats also includes information operations — such as those purportedly carried out by adversarial nation states in the run up to recent elections — may engage in "advanced information operations campaigns that use social media, artificial intelligence, and data analytics to undermine the United States and its allies".
Before the female team's arrival here, election officials engaged in extensive discussions with the village elders to explain the importance of the elections and the need to register women for the vote.
On Saturday, Ms. Tymoshenko announced that she would not concede, and declared that Mr. Yanukovich's campaign had stolen the election by engaging in widespread fraud.
JOHANNESBURG — President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, foes after a violent, disputed election, were engaged in a major push to close a power-sharing deal during a marathon day of talks on Sunday at a hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.
Derided by media and by politicians, especially in central government, which since the 2010 election has engaged in an attack on civil service jobs, pensions and resources, it is those very bureaucrats who will ensure stability while politicians run round like headless chickens.
The documents apparently cast doubt on Trump's explosive, unverified claim that the Obama administration had tapped his phones during the election and engaged in illegal surveillance on him and his campaign associates before he took office. .
