Sentence examples for electoral ploy from inspiring English sources

Many suspected his sudden entry into politics of being a Kremlin electoral ploy.

Mr Kasukuwere, who is among 112 Zimbabweans under European Union sanctions, denied that the programme was a ruinous electoral ploy.

He reportedly blurted out in a private meeting that the nuclear decision was an electoral ploy (he denies this).

It barely matters that her promise is, as some Socialists are hinting, just an electoral ploy meant to paper over divisions in the French left over Europe.

Rivals dismissed this as an electoral ploy; Mr Karoubi, a leader of the opposition Green Movement, has since been hounded out of politics.

IT IS the most generous budget for a very long time, says the government; a cheap electoral ploy, sneers the opposition.

But if India's hungry millions are really to benefit from such legislation, the government needs to approach this matter with genuine seriousness, not as a cynical ploy to gain electoral mileage.

He accuses the government of setting up the scheme as a political ploy to garner electoral support.

Even as some suspect a Kremlin ploy to create the appearance of electoral competition, Mr. Navalny's campaign has now, unexpectedly, emerged as the most significant test for the Kremlin since Mr. Putin returned to the presidency last year amid a wave of protests against Russia's authoritarianism and endemic corruption.

Accusations of election fraud have been levied publicly by some candidates, which some Western diplomats who have observed the election have termed a cynical ploy to distract attention from a poor electoral showing.

The opposition, led by Raul Khadzhimba, has painted this as a purely political ploy by Mr Ankvab to expand his electoral base (they accused the late former President, Sergei Bagapsh, of the same) and say these policies could endanger Abkhazia's ethnic Abkhazian identity.