Despite gerrymandered boundary maps that entrench Republican control, the Washington Post estimates a dozen once safe seats in places such as Virginia and California could now swing it too.
Teddy Kollek, who served as mayor of the city from 1965 to 1993, led the effort to entrench Israeli control over east Jerusalem while urging sensitivity toward the Arab population.
But while his government argues that independence is needed to complete political and economic changes, Mr. Djukanovic's critics say it is a move initiated by him, the region's longest-serving leader, to entrench his control over Montenegro.
The petition accused Ambow's chief executive, Jin Huang, of abusing her power in relation to the investigation into possible financial misconduct and of "obstructionist tactics designed to entrench her control of Ambow".
"The serious and urgent food and climate crises are being used by political and economic elites as opportunities to entrench corporate control of world agriculture and the ecological commons," said La Via Campesina, an organization of farmers, indigenous people and farm workers, in a statement.
But under the military's current plans army generals will retain executive power until well into 2013, and recent moves by Scaf to shape the new constitution in a way that would entrench army control over civilian politics have prompted an outcry among political parties, some of whom are now considering a boycott of the poll.
The chances of a new Supreme Court challenge to partisan gerrymandering significantly increased Monday as federal judges in Wisconsin ruled the state's Republican leaders had unconstitutionally drawn electoral districts to "entrench" their control over the state Assembly.
He indicated that it was part of the Serbian government's wider goal of entrenching its control of the Serb-majority northern part of Kosovo and creating a de facto partition of the territory.
Instead, he has presided over a repressive political and media climate, an underperforming economy, a gerrymandered constitution entrenching military control and an upsurge in violence among the disadvantaged Muslim minority in the impoverished south.
