Under election rules, politically sensitive announcements should not be made between now and polling day to ensure that the existing political leadership does not engage in party politics that could affect voters' thinking.
The Wilsons are clearly taking a break from their well-known video installations, which make disorienting use of existing, often politically charged interiors, as in "Stasi City," which centered on the interrogation rooms of the East German secret police.
In that capacity, Mr. Batra set off a storm in 1999 when, citing their fees, he fired the cemetery's existing lawyers, two politically connected men like himself, and appointed his own firm in their place.
Should philosophers act politically (and if so, should they engage in ordinary politics in existing regimes, or work to establish new ones), or should they abstain from politics in order to live a life of pure contemplation?
The fact that only new structures and uses are subject to regulation is characteristic of all modern Western forms of land-use control, whether it is deemed constitutionally impermissible to require landowners to change existing uses or is simply politically inexpedient to do so.
Meanwhile, a senior EU official has told the Guardian that debt relief was not on the table during negotiations to extend Greece's existing bailout programme because it was "politically highly toxic for many eurozone member states".
Politically engaged residents plug into existing institutions.
Existing community banks, as well as the politically powerful Independent Community Bankers of America, are unlikely to welcome such moves.
However, numerous Afghan officials, opposition politicians and human rights activists loudly denounced the panel, calling it politically motivated and redundant of existing structures.
In a public briefing on Wednesday morning, Mr. Ravitch said that while his plan did not require additional borrowing, he did not believe it would be politically possible to close the existing $9 billion budget gap without doing so.
