The reason is California's low threshold for candidacy.
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On Friday, busloads of his supporters staged a parade to deliver his formal application for candidacy, stopping traffic across the city.
Serbia is hoping to receive an invitation for candidacy to begin negotiations for European Union membership at the European Council meeting in December.
The presence of an international representative with the power to remove elected politicians technically makes the country ineligible to apply for candidacy, although Bosnians hope that the EU will bend the rules.
"No base of support"), the former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore ("Jim who?"), the onetime Maryland governor Bob Ehrlich ("No rationale for candidacy"), and the former United Nations ambassador John Bolton ("No electoral experience or donor base").
We don't need to lobby in Brussels, he says; we need to convince our own politicians.Poland, which holds the rotating EU presidency, wants Bosnia to apply for candidacy by the end of the year.
The Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic (a man with impeccable reading taste, as our picture shows) has huge influence over the media and would spin like crazy.Why did the EU say no? Ivica Dacic, Serbia's interior minister, says it demanded that Serbia recognise the independence of Kosovo as a condition for candidacy.
Thirty-seven parties were on the ballot, but the military appeared to have taken pains to assure the victory of parties it supports by severely restricting campaigns, setting high fees for candidacy, censoring political statements, controlling the media, excluding voters in unstable ethnic minority areas and barring outside election monitors.
Thirty-seven parties were on the ballot, but the military appeared to have taken pains to assure the victory of parties it supported by severely restricting campaigns, setting high fees for candidacy, censoring political statements, controlling the media, barring outside election monitors and canceling the vote in unstable ethnic minority areas.
It is far from certain that a fledgling group such as En Marche! can win the two hundred and eighty-nine seats needed for a majority, particularly with a slate of inexperienced candidates composed, in part, of members of civil society, whom Macron has encouraged to apply for candidacy online.
