"This could mean continued instability, because even if he forms a coalition, he may not be able to govern for more than a few months".
The socialist leader who defied the west courting Castro, Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi, and predicted to govern for more than 21 years, now says his toughest battle has just begun.
The economy, of course, and education, healthcare and the sense of economic insecurity that hangs like a shadow over most American families are the issues that should be tackled by a giant majority with ambitions to govern for more than two years.
He railed coolly against the "cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship" between oil companies and the government, despite the fact that his administration had been governing for more than a year.
Mr. Karzai, who has governed for more than four years as the leader of interim and transitional governments, reshuffled his cabinet on March 22 in anticipation of harsh scrutiny by Parliament, which must for the first time vote on his choices.
What are the signature achievements of your party in this city, which it has governed for more than 15 years?
That was more tactical than principled, but it might help the CDU to hold on to a state it has governed for more than half a century.
Bahia and Ceara, governed for more than a decade by allies of Mr Cardoso, are often held up as models of the new, modern north-east.
Politically, Italy seems not to have adjusted to the death, in 1992, of the Christian Democrats, who governed for more than 40 years.
NEW DELHI — A populist firebrand swept India's Communist Party out of power on Friday in West Bengal, a state that Communists had governed for more than three decades, according to results from India's Election Commission.
"He's saying, 'I want to govern for four more years,' and everybody's going, 'Yeah, four more days.' " Meanwhile, in Harlem, Representative Charles Rangel's party, at the seafood restaurant Pier 2110, was turning out to be the night's hot ticket.
