He is seen as a hawkish, right-of-centre leader whose previous term in office ended ignominiously amid falling popularity and a resignation on grounds of ill health.
But strategists on both sides of politics believe the Coalition "owns" the asylum issue and that painting Labor as "weak" on it benefits the Coalition and reminds voters of Labor's previous term in office.
The number of government workers ballooned from 16,000 to 90,000 during Correa's previous term in office, an Ecuadorean thinktank reported in December.
García's inauguration speech this July 28 suggests that he has learned some hard lessons from his previous term in office (1985-1990).
A similar policy was featured in Mr. Abe's accelerated growth program, drawn up in mid-2007, during his previous term in office.
Stephen Harper's Conservative rule up until this point was already something of an anomaly, with his previous terms in office under a minority government.
Lieutenant-General Raheel Sharif, a career infantry soldier, is unrelated to the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, but Mr Sharif will have carefully considered the appointment of the general, given his confrontations with the army during previous terms in office.
The president also promises that, by the end of his second term of office in 2003, a further 400,000 families who have been occupying land abandoned by previous owners will be granted formal title.
In his final term of office, Pres.
His term of office runs until March 2015.
He has no set term of office.
