See articleA shaky successionVenezuela elected Nicolás Maduro as president, in an election triggered by Hugo Chávez's death from cancer in March.
Mr. Nemtsov's chances looked shakier on Friday, after election officials displayed bank records showing that his campaign fund had received a $5,000 wire transfer from Brooklyn.
He particularly criticizes Human Rights Watch for insisting on free debates and elections in shaky nations (like Rwanda) that in his view lack the institutional foundations for democracy, or are openly threatened by ethnic or religious tensions.
Spilling over A win for the West A test of friendship Reprints Related items Lebanon's election: Will the shaky equilibrium hold?May 28th 2009He also believed predictions that Christians, who account for another third of the population, would mostly vote for the party headed by Michel Aoun.
There are many centres of power: the Islamist parliament, its mandate looking shaky after postponing a new election, to give itself a long lifespan; a dysfunctional government that has appeased militias it is too weak to confront; Islamist groups and extreme Islamist groups; federalists and anti-federalists; surviving groups and interests from the Gaddafi era.
Just months ago, when President Obama's re-election hopes were shaky, Ms. Sommers was considered a Republican candidate to replace Mr. Gensler as chairman of the trading commission.
"The system of political parties is on very shaky ground," said Gothom Arya, a former election commissioner.
Thursday was the worst day so far in what has been a shaky start to the Conservative general election campaign.
"Fill in the oval, write it on the line," the senator sang in a shaky contralto, striving to create an Election Day anthem out of a supporter's original tune, called "Cinderella".
The shaky government, itself a product of elections held after popular protests last winter forced its predecessors from office, has not recovered.
