Mr Iksanov brushed off criticism and appeared to have got the upper hand over his long-standing rival, the premier ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze, who has coveted the top job at the Bolshoi and been a stringent critic of the administration of Mr Iksanov.
The no campaign, led by Santos's arch-rival and former president Álvaro Uribe – who has been the most stringent critic of the president and the peace deal – has said the plebiscite results give the government a mandate to renegotiate the accord with the Farc.
Irving Howe, as stringent a critic as any, once described him as "enormously, even outrageously talented".
"Are there still some of you who haven't had their say on Daddy Navalny's orders?" Navalny is a stringent Kremlin critic who earlier this month won 27% of the vote in Moscow mayoral elections, and who has himself been accused of racist statements.
Rather, they depict a lax and even careless bureaucracy that resists the kinds of stringent precautions that critics say are necessary in the world of national security.
Such laws are popular with Republicans, who claim they are needed to address the issue of voter fraud, but critics say stringent measures like the one recently signed into law in North Carolina suppress the votes of minorities, seniors and young adults.
It is stringent James Wood, our best critic, who is a depth reader.
