But how to address the question of "progressive alliances" and tactical voting in the most unpredictable, poised and unstable general election in decades?
But, to get there, the general is taking so undemocratic a route that he has already almost ensured that such a settlement will be illegitimate and unstable.The election was legally dubious.
While there is recorded disinvestment in midterm elections by young people, many factors contribute to lower youth turnout in midterm elections: unstable voting addresses, ill-targeting by campaign teams, and voter access restrictions, to name a few.
But any new leadership would be unstable, and early elections may beckon.Manipulation of the courts would be nothing new.
Quite likely, this is a recipe for unstable government after the election.
It still has no elected leaders because the situation is too unstable to arrange local elections.
The result, these Afghans say, is a government that is inherently unstable, at least until elections scheduled for 2004.
Even a majority of less than 15 is inherently unstable: of the three elections that returned such a result, just two lasted more than 18 months.
Responding to a dynamic and realistic simulation environment, participants have to deal with the uncertainty and pressures of elections in unstable democracies, terrorist attacks, domestic political constraints, and military action.
Annan and Brahimi, perhaps sensing that the U.N. is being set up to take the fall for what is bound to be an unstable, tumultuous period before elections, have tried to lower expectations about the organization's role in Iraq.
