But a new president has four years ahead of him, and constitutional changes have strengthened the executive, relative to Congress, making it harder to remove ministers and doing away with mid-term congressional elections.

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If you try to force a message point on a reporter that is of no interest to him or her as a journalist, all you are doing is destroying your credibility and making it harder for you to get your remaining message points into the story.

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