Ibori was not only a state governor when he committed the alleged crimes, he was also a powerful member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and a financier of the presidential campaign of President Shehu Yar'Adua, now late.
That catastrophe, coming on the heels of World War I, destroyed the faith countless numbers of people had in democratic politics and traditional free markets.
In the 2010 election, a conservative coalition consisting of Mr Orban's Fidesz party and the Christian Democratic People's Party won two-thirds of the seats in parliament, and this powerful majority has made it possible for the governing parties to push through several pieces of controversial legislation.
But because of their fortitude and because of the determination of their people to live in democratic, free societies, they have been able to arrive at a position of power that is supported by the legitimate will of their peoples.
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His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.
In his victory address, Mr Kenyatta promised to respect his obligations to the international institutions while simultaneously advising foreigners to "respect the sovereignty and democratic will" of the Kenyan people.
Mr. Secretary General, on behalf of us all, thank you for convening this meeting to address a task that must be the work of all of us -- supporting the people of Libya as they build a future that is free and democratic and prosperous.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is killing hundreds of people a day.
"Today is the day that we begin to give back democracy to the people of the state of Illinois, " Democratic Rep. Jack Franks, a panel member, said as he cast his aye vote Thursday night.
But to most of the American people, Democratic incompetence is no laughing matter.
In March, his supporters blocked attempts by Mr Obasanjo to foist his preferred candidate, Sam Egwu, into the chairmanship of the ruling People's Democratic Party.
Flournoy closely mirrors the previous stated policies of the President, the Democratic Party, and the American people.
The polio vaccine was given to at least one million people in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Burundi.
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
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The electoral process and the peaceful adjudication of disputes in the Kenyan legal system are testaments to the progress Kenya has made in strengthening its democratic institutions, and the desire of the Kenyan people to move their country forward.
By not thinking the Arab people incapable of establishing a free society, the democratic nations of the world will begin to create the real "New Middle East" that so many of us can still dream about.
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In 1993, the final year of the Democratic administration of Mayor David Dinkins, the police killed 23 people.
"They are flowing into the mainstream of where American politics and the American people are, " Democratic Whip David Bonior, D-Michigan, who sponsored the amendment, told CNN after the vote.
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All of them reaffirmed their strong commitment to accelerate citizenship education among young people, as the groundwork of any sustainable democratic educational policy that enables youth to participate in the management of their school space and in local community projects.
One of the first people to call attention to the waste of housing accumulating here at the airport here in Hope was Democratic Congressman Mike Ross.
All this is the responsibility of Mr Meles's Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which has run the show since 1991.
But again, since these elections were local affairs, I think there will be plenty of people in the Democratic Party who've been critical of Dean who will still have their same views and won't necessarily be changed by these outcomes.
And when you take that away and that has happened to us on two different occasions, not so much with city government but within our school system, and our school system has been under emergency managers for the last three years almost four years now, and a lot of people don't feel that that's the democratic process working as it should work.
If the will of the people called for high double-digit unemployment and economic backwardness, Europe's democratic governments could carry on supplying both quite happily, global market or no.
This represents a victory for the democratic will of the Ivoirian people, who have suffered for far too long through the instability that followed their election.
Mr. VALDES: I would say that it is a fact that there are enemies of the democratic process and there are people who fear the elections and do not want elections.
And there are smart serious people on the Democratic side of the aisle, such as Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md), who might be willing to sit down with their Republican counterparts, roll up their sleeves, and get serious about how to grow the economy.
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The longtime Democratic operative's rage is particularly intense because he knows the sort of people to whom our future security is now being entrusted.
South Africa faces major problems, but having held four successful national elections as well as local polls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.
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