Voters showing rather more savvy than foreign observers are doubtful whether a prime minister as unpopular as even his own party admits Mr Hun Sen to be could emerge stronger from a free vote.
Asked whether he planned to stay on as prime minister for a full third term Mr Blair said his appetite for the job was undiminished but ultimately it was up to the voters.
The existence of the correspondence was leaked and in the poisonous atmosphere of the time, there was much debate as to whether supporters of the prime minister had been responsible, in order to spike her guns - or whether the Brown sceptics had leaked it to prove opposition to Gordon Brown was more widespread than reported.
Speculation has even revived about whether she can last as Labor leader and prime minister until the next election, due in late 2013.
And White House aides cringe, for example, when other leaders are asked whether the president is uninterested or unintelligent, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair was after the NATO summit.
They also raise questions about whether, as Yeltsin announced yesterday, his old guard Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin would succeed him as president if Yeltsin could not carry out his duties.
The whole point is that the Shiite politicians are debating whether to keep Ibrahim al-Jaafari as their nomination for prime minister.
Escalation, and its negative responses, have been dominating Israeli politics as has the question of whether Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, or Shimon Peres, his foreign minister, is running Israeli policy.
The question on many delegates' minds was whether the smear campaign against Anwar could hobble his chances of succeeding Mahathir as prime minister.
One of these is speculation as to whether or not Cherie Blair's phone was hacked when her husband was prime minister, although Mr Campbell makes it clear he has no evidence to back this up.
Barak, a former prime minister who served as Defence Minister in Netanyahu's government, said was premature to say whether the results would help or hinder the prospects of peace.
Whether the chief minister's sons have shares in Ekran or whether the chairman is a friend of the prime minister is totally irrelevant to the issue of whether a hydroelectric dam would spur industrialization in the Peninsula as well as in the Malaysian territories of Borneo.
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