So right now, in order to qualify for the ballot, you go through a process of getting those in parliament, elections that wecriticized, to basically sign up and bless your candidacy.
In last Thursday's column, wecriticized The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf for attempting to write Rick Santorum "out of the American tradition" because Santorum has argued that the wide availability of contraception has deleterious social consequences.