Or Germany can decide to go its own way after what will be a very volatile and controversial election in the future.
This was a controversial election largely de-legitimized by the international community including the European Union and the Organization of American States (OAS).
The 85-year-old Wade faced off against his former prime minister and protege after he failed to win a majority during last month's controversial election.
He has developed this theme in subsequent speeches, and in a controversial election broadcast in which that traditional symbol of Tory Britishness the bulldog got a new lease of life.
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In that role he had been critical of the controversial election in Zimbabwe and had said he sympathised with Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai when he withdrew from the run-off because of attacks on his supporters.
And as Tuesday gave way to Wednesday, White House officials were making the case that a president who had no coattails when he won a controversial election two years ago had put his prestige and popularity on the line in the midterm election and had come out ahead -- defying the midterm election tradition of the president's party losing seats.
Mr Tsvangirai, 61, who was defeated in the controversial 2008 election, is also expected to stand again.
The arrest was "possibly" in connection with allegations of torture and the deaths of prisoners after the controversial 2009 election, Fars reported.
President Musharraf imposed emergency rule in the country on 3 November 2007, weeks after his controversial re-election for a second term.
Florida earned its reputation as a key battleground state in the controversial 2000 presidential election, when both George Bush and Al Gore received 49 percent of the vote.
Zimbabwe has had a rocky relationship with the Commonwealth - it was suspended after President Mugabe's controversial re-election in 2002 and later announced that it was pulling out for good.
Mr Musharraf - who is currently on a lecturing tour abroad - imposed emergency rule on 3 November 2007 when faced with growing challenges to his rule as president and weeks after his controversial re-election for a second term.
Although the Obama administration recently proposed to allow a modest expansion of offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico as the first concessions since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, Atlantic and Pacific sites will remain off-limits to avoid a controversial decision before the election.
Where it comes from and where it goes are this election's most controversial issues.
But it looks increasingly unlikely that Mr Sarkozy will launch any controversial economic reform ahead of the 2012 election.
In an extraordinary saga in Peru, Alberto Fujimori won a controversial third term as president in a rigged election, only to be driven from office months later by scandals involving his intelligence adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos.
And he appoints the election organisers, who have taken some controversial decisions without consulting his opponents.
Also leaving Esperance is controversial president Slim Chiboub, who is standing for election to both the Caf and Fifa executive committees later this month.
But even small transfers of land can be controversial, especially as Russians enter into a presidential election in which an unpopular Yeltsin is under attack both from nationalists on the right, such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and resurgent communists.
Moreover, despite the election, he is forging ahead with further controversial legislation: an immigration bill and a reform of civil-service pensions promised for this autumn.
The caretaker government should avoid controversial matters that are not reversible by the winner of the May 11 parliamentary election, Qadir said.
As Election Day draws near, Congress will become increasingly reluctant to pass any controversial legislation, and energy policy certainly falls under this header.
Karzai is running for re-election and has announced two running mates: current Vice President Kamil Khallili and a controversial former warlord, Mohamed Fahim.
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The theatre was concerned that the play would be too controversial in the wake of Ariel Sharon's collapse into a coma and Hamas's election victory in the Palestinian territories.
Barrow, one of the few white Southern Democrats left, found himself in a more conservative district after the Georgia General Assembly completed a controversial congressional redistricting process last year that left 12 Democratic seats more uncertain than they were last election.
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Either way, controversial decisions will be taken by councillors who will be all too aware that they will be facing re-election in May next year and that the Scottish election campaign is just weeks away.
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