What is more, in the pre-election campaigning, real policy issues are coming to the fore.
During election campaigning, the Salafists' hard-line interpretation of Islam drew a lot of media attention.
In the field of the media, there is an article restricting election campaigning to state media alone.
The election campaigning is over, the billboards on the streets are removed, and the election jingles are silenced.
Choose the president from this National Council and avoid the huge expenditures on election campaigning that comes with Western-style democracy.
The movement has alleged fraud in previous elections and voiced concerns about apparent irregularities in election campaigning this time around.
One concern - apparently addressed in the new justice ministry motion - is an article restricting election campaigning to state media alone.
Even political opponents have muted their criticism in their election campaigning.
But this time around, economists say the tit-for-tat between the leading candidates is little more than election campaigning and masks the fact that they have made similar commitments.
As will Democrats, when the general election campaigning begins.
Campaigners are hoping that an abortion bill launched two years ago calling for the legalisation of abortion will be debated in Congress this year before the start of presidential election campaigning in 2011.
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The turnout figure of 62% is lower than the military leadership's estimate of 70%, but, says the BBC's Jon Leyne, still considered impressive considering the long queues to vote, complicated election process, high rate of illiteracy, and almost no election campaigning at all.
He warned the lists might constitute a violation of election laws. (Such civil action is legal until election campaigning formally starts, which is June 12.) The New Komeito party, a coalition partner of the LDP, sent Wave 21 a note hinting it may file a defamation suit.
In recent elections, Democrats have won statewide election by campaigning on those sort of workaday issues, such as education and health care.
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Mr Taylor, nicknamed "the Grizz" for his bear-like no-nonsense style, made an unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in the 1996 US presidential election, campaigning on a pro-business ticket.
Passing legislation to allow same-sex marriage was one of Hollande's election pledges in campaigning last year.
Mr Putin's sway over the Duma will depend more on his negotiating skills after the election than on campaigning before it.
Lula, who turned Ms Rousseff from a back-room technocrat into an election winner by campaigning at her side, has found his queen-making power has limits.
Political analysts probably see Bradley's height as an element that would be listed on the pro-running side of the ledger: in almost every election since political campaigning was transformed into a made-for-television activity, the taller candidate has won.
Mr Obama scored a decisive re-election victory in part campaigning for raising taxes on higher incomes.
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The 1996 election saw Bill Clinton campaigning his way across America by rail.
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Exactly a week away from election day, and campaigning is on pause.
Nothing better illustrates the enduring lawlessness and impunity here in eastern DR Congo than the case of Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a militia leader wanted for allegedly organising mass rapes, who is openly campaigning for election as a local MP.
All eight political parties that form the interim government promised to begin campaigning for the election.
His practical skills came to the fore when he drove Mr Chavez's truck while the president was campaigning for the election of 7 October.
Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad has been campaigning for re-election since Day One of his presidency in 2005.
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Whatever the emir's motives in holding an election, most Qataris took to campaigning with glee.
There were bits of user-generated campaigning during the 2008 election but none gained a life of its own online.
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