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| | WashingtonPost.com: Nixon Wins Landslide Victory; Democrats Hold Senate, House |
 | | A coalition of Humphrey-Muskie-Wallace backers on the convention Credentials Committee voted to strip McGovern of 151 of his California votes, putting his nomination in jeopardy, but after a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court, the issue was left to the convention itself to decide. | | | He carried all five states that went for Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace on the third-party ticket in 1968, as polling-place interviews indicated three-quarters of the former Wallace backers moved behind the Nixon candidacy. | | | The Nixon coattails helped the Republicans pick up Senate seats in Virginia, North Carolina and New Mexico, but those gains were more than offset by Republican losses in Kentucky, Iowa, Maine and South Dakota. |
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| | Critical Montages |
| | With 94 percent of the votes counted, Chavez had 58 percent of the vote and the opposition 42 percent, according to Francisco Carrasquero, president of the National Elections Council. | | | Considering the aforementioned problems that the Bolivarian government inherited, we may say that Chávez's victory is truly a landslide, clearly the fruit of drives to register voters and naturalize immigrants of the working class. | | | Now that the votes are counted, it is clear that Hugo Chávez Frias won a landslide victory in the August 15 referendum in Venezuela: |
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| | Hamas wins landslide 76 seats in parliament - The Boston Globe |
| | "This is an earthquake," he said of the Hamas victory, even though he was one of few analysts to predict before the election that Hamas would tie Fatah in the number of seats in the legislature. | | | The entire Palestinian cabinet resigned today following Hamas's stunning landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections. | | | GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip --The entire Palestinian cabinet resigned today following Hamas's stunning landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Hamas wins landslide victory with 76 seats in Palestinian parliament |
| | Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his Cabinet submit their resignations as the Islamic militant group Hamas captures a majority of seats in Palestinian elections. | | | It may have been partly due to a reluctance by some voters to admit to pollsters that they were abandoning the ruling party. | | | But Nabil Shaath, another senior Fatah lawmaker, said the party's leadership would make a decision later Thursday. |
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly International Right turn in Rome |
| | Known as the House of Freedom, the centre-right coalition won 177 seats in the 315-seat Senate and 368 seats in the 630-member lower house, while the centre-left's Olive Tree coalition won 128 and 250 seats in the Senate and lower house, respectively. | | | In his first televised address following the victory, he reiterated his pledge of tax cuts, a reform of the bureaucracy and a curb on immigration. | | | Berlusconi scored both a political and personal victory, with his Forza Italia party increasing its share of the vote as compared to the 1996 elections. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - Japan’s Koizumi wins landslide victory |
| | Noting that Koizumi had cast the vote as a referendum on postal privatization, the Asahi said: “It is wrong to believe the landslide victory gave a vote of confidence on Koizumi politics.” | | | “Let us note this: Voters who gave the prime minister victory never gave him carte blanche,” said the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper. | | | The prime minister expelled the rebel members from the party ahead of elections. |
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| | CNN.com - Sharon wins landslide victory - February 7, 2001 |
| | TEL AVIV, Israel -- Right wing Ariel Sharon has won an historic landslide victory in the special Israeli prime minister elections. | | | The former general and defense minister, nicknamed 'Bulldozer', captured 62.6 percent of the vote, with 99.9 percent of ballot papers counted -- a 25 percent majority. | | | Must gain Knesset approval of his budget by March 31 - if unsuccessful, new elections will be called |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/02/07/mideast
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| | Venezuela's Chávez wins landslide victory |
| | Other experts contend that image is a vast exaggeration or even a caricature, and blamed the media for missing or ignoring half of the Chávez story -- the half that explains how he and his movement won his eighth vote in six years in clean and open elections certified by international observers. | | | mid a record voter turnout and fueled by massive support from Venezuela's poor majority, President Hugo Chávez won a crushing victory in what many say is the first recall referendum ever held against a democratically-elected president. | | | Some Venezuelans feared the opposition would refuse to accept the results and launch renewed efforts to destabilize or overthrow the government. |
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| | Chavez claims boost from 'landslide' victory csmonitor.com |
| | CARACAS, VENEZUELA – Many voting stations across Venezuela were eerily quiet during Sunday's congressional elections as allies of President Hugo Chávez gained almost complete control over the country's national assembly in a landslide victory. | | | Chávez's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) says progovernment parties have won all 167 seats in the assembly, with MVR winning 114, far surpassing the two-thirds majority needed to fast-track any legislation. | | | Less than 25 percent of eligible voters showed up to vote in Sunday's legislative election, raising questions of legitimacy. |
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| | TIMEasia.com: News -- Koizumi's Landslide Victory |
| | With his latest, storybook victory, Koizumi’s legend continues to grow; but the Prime Minister has much left to accomplish before his legacy is truly secure. | | | Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ran the most important election of his career as if he were the hero of a medieval revenge play—and vengeance, as they say, was his. | | | DPJ president Katsuya Okada publicly entertained the notion that his party, which won a solid 177 seats in November 2003, had a chance to score an outright majority this time around. |
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| | Woodrow Wilson: A Brief Biography |
| | Once in office he put his earlier ideas about parliamentary practices to work in implementing a reform program that gave him a national reputation and made him a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. | | | After leaving office he retired to a house in Washington, D.C., and for the most part he disappeared from public view. | | | Wilson left the White House in March 1921, a broken man. The 1920 election was a landslide victory won by the conservative Republican, Warren Harding, who called for a return to “normalcy”, and a repudiation of all Wilson's domestic and foreign politics. |
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| | CNN - Barak heads for landslide victory over Netanyahu - May 17, 1999 |
| | With 99.9 percent of the polling stations reporting, Barak led with 56 percent of the vote to 43.9 for Netanyahu. | | | He also hoped to disprove reports that voters among the 700,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union -- a key element of his 1996 victory -- have deserted him in droves. | | | Ehud Barak reacts to the news of his victory |
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| | RIA Novosti - World - UPDATE: Ruling coalition wins landslide election victory in Japan |
| | This was tantamount to a vote of a no-confidence vote in Koizumi, who responded by dissolving the lower chamber and calling early parliamentary elections, the country's 44th, which were held on Sunday, September 11. | | | Bush speaks for diplomatic settlement of the conflict with Iran | | | TOKYO, September 12 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Fesyun) - Japan's ruling coalition of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito won a landslide victory in early parliamentary elections on Sunday. |
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| | Ampatuan heads for landslide victory - INQ7.net |
| | Ampatuan recorded a runaway victory in his home province of Maguindanao, garnering more than 200,000 votes out of the 334,000 registered voters, according to chief canvasser Velasco. | | | Unofficial results of Monday's elections in the ARMM, which is composed of five provinces and one city, showed Ampatuan, the Lakas-CMD gubernatorial candidate, and his running mate, Ansaruddin Abdulmarik Adiong, winning by huge margins over their rivals. | | | COTABATO CITY-Administration candidate Zaldy Ampatuan is headed for a landslide victory in the race for governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, according to partial canvassing results released by the Commission on Elections. |
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| | BREITBART.COM - Hamas Wins Landslide 76 Seats |
| | Acknowledging the Hamas victory, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his Cabinet ministers resigned hours before official results were released. | | | Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert scheduled talks with senior officials later in the day. | | | The Islamic militant Hamas won a landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, winning 76 seats in the 132-member legislature, election officials said Thursday. |
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| | BakuTODAY.net - Greek Conservatives Secure Landslide Victory in Parliamentary Elections |
| | Meanwhile, the margin of the defeat is a decisive indictment of Pasok, accused of arrogance and cronyism after three successive election victories. | | | For Pasok leader, George Papandreou, it also marks the end of an attempt to emulate his father and grandfather, by becoming Greek prime minister. | | | Exit polls estimated the conservatives secured about 45 percent of the vote, ahead of the ruling Pasok Socialist party, which attracted about 40 percent of the vote. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited World dispatch Dark days for India |
| | The result of the elections in the Indian state of Gujarat had never really been in doubt. | | | The man who has presided over a successful pogrom has used it as an electoral strategy." | | | After losing India's last election disastrously in 1999, Mrs Gandhi's party had been enjoying a modest recovery, including victory in elections two months ago in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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| | AlterNet: Why Hugo Chavez Won a Landslide Victory |
| | When the rule of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was reaffirmed in a landslide 58-42 percent victory on Sunday, the opposition who put the recall vote on the ballot was stunned. | | | AlterNet: Why Hugo Chavez Won a Landslide Victory | | | Sunday's overwhelming victory for Chavez has given him an even stronger mandate for his "revolution for the poor." It should also give George Bush and John Kerry reason to rethink their attitude towards Hugo Chavez. |
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| | Toward Freedom - Evo Morales Elected Bolivian President in Landslide Victory |
| | Right-wing candidate Jorge Quiroga admitted defeat with 32 percent of the votes. | | | The diplomatic whirlwind following Evo Morales’ takeover of Bolivia’s gas fields has revealed that South American unity is far stronger... | | | Toward Freedom - Evo Morales Elected Bolivian President in Landslide Victory |
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| | Ya Libnan Landslide victory for Aoun in Christian Districts Live News from Lebanon |
| | With these sweeping victories Aoun has established himself as Lahoud's replacement as the future president of Lebanon. | | | Here are the final unofficial results of the Kesrouan - Jubeil elections as of 4:30 am Beirut time | | | Aoun allied himself with Syrian Loyalists in all the electoral districts, which means that his victory could have substantial negative implications on the future of Lebanon. |
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| | Koizumi Win in Japan Hurts 2-Party System |
| | That success came at the painful expense of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which saw its standing plummet from 175 seats to 113. | | | When the opposition Democrats made strong gains in parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2004, Japan looked on the verge of something new: a competitive two-party system. | | | But the ruling coalition's landslide victory in lower house elections on Sunday has dealt a major setback to such hopes, putting the Liberal Democratic Party firmly in charge. |
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| | In June 2004, Pasteur Bizimungu, the Hutu who had served as president between 1994 and 2000 (then–vice president Kagame held the real power), was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred. | | | In Aug. 26 presidential elections, the first since the Rwandan genocide, Paul Kagame, who had served as president since 2000, won a landslide victory. |
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| | Gilmore: Republicans Scored A Landslide Victory In Virginia Races -- 11/07/2001 |
| | Gilmore thinks that even though a Democrat was elected governor of Virginia, he is confident he will be able to perform well as chairman of the Republican National Committee, where he will be working full-time beginning in January after leaving the governorship. | | | We (Republicans) also had these victories in New York and Virginia," he said. | | | The Democrats shouldn't be cheering the election though, because according to Gilmore, "you could say that this is [not] particularly a victory for the national Democratic Party but it is victory for the two candidates for governor (in Virginia and New Jersey)." |
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| | Islamic bloc wins landslide victory in students’ elections |
| | Hanna Nasser, rector of the University, declared that the Wafaa bloc won 25 seats out of the 51-member council while the Quds and Awda bloc (Fatah) won 20 seats and the democratic bloc (PFLP) won five seats and the unity bloc (DFLP allied with the peoples party) only one seat. | | | A senior official in the Islamic bloc told PIC correspondent that the victory was historic and unprecedented in history of the University. | | | Islamic bloc wins landslide victory in students’ elections |
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Greek conservatives win landslide victory |
| | Spain's conservative Popular Party is forecast to win parliamentary elections on March 14, and rightist Joerg Haider secured another term as governor in Austria's Carinthia province on Sunday. | | | Greek conservatives swept to a landslide victory Sunday in parliamentary elections that ended 10 years of Socialist government and assigned a new caretaker to the troubled preparations for this summer's Olympics. | | | With nearly 98 percent of votes counted, the New Democracy party led the Socialists 45.4 percent to 40.6 percent in Sunday's vote as part of a deep reshuffling of Greece's political order. |
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| | CBC News: Japanese PM wins landslide victory in general election |
| | This is the first time his Liberal Democratic Party had won a majority on its own in 15 years. | | | Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), smiles as he places a red rosettes on the names of victorious candidates as he observes the ballot counting for the parliamentary lower house elections at the party headquarters in Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 11. | | | Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a stunning landslide victory in Sunday's general election giving him a broad mandate to go ahead with his plans to privatize Japan's postal system, a financial services giant that includes a postal savings bank and insurance business with combined assets of $3 trillion. |
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| | Abbas poised for landslide victory -DAWN - Top Stories; 10 January, 2005 |
| | Israel welcomed the result saying it hoped the victory of the moderate former premier in the race to succeed Yasser Arafat would usher in a new era of peace. | | | RAMALLAH, Jan 9: PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas was set for a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election Sunday with exit polls suggesting he had won some two-thirds of the vote. | | | Voting was extended for two hours after the central elections commission claimed that Israeli restrictions in the occupied territories had hampered access to polling booths. |
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| | Fight Back! - April 2006 - Philippines Union Wins Landslide Victory |
| | The Amado Kadena, a local union of National Federation of Labor Unions (NAFLU) affiliated to the militant labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), attained a landslide victory in the certification election, March 27, at the food processing company Dole Phils in Polomolok, South Cotabato. | | | KMU Executive Vice President Lito Ustarez, also the president of NAFLU, said, “The victory of AK is not only a victory for NAFLU-KMU but a victory for the labor movement. | | | Nick Galia, Vice President for External Affairs of the AK-NAFLU-KMU, said that the KMU-affiliated union garnered 3954 votes out of 4960 votes cast. |
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| | Asbarez Online - August 12, 2002 |
| | Aliyev also made a statement indicating that he is confident in his victory in the upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan in 2003. | | | STEPANAKERT (RFE/RL)—Arkady Ghoukassian, the incumbent president of Nagorno Karabakh, swept to a predictable landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election in Nagorno Karabakh, grabbing 89 percent of the vote, officials in Stepanakert announced Monday. | | | Meeting with journalists after the announcement of his victory, Ghoukassian warned: "Any attempt by Azerbaijan to bring Karabakh into submission would lead to war." |
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| | Bagapsh Heads for Landslide Victory |
| | TBILISI, Georgia -- Sergei Bagapsh, the presidential candidate whose refusal to recognize the results of an election last fall sharply raised tensions in Abkhazia, headed for a landslide victory in a rerun with his former opponent as his running mate, according to unofficial results released Thursday. | | | Khadzhimba, who had been tacitly backed by President Vladimir Putin, refused to concede. | | | Bagapsh, who ran on a joint ticket with former Prime Minister Raul Khadzhimba, won more than 90 percent of votes cast. |
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| | Numbmonkey: again with the "landslide victory?" |
| | Given the total number of voters in this election 136,484 doesn't seem like an incredibly high number. | | | Republicans continue to talk about the election in terms of a mandate, landslide, etc.... | | | A landslide would mean an impossible number of voters would have had to change their mind. |
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| | Israel refuses to negotiate with Hamas - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com |
| | Israel’s announcement came shortly after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said he was committed to negotiations with Israel and would start immediate consultations on a new government. | | | RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government that includes Hamas members, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday after the Islamic militant group's landslide victory in parliament elections. | | | Militant group quiet after landslide victory in Palestinian elections |
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| | Landslide victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In politics, a landslide victory (or just a landslide) is the victory of a candidate or political party by an overwhelming majority in an election. | | | Prince Edward Island general election, 1935, in which the Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island under Walter Lea won every seat in the legislature, the first time in the history of the British Empire that that happened. | | | Landslides can occur when one candidate or party is perceived as far superior to their opponents, through unfair elections, or as a result of particular voting systems which may produce distorted or disproportionate results. |
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| | ABC News: Koizumi's Party Heads for Landslide Win |
| | Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was headed for a landslide victory in elections. | | | Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi's Ruling Party Appears Headed for Landslide Victory in Elections | | | TOKYO Sep 11, 2005 (AP)— Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, seeking a mandate for sweeping government reforms, was headed for a landslide victory in elections for Japan's lower house of Parliament, national media predicted after polls closed Sunday. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Kazakhstan: Officials Declare Nazarbaev Winner Of Presidential Election |
| | Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has been elected to another seven-year term in a landslide victory. | | | The victory was tarnished by the OSCE’s conclusion that the presidential election did not meet international democratic standards. | | | Shortly after the announcement of his victory, Nazarbaev told a rally in the capital Astana that his reelection to another seven-year term is "a victory for the country, for all Kazakhs." |
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| | Koizumi wins Japan election by landslide - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com |
| | Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday after a landslide victory in Sunday's general election. | | | Koizumi wins Japan election by landslide - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com | | | But the magnitude of the victory came as a surprise to many, with the ruling Liberal Democrats gaining their greatest ever portion of the chamber’s seats. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Abbas wins landslide victory |
| | Mahmoud Abbas today began his work as Yasser Arafat's successor after winning a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election. | | | Officials said almost 70% of 1.1 million registered voters cast ballots in the first presidential vote in nine years, which was witnessed by hundreds of foreign observers, including former US president Jimmy Carter. | | | Mr Sharon warned the rebels in a party meeting ahead of the vote that they would bring a "disaster" on the country if they prevented the formation of the new coalition and forced early elections. |
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| | Real Madrid F.C. FanClub - News - Perez heads for landslide victory in Real poll |
| | Florentino Perez is heading for a landslide victory in his bid to be re-elected as Real Madrid president according to exit polls conducted on Sunday. | | | Perez, who won a surprise victory over Sanz four years ago, was in confident mood. | | | A poll run by Spanish sports daily Marca showed that of 1300 club members who had voted on Sunday, 1,216 said they had given their support to Perez, 51 to former president Lorenzo Sanz and 33 to third candidate Arturo Baldasano. |
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| | Daily Freeman - Landslide victory for Hinchey |
| | Hinchey said his victory Tuesday is a reflection of the accomplishments he's had over the past 10 years in Washington. | | | He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee. |
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| | CNN.com - Hamas' past casts shadow over peace plans - Jan 26, 2006 |
| | As the reality of Hamas' win set in, American and Israeli leaders -- including hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu, who is running for Israeli prime minister -- began sharing their concerns. | | | Hamas supporters celebrate in the streets of Ramallah Thursday after the party's election victory. | | | You should accept the responsibility of the elections' result!" |
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| | Koizumi won a landslide victory in September, with his Liberal Democrat party securing its biggest majority since 1986. | | | In addition to delivering mail, Japan's postal service also functions as a savings bank and has about $3 trillion in assets. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Koizumi secures landslide victory |
| | Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has won an overwhelming victory in lower house elections, according to results published by the media. | | | His party and its coalition ally will have a key two-thirds majority in the new parliament, Kyodo news agency said. | | | Mr Koizumi repeated his intention to step down next year |
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