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Elections and Voting

The World Next Week: Turks Vote and Belgians Wait

By experts and staff

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s election campaign banner in Istanbul.
A campaign banner for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. (Murad Sezer/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the upcoming parliamentary elections in Turkey; Belgium’s failure for more than a year to form a new government; a possible gas deal between Russia and China; and next week’s Republican presidential candidates’ debate in New Hampshire.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110610_TWN…]

The highlights:

The Wall Street Journal covers the upcoming Turkish election, and CFR’s Steven Cook analyzes their significance. The First Post discusses Belgium’s remarkable ability to continue operating without a central government, and the Wall Street Journal reports on the anniversary of Belgium’s elections. Bloomberg News evaluates the stakes in the possible Russia-China gas deal. The New Hampshire Union Leader has the details on the upcoming GOP presidential debate it is helping convene, and the Economist surveys the field.