World Leaders Survivor -Stage Three - Complete

[Proud Lieberal from Northeast]

If there's a round to chose, not eliminate, I change my vote:

I vote for Mohamed Nasheed as survivor!

[GMantis]

Mohamed Nasheed
And some people think I hate Muslims...

[So the Heroes Fall]

Mohamed Nasheed
And some people think I hate Muslims...

Amusing I know. Some have said that I hate Muslims too.

[Χahar]

And Nasheed may still receive votes from Nhoj, GMantis, Earl, Xahar, maybe sbane, even jfern.

If you ask, I shall provide.

Nasheed.

[big bad fab]

All the usual voters have now casted their vote !
See, Antonio, no real surprise

[Californian Tony]

All the usual voters have now casted their vote !
See, Antonio, no real surprise

Since that is the last round, we could have some more voters. And still yet the results appear quite close.

[Senator Sbane]

Nasheed

[Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Reinfeldt

[Jayhawker]

Reinfeldt 
 

[Platypus]

Final Result

Australia - Kevin Rudd -eliminated round 52
Belize - Dean Barrow -eliminated round 50
Costa Rica - Oscar Arias -eliminated round 65
Denmark - Lars Lokke Rasmussen -eliminated round 54
Finland - Tarja Halonen -eliminated round 62
Germany - Angela Merkel -eliminated round 56
Iceland - Johanna Sigursdardottir -eliminated round 67
India - Manmohan Singh -eliminated round 66
Liberia - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf -eliminated round 63
Maldives - Mohamed Nasheed -winner
Mali - Amadou Toumani Toure -eliminated round 59
New Zealand - John Key -eliminated round 58
Norway - Jens Stoltenberg -eliminated round 61
Poland - Donald Tusk -eliminated round 57
Serbia - Mirko Cvetkovic -eliminated round 53
Slovenia - Bohut Pahor -eliminated round 64
Spain - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -eliminated round 51
Sweden - Frederik Reinfeldt -eliminated round 68
Timor-Leste - Xanana Gusmao -eliminated round 60
Uruguay - Tabare Vasquez -eliminated round 55

The World Leaders Survivor Winner is Mohamed Nasheed, of Maldives.

[Gustaf]

Well, I'm not too surprised and I'm not too disappointed either.

[Senator Sbane]

If Sigursdardottir wins this I'll be a bit embarassed. The woman has been in power less than a year and leads a teeny, tiny country that tried to get rich fast by reckless financial transactions and connections with the Russian mafia.

The time to not be at least 'a bit' embarassed passed a while ago.* The Maldives aren't exactly larger than Iceland... and what has Reinfeldt done? (Apart from leading one of the least offensive major conservative parties to a rare electoral victory? Mind you, with First World Conservative leaders, never hearing their name again after they win is the best thing you can reasonably ask for.) But, say, what, other than double the population, distinguished him from John Key?
But hey, that happens with compromise choices. All of these three reflect a reasonablish compromise. (Though the levels of reasonableness might vary. But quite frankly, after all the sh!t that went down, I begrudge you the pleasure of "victory". A little bit. But enough to motivate my vote. )

*India is a democracy, or sort of. But dead0man was on to something with that early vote against them based on Freedom House or whatever he used. It's hardly a very free and fair place to live in. And the INC must bear the lion's share of the blame. Last times' victory was understandable due to the surprise ouster of the BJP government, but defending the title would have been quite undeserved. My last two votes were actually tactical votes to get Manmohan Singh out.

Heh? And I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.
I would have like him to win if only because I wasn't here when he won the first time.

[Vasall des Midas]

I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

[Senator Sbane]

I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

Don't you dare insult India's bureaucracy. It's been their only competitive advantage for the last 60 years.

[So the Heroes Fall]

I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

You actually once called the "World's greatest democracy" at one point.

[Vasall des Midas]

I really hope you aren't blaming Indira and Sanjay's antics on Manmohan Singh.

Of course not. That'd be frigging daft, now would it?
But as long as deputy commissioners in rural districts are basically little dictators for theduration of their posting in the particular location, and even in a big city like Bangalore the municipal corporation is utterly irrelevant politically and the state cm might as well be doubling as lord mayor officially, I have trouble counting India a "real" democracy.

Plus, I've been reading too much Adiga recently.

You actually once called the "World's greatest democracy" at one point.

It's a figure of speech. Largely related to the county's very size.