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If the world's largest democracy has just elected its first female
president, will the USA follow in 2008?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_re_as/india_president;_ylt=Ao1gFie.ngiFQmxFA.JyJ5lvaA8F
India names first female president
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer
India elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president
Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of
Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination.
Patil received 65.82 percent of the votes cast by national lawmakers
and state legislators, said Election Commission head P.D.T. Achary.
She had been widely expected to win.
Patil, the 72-year-old candidate of the governing Congress party and
its political allies, defeated incumbent Vice President Bhairon Singh
Shekhawat, the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
"I am grateful to the people of India, to all the men and women of
India," Patil said in a brief statement to reporters. "This is a
victory of the principles of which our Indian people uphold," she said
flashing the victory sign to her supporters.
Her candidacy was dogged by unprecedented mudslinging from the moment
it was agreed upon by coalition members, marring the usually genteel
process of presidential elections.
Hundreds of delighted Congress supporters danced in the streets as the
results were announced, banging drums and setting off firecrackers
outside her home in New Delhi and in her hometown in the state of
Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi
president, will the USA follow in 2008?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_re_as/india_president;_ylt=Ao1gFie.ngiFQmxFA.JyJ5lvaA8F
India names first female president
By GAVIN RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer
India elected Pratibha Patil as the country's first female president
Saturday in a vote seen as a victory for the hundreds of millions of
Indian women who contend with widespread discrimination.
Patil received 65.82 percent of the votes cast by national lawmakers
and state legislators, said Election Commission head P.D.T. Achary.
She had been widely expected to win.
Patil, the 72-year-old candidate of the governing Congress party and
its political allies, defeated incumbent Vice President Bhairon Singh
Shekhawat, the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
"I am grateful to the people of India, to all the men and women of
India," Patil said in a brief statement to reporters. "This is a
victory of the principles of which our Indian people uphold," she said
flashing the victory sign to her supporters.
Her candidacy was dogged by unprecedented mudslinging from the moment
it was agreed upon by coalition members, marring the usually genteel
process of presidential elections.
Hundreds of delighted Congress supporters danced in the streets as the
results were announced, banging drums and setting off firecrackers
outside her home in New Delhi and in her hometown in the state of
Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi