candidature

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“A public candidature and campaigning like the one that we have seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Graeger, the director of Peace Research Institute Oslo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Rajoelina sent his resignation letter to the court on Saturday following confirmation of his candidature in the elections, the High Constitutional Court said in a statement late on Saturday.

From Reuters • Sep. 10, 2023

In 2016, he famously scuppered the leadership hopes of his friend Boris Johnson, by announcing his own candidature on the morning of Johnson's own campaign launch.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2020

“The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2017

So well were his methods understood that he acquired the dubious honour of a candidature for the authorship of Junius.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose