One might be to arrange for a straw man to win the election and then step down, paving the way for Mr Putin to return triumphantly in a snap election.
They held a snap election.
In OCTOBER 2007 Gordon Brown decided against a snap election, ostensibly in order to lay his vision for Britain before the electorate in a more leisurely manner.
Tasked with rebuilding dwindling support for her party, she called snap elections just three weeks into office, hoping to benefit from her bounce in public opinion.
Mr Kan may have to call a snap election, with all the risks to his own job and his party that might entail.
Greece’s prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, called a snap election, possibly in early October.
What was President Hamid Karzai thinking in trying to schedule a snap election?
They say that later this summer he might dissolve parliament and call a snap election, aiming to campaign on a pledge to abandon nuclear power.
But any demands for snap elections would not be on the table, he added.
Mr Cameron’s speech, perhaps his best to a Tory conference since he impressed enough to see off Mr Brown’s mooted snap election in 2007, showed an appetite for the fight.
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