Increasingly, however, the councils are being dismissed as symbols of the opposite: political stagnation.

Both models envisage rapid economic development with high levels of political stagnation.

But now, the economic crisis, political stagnation and corruption have turned them away from the party.

The move is expected to end the political stagnation and usher in a new era of younger, more dynamic figures.

From the outside it seemed, he said, to have become a campaign for political stagnation.

Grenada and its 95,000 people are in political and economic stagnation, by most accounts.

The Senate has not experienced such political stagnation.

It delivers oppression, lack of choice and material and political stagnation.

The Burmese people must not pay the price for the political stagnation the leaders have brought about in the country.

We have political stagnation that has led to law-enforcement breakdown and economic ruin.