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How Important is a Politician's Image? Sadiq Hasoon from Iraq
Thus, the first image is a very important factor of success. If you are going to meet people in any social activity, have an interview for a job, or run for president, your first image that you give right away will play a vital role in the results. Therefore, many politicians who want to be elected try to create good images about themselves a long time before they run for elections. Some of them hire experts and consultants, and of course, that means paying a lot of money to be taught how to behave during a TV interview, press conference, or other social activity to enhance their personal images. Those experts believe that a good or bad image create a good or bad judgment about a person. Therefore, they even teach the candidate the way to wear his clothes, the way to talk to others depending on the occasion or the level of the audience, and even the kind of perfume to use. An expert says to his candidate, "To get elected, you have to pay attention even to the way you walk in front of TV cameras. You must appear on the TV with the image of yourself manipulated." These experts even teach the candidates how to smile in front of cameras. Finally, the question that remains unanswered is, "Is the good image of the candidate worth spending so much money?"
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