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The Bundestag Barons the long serving MPs who rule the legislative committees and enjoy enormous clout within their parties cannot shape politics against the governments will, but they can impede almost everything.
In short, the parliamentary barons of the governing party buttressed by the ban on seeking opposition support can sabotage legislative projects they dont like.
At that point, however, Macron will face a whole new set of challenges, starting with legislative elections that are scheduled for June.
This led some to support the Algerian government's military crackdown after Islamists won the first round of 1991 legislative elections.
For others, conditionality will be more tightly focused on core areas, and “structural” conditions that require hard-to-time legislative measures will be judged in a less formalistic manner.
WASHINGTON, DC – A year ago, Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory in the French presidential election, and his party’s subsequent success in legislative elections, caused many to breathe a sigh of relief.
But time is short, and few of new DPJ lawmakers possess the legislative experience and budgetary expertise to make that happen.
LDP lawmakers and mandarins developed a routine in which mandarins drafted cabinet-sponsored bills, LDP lawmakers checked the bills, and the two together finalized legislative drafts before they were introduced to the Diet (parliament).
Since the LDP, recently with a coalition partner, controlled the Diet, the legislative process was simply the interaction between LDP lawmakers and mandarins, centered in the LDP’s headquarters.
Now, with a Republican majority in the Senate and a Republican president in the White House, those plans can provide the basis for legislative action.
Over the past 20 years, the usual culprits seem to be low labor productivity, bad macroeconomic management, and divided governments that make legislative consensus almost impossible.
But why should the Democrats help to dismantle their biggest legislative achievement of the last decade (if not longer)?
The controversy has spilled out of the psychology laboratories and psychiatric clinics, capturing headlines, motivating legislative changes, and affecting outcomes in civil lawsuits and criminal trials.
When the Muslim world was thrown into confusion and disarray after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the democratic wing of the Islamist movement was working on a platform of legislative reforms it would propose for EU accession.
And he has produced no major legislative achievements.
There is also talk about legislative moves designed in part to isolate or marginalize Refah.
But Igan and Mishra approach the problem in a clever way – they look for instances when elected officials switched their position on legislative proposals that surfaced more than once.
By the logic of Westminster, you elect a legislature to form the executive, and when the executive does not command a secure majority in the legislative assembly, the government falls, triggering fresh elections.
The main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, triumphed in the northwestern state of Punjab and won pluralities in Goa and Manipur (though the BJP formed governments in the latter two states anyway, by assembling coalitions to ensure legislative majorities).
Victory in Uttar Pradesh was critical to enable Modi to take control of India’s Upper House, whose members are elected by state legislative assemblies.
The latest election results also assure him the legislative numbers he needs to get his own candidates elected as India’s President in July and Vice-President in August.
A directly elected chief executive would not be vulnerable to the shifting sands of legislative support.
The more such tasks are delegated to private actors, the further removed they are from traditional structures of accountability, such as judicial and legislative oversight, and the more influence they may have on policy.
All of this changed in 2008, when a legislative reform allowed the Fed to pay interest on excess reserves.
In the run-up to this year’s legislative elections, Macri’s government could try to stimulate economic activity by taking on more debt.
Unfortunately, the report also masks a broader legislative and regulatory agenda that will add unnecessary risk – and a lot of it – to the financial system.
Much more worrying, however, is what lurks unmentioned behind the Treasury report: a serious legislative effort, supported by the Trump administration, to reduce the level of scrutiny applied to banks that are on the verge of becoming systemically important.
We should also consider establishing more diplomatic, legislative, academic, and educational exchanges.
If Obama is re-elected, and Republicans control the House and Senate, his legislative agenda will essentially be a dead letter, and he will spend the next two years, at least, negotiating its reform and rollback.
A Merkel-led CDU/CSU minority government would have meant open debate on all major policy issues and legislative proposals, enlivening the Bundestag and showing the public that political parties matter, and that a grand coalition isn’t essential to progress.
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