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Kayani has repeatedly declared that the army will not interfere in political affairs, and that the parliament and constitution are supreme.
Given the perceived remoteness of the European parliament and widespread frustration with the European Union’s bureaucracy, the level of participation and the movement toward transnational politics is remarkable.
Moreover, an outside candidate must be likely to generate backing by a sufficiently large coalition in the parliament.
When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight.
A plane with the UN envoy for human rights was denied landing rights in Baidoa (seat of the Somali parliament) not long ago, and pilots sometimes refuse to fly foreigners to Mogadishu, because it is too dangerous.
To name a particularly notorious example, 50 years ago this spring, Enoch Powell, a Conservative member of parliament, delivered his abhorrent “rivers of blood” speech, in which he warned that, within 15 or 20 years, “the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”
Those who stand to gain the most from such a strengthening of parliament will be the small parties that otherwise have little chance of asserting their influence.
They also allow him to dissolve parliament, be a member of a political party, have a greater say in appointing judges to the highest courts, issue decrees with the force of law, and impose a state of emergency.
Macron also supports proposals for a new eurozone parliament, proclaiming a two-tier Europe.
Turning the eurozone into a transfer union with its own parliament would only deepen the divide between the eurozone countries and the EU’s northern and eastern member states: Denmark, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.
China, fearing that the law could be used to move Taiwan towards independence, reacted strongly even before the referendum bill was approved by the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament.
The Estonian presidency, parliament, government ministries, political parties, news organizations, banks, and communications companies were all hit.
Iran, gearing up to elect a new parliament and Assembly of Experts (which chooses the country’s Supreme Leader) in February, remains in dire straits economically.
In addition, the conservative-controlled Guardian Council – which comprises six theologians appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists nominated by the judiciary and approved by the parliament – has rejected 99% of reformist candidates for the upcoming election.
While Monti’s mandate was set to last until the election, he might be trying to extend it with the support of the new parliament.
Moreover, the FLN pushed much-needed political reforms through parliament.
The OAS needs to act soon, because Venezuelans are due to vote for a new parliament this coming September.
Other countries, such as New Zealand and the United Kingdom, have taken steps to protect great apes from harmful experimentation, but no national parliament has declared that any animal could be a person with rights.
The resolution, which the full parliament is expected to adopt, directs the Spanish government to promote a similar European Union-wide declaration.
Striking such a deal will not be easy, though, as it will require Tsipras not only to overcome the resistance of radical Syriza members of parliament, but also the defiant stance of his country’s creditors.
But the Polish parliament also rejected a bill that would have provided funding for emergency contraception, medical care, and sex education – the same types of services Planned Parenthood provides.
In Kuwait, the government dismissed parliament.
These provisions – as I argued when introducing amendments to them in the lower house of parliament (of which I am a member) – can easily be misused by the authorities in ways that infringe upon Indians’ constitutional rights.
Unfortunately, conservative members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voted against the bill’s introduction in parliament, citing a 2013 Supreme Court judgment upholding the law.
Consider Kazakhstan, where five million people cast ballots in September for their parliament's lower house.
He resigned only after winning election to parliament.
Runoff votes will send more women than ever to Kazakhstan's parliament.
A parliament without a people inevitably increases the sense of frustration that many European voters feel about the process of making Europe-wide policy choices in their name.
But we need to look country-by-country at what else we can do to tie Europe’s own parliament into national politics.
Le Pen said she wanted to pare the parliament to 300 seats and reduce the number of Senate seats from 348 to 200.
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