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It is difficult today to imagine tanks firing on a legally elected parliament or privatization of state assets – as well as delegation of the actual running of the country – to the head of state’s family and business cronies.
Three hundred years after the first Scottish Parliament voluntarily voted itself out of existence in 1707, the Scottish National Party has won a plurality in the devolved Scottish parliament that is one of Tony Blair’s great legacies.
Today’s Scottish parliament helps to dissipate Scottish discontents because it is revitalizing those institutions.
In Germany, many controversial political issues are taken to the Constitutional Court by minorities defeated in parliament.
Even in Britain, where the sovereignty of parliament was until recently sacrosanct, and the separation of powers underdeveloped, a Supreme Court will now be created to scrutinize political decisions on the basis of the European Convention of Human Rights.
On the eve of the German federal election last September, Germany’s parliament passed a law known as “NetzDG,” which came into force on January 1, 2018.
Of course, the extent to which an electoral system favors large parties – by having high popular-vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner-take-all constituencies – affects the degree of political fragmentation.
South Asian countries also lead in terms of women in parliament (Nepal and Pakistan); women ministers (Bangladesh); and women leaders in sub-national government (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh).
Europe’s New Jewish QuestionNEW YORK – In March 1936, Poland’s Sejm (the lower house of parliament) almost succeeded in outlawing shechita (slaughter according to Jewish law).
So Lepper became parliament's deputy speaker (one of four).
They repudiate not only parliament and its necessary compromises, but the rule of law itself.
The leading opposition group, al-Wifaq, has 18 seats in the 40-member parliament.
If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.
Needless to say, my country, Turkey, has always been at the forefront of the international community’s efforts to secure peace, stability, and cooperation in the region, and I contributed to some of them as a member of parliament, prime minister, foreign minister, and finally as President.
But the election results will not matter: parliament, too, has little influence over Iran’s foreign policy.
Barely a week after prosecutors accused Tymoshenko – based, yet again, on mere hearsay – of organizing the 1996 assassination of a member of parliament, Yanukovych proclaimed: “Our goal is to ensure real economic and political independence, strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and establish Ukraine as [a] young, powerful, and modern state.”
Likewise, the Italian populist Beppe Grillo’s attempt to empower ordinary citizens is not a cause for concern; but his claim that his Five Star Movement deserves nothing less than 100% of seats in parliament, because all other contenders are corrupt and immoral, certainly is.
Prime Minister Georges Pompidou persuades de Gaulle – whose first speech, on May 24, had no effect – to dissolve parliament on May 31.
"It’s a very lively and active regional group that has opened new relations and opportunities for all members," said Rejaie Khorasani, member of parliament and former ambassador to the United Nations, in an interview.
In July, Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won control of both houses of parliament – a resounding electoral victory that amounts to the strongest political mandate any Japanese leader has received in many years.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has also been reluctant to take on the Mahdi Army, mainly because the support of Sadr loyalists in Iraq’s parliament is crucial for his political survival.
Members of parliament – who are not technicians – are understandably disturbed when they are asked to pass a revised budget in response to an updated estimate.
And Italy’s parliament rejected many of Monti’s proposed reductions in government spending.
So, too, is the Danish People’s Party, which is the biggest party in the Danish parliament, but remains out of government.
This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006.
Moreover, Anwar’s daughter has now been detained for questioning the integrity of her father’s trial in a speech in the Malay parliament, in which she is an elected member in her own right.
A parliament anxious for public approval is eager to meet these demands.
And broadly, the business community, trade unions, parliament, the media, and even a plurality of the British public all favor remaining in the EU.
This past June, Germany’s parliament adopted a law that includes a provision for fines of up to €50 million ($59 million) on popular sites like Facebook and YouTube, if they fail to remove “obviously illegal” content, such as hate speech and incitements to violence, within 24 hours.
Not to be outdone, Russia’s Vladimir Putin used his annual address to his country’s parliament to assert that Russia actually has the most potent nuclear weapons of all.
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