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The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a decisive victory in elections to the upper house of parliament held on July 21, bringing to an end the indecisive politics caused by the lack of an effective majority.
India’s parliament, not surprisingly, denounced the Chinese incursion in the harshest possible terms.
Lurking in the background of the presidential election was fear in some quarters that a victory by Nidaa Tounes, which won a plurality in parliament, might mean a return to authoritarian rule.
Yet, in debates in the Diet, our parliament, neither Prime Minister Koizumi nor the Foreign Minister utter anything more than such tepid responses as: "Japan cannot respond to a hypothetical situation;" or "Japan cannot take a definitive stance without assessing the results of the inspections;" and "It is in Japan's national interest not to declare whether or not it supports the use of force."
This finding demonstrates that the threat of attack can affect voting behavior; indeed, it implies that if all Israeli voters were within range of the rockets, right-wing candidates would capture 2-7 more seats in Israel’s Knesset (parliament).
With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.
More controversially, the lower house of the Dutch parliament passed a law giving the Jewish and Islamic communities a year to provide evidence that animals slaughtered by traditional methods do not experience greater pain than those that are stunned before they are killed.
The other main task will be to select a new parliament, which will then choose the new leadership.
What is the point in displaying open contempt for Ukraine’s government, parliament, and people?
Yet, caught in the sights of a gun barrel, nobody – not even the brave men and women who camped in their hundreds of thousands in the snow before Ukraine’s parliament – knew with certainty whether those changes had wrenched Ukrainians from the grip of fear and apathy.
It must now use its power as the world’s parliament to overcome the obstructions of the few.
Each currently wields a degree of influence that would not be guaranteed in a new Knesset (parliament).
Indeed, Putin has taken advantage of his legitimacy, popularity, and working majority in the State Duma (federal parliament) to force through radical tax reform and a continued tight fiscal policy in the 2001 budget.
Democracy is government by debate, by taking important decisions after thorough deliberation of the kind that--at least in large countries--must be conducted in a parliament through elected representatives.
Deprived of support by his national parliament, the President had no other choice but to pull together a package with the help of international lending organizations.
The opening day was adjourned, in keeping with traditional practice, to mourn the death between sessions of a sitting member of parliament.
But the adjournment did not come before a routine courtesy greeting to the visiting Speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament was interrupted by Tamil MPs from a regional party, who rose to their feet to shout demands for his expulsion because of his government’s behavior towards that country’s Tamil minority.
That, unfortunately, is often par for the course in India’s parliament, many of whose opposition members appear to believe that disrupting proceedings, rather than delivering a convincing argument, is the most effective way to make their points.
An Anglophile Communist MP, Hiren Mukherjee, boasted in the 1950’s that British Prime Minister Anthony Eden had commented to him that the Indian parliament was in every respect like the British one.
Last year, five MPs in the upper house of India’s parliament were suspended for charging up to the presiding officer’s desk, wrenching his microphone and tearing up his papers.
Three months later, several opposition parties circulated an impeachment motion against Misra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.
Even the Indian parliament – the “temple of democracy” – has seen its work reduced to a farce, as BJP allies and supporters purposely brought the budget session of the Lok Sabha (the lower house) to a standstill in April 2018.
But the military still controls many ministries and a quarter of the seats in parliament.
No doubt special circumstances accompanied that vote, but the effort which the country's most respected and powerful politician expended in order to gain the backing of Germany's parliament (as well as his coalition partners, the Greens) should be a warning to other Western governments not to leave their publics behind as they engage in the tough, multi-year campaign against the planners and executors of international terrorism.
It does, however, permit the government to issue so-called “ordinances,” which have the force of law, but must be ratified by parliament within three months.
Casting one’s ballot in parliament to introduce censorship or to deny full citizenship rights to minorities are not democratic acts, even if they follow democratic form.
Now, it is clear, almost half of those who voted in the United Kingdom’s general election on June 8 have had enough of May, whose Conservative majority was wiped out at the polls, producing a hung parliament (with no majority for any party).
Macron also wants to build a more integrated, effective, and democratic eurozone, with its own budget, finance minister, and parliament.
In Kyiv, Ukraine’s parliament responded by calling for international monitors to help protect the plants as the cash-strapped government attempts to boost its own efforts.
In the SCAF’s March 30 “Constitutional Declaration,” it became absolutely clear that, unlike Tunisia, the parliament to be elected in September will not form a government.
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