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El Partido Digital is currently working to elect a representative to parliament.
The country’s parliament is packed with warlords, the drug trade is thriving, and violence is on the rise.
Several members of the newly elected parliament are known warlords with bloody records.
It also paved the way for a parliament in which over a quarter of the members are women – this in a country where, just five years ago, women were not even allowed to leave the house without a male relative.
Italy’s parliament is divided among three mutually incompatible political forces, with none strong enough to rule alone.
Instead of bold pronouncements by the parties, there were quiet calculations about possible alliances because everyone was predicting a hung parliament.
But almost all of the parties put female candidates at the end of their lists; as a result, only nine women were elected to the parliament.
SCAF, fearing an Islamist takeover ahead of the presidential election, dissolved the parliament in June, following a judicial decision that they (and the court) insist must be upheld.
But the new president, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, has ordered the parliament to reconvene.
In the first scenario, SCAF – which, aside from dissolving the parliament, stripped the presidency of most powers in order to weaken its rivals – continues to rule the country under the military system introduced in 1952 when Mohamed Naguib and then Gamel Abdel Nasser seized power.
The second scenario is an Islamist regime: Morsi negotiates with SCAF a transition to civilian rule;Islamists continue to dominate a restored parliament; and the new constitution establishes a theocratic state.
Not only is the Duma now likely to be a puppet parliament, as was the Supreme Soviet; it may “democratically” stamp out hints of real democracy in Russia.
They retain the biggest faction in parliament and control government in 20 regions.
The British government appears to have been deceiving the public and its own parliament.
Similarly, the cables reveal that President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen lied to his people and parliament about the source of US airstrikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen, telling them that Yemen’s military was the source of the bombs.
From the first popular election to the European parliament in 1979, until the latest one in 2014, the Party of European Socialists (PES) and the European Peoples’ Party (EPP) jointly received between one-half and two-thirds of the vote (with the rest going to centrists, the Greens, the radical left, and, increasingly, a new breed of Euroskeptic parties).
Hariri’s government is set to keep its 71-member majority in Lebanon’s 128-seat parliament, helped by the 8% economic growth projected for this year.
The FDP campaigned on an exit option, and its leaders, having been out of parliament for four years, will not want to risk their credibility by backing away from it now.
But democracy is messy; with some of our Orange Revolution’s promises postponed or disavowed by President Viktor Yushchenko, there is a chance that on March 26, when Ukrainians vote for a new parliament, they may in their disappointment choose to return to the realm of corrupt and autocratic rule.
Above all, the new Rada (parliament) will settle down to the business of enacting laws and monitoring the government, not carving up the budget among corrupt clans.
For a start, the French parliament must be given a greater role and government ministers must drop their habit of blaming Brussels whenever they want to introduce unpopular economic or social reforms.
The attempt by opposition parties last year to impeach South Korea’s President Roh Moo Hyun on the flimsiest of excuses;Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s inability to pass legislation through a parliament controlled by the opposition Kuomintang;Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s stalemated first term and the repeated rumors of looming coup attempts against her: each bears testimony to a form of democratic paralysis in Asia.
The problem in Asia often arises from something the French call “cohabitation” – an awkward arrangement by which a directly elected president must co-exist with a parliament controlled by a rival party or parties.
Kim Dae Jung (the new president) was elected with a mere 40.3% of the vote, his opponents maintain a majority in parliament, and an angry tide of populism is rising.
The influence of his court has been seen as excessive and dangerous, marginalizing and frustrating the government, parliament, and his own party.
The Communists were guaranteed a majority in parliament.
In 1954, the French parliament refused to ratify a treaty that would have established a European Defense Community and joint military force comprising West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
It performed disastrously in recent elections for local councils and the European parliament.
The challenges facing Jokowi are compounded by the fact that his ruling coalition holds only about one-third of the seats in Indonesia’s parliament, with the rest loyal to the coalition of his rival in the presidential election, Prabowo Subianto.
But, on February 24-25, up to 50 million voters will go to the polls to elect a new parliament, delivering Italy’s 62nd government in the last 65 years.
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