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With less than one-fifth of the population of the United States, Italy’s parliament has twice as many members as the US Congress, and they are among the world’s best-compensated and most privileged MPs.
Unlike the Ukraine government’s assent to extending the Russian Black Sea fleet’s deployment in Crimea – a decision that led to physical violence in Ukraine’s parliament – this was not a prolongation of the status quo, but a public demand for its revision.
After Iran or Saudi Arabia, Malaysia’s Sharia court system is probably the most extensive in the Muslim world, and the accompanying bureaucracy is not only big but has more bite than the national parliament.
At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that the possibility of a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.
Last year, the government merged 12 universities into eight in order to achieve substantial economies of scale, and the Danish parliament approved a nearly 50% increase in government spending on research by 2010.
With the TRT capturing over 75% of the seats in the lower house of parliament, Thaksin is now politically invincible at home.
It ended up doing the opposite, producing a hung parliament and the likelihood of another general election later in the year.
Although a hung parliament, with the Tories attempting to form a minority government, might tilt UK politics in the direction of a “softer” Brexit, at least in terms of the future trade relationship with the EU, it will probably leave Britain’s political leaders even less able to cope with the negotiations.
And the nationalist party led by general A. Lebed -- another bogeyman with which members of the Russian liberal intelligentsia were alternatively threatening each other or falling in love -- did not make it to parliament.
As a leftist president with a leftist parliament would certainly undermine the road to capitalism and democracy; the longer Russia stayed on this road without detours, the less chance there would be for a semi-return to totalitarian power.
In parliament, the government has unveiled a portrait of Vinayak Savarkar, a pre-independence Hindu nationalist, one of whose followers assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
Like termites, India's Hindu fascists have weakened the foundations of our constitution, parliament, and the courts - the backbone of every democracy.
To Italian lawmakers, mired in stalemate and indecision, the French executive’s considerable influence over the parliament is appealing.
French history demonstrates that excessive presidential power is likely to create an almighty and, at times, politically feckless executive, alongside a weak parliament that chronically under-represents a significant proportion of the population.
European populists would like nothing more than to create a self-hating parliament – one in which a majority of MEPs oppose the very existence of the institution in which they are serving.
When a pro-Hamas parliament was elected in a free and fair election in January 2006, the United States and Israel led a campaign to prevent all banks, including Arab and Islamic banks, from dealing with the new government.
But European leaders need to recognize that he faces an uphill battle to implement major reforms, with populist forces in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) turning up the heat on the government in anticipation of elections less than two years away.
Indeed, Suu Kyi now enjoys far greater freedom of movement than she has at any time since she received the Nobel Peace Prize 20 years ago, and the NLD recently announced that it will field candidates in the forthcoming by-elections to the country’s newly established parliament.
It was to announce a major initiative he had forced through parliament only hours earlier, and which the country’s restive people had been demanding in the streets for weeks: the right to travel.
Legislating HistoryNEW YORK -- In October, the Spanish parliament passed a Law on Historical Memory, which bans rallies and memorials celebrating the late dictator Francisco Franco.
Last year, the French parliament introduced a bill to proscribe denial of the Armenian genocide, too.
The country’s Orange opposition movement has recently won key posts in parliament and, for the moment, is heeding calls for calm from former United nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and representatives of the African Union.
Should he choose to exercise his vast residual influence through United Russia (with its inevitable majority in the newly elected parliament), we will know that he means what he says.
The individuals banned include the current defense minister and several members of parliament.
In this arena, Ahmadinejad faces off against Ali Larijani, the speaker of the parliament, and his brother, Sadeq Larijani, who is the head of the Iranian judiciary.
Within the parliament, the conservative bloc is divided between supporters of Ahmadinejad and advocates of more parliamentary oversight of the president.
Recently, parliament demonstrated its opposition to Ahmadinejad’s economic policies by deciding to remove the president from his traditional post as head of the General Assembly of the Central Bank.
They want the Supreme Leader to allow the president to issue warnings to both the parliament and the judiciary if he thinks they have overstepped their authority, thereby subordinating the Larijani brothers.
Until now, parliament has been an effective tool for the Supreme Leader legitimately to rein in presidential authority, and it is difficult to imagine that the Larijani brothers would have mounted such a sharp challenge to Ahmadinejad without the Supreme Leader’s approval.
The headscarf has also been forbidden in Turkey’s parliament.
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