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It is telling that Sellahatin Demirtas, the leader of the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), had to rely on YouTube after the bombing, because he was not interviewed on any major news network, even though HDP members who had been elected to parliament in June were among the victims of the attack.
As Turks head back to the polls on November 1 (the June election resulted in a hung parliament), the Turkish government should be moving to resume peace talks with the PKK, which must also agree to a ceasefire.
The First And Last Soviet ParliamentMOSCOW: The attempt ten years ago to create the first democratically elected parliament in the USSR proved to be the most unpredictable of Gorbachev's reforms; the domestic equivalent, indeed, of his decision to allow Eastern Europe to break with communism.
Instead, the new parliament soon got out of control by passing laws that destroyed the Communist monopoly on power and undermined Gorbachev's authority.
The new parliament also provided an outlet to confront the country's mushrooming problems.
The fate of that first democratic parliament was ignominious – it functioned for only half its term and was abolished by Yeltsin's Russian parliament.
But the fate of that Russian parliament was more dramatic – it was dispatched in 1993 by paratroopers under the rumble of tank fire.
Two years after that first democratic parliament was summoned, the Soviet Union collapsed but Russia's peoples did not turn to radicals of either the right or left.
Since then, the number of women in parliament has steadily increased, aided by a 33% quota and rules dictating how many women must be included on party lists.
It has been vacant since September 2004 when Lahoud, backed by Syria, forced an extension of his six-year term on the Lebanese parliament, which elects the president.
A little over a year ago, Ukraine did not have an elected president or a representative and functioning parliament.
This April, the parliament of the Central African Republic approved legislation creating a hybrid Special Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country since 2003.
His goal was to expose the fallacious arguments used to block reforms like the abolition of “rotten boroughs” – electorates with so few electors that a powerful lord or landowner could effectively select the member of parliament, while newer cities like Manchester remained unrepresented.
Pulling Nigeria Back from the BrinkOnce again, Nigeria seems at the brink of disintegration, this time with the threat by parliament to impeach President Olesegun Obasanjo.
The only hope for those who believe that he and his party’s populist nationalism represent a threat to democracy is that PiS lacks, and probably cannot marshal, the two-thirds majority in the Sejm (parliament) needed to amend the constitution.
A new left, modeled after Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos, is now being forged, but it is a long way from entering parliament, let alone government.
The British parliament voted not to intervene in Syria;Western countries are among the smallest contributors to United Nations peacekeeping operations; and countries that preach diplomacy and prevention, like Germany, have yet to turn their rhetoric into action.
More broadly, the Shias can use this provision to place their ayatollahs over the elected parliament, as in Iran, because they alone are authorized to determine the “rules” of Islam.
Rewriting Russia's Recent Economic HistoryTen years ago this month, Russia's parliament, the Duma, was seeking to impeach then President Boris Yeltsin, initiating a time of stalemate and struggle that ended seven months later when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the Duma's headquarters.
The reformist parliament elected in December 1999 in tandem with President Vladimir Putin's reformist administration lowered tax rates, overhauled the judicial system, legislated private ownership of land, and adopted new banking laws.
Both the Congress and the BJP will seek to make alliances with the dozens of smaller parties likely to be represented in parliament.
Dalits and India’s aboriginals (listed in the Constitution as “Scheduled Castes and Tribes”) are entitled to 85 seats in India’s 543-member parliament that are “reserved” for candidates from their communities.
But there is no denying that her rise to power in India’s largest state, which sends 80 members to parliament, has given her a vital platform to bid for India’s most powerful job.
More French defeats -- including abolition of the national veto that General de Gaulle enshrined in the EU constitution, and the transfer of ever more sovereignty to the EU parliament (in which Germany has the largest contingent) -- loom large on the horizon..What more Germany will demand is impossible to guess.
If the court finds that the ECB’s actions are unlawful, it can constrain German institutions – even the German parliament.
His only hope of fending off the magistrates was to control parliament and introduce new laws that would stop the series of corruption trials he faces--a strategy that has now given him immunity from prosecution until he leaves office.
A separate eurozone parliament would provide political oversight and accountability.
The Commission cannot, for example, propose to the parliament that it raise taxes and finance transfers, because any decision regarding taxation requires the unanimous agreement of all 28 member states.
Some liberal elements of that "secular" coalition resigned from the government and joined with the Islamists to push the reforms through parliament.
Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an invasion from Turkish territory.
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