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They chose to defer to the civilian leadership and to parliament, which, in voting down the US plan, reflected overwhelming public sentiment against the war.
In fact, the allegedly Islamic party had skilfully managed to negotiate with an unrelenting US, consult with the Turkish military and President, and share all information with the public and parliament.
Walking a fine line in what was essentially a lose-lose situation, the party leadership laid out the stakes clearly and judiciously left the final decision to parliament.
The Bonus RiskCHICAGO – In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers.
While Britain’s populist media rant about restoring parliamentary sovereignty in Britain (as though it had ever been taken away), they denounce any member of parliament who questions the path on which the country is now set.
Iran's Election SurpriseWASHINGTON D.C.: Iran’s revolution is poised to enter a new phase when, later this summer, former minister of culture Mohammed Khatami (who won a stunning upset on May 23 over the heavily favored speaker of parliament) becomes the country’s fifth president.
Moreover, Khatami wears the black turban that signifies his family’s descent from the prophet Mohammed, and served in both the parliament and cabinet until forced from power in 1992.
In a country where almost half the population is under 18, and where eligibility to begins at 15, many youths expect a wider and freer range of books, movies, and magazines as well as moves to restore satellite dishes, outlawed in the mid-90s by parliament because they featured foreign news, American soap operas, and western music videos.
Like his predecessor, Khatami faces a conservative parliament that balks at significant change, no matter what voters mandate.
That parliament will also be headed by the man Khatami defeated, Nateq-Nouri, who may continue the rivalry until a second presidential showdown in 2001.
Those who mocked him were speedily dismissed by the Ukrainian parliament in the wake of President Viktor Yanukovych’s flight from Kyiv.
In the state of emergency likely to follow, installation of a new parliament might be delayed.
When India VotesKERALA, INDIA – Beginning this month, the largest exercise of the democratic franchise in history will take place, as India n voters head to the polls to elect a new national parliament.
A new parliament will be convened on June 2 to elect a national government to succeed the outgoing administration of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
They would have allowed Europeans to vote directly for a parliament with full competencies and legislative authority, and without the system of unanimity that has allowed rogue member states such as Hungary to tie the entire bloc’s hands.
All have been free, fair, and without corruption under an electoral law drawn up, surprisingly, by the country’s last Bolshevik-style parliament.
“They have a majority in parliament, and unless we get ourselves organized we could lose the historic victory that was Brexit.”
Persson had discovered that he lacked a majority in the Swedish parliament to lift the arms embargo on China.
This claim was strengthened in early September, when, for the second time, Kenya’s parliament approved a motion to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the ICC.
(The parliament passed a similar resolution in 2010, but then-President Mwai Kibaki did not act on it.)
The main question is whether India’s parliament will pass crucial legislation or remain paralyzed by hyper-partisan, scandal-fueled infighting.
After the Gujarat violence the national BJP government faced a "censure motion" vote in parliament.
Should an election take place, Congress is likely to increase its strength in parliament.
The verdict disproved gloomy predictions of a hung parliament and the further strengthening of regional parties.
Instead of indirectly propping up Lukashenka’s regime through such cozy deals, Europe’s governments must begin to act in accordance with what Europe’s parliament has long understood: underwriting Lukashenka economically only prolongs his misrule.
But at the same time the OSCE is condemning these anti-democratic practices, its own Parliamentary Assembly maintains full-fledged cooperation with the Belarusian parliament.
Indeed, the OSCE treats the Lukashenka-controlled parliament in the same way it does any EU parliament.
The model for a future United States of Europe is Switzerland, a country with four languages and ethnicities, fiscally strong sub-national units (cantons), a single first-rate currency, and a federal government and a parliament that exercises genuine, if limited, fiscal authority.
A remarkable feature of the recent election is that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received an absolute majority in the national parliament, an almost unprecedented achievement in India.
Although the parliament was not completely stripped of its ability to control the executive, it lost most of its influence and became a stronghold of the opposition to the existing system of power and statehood.
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