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The peole have a high level of dissatisfaction with a parliament dominated by communists which interferes with doing any practical work.
In December 2001, the attack by the Pakistan-based militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) on India’s parliament wrecked unofficial discussions between the BJP government and Musharraf’s military regime.
But, having campaigned as a socialist, and with his own camp’s deep divisions leaving him no real majority in parliament, he could not afford to reveal his pro-industry orientation (he continues to denounce the financial sector) without a significant delay.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a strong force in parliament despite the limits imposed on the participation of Islamist groups in last year’s elections.
The new president received military training in China, and paid an official visit as speaker of the parliament in 2001.
He confused the public with the private, and regularly forced the parliament to attend to his personal, business, and legal affairs.
Faced with a possible constitutional coup that would have eviscerated his powers, President Viktor Yushchenko has dissolved Ukraine’s parliament and called for new elections.
The country has not had a president since May; the parliament is not functioning; and the cabinet is practically powerless.
The center-right European People’s Party, which gained a narrow plurality of 221 seats in the 751-seat parliament, has claimed victory in the election; and many others, including socialists, greens, and liberals, concur that the EPP’s Spitzenkandidat, Jean-Claude Juncker, has a moral right to be selected as President of the Commission.
This year, in addition to electing a president and members of parliament, voters will elect senators, county governors, and other political leaders.
That process now hinges on protocols for establishing diplomatic relations that have been signed by both governments but unratified by either parliament.
The Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom makes this point nicely:“In November 2006, the [AKP dominated] Turkish parliament, as part of the reforms related to possible EU accession, passed a new law governing Lausanne religious minority foundations, easing procedures to establish foundations and allowing non-Turkish citizens in Turkey to open them… Then President Ahmet Necdet Sezer [a staunch Kemalist], however, vetoed the legislation.
Furthermore, the Sunni-based, anti-Syrian Future Movement to which Siniora belongs effectively extended this inequity into the present parliament when it overrode the opposition and insisted on conducting the 2005 general elections on the basis of the Electoral Law gerrymandered by Syria in 2000.
True, the German Constitutional Court has ruled out open-ended financial commitments over which the German parliament has no control, so Germany can go only so far in support of greater economic integration without greater political integration.
Worse, a country where 70% of the members of parliament are teachers and bureaucrats, as is the case in Germany, cannot hope to get dramatic legislative change.
The Ukraine president is authorized to appoint and sack the prime minister, dissolve parliament if he wishes, and rule by decree if he judges that the country's institutions are in danger.
But the parliament he has in mind is a mutant, one where the authoritarian rule of the criminal clans Kuchma controls will continue, unabated, behind the facade of parliamentary procedure.
Chancellor Kohl's slender majority in parliament is insufficient to push through serious reform of the country's Byzantine tax system against the Social-Democratic opposition's majority in the Council of States, the second parliamentary chamber where Germany's regions participate in federal legislation.
When German voters elect a new federal parliament in September next year, they are unlikely to give a clear signal for change.
The court’s ruling strengthens Germany’s government and those in its parliament who want less support for crisis countries and oppose a further transfer of sovereignty to Europe.
Indeed, not even the imminent threat of financial meltdown could convince any member of Cyprus’s parliament to accept the mandatory levy on individual bank deposits.
But it is the European Council, which comprises national politicians, that proposes the EU executive – the European Commission President and its commissioners – on which the parliament then votes.
In an unprecedented visit to Poland's parliament -- indeed, his address to the Sejm was the first address to a democratic assembly John Paul II has given in the two decades of his papacy -- he even spoke about love between politicians, although he is clever enough to know that such a thing is practically impossible.
The British ban, as well as the impending court case, has actually made Wilders more popular in the Netherlands, where one poll indicated that his populist anti-Muslim party, the PVV, would get 27 seats in parliament if elections were held today.
Although independent of government, the FSA can be called to account by government and parliament, and recognises the interests of all of its stakeholders.
These provisions cannot – fortunately – be changed by a simple majority vote in parliament.
Exit cannot be decided by parliament through ordinary procedure.
Now she has dissolved parliament and set new elections for April, three years before they are due.
“The Muslim Brotherhood members dominate most of the proportional representation lists, and therefore have a higher chance of entering the parliament,” says Tamer Abd al-Khaliq, a leading activist in Asala.
The United Kingdom is currently negotiating the terms of its withdrawal from the EU;Catalonia’s regional parliament has just declared independence from Spain; and populism is resurgent in Central and Eastern Europe.
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