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A minimum of four (and perhaps as many as seven) parties may enter parliament.
In its two years in power, the parliament, known as the General National Congress (GNC), has empowered non-state actors, with ministries bypassing the army to task militias with security operations.
India’s parliament must continue to debate all the options available.
The day before he visited Lahore, he told Afghanistan’s parliament that he hopes “Pakistan will become a bridge between South Asia and Afghanistan and beyond,” and discussed how the region’s countries “can all prosper together.”
Because the expected gridlock in parliament would make reforms less likely, companies might hold off on investment, while consumers would be more likely to keep their wallets closed, because official policy would be even less clear than it is now.
As of this writing, only two presidential candidates have declared themselves: former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi.
And the British parliament enacted a new law protecting diplomats from suffering similar treatment in the future.
Its members will engage in all of the same professionally choreographed and well-rehearsed debates, the ritualistic display of legislative process that devalues parliament because the outcome is pre-determined.
The PiS-dominated parliament has introduced severe procedural constraints on the court’s operations.
According to a 1994 ruling by Germany’s Constitutional Court, the German parliament has the final say when it comes to deploying soldiers.
However, Germany’s partners will hardly agree to integrate forces further if the German parliament were to retain a veto over their deployment.
But the Spanish parliament voted overwhelmingly against allowing the Catalan government to hold a referendum on independence, and the central government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional.
But Obama – who had displayed a photograph of Mahatma Gandhi in his Senate office, carried a locket of the Hindu god Hanuman, and spoke often of his desire to build a “close strategic partnership” with India –struck the right symbolic chords in New Delhi and won over the fractious parliament.
Each had to “cohabit” for a time with a hostile parliament.
But when president and parliament are controlled by the same party – Nicolas Sarkozy’s current situation – the “reserved domain” knows, in practice, no limit.
Even opposition leaders in Turkey’s now-toothless parliament become cheerleaders whenever he signals that lack of support would be treated as aiding the enemy.
But only half of our parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, is elected from party lists.
These forces will all get into parliament, but the wider their representation, the sooner common sense and justice will prevail here.
We will pursue our goals regardless of where we find may ourselves - in parliament (supporting the government or in opposition), in the presidential palace, or even in prison for our beliefs (as I found myself not many weeks ago).
As a minister I once put pressure on Gazprom over taxes and was summoned to parliament by indignant deputies.
How much inflation a society finds desirable or tolerable (taking into account other important variables, such as employment, GDP growth, or poverty) is an inherently political question that should be debated in parliament.
The irony of last Thursday's opposition rally is that it took place in front of Belgrade's federal parliament, for it is in parliament and not the streets that Milosevic can be challenged.
In this way, even without joining into a coalition, opposition parties could get a majority of seats in parliament.
He has nothing to do with the communist era and has sacked all former Party members from important positions, even barring former Prime Minister Leszek Miller from standing for parliament.
None of this bodes well for a country whose parliament has already been diminished, after these three parties, during their eight years forming a coalition government, marginalized the opposition and failed to build up new leadership cadres.
But while Abbas remains chief executive, Hamas controls the parliament and the government.
What Italy’s Election Means for the EUROME – Italy’s recent election – in which voters rebuffed traditional parties in favor of anti-establishment and far-right movements, producing a hung parliament – should serve as a wake-up call for Europe.
Food FightEurope's parliament has passed stringent new rules for genetically modified food, raising American objections.
Thanking BangladeshNEW DELHI – This month, India’s parliament took the first step toward a potentially momentous decision: to settle a boundary dispute with Bangladesh that dates back to the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
The then-opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went so far as to block the bill in parliament, with the upper house’s then-opposition leader, the lawyer Arun Jaitley, arguing that India’s territory is integral to its constitution and thus “cannot be reduced or altered by an amendment.”
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