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Néstor and Cristina will be dealing with a parliament that is much weakened: laws passed by legislators close to the government allow the president to “correct” the budget and issue “necessary and urgent” decrees that substitute for laws.
However, seats in parliament, not percentages of the vote are what matters, owing to Britain’s winner-take-all electoral system based on single-member constituencies, which encourages political parties to gravitate to the center.
3.A signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, Iran’s parliament ratified the accord last year.
Iran’s parliament -- led by Speaker Ali Akbar Natiq-Nouri, an Islamic traditionalist who suffered a humiliating lost to Khatami in the presidential election -- is dominated by conservatives.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence against women should be openly discussed by governments, members of parliament, militia leaders, and opinion leaders.
Within the OECD, the main financial center for smaller resource-extraction companies is Toronto, yet the Canadian parliament recently failed narrowly to pass an equivalent requirement for these companies.
With another general election due next year, civil-society groups preferred that priority be given to lowering the 10% electoral threshold for parties to enter parliament, thus broadening political participation.
The new parliament would then work on constitutional reform.
Despite an electoral law favoring it, Tudjman's mammoth organization has been reduced to a mere 40 seats in the 151-seat lower chamber of the Sabor (parliament).
State elections this spring will show whether the FDP maneuver lifts the party above the 5% electoral threshold needed to remain in parliament, or whether fear of certain death led them to political suicide.
Swedes recently gave enough votes to a right-wing, anti-immigrant party to give it representation in parliament, reflecting a growing backlash against the rising number of immigrants in Swedish society.
Although Golden Dawn has existed for roughly two decades, only in the last year did it gain enough support to enter parliament.
Let a public hearing before a judge reveal exactly who will benefit from this deal, and let parliament examine all of the agreement’s terms and secret protocols.
In the parliament, a vocal but fragmented minority of critics, cranks, and bigots is likely to push the center-right and center-left groups, which still have a combined majority, to club together even more closely.
Among the highest-profile defamation-related cases in the Middle East today is that involving Najat Abu Bakr, a member of Palestine’s parliament who has been summoned for interrogation by the attorney-general after leveling corruption accusations against Hussein al-Araj, a cabinet minister with close ties with President Mahmoud Abbas.
Bakr, for her part, refused the order, and staged a sit-in at the parliament building.
India's parliament is riddled with defections by MPs, who move freely from one party grouping to another.
So endemic is the buying and selling of legislators that parliament looks a lot like a cattle market.
The prizes conferred on opportunistic defectors not only undermine the party system, but weaken the foundations of parliament by making organized opposition impossible.
Back then, parliament was seen as a means to bridge the divides of caste, religion, and region.
In adopting such a system, Indians would have nothing to lose but the corruption and chaos of today's discredited parliament.
Members of parliament had among their privileges the right to allocate 15 telephone connections to whomever they deemed worthy.
The result represents a sea change for Turkish politics, for it marks the first time that a primarily Kurdish party has cleared the 10% electoral threshold to enter the parliament.
And his counterpart at the European Parliament, Klaus Welle, has shown no sign that he will relinquish his position or soften his ambition to win still greater powers for the parliament.
An overwhelming majority of voters and members of parliament supported the move.
Scotland has a parliament, Wales an assembly.
Later, he was elected to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and became Deputy Minister of Defense and subsequently a full member of the cabinet.
The parliament currently is considering 15 bills along these lines, all of which have the full support of the main opposition parties.
Rather than a pardon, he wants parliament to pass a law allowing Tymoshenko to go to Germany for treatment, but on the condition that she would resume her prison sentence should she return to Ukraine.
“Budget sovereignty remains in the parliament of the French Republic.”
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