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When Turkey's parliament voted in March 2003 against allowing American troops to open a northern front against Iraq, Turkey's traditional strategic partnership with the United States ended.
When Adenauer took Germany firmly into the Western alliance, he was not only opposed in parliament (by the Social Democrats), but also by a popular majority that thought his policy would make reunification with Soviet-controlled East Germany impossible.
Ukraine’s Democratic ChoiceSuddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice: dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country’s independence surrendered bit by bit.
The government, however, decided not to open up the issue in parliament.
His coalition government survives mainly because many members of Israel’s parliament know that they would lose their seats in an early election.
A special Assembly of the European Parliament, comprising the eurozone members, should have powers – on the model of a national parliament – to legislate and control the executive.
These pit the “honest radicals”- led by Ahmadinejad and supported by younger, second-generation revolutionaries known as the Abadgaran, or Developers, who are strong in the Iranian parliament, the Majlis- against the more corrupt and pragmatic mullahs who head the Party, led by Expediency Council Chairman and former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Venezuelans’ preferred option is to move ahead peacefully, along the lines proposed last year by the Vatican, which called for early presidential elections, a more autonomous parliament, and other measures.
Indeed, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, government and parliament alike were unpopular.
At an abruptly convened session in late June, the Polish Sejm (the lower house of parliament) rushed through an amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance, reversing another amendment that had been adopted in January of this year.
Each national parliament would then adopt the proposal, given participating countries’ role in providing the guarantees implied by that allocation.
Designated castes and tribes were guaranteed not only equality of opportunity, but also positive outcomes, aided by quotas for educational institutions, government jobs, and even seats in parliament and state assemblies.
The principal source of the attacks on Rajan was Subramanian Swamy, a bloviating Donald Trump-like figure with a penchant for bigotry and wild allegations, who was nominated to the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of parliament) by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in late April.
Sharif has called for Pakistan’s foreign policy to be debated in parliament, but supports continued cooperation with the United States.
These arrangements apply both to parliament and the executive branch.
In Lebanon’s post-war parliament, seats are widely distributed among the various confessional communities, so that none feels excluded or fears losing political representation if it loses numerical superiority.
Iraq, however, still has neither a parliament nor a constitution.
With regard to parliament, there is no need to follow Lebanon’s rigid apportionment of seats according to confessional identity.
Until elections can be organized, it may be necessary to do what was done in Lebanon just after the war: appoint members to an interim Iraqi parliament.
This could be described as a temporary advisory parliament, or ‘Shura Council,’ but it should include hundreds of figures from throughout the country and they should be selected through the Governing Council and interim Government after nationwide consultations.
Beyond the balance of representation in parliament and government, a balance might need to be struck between the highest offices of state.
As in Lebanon, Iraqis might need to create a balance between the offices of president, prime minister, and speaker of parliament, and to agree that a leader of a different major community will occupy each.
Their broadcasts caused a public outcry, which forced our parliament to organize a public hearing.
The BJP revealed its thinking within days of the election, when it appointed politician-priest Yogi Adityanath, first elected to parliament in 1998 at the age of 26, as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Taking a stand against corruption is a crucial task for the reformist leadership of Mikheil Saakashvili, a Columbia University-educated lawyer, Nino Burjanadze, the acting head of state and speaker of parliament, and Zurab Zhvania, also a former parliamentary speaker.
What is important is that the constitution requires a super-majority – rather than, say, the easily reversible “non-bloc” resolution that the Ukrainian parliament adopted in 2010 – to join a military alliance.
The king was compelled to hand power back to the political parties, while a peace agreement emerged that ended the conflict, bringing the Maoists into an interim parliament and government and promising elections to a Constituent Assembly.
Under the Yugoslavian constitution of 1974 now provisionally used in revised form by UNMIK, industry is "owned" by parliament.
However, Kosovo has no parliament, while Yugoslavia (meaning, Serbia) does.
UNMIK scarcely intends to send money to Milosevic; yet neither, thanks to 1244, can it set up a Kosovar parliament.
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