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Instead of robust executive leadership tempered by a strong democratic parliament, committees of national politicians run the show in Europe, in practice sidelining (often brazenly) the European Commission.
Realizing that the game was lost, the Social Democrats joined with Klaus’s opponents in parliament on January 5th to demand Hodac’s resignation.
The four-month clock began ticking on May 3, following the first meeting of Iraq’s new parliament.
Kurdish politicians within the new parliament have good reason to protect these lucrative deals as debate begins over constitutional changes.
Bush’s central topic, including his speech to Israel’s parliament, was Iran.
A former member of Iran’s parliament, Javad Ettaat, argues that the “government is contravening the principles of Islam by using an iron fist against protesters.”
In particular, recognition of the rights of parliament – of a representative assembly – ensured that the agents of the creditor classes would have permanent control of the budgetary process.
Egyptians’ collective determination will ensure that, in the revolution’s second year, the country will get a new constitution, hold proper presidential elections, and benefit from a functioning and representative parliament.
The fiscal compact had been reduced to a shambles even before Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, approved it later that day.
Politically, the choice is whether to empower a common government and parliament or return to full sovereignty.
Following decades of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands captured in the 1967 war, and with peace negotiations stalemated, Hamas defeated Fatah (the Palestine Liberation Organization’s political party) at the ballot box in the 2006 election for the Palestinian parliament.
Moreover, by giving the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – which brings together the country’s long-marginalized Kurdish minority and other groups – more than 10% of the vote, they enabled the party to enter parliament for the first time, with representation throughout the country, not just in Kurd-majority areas.
Israel’s occupation of Palestine has obstructed a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land, regardless of whether Palestinians had no formalized government, one headed by Yasir Arafat or Mahmoud Abbas, or with Abbas as president and Hamas controlling the parliament and cabinet.
But it was clearly stated that last June’s referendum on Britain’s European Union membership was merely consultative and not binding on parliament.
When the Supreme Court ruled that parliament would get a vote, May’s government had to find a third way.
And parliament has created a monetary-policy committee for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which should ensure that multiple views are embedded in policy and improve continuity.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, never discusses the program or appropriates money for it.
Following a general election in January, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, who had voted against the law as a member of parliament, assured angry Web-site owners and online journalists that he would work with them to find a solution based on goodwill.
For example, less than two years after Iran’s democratically elected parliament and prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1951, the US and Britain used their secret services to topple Mossadegh and install the incompetent, violent, and authoritarian Shah Reza Pahlavi.
While Shimon Peres made a gesture of reconciliation by choosing Ankara as the setting for the first speech by an Israeli president to the parliament of a predominantly Muslim country, Israel’s concerns about Iran are far more serious than are Turkey’s.
Elected and unelected government officials alike, including cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and civil servants, were implicated in corruption scandals.
In 2010, India’s parliament passed the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill, a precondition for activating that agreement.
When asked about the rightward trend in politics, some young Diet (parliament) members said they hoped that it might produce a realignment among political parties that would lead to a more stable and effective national government.
Though headed by a veteran politician formerly of the National Religious Party, the second position on United Jerusalem’s candidate list was filled by Aryeh King, a far-right activist who ran for the Knesset (parliament) with a party called Strength to Israel.
The outcome was paralysis: an entire session of the parliament ended with not a single item of legislative, governmental, or other business completed.
Their corruption is debilitating not only India’s parliament, but its democracy as well.
The president must always be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni, and the speaker of parliament a Shia.
Osama Nujaifi, a Sunni, has been elected speaker of Iraq’s parliament.
The initial proposal to impose a one-time tax on accounts holding less than €100,000 came not from the European Union or from Germany, but from the Cypriot government, which must have known that it was likely to generate outrage, and that the Cypriot parliament would never vote for it.
At the end of a speech in the Lok Sabah, the lower house of India’s parliament, Singh issued his formal invitation.
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