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The draft constitution would transform Egypt into a parliamentary republic.
After World War II, many countries with parliamentary systems reduced the likelihood of such instability by adopting the so-called “constructive vote of no confidence.”
Since the new government could also fall unless it retains a legislative majority, parliamentary systems have important “coalition requiring” and “coalition sustaining” incentives.
They are held accountable for their choices by voters, other elected officials (in the form of parliamentary scrutiny), and independent media.
Merkel, a Christian Democrat, has managed so far to engineer a parliamentary consensus among the coalition partners.
Back to the Brink in UkraineThe campaign for Ukraine’s parliamentary election of September 30th is scarcely underway and yet Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych is already trying to steal it.
In Europe, Greece has been able – so far – to maintain a parliamentary majority in support of the coalition government, but there, and elsewhere, hyper-populist parties are gaining ground.
She became involved with a local grassroots group, Girls Empowerment Network, joining other young women and civil-society groups across Malawi to urge village authorities and parliamentary ministers to put an end to child marriages.
Ukraine needs early parliamentary elections, but that is constitutionally difficult to accomplish.
But hard-liners within May’s Conservative Party, and Democratic Unionist MPs from Northern Ireland, on whom May depends for her parliamentary majority, will accept only a backstop with a time limit, which is no real “stop” at all.
With its decisive parliamentary majority (282 seats, plus another 50 or so held by its allies), the BJP has the mandate that Modi needs to pursue a bold and creative foreign-policy agenda.
Both are backed entirely by the EU budget – and therefore do not require national guarantees or national parliamentary approval.
Now it is Putin’s turn to call the tune, dismissing Mikhail Fradkov and dissolving the government that had served him throughout his second term in order to prepare for the parliamentary elections looming in December and the presidential ballot in March 2008.
The Renewed Promise of AbenomicsTOKYO – Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party scored a decisive victory in the December 14 parliamentary election, with Japanese voters demonstrating their overwhelming approval of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s macroeconomic policy agenda.
Meanwhile, a democratic crisis has emerged in Poland as well, starting last October, when the Law and Justice (PiS), a Euroskeptic party that also opposes immigration, secured an outright parliamentary majority by promising to implement populist economic policies and “put Poland first.”
Instead of turning them over to the tribunal, Racan used the opportunity for a power play, requesting a parliamentary vote of confidence for what was intended to be a soft-pedaling of the Hague Tribunal's warrants.
The last straw was the blatant falsification of December’s parliamentary elections, which reinforced citizens’ sense that the regime regards them with contempt.
That implies a system of governance with at least two decision-making centers – perhaps in addition to United Russia, the party of Putin and Medvedev, which won 64% of the vote in the recent parliamentary election up from 37% in 2003.
One of the main power bases of the governors is their decisive influence over the voters in their regions who will decide the outcome of this December's parliamentary elections, as well as the presidential elections next June.
When Leszek Balcerowicz's Freedom Union in Poland won 13% of the vote in a parliamentary election in 1997, this represented a stunning success.
And a stunning defeat in parliamentary elections surely marks the beginning of the end of 16 years of churlish chavismo in Venezuela.
The Global Cost of Turkey’s CrisisTurkey will hold its parliamentary election in July, four months earlier than scheduled, thereby narrowly avoiding a constitutional crisis over the choice of the country’s next president.
The issue went to Turkey’s highest court, which annulled the parliamentary vote, effectively blocking Gul’s candidacy, resulting in Erdogan’s decision to call an early election.
The agreement was ratified without proper parliamentary oversight and in violation of a constitutional provision forbidding foreign bases on Ukrainian territory.
What the EU has learned from the results of the last parliamentary elections in Bulgaria is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the leverage of Brussels over new member states increases rather than diminishes after they join.
Much of the public is disenchanted by the instability caused by fractious and corrupt parliamentary leaders and by the Maoist insurgency, which has cost 12,000 lives in nine years.
Burma’s military rulers are cynically hoping to use Suu Kyi’s participation in the parliamentary process to bolster the illusion of freedom while continuing to exercise real control.
Moreover, navigating the demands of parliamentary accountability is not the same thing as engaging with voters.
One can master all the political tricks of the trade to survive parliamentary debates or interrogations by committees.
Kuwaiti Democracy in ActionKuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961.
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