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Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.
Compared to other Gulf monarchies, the Kuwaiti royal family has limited powers, though constitutional rules have frequently been ignored—charges of vote-rigging marred the 1967 election, and parliamentary dissolution has dotted the country’s history.
More recently, with the death last December of the Emir, Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad, parliamentary approval was exercised a key role in resolving succession debates among factions of the royal family.
Though women have long been active in Kuwaiti public life, they were enfranchised only last year, after a long and difficult campaign, by a parliamentary vote, and accounted for just 28 of the 249 candidates.
However, Islamists were among the 29 parliamentary deputies pushing for constituency reform, a fact that eased their dilemma.
The US hearings have been followed by parliamentary hearings in the United Kingdom, and more official inquiries are being launched elsewhere.
Rajapaksa’svictory in the presidential election this past January, followed in April by a win for his United People’s Freedom Alliance in parliamentary elections, ensured a majority for the president and his party.
Enlargement now seems likely to be a contentious issue in the German parliamentary elections, and perhaps also the French presidential election, both due in 2002.
More worrying is the effect on Japanese democracy: Elected governments do not simply change the meaning of the constitution without even bothering to get parliamentary support.
Some parliamentary leaders of Western democracies have approached to this limit, such as Helmut Kohl and his 16 years in office in Germany.
Moldova’s reemergence from authoritarian rule after eight years is the result of elections and parliamentary procedures.
The parliamentary opposition urged Prime Minister Monmahan Singh, who wisely kept his head down, to join in the populist America-bashing.
France will have to say yes to a political union: a common government with common parliamentary control for the eurozone.
That is why, in advance of the September parliamentary elections, the regime is increasingly directing citizens’ attention toward internal “threats” – that is, political opponents and supposed “traitors.”
The loss of continuity in political parties, parliamentary procedures, and judicial processes encourages short-term calculation and spawns illiberal practices.
I compared the results with the MB’s performance in the parliamentary elections earlier this year, and found that the Brothers lost between 25% and 48% of their support in the Nile Delta (depending on the area), where 40% of Egyptians live.
Indeed, six out of ten Egyptians voted for Islamists in the parliamentary elections.
Owners and Winners in Eastern EuropeBUDAPEST: Only by the skin of his teeth did Vaclav Klaus, the blunt proponent of a "market economy without adjectives," return to power in Prague after last spring's parliamentary elections.
The negotiations, known as the Round Table Talks, led to the Communist world’s first competitive – though not entirely free – parliamentary election, on June 4, 1989.
Their coalition government enjoys a comfortable parliamentary majority; nor does the political arithmetic imply a viable parliamentary alternative.
Nonetheless, Spaniards recognize that they have not had it so good for a long time, and recently returned Prime Minister José Maria Aznar to office with both a parliamentary majority no longer dependent on coalition partners and a mandate to modernize Spain even more.
But the heart of the problem may be the unfolding of a general crisis of parliamentary democracy in Europe.
Essentially, parliamentary democracy depends on having (at least) two political parties, each of which has a coherent and explicit programme of government.
Instead, parliamentary democracy is giving way to the politics of populism, personality and presidentialism; in short, to Hollywood and TV.
Netanyahu held an early election in 2014, in order to protect his mouthpiece – which now has the largest circulation of any Israeli newspaper – from parliamentary bills threatening to hobble it.
Most remarkable was the victory of Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis on October 2.His coalition increased its share of parliamentary seats from 45% to 63%, although GDP fell last year by a shocking 18%.
Ironically, the Israelis and the world community, which had basically frozen Palestinian finances, wanted Abbas to continue to control the security forces, despite Fatah’s loss in the parliamentary elections.
Neither presidential (the prime minister is accountable to the National Assembly, whereas there is no accountability in a presidential regime) nor parliamentary (the president is elected by direct suffrage and has significant power), the system has seen increasing periods of “cohabitation,” which has generally proven inefficient.
Others support moving toward a pure parliamentary regime in the manner of the United Kingdom.
But a presidential regime runs the risk of a stalemate between the executive and the legislature, and a pure parliamentary regime, such as existed in the Third Republic, has a track of failure in France.
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