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The Strange Normality of Polish ElectionsWARSAW: On September 21 Poland is to hold parliamentary elections that will be totally free.
The need for the bill – Lokpal loosely translates as “ombudsman” – was first mooted in 1968, but eight subsequent attempts to create one had never reached a parliamentary vote.
Nigel Farage, UKIP’s charismatic leader, was denied the parliamentary seat he so desperately sought, and the party’s bandwagon appears to be slowing and perhaps going into reverse.
This parliamentary arithmetic suggests that while Cameron’s personal stature and authority may have received a strong boost, he will be very vulnerable to pressure from his own MPs.
There is, in any case, very little enthusiasm in Europe for treaty revision, and the parliamentary and popular approval that it would entail.
If extremists can use the brute force of a parliamentary majority to legislate their agenda, they will do so – and worry later about how to deal, one way or another, with their opponents.
That is why former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who made social investment in Arab communities a national priority, resisted making the passage of the Oslo Accords dependent on Arab parliamentary support.
This is the little noticed result of the last parliamentary and presidential elections.
Last summer there was little doubt that the coming parliamentary elections would make the Luzhkov/Primakov Fatherland-All Russia party (OVR) the biggest fraction in the Duma.
A new inter-regional movement, Unity, founded only in September ‘99, dominated the parliamentary elections last December on a platform that could be summarized in two words: Vladimir Putin.
But as Europe's most recent parliamentary election shows, Sweden's Social Democrats--in power for 61 of the past 70 years--remain relatively immune to serious challenges from the right.
In the country’s election on March 4, the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-wing League party captured a combined parliamentary majority by tapping into the public’s discontent over immigration and economic stagnation.
Following de Gaulle’s lead, elective monarchy or enlightened despotism is now perceived as a legitimate alternative to parliamentary democracy or US-style separation of powers.
How Macron Keeps WinningPARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majority to his cause, if the results from the first round of the French parliamentary election hold.
All of this suggests that Macron will emerge from the second round of the parliamentary election with the strong majority that he needs to embark with confidence on a program to transform France.
It also requires specifying a common date for ratification (through simultaneous referenda or parliamentary votes) for all countries that have not yet done so, including France and the Netherlands.
The parliamentary elections to be held on March 31 st will provide an answer to the main question everyone asks about Ukraine: can we overcome our lack of belief in ourselves, overcome our fears, to win a true democratic independence?
Nonetheless, the regime, still fearing her popularity, is playing the race and religion card in order to discredit her and her party, the National League for Democracy, which won all but one of the parliamentary seats contested in the recent general election (and swept the annulled 1990 election).
But the former president is now mounting a furious comeback bid and might well win the parliamentary election scheduled for August 17.
That is the sad lesson of Poland’s parliamentary election two weeks ago, and of Sunday’s indecisive presidential election (which will be decided by a run off between Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski on October 23rd.)
To be sure, the communists-cum-postcommunists who have dominated Polish politics since 1989 were utterly repudiated – the left got scarcely 11% of the vote in the parliamentary poll.
Turnout for the parliamentary election was 40%, which puts Poland near the bottom in voter participation among the democratic nations of the world, and about 25-30% below the European average.
A few days before the parliamentary election, people were asked if they hoped for a better life.
Among the leading politicians of the parties that overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections – the neo-liberal Civic Platform and the conservative-populist Law and Justice – almost every face has been around since 1989.
Mainstream parties must embrace the kind of open and constructive debate that nurtured parliamentary democracy in the Federal Republic’s early years, rather than remaining focused on political tactics.
First, he was of the old school that instinctively embraced compromise across party lines in the Senate on crucial issues, in order to avoid the kind of gridlock that is always potentially endemic in a presidential system (unlike a parliamentary one), where the elected executive has no guaranteed majority in the legislature.
The Snap Election TrapLONDON – The Conservative Party’s loss of its parliamentary majority in the United Kingdom’s snap election has proved political pundits, pollsters, and other prognosticators wrong once again.
Similarly, in 1997, former French President Jacques Chirac’s decision to call an early parliamentary election resulted in large electoral gains for opposition parties on the left.
And none so far seems capable of winning or delivering a parliamentary majority.
Three main factors brought Hamas into leadership in the January 2006 parliamentary elections.
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