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When chief executives with fixed terms of office lose political support, they cannot be removed through a no-confidence vote, as in parliamentary systems.
For that to happen, he needs a parliamentary majority, which he should get in the upcoming legislative elections.
The first parliamentary forum of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – had come to a convivial conclusion.
Seen against this background, the recent parliamentary forum is just the newest in an expanding array of institutions and mechanisms that are establishing the BRICS as an international grouping that cannot be ignored.
This is a strange turn, for parliamentary democracy has long been a source of pride for most Indians.
The country may not match up to its Asian neighbors in prosperity, but Indians have always been able to boast of the vitality of their parliamentary system.
This susceptibility is the clearest sign that India's experiment with the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy has failed to justify the hopes that prevailed fifty years ago when the Constitution was proclaimed.
But at least some of the maladies of the current parliamentary system, such as defection, party factionalism, inherent political instability, and crippling coalition politics can be minimized, if not eliminated, by adopting an executive-dominant model of presidential democracy.
In Europe, after all, Calvin's Geneva - an autocratic theocracy, more similar to Khomeini's Teheran than to any other regime - eventually developed, through English Puritanism, towards modern parliamentary government.
In the parliamentary election on June 7, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), received nearly 13% of the popular vote, giving it an expected 80 seats in the 550-member National Assembly.
Indeed, the HDP’s electoral success is the main reason that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was unable to retain its parliamentary majority.
During a recent hearing before a Polish parliamentary investigative committee, a state functionary responded to the simplest questions of fact by repeating the phrase, “I don’t remember.”
In fact, only the Socialists refused to vote for the parliamentary resolution.
The pattern begins in parliamentary deadlock.
Of course, parliamentary political systems are far from perfect.
But in parliamentary democracies such as Japan and India, an elected leader runs the country until the day his or her party or coalition loses its legislative majority.
By contrast, the threats posed by divided government could be greater than mere parliamentary rumbles.
A miracle could occur: a new president could be elected in Athens next week, or Syriza might not win the next parliamentary election.
The adoption of EU legislation will be subject to a level of parliamentary scrutiny (both at the European and national levels) that exists in no other supranational or international structure.
Moreover, agencies such as Europol and Eurojust will be similarly subject to greater parliamentary scrutiny, and the budgetary procedure will be simpler and more democratic.
Are Britain’s parliamentary arithmetic and public opinion moving in favor of or against the “hard Brexit” – a drastic clampdown on immigration and withdrawal from the European Union’s customs union, single market, and legal jurisdiction – planned by May before the election?
But is May’s aversion to immigrants still relevant, now that the election on June 8 has made her a lame duck and unstable parliamentary alignments and the shifting balance of public opinion will drive the Brexit negotiations?
Decisions on such issues cannot be delegated; they must remain in the hands of elected governments and be subject to parliamentary approval and oversight.
I am a strong, almost old-fashioned believer in parliamentary democracy, but when it comes to situations like postwar Iraq, two other imperatives are equally pressing.
The Left Will Decide Poland’s FutureWARSAW – On October 21, Poland will hold local elections, which will be followed by the European Parliament elections in May 2019, national parliamentary elections next fall, and a presidential election in May 2020.
But the SLD must compete with Razem, a radical leftist party that was founded just before the 2015 parliamentary election.
Despite its name, which means “Together,” it refuses to enter into any kind of alliance with the mainstream parties, including SLD, even though both parties failed to meet the electoral threshold in the last parliamentary election.
In the event, the “wasted” votes they received benefited the overall winner, the PiS, which gained an outright parliamentary majority.
But for any such parliamentary alliance to have democratic legitimacy, it will have to present itself not just as a coalition of likeminded MPs, but as a new political party, with a program to confront realistically the challenges of technological change and globalization.
What is wrong with the fact that a parliamentary committee passes a political judgment against a Commissioner for purely political reasons?
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