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The Socialist Workers’ Party leader, Mahmoud Rachedi, reinforced this view, saying that the future parliamentary assembly lacks legitimacy.
And, as it happens, a UK parliamentary committee has just seized internal Facebook emails showing that the company may have known about malicious Russian activity on its platform as far back as 2014.
A poster of Giorgos Pantzas, a Syriza candidate in the 2012 parliamentary elections, proclaiming “No to the Fourth Reich” and “we are not afraid of the bullets of the Germans” helped him to get elected.
Britain is convulsed by a scandal about parliamentary expenses that has no equivalent since the attacks on “old corruption” in the early nineteenth century.
These are often implemented without parliamentary oversight, public vetting, or a cost-benefit analysis – and with little or no impact-analysis on the economy.
But next month’s parliamentary election will put this to the test, and the institution of the presidency itself may well be the main loser.
Macron’s movement, La République En Marche!, is so new that it has no parliamentary seats at all, and it probably lacks the political machinery needed to win many.
While it is true that presidential elections in an age of social media and infotainment are as much about personalities as they are about party loyalties, perhaps more so, parliamentary elections are much less likely to follow this template.
The Socialists are certain to lose their substantial parliamentary majority – 280 of the National Assembly’s 577 seats – next month, and the Republicans may well lose some of their 194 seats.
But both parties have the muscular local political machinery needed to win parliamentary seats.
How many seats either will have after the mid-June parliamentary elections is anyone’s guess.
The message being emphasized by Macron’s supporters is that, historically, incoming presidents have been able to convert their electoral support into parliamentary seats.
It remains to be seen whether Macron can cobble together a cross-party parliamentary coalition and avoid “cohabitation” with a cabinet that answers to a hostile majority.
In democracies, courts are heard, and obeyed, even if their judgements affect the original parliamentary power of the purse, as in recent German cases concerning the pension entitlements of particular groups.
Parliamentary committees advised by legal experts try too hard to get things right forever and forget their original intentions in the process.
Children of FrenchmenOne puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political allies a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.
How do we explain the passion aroused by the campaign and by Sarkozy himself including the massive affirmation he received in the parliamentary election?
If Zenawi consolidates his hold on power in the parliamentary elections due this May, the world should expect the stability that he has brought to take deeper root.
But that will be an empty promise: the US president has far less control over legislation than government heads in parliamentary democracies like Britain or in countries like China.
This is important to bear in mind, as a parliamentary (majlis) election is scheduled for March 2008.
Parliamentary democracy was born centuries ago by Europeans sickened by domestic (mainly religious) wars.
Indeed, parliamentary democracy's greatest enemy remains domestic war.
If Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is unable to offer citizens concrete economic returns on his engagement with the West – especially loosened international sanctions – by next year’s parliamentary election, hardliners will recapture their dominance over Iran’s foreign policy.
But the Irish question, the Conservative Party’s internal politics, and parliamentary arithmetic have made the Brexit process anything but straightforward.
The parliamentary arithmetic matters, despite the referendum result, because May was forced to concede that Parliament would have the last word on any deal she reached.
The composition of parliamentary forces reflects May’s disastrous decision to call a snap general election in 2017, which resulted in her losing a Conservative majority.
A Vote against Voting in PakistanISLAMABAD -- As Pakistan gears up for its parliamentary election on February 18, many observers hope that the vote will usher in a period of stability and calm by lending popular legitimacy to the government.
His support in the parliamentary election next March seems particularly weak, which will no doubt please Western observers.
But Venezuela’s parliamentary election on December 6, which gave the opposition a two-thirds majority, is moving political developments into the fast lane.
There was a vibrant multiparty parliamentary democracy, with an independent judiciary and one of the world’s earliest movements for female emancipation.
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