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Republicans have been in a panic that they might lose both the House and the Senate, though the latter is less likely, given that many more Democratic than Republican incumbents must defend their seats.
Regional powers with ringside seats to the talks, such as Saudi Arabia, also had plenty to say.
But, as the possibility that separatists will win a majority of seats becomes more likely, opponents of secession are becoming more vocal.
A means of widespread local participation has been established by reviving the panchayat system and today one third of parliamentary seats have been reserved for women.
Indeed, in the original agreement, the five large powers that would be represented permanently on the IMF Executive Board were the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, and France – the same countries with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
The legroom is no longer, the headroom no taller, and the seats no more comfortable than in a mid-size saloon car.
But, although the Security Council was enlarged in 1965 by increasing the number of non-permanent seats from six to ten, its permanent members have not changed since 1945.
Only an increase in the number of permanent and non-permanent seats can remedy the representation deficit within the Security Council and adapt it to the realities of the twenty-first century.
Our Basic Law even allows for foreign nationals to be elected to one-fifth of the seats in our legislature.
Yet in Jerusalem, King and the local version of his party won two seats in the 30-seat city council.
Iraqiya won the largest share of seats in the March 2010 parliamentary elections, yet its leader, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, will not return to his old job.
In March 2009, the current ruling coalition will gain more seats in the Senate, and the government would almost certainly try to impeach him again.
And yet there is a risk that the selection process becomes no more than an exercise in political horse-trading, with Council members awarding leadership positions, including seats on the Commission, purely on the basis of national political considerations.
If, for example, the Socialists won 215 seats, compared to 185 for the EPP, the substantial difference would make their leader, Martin Schultz, a very strong contender, even though no party came close to an absolute majority of 376 seats.
If the outcome turns out to be closer, with a difference of only five or ten seats between the two top parties, it could be argued that neither of the leading candidates had “won.”
If it were, EU member states would not need two of the five permanent seats on the UN Security Council, and be clamoring for a third.
The goal is to provide, by 2030, classroom seats to the 200 million children who need them.
With a tally of 42%, down seven points compared to the November 2015 election, the AKP was able to secure 293 of the parliament’s 600 seats.
In two years, another third of the Senate will be up for reelection, and far more Democrats than Republicans will have to defend their seats – a reversal of the situation this year.
The Democrats are still widely expected to retake the Senate, though not the House, where they would need to flip an unlikely 30 Republican seats.
(Most House seats are gerrymandered, with district boundaries manipulated to benefit the incumbent party.)
In 1944-1945, the five largest shareholders of the IMF and the World Bank – the US, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China, and France – were the same countries that would end up with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council.
Here, the West Europeans play a major role, because they are greatly overrepresented on the IMF’s executive board and, despite all entreaties, simply refuse to consolidate their seats in order to give emerging markets significantly more influence.
Last week, in Algeria’s parliamentary election, the FLN maintained its grip on power, winning 220 of 462 seats, while its governing partner, the National Democratic Rally, won 68.
The Algerian National Front, which received nine seats, has denounced the entire process as fraudulent, and has formally requested that the elections be invalidated.
Several hours after the polls closed, it turned out that Likud was the big winner, gaining 30 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, compared to 24 for the Zionist Union.
The party retained control of the Senate, even though more than twice as many Republican seats were up for reelection than Democratic seats, and it lost just a handful of House seats, far fewer than the 20 predicted.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt put it, we must cast down the “money changers” from their “high seats in the temple of our civilization.”
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.
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.
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