• The CPP won a "landslide victory" in July's national elections and hold all 125 seats in parliament. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Pollsters estimated they could win more than 450 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly in a runoff vote next Sunday. (politico.eu)
  • Seen winning less than 120 seats, the party is likely to become further divided - between a hard-right fringe determined to oppose Macron at every turn and a more conciliatory center seeking compromise. (politico.eu)
  • Coming off her defeat to Macron in the second round of the presidential election, Le Pen aimed to win more than 15 seats in parliament, a number that would have granted her party clout and financial rewards. (politico.eu)
  • Instead, the National Front is unlikely to get more than 10 seats, with electoral strategist Nicolas Bay and other senior party officials knocked out in the first round. (politico.eu)
  • The National Assembly has 150 seats. (jewishpress.com)
  • However, the main opposition coalitions also failed to win a majority of the National Assembly's 165 seats. (aljazeera.com)
  • The remaining three seats were split among smaller parties and coalitions. (aljazeera.com)
  • September 28, 2010 -- According to the United Socialist Party (PSUV) and opposition sources the PSUV and its allies, the Communist Party of Venezuela and Peoples' Electoral Movement (MEP) have won 98 seats, while the parties in the MUD opposition alliance won 65 seats, the pro-oppositom PPT 2 seats and 2 seats went to Indigenous independents. (links.org.au)
  • According to the National Electoral Council (CNE), the PSUV and its allies won 95 of the 165 National Assembly seats, giving them a parliamentary majority, but not full control of the legislative body. (links.org.au)
  • In fact, there were 107 parties and over 14,000 individuals competing in the December 6 election for 277 national assembly seats. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) swept 11 of 12 by-elections for empty National Assembly seats, according to vote counts by Thursday morning. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The seats of the ruling DPK will increase to 129 in the 300-member National Assembly, while the main opposition LKP will have 113 seats. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The December 6 election for the 167 seats in Venezuela's National Assembly has come and gone. (nationalinterest.org)
  • It is true that in the UK the situation is simpler - the political party with the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the Official Opposition, headed by the party's leader - at present Labour's Keir Starmer. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Even when they are able to act as a political bloc, these parties exercise very little influence because they do not have many parliamentary seats, and most importantly, because they are not considered legitimate coalition partners in Israeli governments. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The Cambodian People's Party has swept all 58 seats up for grabs in today's Senate elections, the National Election Committee has confirmed. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • The four-party ballot was expected to be a blowout for the CPP, who took commanding hold of the country's commune councils following the forced dissolution of the main opposition party and the redistribution of its seats. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • An individual whose political activities have been suspended by the court cannot form a political party, join a political party, compete in elections or act to support or oppose a political party," Article 45 states. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • National elections have been periodically scheduled and canceled, and as of 2022, none has ever been held in the country. (jewishpress.com)
  • As the report by the United Nations Human Rights Council explained: "No national elections have taken place since that time, and no presidential elections have ever taken place. (jewishpress.com)
  • September 28, 2010 -- Aporrea via Green Left Weekly -- In the elections on September 26, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won a majority of deputies in the National Assembly. (links.org.au)
  • Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Chairwoman Choo Mi-ae, center, and other party members cheer after watching exit poll results for the 7th local elections and by-elections at the National Assembly, Wednesday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The 2011 uprising marked the beginning of multiparty competition in Tunisia-the country had a de jure multiparty system since 1987, but the government party, the Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique (RCD) dominated all elections, banning potential competitors like the Islamist Ennahda Party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • However, after the 2019 elections, the assembly elected as speaker Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Ennahda and one of the major political figures in the country, creating a third center of power, causing more tensions. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • They were essential to elections for the constituent assembly and in the formation of the troika, the three-party alliance that governed the country until 2013. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • We have no choice but to boycott the elections when foreign embassies and a marginal vote dictate Bulgarian politics", VMRO said. (bnr.bg)
  • According to the party's declaration, "for two years the same political parties have been reproducing themselves in the National Assembly, spending millions on campaigns and elections. (bnr.bg)
  • The vote marked the end of the opposition parties' 10-year boycott on contesting elections. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The political dynamics of devolution, including the introduction of a semi-proportional voting system for National Assembly elections, have contributed to a substantial decline in Labour's vote share in recent years. (ingentaconnect.com)
  • With it they'd win the 2013 general elections and, once in power, convene a constituyente , a constituent assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution for Honduras. (cepr.net)
  • Many grassroots leaders felt that the movement should maintain autonomy from party politics and refrain from participating in elections widely seen as rigged. (cepr.net)
  • By the time the FNRP's June national assembly took place, the membership favored creating a new party that would compete in the 2013 presidential, legislative, and municipal elections. (cepr.net)
  • After the Assembly elections, 30% of women must remain, which have the minimum number of votes. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • China is advancing its diplomatic outreach to Korea's National Assembly, particularly opposition party members, seeking to gain leverage in Korean politics against the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's U.S.-leaning foreign policy. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • North Korean hackers allegedly stole classified military documents from a South Korean Defense Ministry database in September 2016, according to Rhee Cheol-hee, a member of South Korea's National Assembly. (cnn.com)
  • In a statement, she blamed "catastrophic abstention" and an unfair electoral system for keeping her party out of power. (politico.eu)
  • A combination of lop-sided public preferences, and the exaggerating effect on these of highly disproportional electoral systems, have produced successive Liberal and then Labour party hegemonies. (ingentaconnect.com)
  • As an Arab-Jewish party that tries to appeal to both Jews and Arabs, Hadash will find it harder to join a unified Arab party or electoral pact. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • As I have previously suggested , introducing an electoral threshold of 1% or 2% to limit the number of smaller parties might help to stabilise at least some of these coalition governments. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • But when Zelaya began playing a more direct leadership role in the resistance after he returned from exile in May 2011, he pushed it toward electoral politics. (cepr.net)
  • Money is essential for the operations of political parties, and particularly affects candidates in electoral processes. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • As an expert in political anthropology and the issues of kind since this country expanded global expertise (the glass ceiling and electoral parity in a global context, a more than universal global concern), the question of the representation of women in political parties demand course of reforms and national actions. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • The PSUV itself operated almost entirely as an electoral bloc comprising numerous political parties, including the PCV. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Ennahda, which won the plurality of the votes in 2011, controlled the prime minister position, while the Congress for the Republic took the presidency and Ettakatol nominated the speaker of the Constituent Assembly. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The Constituent Assembly was extremely slow in producing the new constitution and impatience mounted in the country. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • With confidence in the elected Constituent Assembly and the parties at a low point, the initiative for solving the impasse passed to the civil society organizations in the Quartet for National Dialogue. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The LEFT opposition to the PSUV, under the banner of the Communist Party of Venezuela, received 168 thousand votes. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • As expected, the 115 ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) lawmakers who attended the plenary session led by National Assembly President Heng Samrin unanimously approved the amendment. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Commune councillors and National Assembly lawmakers cast votes in the indirect election today, with around 95 percent of those voting belonging to the ruling party. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • In a landmark ruling, Korea's Constitutional Court on Dec. 19 ordered the dissolution of the leftist minority Unified Progressive Party (UPP) for its pro-North Korea doctrine, which subsequently removed its five lawmakers from the National Assembly. (joins.com)
  • We should clearly determine where the responsibility lies and come up with measures to prevent a recurrence by looking thoroughly into the accident, including its cause and measures taken before or after the tragedy," the parties said in the request sponsored by 181 lawmakers. (yna.co.kr)
  • First round of election highlights collapse of traditional parties. (politico.eu)
  • PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party is on course to win a massive majority after the first round of France's parliamentary election, which also confirmed the collapse of traditional parties. (politico.eu)
  • The Socialists and the Les Républicains - France's traditional major parties - were already in crisis before Sunday's result, having failed to make the second round of the presidential election last month. (politico.eu)
  • Symbolizing the spectacular demise of the Socialist Party, which held the presidency and ran the government for the past five years, some big-name candidates were knocked out in the first round of the parliamentary election. (politico.eu)
  • In early December I traveled to Venezuela to be an election observer at their national assembly election. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • I have previously been an official election observer in Honduras and was an unofficial observer at the 2015 Venezuela national assembly election. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Election results were announced by the Council for National Election (CNE) which manages the entire process. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • In our discussion with leading opposition members, they complained about incumbent party advantages but acknowledged the election process is free, fair and honest. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • PBS reporter Marcia Biggs said, "Maduro's party essentially ran unopposed in this month's election. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Abolishing the secret ballot requirement for the election of speakers, mayors, premiers and the president, and limiting secret ballot voting for the removal of these office bearers to cases where the vote is clearly aimed at holding the elected office bearer accountable, may also limit the ability of unscrupulous actors to "buy" the votes of elected officials of other political parties. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The CDU emerged as the top party in September's election, but it also suffered heavy losses to the far right. (politico.eu)
  • However, the Bavarians also have an election for the regional assembly coming next fall, which ultimately matters more to them than national politics. (politico.eu)
  • CARACAS, Venezuela - In the wake of the disastrous National Assembly election of December 6th in this South American nation of 30 million people, our delegation from the North American-based Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle met with leaders of the Venezuelan Communist Part y (PCV) for an assessment of the results. (peoplesworld.org)
  • In this Q&A, Crisis Group's Deputy Project Director for Central Africa Nelleke van de Walle discusses the possible impact on Congolese politics, five months after Felix Tshisekedi's controversial election as president. (crisisgroup.org)
  • Janata Party likely to get Deputy Speaker as part of a broader package deal: The party is demanding constitutional amendments and the release of its cadres, which the ruling party is likely to provide as it looks to expand into Province 2 , by Anil Giri and Binod Ghimire (kp 26/12/2019) [ Do the RJP-N leaders really serve the interests of the social groups they claim to respresent? (nepalresearch.org)
  • Hlinka argued for Slovak autonomy both in the National Assembly and at the Paris Peace Conference. (country-data.com)
  • Although Hlinka's objective was Slovak autonomy within a democratic Czechoslovak state, his party contained a more radical wing, led by Vojtech Tuka. (country-data.com)
  • In September 1938, the Slovak Populist Party received instructions from Hitler to press its demands for Slovak autonomy. (country-data.com)
  • Gilani said that Pakistan Peoples Party had given autonomy under former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's regime and added that the party believes in emancipation and creating equal opportunities for women. (newstrackindia.com)
  • The Young Tunisian Party is formed in 1907 to agitate for Tunisian autonomy. (historyworld.net)
  • The strongest opposition coalition was the Democratic Alliance comprising 7 opposition parties. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • For the first time since 1999, the ruling left-wing coalition represented by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela , or PSUV) lost. (nationalinterest.org)
  • For as long as political parties believe they will get away with it, the squabble for positions will continue to dominate coalition politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • If the ANC loses its overall majority in the National Assembly (and it remains an "if"), and if this leads to the formation of unstable and dysfunctional coalition or minority governments, it may lead to further erosion of trust in government and its institutions, and, more broadly, in party politics in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • I also fear that coalition chaos at the national level will fuel rising populism, and will further entrench the kind of scapegoat politics at which political parties across the political spectrum in South Africa seem to excel. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • They are also supposed to curtail the abuse of power as well as corruption within government as it is thought that coalition parties will check on each other to ensure they are not tainted by the shenanigans of their coalition partners. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • This has obviously not been the case at local government level in South Africa, and it would be naïve to assume that coalition governments would function any better in the provincial and national spheres. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • If we had had more competent and honest elected politicians and more principled political parties, (and if more voters rewarded such politicians and parties with their vote) much of what we see in coalition governments in Gauteng might have been avoided. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • When an attempt to form a new government with the Green party and liberal Free Democrats collapsed in November, the reluctant SPD became the chancellor's last viable coalition partner. (politico.eu)
  • As a coalition of Bolivarian forces, its politics ranged from communist and socialist on the left to ranchers, peasants, civil servants, military, reformists and petty bourgeois in the center and even center-right, which had little real motivation for moving toward socialism. (peoplesworld.org)
  • With no signal from the government, Janata Party reconsiders merger with Samajbadi Party: Janata Party has preconditions to joining government but with talks stalled, an alliance with the Samajbadi party could preserve the coalition in Province 2 , by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 12/02/2020) [ It's the only reasonable option either! (nepalresearch.org)
  • However, acting president of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy on Thursday issued a statement calling on "patriots and democrats" to maintain their stance and "not to be scared of the threats or fall for the tricks" of Prime Minister Hun Sen. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • The DP, the Justice Party (JP) and the Basic Income Party submitted the request to the National Assembly's Bills Division on Wednesday afternoon, with an aim to have the request reported at a parliamentary plenary session scheduled for Thursday. (yna.co.kr)
  • Once the request is reported at a plenary session, the National Assembly speaker can form a special committee in charge of a probe through discussions with party leaders. (yna.co.kr)
  • While 8 parties were in alliance with the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), there were over 90 opposition parties. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Opposition parties have been pushing to launch the parliamentary investigation, accusing the government of mishandling the tragedy following revelations that the police snubbed a series of emergency calls warning against overcrowding in Itaewon that day. (yna.co.kr)
  • The common request was to end US sanctions and interference in Venezuelan politics. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • A surprising victory for the long-time opposition party has brought Venezuelan politics into uncharted terrain. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Alberto Lovera was a Communist militant murdered by government forces 50 years ago in 1965, a revered name in Venezuelan working-class history, whose name has been adopted by a national movement of community groups. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Speaking with us were Oswaldo Ramos, national secretary of the party's ideological commission, Pedro Eusse, national secretary for the Venezuelan National Workers' Front, and Carlos Lazo, philosophy professor, director of the Instituto Bolívar-Marx, and former United Nations diplomat. (peoplesworld.org)
  • He became chairperson of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy in 2015, which later morphed into the Democratic Party of Korea. (theconversation.com)
  • Chinese Ambassador to Korea Xing Haiming, left, gestures during his meeting with main opposition Democratic Party of Korea Chairman Lee Jae-myung at the former's residence in Seongbuk District, Seoul, Thursday. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • In response, Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Xing Haiming, the Chinese ambassador to Korea, on Friday, over remarks he made during a meeting with main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Chairman, Lee Jae-myung, on Thursday, which the ministry described as "irrational and provocative. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • The candidates of the PSUV and the National Indian Council of Venezuela (CONIVE) won six of 12 deputies to the Latin American Parliament, with one seat yet to be determined. (links.org.au)
  • The government, led by Chávez' party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) , now headed by his successor, President Nicolás Maduro, can be criticized for its strategic mistakes in office, unacceptable levels of corruption that still plague this and many other Latin American countries, and mismanagement. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The US National Defense Strategy 2022: What's Missing? (novinite.com)
  • Rep. Yong Hye-in (L) of the Basic Income Party, Rep. Wi Seong-gon (C) of the Democratic Party and Rep. Jang Hye-yeong of the Justice Party submit a joint request to open a parliamentary probe into the Itaewon crowd crush at the National Assembly on Nov. 9, 2022. (yna.co.kr)
  • Rep. Park Hong-keun, floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the National Assembly on Nov. 9, 2022, on requesting a parliamentary probe over the Itaewon crowd crush. (yna.co.kr)
  • The provisional National Assembly, however, agreed on the temporary need for centralized government to secure the stability of the new state. (country-data.com)
  • In fact, the amendment is in the spirit of national unification and the mercy of the CPP, [a party] that always respects multi-party democracy," he said. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Reporter Marcia Biggs claimed that "politics permeates everything in Venezuela and can determine whether you support Maduro and eat or go hungry. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Major media overwhelmingly favored the National Party candidate, Juan Orlando Hernández, and dozens of LIBRE candidates and activists were killed or injured in violent attacks by unidentified gunmen. (cepr.net)
  • The most successful candidates - at the local, statewide or, certainly, national level - will be those whose appeal extends across party lines, ethnic groups and age ranges. (salisburypost.com)
  • The electorate is changing, and candidates and parties who don't broaden their appeal risk becoming perennial also-rans. (salisburypost.com)
  • Although the Hlasists did not form a separate political party, they dominated Slovak politics in the early stages of the republic. (country-data.com)
  • Previously married to three-time president Arnulfo Arias, she assumed control of his political party, the Arnulfista Party (PA), after his death. (thefamouspeople.com)
  • The request by the Park Geun-hye administration on Nov. 5, 2013, to dissolve the party was an unprecedented step in national politics, and the verdict marked the first time in the country's constitutional history that the judiciary had ordered a political party to disband. (joins.com)
  • While India officially wants the "people of Nepal" and the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) to escort Nepal back to democracy, the ground reality is that a weakened monarchy has in fact strengthened the arms-wielding Maoists, not the SPA, in the process emboldening the UPA's Left allies here to spring into action. (india-forum.com)
  • Although the CSU, which exists only in Bavaria, is in an alliance at the national level with Merkel's CDU, it has often been among the chancellor's harshest critics, particularly in regard to immigration issues. (politico.eu)
  • From the early 1920s, Tuka maintained secret contacts with Austria, Hungary, and Hitler's National Socialists (Nazis). (country-data.com)
  • WPR: To what extent do these parties form a cohesive political bloc within Israel? (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Earlier this month, at a party conference in Nuremberg , the CSU was eager to demonstrate its support for Merkel's efforts to form a new government, with party chief Horst Seehofer saying that they "as a conservative bloc, are currently not the problem in German politics. (politico.eu)
  • This is currently La République en Marche , the new centrist and liberal group founded by Emmanuel Macron. (connexionfrance.com)
  • United in their opposition to the coup, resistance members also oppose Honduras's corrupt and deeply conservative political system, which is tightly controlled by the country's wealthiest families in tandem with the leadership of the nearly indistinguishable Liberal and National parties. (cepr.net)
  • But while UPP members and some progressive activists protested the ruling, President Park and her ruling Saenuri Party hailed the decision as a victory for Korea's liberal democracy. (joins.com)
  • The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties in a move that could pave the way for former senior opposition leaders banned for five years to return to the political stage. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • But given that party leaders expected a month ago to win a majority in parliament, the result is a major rebuke. (politico.eu)
  • Rival party leaders emphasized the low turnout to argue that France was suffering from "democratic fatigue" - and that the score did not fairly reflect France's diversity of opinion. (politico.eu)
  • Several leaders spoke about the importance of the national assembly and the road to change is through voting not violence. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • CNE leaders are not permitted to be members of any party and the CNE leadership was recently changed at the request of the opposition. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Politically, the two countries have coordinated with each other in organising visits and meetings between Party and State leaders, as well as experience exchanges between ministries, agencies and localities. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • For that campaign, CSU leaders are convinced the party has to reassert its die-hard conservative credentials. (politico.eu)
  • Its leader is seen as a shadow prime minister and leads a shadow cabinet that is usually clearly different to the ruling party in its politics. (connexionfrance.com)
  • Rhee, who belongs to the ruling Democratic Party and sits on the Defense Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that he received information about the alleged hacking from the Defense Ministry. (cnn.com)
  • SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Yonhap) -- The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) and two minor progressive parties submitted a joint request Wednesday for a parliamentary investigation into the Itaewon crowd crush despite opposition from the ruling party. (yna.co.kr)
  • The DP again urged the ruling People Power Party (PPP) to take part in the parliamentary probe but hinted at pushing ahead without its consent in the case the PPP does not budge. (yna.co.kr)
  • We will call on the ruling party to participate, but if it continues to reject, we cannot help but follow procedures written in law," DP floor leader Park Hong-keun said. (yna.co.kr)
  • Boycotting the parliamentary probe is equivalent to boycotting the people and the truth," Park said, pressing the ruling party. (yna.co.kr)
  • But the ruling People Power Party accused Lee of trying to divert attention from the corruption charges that are closing in on him. (chosun.com)
  • Since they are always excluded from government coalitions, their ability to actually influence national policymaking in Israel is minimal, at best. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The Director-General has the honour to transmit to the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly the report of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 Response (see Annex). (who.int)
  • The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) won in Gimcheon (Song Eon-seok) in North Gyeongsang Province. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • ODS has full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents. (lu.se)
  • This is not the first amendment to the Law on Political Parties, which was passed in 1997. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • Other political groups are not allowed to organize, although the unimplemented Constitution of 1997 provides for the existence of multi-party politics. (jewishpress.com)
  • One of the national symbols of Armenia, it was given to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the Treaty of Kars in 1921. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Successful will be the political power, which will show the 'right Armenia,' representative of the President at the National Assembly Garnik Isagulyan told the journalists on Friday. (news.am)
  • Juan Carlos Alvarado of the Christian Democratic Party said Venezuelans have been "victims of politics" and that dialogue and flexibility are needed. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • There will also be a high-level international advisory board of academics with experience of best practice in relation to citizens' assemblies in other countries. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • The fact that the two most important 19th century secular ideologies that still dominate our contemporary world, namely communism and liberalism, pose as trans-or inter-national modes of political practice shows that nationalism is always to be understood in relation to "the other" and "to the world. (lu.se)
  • This amendment complies with social progress in Cambodia on the principles of multi-party democracy, and it helps to ensure the promotion of national security, independence and national sovereignty, which are vital points. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • According to the findings of the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea, The People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) is the only legal party in Eritrea. (jewishpress.com)
  • The smaller parties that were allowed to function merely added a façade of democracy to a de facto single party regime. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The crisis of the parties is turning into a crisis of democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Historically, party politics in Wales has been characterized by a remarkable degree of one-party dominance. (ingentaconnect.com)
  • A third party, Hadash (an acronym for "The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality"), is often regarded as an Arab party, but is historically an Arab-Jewish party. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • The Assembly also elects its own speaker, as is the case in most countries, usually without causing problems. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • First woman foreign minister is appointed by our government and so is the speaker of the National Assembly. (newstrackindia.com)
  • Projections showed Macron's La République en Marche (LRM) - a movement-turned party that is barely a year old - and their allies winning some 32 percent of the vote. (politico.eu)
  • The Socialist Party won only around 10 percent of the vote, while Jean-Luc Mélenchon's far-left France Insoumise (France Unbowed) movement was on 11 percent, leaving the traditional Left with just a sliver of representation in parliament. (politico.eu)
  • There are currently two main Arab parties in Israel: Balad ("nation" in Arabic and the Hebrew acronym of "National Democratic Assembly"), and Ra'am-Ta'al, a union of two parties, Ra'am (the United Arab List) and Ta'al (the Arab Movement for Renewal). (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Minjoo Party leader Lee Jae-myung sits in a tent as he goes on hunger strike in front of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on Thursday. (chosun.com)
  • But Wallace, like Sanders, was just a little too damn leftist for the refined Democratic Party bosses. (africaspeaks.com)
  • General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Volachith will pay an official friendly visit to Vietnam from April 25-27. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • The visit, which is made at the invitation of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Tran Dai Quang, is the first overseas trip by Bounnhang Volachith as Lao Party General Secretary and President for 2016-2020. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has maintained its position as a major multimedia news agency in the country by providing mainstream information in a timely and accurate fashion for both domestic and international readers, General Secretary of the Mexican Labour Party (PT) Alberto Anaya Guitiérrez said on September 21. (vietnamplus.vn)
  • The Crown today primarily functions as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power, the sovereign acting as a custodian of the Crown's democratic powers and representing the "power of the people above government and political parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moon made the jump from government official to elected representative in 2012, when he was elected to the South Korean National Assembly. (theconversation.com)
  • As some opinion polls suggest that the ANC next year might lose its majority in the National Assembly (and in one or more provincial legislatures), the obvious worry is that this will lead to the same kind of instability and dysfunction in government that we have seen in places like Johannesburg. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Thus, in a climate of low oil prices and declining consumer satisfaction, a chasm grew between the government and the people which could not be bridged in the last months of the National Assembly campaign. (peoplesworld.org)
  • Before the Dáil breaks for the summer we will demonstrate to the government and all the political parties that this is a proven way to reconnect Irish citizens to politics to the benefit of the country as a whole. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • The parties called for forming an 18-member special committee to oversee the probe and look into whether measures by government agencies were appropriate and whether there were attempts to minimize or cover up the tragedy. (yna.co.kr)
  • Government, Public Works and National Housing. (gov.zw)
  • It identifies itself as a non-Zionist party, defends the rights of Israel's Arab citizens, calls for the recognition of Palestinian Arabs as a national minority within Israel and supports a two-state solution. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • We the Citizens , an independent national initiative aimed at showing how Ireland could benefit from citizens coming together in new forms of public decision-making, has been launched in Dublin. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • The Chairman of We the Citizens , Fiach Mc Conghail, who is Director of the Abbey Theatre, told the launch that a national citizens' assembly would be held in June to consider proposals on making the political institutions of the State better suited to serving citizens. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • All the political parties in the Oireachtas have made significant promises to lead and implement political reform and what ' We the Citizens ' will promise to do is two-fold," said Mr Mac Conghail. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • The Chairperson announced that the citizens' events leading up to the national assembly would take place during May and June in Kilkenny, Cork, Galway, Athlone, Letterkenny and Dublin. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • Professor Farrell told the launch that citizens' assemblies have been used successfully in other countries. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • Citizens' assemblies are a tried and tested method of giving citizens the opportunity to engage directly in important decisions about their own political system. (atlanticphilanthropies.org)
  • The landslide in Macron's favor crushed rival parties, notably those on the Left. (politico.eu)
  • Dozens of parties now exist on paper and over twenty are seated in the 217-member National Assembly. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The Slovak Populist Party was Catholic in orientation and found its support among Slovak Catholics, many of whom objected to the secularist tendencies of the Czechs. (country-data.com)
  • Tuka gained the support of the younger members of the Slovak Populist Party, who called themselves Nastupists, after the journal Nastup . (country-data.com)
  • 2 - Women which had the support of several male members of the party, and who have had other interests in supporting this group of women. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • I say so because some of the decisions which Members of Parliament make here are from the leadership in the party and not from themselves. (gov.zw)
  • Next came the conservative Les Républicains party with around 21 percent of the vote and Marine Le Pen's National Front with about 14 percent. (politico.eu)
  • Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front party also struggled badly. (politico.eu)
  • Record-high abstention among National Front voters, a wave of support for Macron and open divisions in the far-right camp all hurt its chances. (politico.eu)
  • Lee set up a tent in front of the National Assembly where he will fast in full view of the public. (chosun.com)
  • The Bolivarian Revolution is certainly one of the most notable 20th and 21st century attempts at national liberation - even extending to continental liberation in its aspirations - but it cannot be consolidated under monopoly capital control, especially in an economy where one product, oil, reigns supreme. (peoplesworld.org)
  • The competition between the president and the prime minister threatens the power of the National Assembly, which elects the latter. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The new 3.25 percent threshold seriously threatens the ability of all three parties to enter the Knesset, Israel's parliament, unless some kind of merger takes place. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Liberate the People called for the national vote counting commission to suspend the announcement of the results in order to give the opposition a chance to look into allegations of fraud and irregularities in some northern polling stations, but the request was rejected. (aljazeera.com)
  • Nevertheless, at the height of its popularity in 1925, the Slovak Populist Party polled only 32 percent of the Slovak vote, although Catholics constituted approximately 80 percent of the population. (country-data.com)
  • A new party could be registered easily, and the lack of a minimum vote threshold in the proportional representation system encouraged endless proliferation. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • In an email interview, Dov Waxman , an associate professor of political science at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York as well as the co-director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development at Northeastern University, explained what the change means for Arab political parties in Israel. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • Even if the three parties can set aside their differences and work together to ensure Arab representation in the Knesset, the Arab public will be presented with fewer political choices. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
  • In national health budget in most Arab operation with the private sector, aim addition, organizational barriers such as countries [14]. (who.int)
  • President Isaias Afwerki has been in office since Eritrea's independence in 1993, when 75 representatives were elected to the National Assembly, with the remaining 75 appointed. (jewishpress.com)
  • Political analyst Meas Nee said he thought the amendment to the Law on Political Parties, which could see barred politicians reinstated, was a positive development. (phnompenhpost.com)
  • But considering that all political parties in the country were trying to resolve the impasse, having the army chief mediating between the quarrelling sides is something which will be remembered as a moment of collective disgrace for all politicians across the political spectrum," he said, adding that Gen Kayani's involvement wasn't as overt as Gen Sharif's has been. (dawn.com)
  • Nearly all parliamentary parties and politicians pleaded with them, but they did not heed anyone's advice, she said. (dawn.com)
  • Ambassador Xing's comments during his meeting with the opposition party leader were seen as a subtle warning, and it seems that Beijing is seeking to use Korea's domestic politics to build up opinions desirable for China. (koreatimes.co.kr)
  • Former chess champion Garry Kasparov and other opposition figures -- including Eduard Limonov, leader of the banned National Bolshevik Party -- along with several Western journalists, were prevented from boarding a plane to Samara at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport (see 'RFE/RL Newsline,' May 18, 2007). (rferl.org)
  • PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah, who is also leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, said he would ask the prime minister why the army chief had to be asked to mediate when nearly all political parties were present in the house and had offered their services to them. (dawn.com)
  • Tainted Minjoo Party leader Lee Jae-myung began a hunger strike on Thursday, ostensibly in protest against an "inept and violent administration. (chosun.com)
  • Concerned over the unfolding situation, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee presided over a meeting attended by Home Minister Shivraj Patil, National Security Advisor, Home Secretary, Raw Chief, Director (Intelligence Bureau) and MEA Joint Secretary, Nepal desk. (india-forum.com)
  • The risk of claims resulting from infringement of any third- party-owned component in the work rests solely with the user. (who.int)