• Ali Bongo was deposed by army officers in August 2023 - coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger have undermined democratic progress in West Africa recent years. (yahoo.com)
  • The constitution was amended in 2023 reducing the presidential term from seven to five years. (yahoo.com)
  • Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom sits in the speaker's chair before swearing in members of the Alaska House of Representatives on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (adn.com)
  • In 2020 National had held office in New Zealand for 47 years, longer than any other party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • By 2020 it had been in government for 47 years, more than any other party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Estimates of how large the gap is between current spending on social care and the amount which would be needed to make the system sustainable vary significantly, but earlier this year the King's Fund argued that an additional £2.5 billion needs to be found each year by 2020. (if.org.uk)
  • Milwaukee is one of three cities still competing to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention. (wuwm.com)
  • I think that the Midwest remains a battleground area for both parties, and I think both parties are interested in making sure that they are not forgotten in the ramp up to the 2020 elections," he says. (wuwm.com)
  • Quatro crática, en seis bases de datos, en el período de 2015 a 2020, en la cual especialistas avaliaram os itens derivados quanto à clareza, relevância e cuatro especialistas calificaron los elementos derivados según su claridad, tradução por meio do Coeficiente de Validade de Conteúdo (CVC). (bvsalud.org)
  • In the new Parliament, United leader George Forbes (prime minister from 1931 to 1935) was leader of the opposition and therefore the effective head of the National Party. (teara.govt.nz)
  • For the Minister to release it days before Christmas - after Parliament has risen - is cynical politics driven by his desire to minimise the significance of the step National is taking. (scoop.co.nz)
  • All Bangladeshis could be expelled from Bahrain by the end of this year if a proposal by a group of local MPs is approved by parliament, it emerged yesterday. (blogspot.com)
  • On being elected to Parliament in March 1977, members belonging to the Janata Party gathered around Gandhiji's samadhi at Rajghat in New Delhi and swore to adhere by his ideals. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Over time, however, Gandhiji has come to be remembered only on his birth and death anniversaries, or when the Opposition political parties decide to stage a demonstration outside Parliament House in the shadow of the Mahatma's inspiring statue. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • The economic crisis is not expected to result in a major swing to the left in the European elections, new statistics predict, while the nature of the European Parliament is expected to be changed by an increase in eastern European politicians in the biggest political group. (euobserver.com)
  • A new website , using national opinion polls and previous European election results, suggests that the group spread in the EU parliament will remain largely the same after June, with the centre-right EPP in the lead, followed by the socialists and the liberals. (euobserver.com)
  • Presenting the research on Tuesday (7 April), Professor Simon Hix, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, said that while the combined forces of the centre-right are currently larger than the combined forces of the centre-left, "in the new parliament the centre-left and the centre-right will be evenly balanced. (euobserver.com)
  • Inside the parliament, the politics between groups and MEPs is to be shaken up however. (euobserver.com)
  • The European Conservatives are expected to be the fourth biggest group in the parliament with 58 seats, followed by the leftist GUE group with 48 seats (up from the current 41), the Greens with 39 seats (down from 43) while the current eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group is also expected to fizzle out after June, getting only 17 seats, less than the threshold needed to form a political group. (euobserver.com)
  • Parliament opposed Putin vigorously on some issues, and much of our mainstream media and television channels were openly critical of our government, though the free space had clearly begun to shrink. (vox.com)
  • He introduced laws allowing him more control over parliament and regional governments. (vox.com)
  • In this paper (Mehic 2023a), I use data from the 1986 Chernobyl accident to evaluate the voting outcomes of the Swedish Green Party (MP), which was founded in 1982, and elected to the national parliament in 1988, two years after the disaster. (lu.se)
  • Together with the fact that the election of new parties to the Swedish parliament is exceptionally rare - the MP's election to parliament in 1988 was the first time since 1932 that a new party entered parliament, this makes the setting in the paper interesting also for Swedish political history. (lu.se)
  • Regularly updated voter turnout figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945, as well as European Parliament elections, are presented country by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population (VAP) as indicators. (lu.se)
  • After eleven years as the leader of Sweden's Centre Party and sixteen as a member of Parliament, Alumna Annie Lööf will finally get the chance to recharge her batteries this summer. (lu.se)
  • She ended up spending "only" three years in the city - three lovely years - before she was elected to Parliament in 2006 and moved to Stockholm. (lu.se)
  • Unfortunately I was not active in other activities like student spex and unions, though I was national vice-chair of the Centre Party's youth organisation, CUF, while I was studying and one year I campaigned for election to Parliament (and got in). (lu.se)
  • She was not going to take part in the 2026 election as party leader, but still had her sights set on a good election result and being able to work in government for a few years or in Parliament under a confidence and supply arrangement. (lu.se)
  • Citizens lack both the freedom peacefully to express organized opposition to the Party-led political system and the right to change their national leaders or form of Government. (state.gov)
  • Consequently, the government blames the ethno-nationalist political opposition for inciting ethnic violence. (thisisafrica.me)
  • It's a feeling that, as a longtime Putin critic who has watched his government expand power and crush the opposition, has grown in recent years in my country. (vox.com)
  • And she was in the opposition, which allowed her to sort of grow her profile and to really sort of professionalize her party. (keranews.org)
  • For the first time, the democratic opposition came close to victory over the ruling party in the 2013 national elections. (lu.se)
  • The Cambodian government has also introduced new laws enabling the dissolution of political parties - a move which could result in the main opposition party being dissolved before the national elections in 2018. (lu.se)
  • Now, with right wing extremist parties advancing in Europe and Trump as president of the USA, this opposition has disappeared, according to Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • Nearly all the major Democratic candidates for president this cycle have run to the left of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, the standard-bearer for Democratic state politics who helped the party sweep statewide elections in 2018. (wpr.org)
  • This political alliance between conservative Catholics and evangelicals outlasted Fujimori's dictatorship , which ended in 2001 with the restoration of democracy. (nationalinterest.org)
  • 37% said democratic governments are more important even if there were less democracy. (pewresearch.org)
  • Democrats and Democratic leaners were more divided: 46% said stable governments were more important, even if it meant less democracy, while 45% said democracy was more important, even it meant less stability. (pewresearch.org)
  • Under the new Constitution due to be adopted this year, Albania will cease to be a socialist or "people state, created in the Stalinist mold by Enver Hoxha in 1946, and become a republic with a constitutional commitment to multiparty democracy. (csmonitor.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 number of parties is a threat to Tunisian democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The crisis of the parties is turning into a crisis of democracy. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Earlier this month, Tunisia's main political parties signed an agreement on how to proceed in its transition to a consolidated democracy. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Due to these factors, all political actors must work things out together on their own terms and actually engage in back and forth, which are the first steps to achieving a consolidated democracy. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Stating that the 'politics by gun' has fragmented the Naga society, Ravi said in a democracy there is ample space for resolution of differences through peaceful dialogue but no space for politics by gun. (deccanherald.com)
  • Those who believe in such a politics shall always remain outliers in a democracy. (deccanherald.com)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • The book was shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2017, with the motivation "Astrid Noren-Nilsson's Cambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program 2016) is a thought-provoking book about Cambodia's politics that is highly original in its approach, and grounded in some remarkable research, including numerous interviews with prominent figures. (lu.se)
  • During this period modern parliamentary democracy developed and spread, and it is during this period that the contemporary party systems crystallized and the broad lines of conflict between the left and the right emerged. (lu.se)
  • There are both formal procedures through laws, rules, regulations, as wel as deliberate political actions and security measures that undermine human rights work, and block and curtail a vibrant democracy. (lu.se)
  • Astrid Norén-Nilsson is interested in investigating perceptions of democracy and citizenship in a country where many political ideologies have left a profound impression, but the same party has been in power for four decades. (lu.se)
  • Through my research, I can contribute to identifying the political ambitions of various groups - and build up a theory about perceptions of democracy and citizenship in non-liberal states. (lu.se)
  • Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy tapped her as his running mate in 2022. (adn.com)
  • After the 2022 election, some political observers said Begich and Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin lost because they spent much of their campaign fighting each other. (adn.com)
  • Dahlstrom, running on the same ticket as second-term Gov. Mike Dunleavy, easily won in 2022. (adn.com)
  • On 15 September 2022, Annie announced that she intended to resign as party leader of the Centre Party. (lu.se)
  • Nearly six-in-ten Tea Party Republicans (58%) favor changing the constitution to bar citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. (pewresearch.org)
  • The role of parties needs to be understood in the framework of the formal system created by the constitution. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Along the way, the current government led by Ennahda will resign after three weeks and the new appointed government will complete the constitution and electoral law as well as select the electoral board for the forthcoming election in four weeks' time. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Even the new constitution of 2008, which was the outcome of a four-year-long democratic reform process, clearly states that the state religion is Islam and only Muslims can acquire Maldivian citizenship. (lu.se)
  • The political system in general, the constitution, the government and the political parties are discussed in a historical as well as in a contemporary perspective. (lu.se)
  • As highlighted by the Policy Brief, greater transparency in political finance can only be achieved by engaging all stakeholders such as political parties, oversight agencies, parliaments and civil society actors. (idea.int)
  • For more than 15 years, International IDEA has been engaged in convening national dialogues and generating consensus on reforms of regulatory frameworks, developing the capacity of key political finance actors such as parliaments, oversight agencies and political parties, and producing comparative knowledge to set the global agenda on money in politics. (idea.int)
  • The number of women in the Knesset has gone down in the past three parliaments, the number of female cabinet members has not surpassed four (out of 30 or more) in many years, and the number female mayors and regional heads currently stands at a paltry 11 out of 258. (lilith.org)
  • Importantly, in several countries, green parties were elected to national parliaments, and in France, Finland, and Germany, these parties were junior members of government coalitions already by the mid-1990s. (lu.se)
  • global experience is clear that effective to sustainable accreditation appear to Local experience of accreditation programmes must be integrated with be market size, consistency of policy in EMR has been a topic for PhD stu- national strategies for change manage- support, programme funding and fi- dents and has been published in the ment, not be regarded as a stand-alone nancial incentives for participation ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • He suffered a stroke in 2018 which sidelined him for almost a year and led to calls for him to step aside. (yahoo.com)
  • At a July 2018 debate sponsored by Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, a moderator asked candidates to raise their hand if they supported two free years of community college for all residents in Wisconsin. (wpr.org)
  • Since he came to power in April 2018, Abiy has attempted to bring ethno-nationalists to the political centre. (thisisafrica.me)
  • Marquette University political science professor Julia Azari said a number of factors, including Sanders' 2016 run against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and social movements in the U.S. like Occupy Wall Street gave momentum to progressive policies. (wpr.org)
  • RWI's partnerships with academic institutions, state actors and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have in the past four years changed in order to adapt to the circumstances following the state of emergency declared by the government in July 2016, and the shrinking civic space for human rights actors. (lu.se)
  • NGOs have been known for their role in gap filling for the government. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between the government and NGOs is an indispensable to help in reaching a higher level of health care provision and accessibility. (who.int)
  • This study aims at determining the factors affecting the relation between the government and NGOs working in the health sectors in Palestine for better health sector performance. (who.int)
  • A positive relation between governments and NGOs is indispensable to help improve health care provision increase accessibility to health services and achieve UHC. (who.int)
  • NGOs has been increasing considerably that they grew to become prominent actors directly impacting the national economy of countries by contributing significantly to their GDP (Eakin L, Richmond T., 2009). (who.int)
  • The electoral politics of the 20th century were dominated by two parties - National and Labour. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The Electoral Commission, the select committee review into the 2011 General Election, and the public Constitutional Conversation sent very clear messages to the Government that urgent action was needed to ensure civics and citizenship education was a formal part of the New Zealand curriculum. (greens.org.nz)
  • The unanimous recommendation from the select committee looking at the 2011 General Election, after the lowest turnout in over 100 years, was a request to the Electoral Commission to work with the Ministry of Education to incorporate ongoing comprehensive civics education into the New Zealand school curriculum. (greens.org.nz)
  • It is true that while Ennahda has lost support over the past two years, it still has a dedicated base and their electoral ground game is still likely strongest. (nationalinterest.org)
  • 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)
  • Even Ennahda, once a well-organized party with a clear ideology, is facing a crisis of leadership and is torn between its president's drive to rebrand it as a "Muslim Democratic Party" and its deep Islamist roots. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • All of the main political parties including the Islamist party Ennahda, which leads the current government, agreed to a new road map to complete Tunisia's transition period. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Expanded civics and citizenship education is urgently needed to turn around the low voter turnout in New Zealand, the Green Party said today. (greens.org.nz)
  • Civics and citizenship education will help to engage our young people in politics, society, and what is going on. (greens.org.nz)
  • The National Government had many opportunities over the last three years to take action to progress civics and citizenship education in our schools, yet little was done. (greens.org.nz)
  • The clear recommendation to the Government from the public via the Constitutional Conversation was that we need a national strategy for civics and citizenship education in schools and in the community, and that the Government must take responsibility for the implementation of the strategy. (greens.org.nz)
  • The critique of methodological nationalism in the study of transnational migration and ethnicity usefully points out that transnational linkages can be more important for ethnic groups than their location in a particular nation-state, but this should not lead us to forget the central importance of national borders and definitions of citizenship that shape the conditions that ethnic groups try to negotiate through their transnational networks. (lu.se)
  • She has published on themes related to the politics of contemporary Cambodia, addressing in particular the role of nationalist imaginings in shaping the era of multi-party elections, as well as the role of transforming perceptions of legitimate power and of citizenship. (lu.se)
  • The right-wing splinter Democratic Party received 7.8% of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Subscribe for free weekly updates from this Democratic Party site. (bellaonline.com)
  • For grassroots Democratic Party volunteers like Bob Andruskiewicz in Eau Claire, the answer is a resounding "yes. (wpr.org)
  • very progressive," Andruskiewicz told WPR after an Eau Claire County Democratic Party meeting. (wpr.org)
  • They) are bringing us to the left of where the Democratic Party is and where the 'Wisconsin Idea' and all the progressive policy of Wisconsin that it's known for. (wpr.org)
  • Hamm said after a presentation at a recent meeting of the Dunn County Democratic Party. (wpr.org)
  • You have a pretty strong and organized progressive wing of the national Democratic Party," said Azari. (wpr.org)
  • A donor to the Democratic Party of Virginia and bundler for Barack Obama funded a political action committee that provided Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis with a crucial campaign contribution that helped get him on the ballot. (freebeacon.com)
  • Liemandt and his wife also contributed $4,090 to the Democratic Party of Virginia in 2012 . (freebeacon.com)
  • As my historical research shows, religious Peruvians with strong faith-based opinions about society but no political outlet have often turned their religious organizations - from Catholic women's societies to rural Bible study groups - into vehicles of social change. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Following the last year's Memorandum of Understanding between International IDEA and the OGP , both organizations are committed to work closely together in supporting public and private institutions in the areas of political finance, citizen engagement and gender. (idea.int)
  • In 2013, however, the parties lost their influence on the political process, ceding the initiative to civil society organizations, and they never fully re-established it. (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)
  • Government and other organizations balance their own content with impartial news from a respected source. (thecanadianpress.com)
  • many newer pro- and supported by legislation, 7 were national and international accreditation grammes, for political, economic or tech- voluntary systems but only 3 were organizations summarized the drivers nical reasons, have failed to meet initial directly linked to health insurance or for health care providers to participate expectations but others have flourished. (who.int)
  • The most recent, in 2009, In addition to national accreditation patient safety, clinical effectiveness and identified 18 active national accredita- organizations, three international pro- accreditation. (who.int)
  • Civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and academicians experience a range of different government measures that put legal constraints on human rights work. (lu.se)
  • Staff and representatives of these human rights actors (organizations) face the risk of arrest and/or imprisonment for their overt criticism of government policies. (lu.se)
  • When carrying out its functions, the WHO FCTC Secretariat cooperates with the relevant departments of WHO, other competent international organizations and bodies, as well as non-governmental organizations accredited as observers to the Conference of the Parties (COP), the governing body of the Convention. (who.int)
  • The president and the vice president are elected by Congress from among the four senators-at-large for four-year terms. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Congress has fourteen non-partisan members, ten members elected for a two-year term in single-seat constituencies and four members elected for a four-year term, one from each state at large. (wikipedia.org)
  • The president is elected for a four-year term by Congress. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a fragmented Congress with nine parties, that makes the Israelites the third-largest legislative bloc . (nationalinterest.org)
  • While short-lived, the incoming Congress appears to usher in a new political era in Peru - one in which voters find strict adherence to religious beliefs, no matter how fringe, an appealing alternative to systemic corruption. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Following Mbeki's resignation as president, some of his ANC supporters left the party and formed the Congress of the People, but these defections and later ones, such as that associated with supporters of Julius Malema , have not affected the ANC's status as the nation's dominant party. (infoplease.com)
  • The Congress Party, now morphed into the Sonia Congress, promotes itself as the inheritor of a political dynasty from Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv and Sonia to Rahul Gandhi. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes that some political organisations including Punjab's commission agents, middlemen and the Congress are behind the farmers' agitation going on at the Delhi border. (savedelete.com)
  • I think political parties like the Congress and commission agents have done the job of instigating the farmers. (savedelete.com)
  • It's not their first foray into politics in Texas - nor their first ride into a breach that divides once-dominant establishment Republicans from the populists and cultural conservatives like Donald Trump at the national level and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick here in Texas. (texastribune.org)
  • His victory came two years after Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to carry Wisconsin since 1984. (wpr.org)
  • A committed feminist and political activist, she was first imprisoned in apartheid-era South Africa at age 14. (ipsnews.net)
  • Local government in South Africa is not helpful because even though the national government may make promises to protect and help the refugees, the local governments do not honour these promises. (ipsnews.net)
  • Bush's teenage death-penalty rally at Christ the King ranked as perhaps the dreariest moment in the famously dreary election year 1988. (nybooks.com)
  • As a direct consequence of the accident, the Italian government decided to begin to shut down the country's nuclear power plants in 1988. (lu.se)
  • It was the year of Republican consultant Lee Atwater's attack strategies and Roger Ailes's negative campaign commercials-"the most negative presidential campaign of the television era, at least up to that time," says Jules Witcover, a longtime Washington reporter and columnist who writes with passion against the degeneration of our political system. (nybooks.com)
  • Republican supporters of the Tea Party movement also have a distinct approach to national security and America's role in the world. (pewresearch.org)
  • Among all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 40% agree with the Tea Party movement. (pewresearch.org)
  • Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who agree with the Tea Party are far more likely than other Republicans or Democrats to support the Reagan-era principle of "peace through strength. (pewresearch.org)
  • Yet a majority of Tea Party Republicans and Republican leaners (55%) also approve of reducing military commitments overseas to reduce the budget deficit and the size of the nation's debt. (pewresearch.org)
  • Like the general public, Republican and Republican-leaning supporters of the Tea Party movement are divided over the impact of free trade agreements: 43% say free trade agreements have been a good thing for the U.S. while 44% see them as a bad thing. (pewresearch.org)
  • Gov. Greg Abbott has the issue on his list of priorities, as do Republican leaders in other states. (texastribune.org)
  • Fair elections and election integrity matter to Texans," tweeted Cat Parks, vice chair of the Republican Party of Texas. (texastribune.org)
  • And another San Antonio Republican, state Rep. Lyle Larson , did his best to distinguish the Texas conversation from the national one, and to point out that Democratic voters aren't the only ones who might be hurt by the Texas legislation: "64% of Texas Republicans cast their ballots early. (texastribune.org)
  • Democrat, Republican, or Independent, whatever your political affiliation, the best way to engage in politics is to be informed. (bellaonline.com)
  • The Alaska Republican Party has yet to announce formal endorsements in the race. (adn.com)
  • On institutional abuse, Mr. O'Gorman said that the Government had made wide-ranging commitments to addressing the priority needs and concerns of those who had spent time in "Mother and Baby" and "County Home" institutions. (ohchr.org)
  • Among Democrats and Democratic leaning independents, 74% approve of cutting back on military commitments to reduce the national debt. (pewresearch.org)
  • The adoption of commitments on political finance transparency as part of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an important step in that direction. (idea.int)
  • International IDEA and the OGP stand ready to offer assistance to the countries currently discussing the adoption of OGP National Action Plans, particularly concerning the potential adoption of commitments to advance political finance transparency. (idea.int)
  • From the Conservatives' pledge of seven-day GP opening and same-day access for the over-75s , to Labour's guarantee of a GP in every A&E and appointments within 48 hours , the commitments suggest all the party leaders have completely lost touch with reality. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • After two changes of name and several changes of leader and policy platform, United formed a minority government in 1928, initially with support from Labour but, as the 1930s economic depression deepened, increasingly from Reform. (teara.govt.nz)
  • In 1938, the Labour government was re-elected with 55.8% of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Find more from New Zealand Labour Party on InfoPages. (scoop.co.nz)
  • All three of these tasks were close to completion prior to the assassination of secular political leader Muhammad Brahmi in late July 2013, which led to the most recent crisis and the subsequent dialogue between Ennahda and the powerful Tunisian labor union the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT), or Tunisian General Labour Union. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Lamia Imam worked for two years for the Labour Party in the Leader of the Opposition's office under Phil Goff, David Shearer and David Cunliffe. (rnz.co.nz)
  • I find that strategic considerations related to how the political system concentrates power in the United Kingdom affected the Labour Party's attitude towards the value-added tax and its decision not to adopt the tax. (lu.se)
  • He immediately began talks with the Communists, Social Democrats, and three centrist parties. (cia.gov)
  • So, even if there's a more centrist wing, the national party is still trending left. (wpr.org)
  • After the 2011 uprisings, new political parties developed quickly. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Unlike in other regional countries that have had uprisings, disagreements over the nature of the future political order has not led to major violence between the main political actors in the Tunisian context. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Dahlstrom, 66, has served as lieutenant governor for less than a year. (adn.com)
  • IPS: Joyce Mujuru, the current vice president of Zimbabwe, was a freedom fighter in the war of independence and is one of the highest-ranking women in governments in Africa. (ipsnews.net)
  • These men have been base namesakes for many decades, but national protests and a reckoning with continued racial inequities has put them in the spotlight today. (military.com)
  • Now, it seems some of those corporations are the sort of "people" who show up at political rallies and legislative protests: activists. (texastribune.org)
  • Holland gradually brought most other right-of-centre splinter groups into National - many Democrats joined after 1936 - and in successive elections increased his party's share of the vote. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Fully 79% sympathized more with Israel, compared with 54% of non-Tea Party Republicans and 41% of Democrats and Democratic leaners. (pewresearch.org)
  • The differences were even starker in views of Obama's handling of this issue: 68% of Tea Party Republicans said Obama favors the Palestinians too much, compared with just 23% of non-Tea Party Republicans and 8% of Democrats. (pewresearch.org)
  • Tea Party Republicans are much more supportive of taking a harder line with China in economic policy than are other Republicans or Democrats. (pewresearch.org)
  • About four-in-ten non-Tea Party Republicans (42%) and 32% of Democrats and Democratic leaners prioritize getting tougher with China. (pewresearch.org)
  • I Communists and Social Democrats turned down formateur Martti Miettunen's proposal for a new government on November 20. (cia.gov)
  • Today, it's national Democrats, especially those running for president, who've led the party's charge for a progressive agenda. (wpr.org)
  • Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have committed to the £8bn per year, but Mr Stevens's calculations are predicated on the NHS itself delivering unprecedented 'efficiency' improvements of 2% to 3% a year. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • It is expected to host the Czech Civic Democrats and some of the parties of the nationalist UEN group, which is not expected to survive after June. (euobserver.com)
  • But when the results arrived and there was a majority enabling the Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals to form a government, the time had come. (lu.se)
  • Just to give you an idea what a different time it was: A few months after Putin was appointed president in 2000, he signed a bill that restored the Soviet national anthem, a vestige of our Soviet past that had been legally abolished to signal a new era for Russian politics. (vox.com)
  • however, in practice the Government and the CCP, at both the central and local levels, frequently interfere in the judicial process, and the Party and the Government direct verdicts in many high-profile political cases. (state.gov)
  • 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)
  • During 2013-2014 she conducted a study of 192 Cambodians including civil servants, political activists, factory workers and farmers, to investigate their perceptions of donations from political parties, a practice which has marked the country's democratic era. (lu.se)
  • I was the first to resign, frustrated to see our government moving away from my vision. (vox.com)
  • When Pasok, the ostensibly socialist party, came to power, Papandreou revealed how much money Greece actually owed to its bondholders. (counterpunch.org)
  • If you vote for a party that is opposing writing down the pensions, if you elect a party that's supporting the working class, if you vote for a real socialist party that wants to stop the sell-offs, then we're going to treat you with sanctions very much like what America treated Cuba or America treated Iraq. (counterpunch.org)
  • Socialist Party leader Mario Soares seconded Antunes' attack on the Communists yesterday at a Socialist rally in Lisbon. (cia.gov)
  • Like Antunes, Soares blamed the present government impasse on Communist subversion of the military, but the Socialist leader also severely criticized President Costa Gomes for allowing his actions to be too easily influenced by pro-Communist demonstrations. (cia.gov)
  • Further evidence of such a problem surfaced in the Antunes interview, in which he called on the Socialist Party to rid itself of right-wing elements. (cia.gov)
  • He said that in recent months the country had been sliding to the right, evidently implying that his Socialist government partners had been responsible. (cia.gov)
  • The Party's authority rests primarily on the Government's ability to maintain social stability, appeals to nationalism and patriotism, Party control of personnel, media, and the security apparatus, and the continued improvement in the living standards of most of the country's almost 1.3 billion citizens. (state.gov)
  • Tunisians no longer believe that parties can provide solutions for the country's problems and are again turning to the streets to seek redress of their grievances. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Oromia, one of the regions in Ethiopia's ethnically constituted federation and the country's most populated one, also happens to be the political constituency of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. (thisisafrica.me)
  • None of the major parties is pushing a platform that meets women's needs. (lilith.org)
  • This is why we started the Kol Hanashim Women's Party in Israel. (lilith.org)
  • Dr. Elana Sztokman, award-winning author, anthropologist, and feminist activist, is the Chair of the new Kol Hanashim women's party in Israel, and number four on the party list. (lilith.org)
  • Perhaps most significantly, women have been completely absent from the rounds of the failed coalition negotiations, and we are now in a costly, unprecedented political stalemate. (lilith.org)
  • A political stalemate or failure to approve the annual budget can prompt early elections. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • The Government had also recently approved a national memorial to honour those who had endured institutional trauma. (ohchr.org)
  • The state governments maintain considerable power, particularly regarding the implementation of budgetary policies. (wikipedia.org)
  • And by stepping down, she's leaving a massive power vacuum, not only in the government itself but also inside her own Scottish National Party, or SNP, where political analysts essentially say there's no obvious successor. (wkar.org)
  • After being in control for 45 years, the communists have been forced to share power. (csmonitor.com)
  • So now we can fast-forward to earlier this year when Syriza came to power in Greece. (counterpunch.org)
  • Legitimacy relates to the extent to which a government has justly acquired and is trusted to exercise power. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • There are competing philosophical accounts of what constitutes a legitimate government, and different cultural traditions have their own profound stories about what makes a ruler's power legitimately acquired and exercised. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • The People's Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power. (state.gov)
  • Mr Bongo came to power in 2009 when his father Omar died, having ruled Gabon for 41 years. (yahoo.com)
  • Aware of the power of brand in politics, has Mr Kishor encountered a hunger for secular patriotism among a growing number of young people across the country? (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Antunes, interviewed by a French news magazine, said that the Communist Party is preparing to seize power if the government falls and that the result of the ensuing struggle would be a return to fascism. (cia.gov)
  • Ruling party] ZANU-PF undermines human rights and has now broken the power-sharing deal. (ipsnews.net)
  • Whichever government comes into power after the election needs to tackle this as a priority. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • The competition between the president and the prime minister threatens the power of the National Assembly, which elects the latter. (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)
  • Each group is to create a news magazine, a power point presentation, or a newspaper storyboard that details how their type of government works in that country. (trunojoyo.ac.id)
  • The period before and just after Putin came to power in the late '90s was full of political diversity in Russia. (vox.com)
  • At that time, Putin had just come to power in the government, appointed prime minister in 1999. (vox.com)
  • The Italian decision to abandon nuclear power is very similar to the one made by the German government after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (lu.se)
  • In Swedish politics, the future of nuclear power has been a major issue for several decades. (lu.se)
  • Since 1979, the country has been dominated by the Cambodian People's Party and its prime minister Hun Sen - whose 32 years in power make him one of the longest-serving political leaders in the world. (lu.se)
  • One explanation could be persistent power structures, built up around authoritarian leaders and clientelistic politics, despite the fact that the countries in Southeast Asia are members of the UN and have committed to upholding the universal declaration on human rights, and despite increased international connections and growing tourism drawing the world's attention to the domestic politics of these countries. (lu.se)
  • This leaves the authoritarian leaders in Southeast Asia free once again to control how political power is exercised. (lu.se)
  • We know relatively little about ordinary Cambodians' political preferences - this is true both of academics and of the Cambodians in power. (lu.se)
  • Socialism continues to provide the theoretical underpinning of Chinese politics, but Marxist ideology has given way to economic pragmatism in recent years, and economic decentralization has increased the authority of regional officials. (state.gov)
  • Chesdata estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries. (lu.se)
  • Thus, this period is crucial for our understanding of the effects of political institutions and ideology on policy making. (lu.se)
  • Conservatives will agree, to preserve national competitiveness. (thebrowser.com)
  • The prediction means the centre-right will continue to top the results despite the announced defection of the British Conservatives (27 MEPs) to form another party. (euobserver.com)
  • 1990s - Multi-party political system introduced. (yahoo.com)
  • The only surprise was that the Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki's Congrès Pour la République (CPR) party did not sign the roadmap even though Marzouki himself attended the ceremony and backed the plan. (nationalinterest.org)
  • The President of the Federated States of Micronesia is both head of state and head of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The president is both the chief of state and head of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • A head of state (the President) and a legislature are elected on a national level. (wikipedia.org)
  • He reported on local, state and national government and politics for nearly 40 years and continues to write political commentary for publications such as Politico. (american.edu)
  • He reported on government and politics on the local, state, and national levels for nearly 40 years, retiring in 2006. (american.edu)
  • A series of violent events since last year intensified worries over the state of the nation. (ksl.com)
  • Although state-owned industry remains dominant in key sectors, the Government has privatized many small and medium state-owned enterprises (SOE's) and allowed private entrepreneurs increasing scope for economic activity. (state.gov)
  • In the industrial sector, continued downsizing in state-owned enterprises prompted 2 million layoffs in the first half of the year, bringing the total number of jobless urban residents to over 20 million in an urban workforce of about 240 million. (state.gov)
  • 1968 - Bongo declares Gabon a one-party state. (yahoo.com)
  • The Blaze reports that the Liemandt family is also very close with Obama and was invited to an exclusive state dinner last year, attended by his largest donors. (freebeacon.com)
  • Dahlstrom also served in the state House from 2003 to 2010, when she took a job as military affairs adviser in the administration of then-Gov. Sean Parnell. (adn.com)
  • As a result, the state is not doing well on several development indicators,' Ravi said soon after unfurling the National Flag at Kohima. (deccanherald.com)
  • declare actions of the executive branch to be unconstitutional, Sharing of powers between the national and state governments. (trunojoyo.ac.id)
  • People who are spreading confusion over MSP have to understand that the central government declares only minimum support price, while the state governments make the procurement. (savedelete.com)
  • The state governments are not so financially strong that they can make 100 per cent procurement. (savedelete.com)
  • With reporters in every U.S. state and in more than 100 countries, AP set the standard for political reporting for nearly 170 years, covering U.S. elections, major political unrest around the world and more. (thecanadianpress.com)
  • The nation-state is undoubtedly the most important political formation in the world today. (lu.se)
  • This rhetoric seemed somewhat surprising, as the state sees itself as the principal custodian of Islam in the archipelago, and as the government neither had any intention nor any legal ground to change that. (lu.se)
  • Taxation is a key activity of any state and a constant point of political struggle. (lu.se)
  • Finally, the Chernobyl accident, being one of the major events of post-World War II Europe, had profound political consequences in most Western countries. (lu.se)
  • In a snap election in 1951, National won 54.0% of the vote, which gave it 50 seats and a majority of 20. (teara.govt.nz)
  • After 40 years of failing to qualify for a national election, the political party of the Israelites - called the Agricultural People's Front of Peru, or Frepap - won 15 congressional seats. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Eurosceptic and far-right parties are not expected to profit from the economic discontent among EU citizens, either, and are set to retain their current number of seats (about 45). (euobserver.com)
  • Meanwhile, Libertas, a pan-European Party campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty, is not expected to gain any seats with citizens voting on issues closer to home, such as the effects of recession. (euobserver.com)
  • The three largest parties are the newly formed Kadima with 29 seats, the Labor party with 19 seats, and the Likud which holds 12 seats in the legislature. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • The leader of the political party with the most seats in the Knesset is customarily appointed to the office of Prime Minister. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Following the end of the ban on the ANC and the release of Mandela in 1990, many of its leaders returned from exile, and the ANC negotiated with the government for black enfranchisement and an end to apartheid. (infoplease.com)
  • For many years now, South Africans have got along with one another largely peacefully without Mr. Mandela having been active in the political sphere,' Lerato Moloi, the institute's head of research, said. (ksl.com)
  • President Jacob Zuma evoked the idea of the 95-year-old Mandela as a beacon for the ages when he announced his death on Thursday night. (ksl.com)
  • From Vladimir Lenin to Che Guevara, from Ho Chi Minh to Nelson Mandela, many national leaders have acquired global prominence and a following to match. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • In other national contexts, they were given more witty names. (lu.se)
  • Her research focuses on contemporary uses of the Bible in social and political contexts, with a focus on debates about migration and about male circumcision. (lu.se)
  • Noren-Nilsson explores notions of monarchy and politics that resonate well beyond the Cambodian case. (lu.se)
  • Cambodia's Second Kingdom throws new analytical light on Cambodian politics and is essential reading for all serious students of the country. (lu.se)
  • These developments make research into Cambodian politics even more urgent, according to Astrid Norén Nilsson. (lu.se)
  • Gandhiji's appeal to his fellow Indians is such that even political parties critical of him, like the Communist parties and the BJP, have had to come to terms with his iconic status. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • C:IA-RDP79T00_ 75A028300010039-5 25X1 National Intelligence Bulletin November 24, 1975 The leader of Portugal's anti-Communist ruling faction, Major Melo Antunes, has warned that if the present government of Prime Minister Pinheiro de Azevedo falls, the country will be plunged into civil war. (cia.gov)
  • He called on the Communists to leave the government and said that the non-Communist ministers had no intention of resigning. (cia.gov)
  • 1 Approved For Release - 75A028300010039-5 25X1 25X1 Approved For Relea oe 2005/06/01 : CIA-RDP791 National Intelligence Bulletin November 24, 1975 To add to its problems, the government will face today a two-hour work stoppage, during which Communist-led workers will again call for the government's resignation and replacement by a regime of the more extreme left. (cia.gov)
  • BJP's national economic affairs spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal claims that the new law led to a hit of six thousand crore rupees annually and that is why 25,000 commission agents began instigating the common farmer. (savedelete.com)
  • National spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal, who plays the role of a bridge between the central government and the BJP in economic matters, told IANS that the history of the last 20 years shows that many committees have insisted on creating alternative markets for farmers. (savedelete.com)
  • The BJP national spokesperson said that the government has held extensive discussions with farmers. (savedelete.com)
  • But both were elevated, legitimately, by the American political system. (nybooks.com)
  • An example which tends to feature prominently in this debate is Germany, a country that has undertaken a wide-ranging set of reforms to its social care system over the past twenty years which some people would argue have successfully addressed a few of the major challenges affecting the English system. (if.org.uk)
  • Thirdly, if the current system requires local authorities to make cutbacks on other services ( which the National Audit Office has shown is happening ), then that also has knock-on consequences for both taxpayers and other service users. (if.org.uk)
  • During his presidency, Gabon maintained a close relationship with France under a system known as 'Francafrique', receiving both political and military support in exchange for business favours. (yahoo.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)
  • When examining these possibilities it helps to understand how Israel's political system works. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Israel has a multi-party system, and currently there are about 12 different political parties represented in its legislature. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • The way the new laws are being protested by spreading falsehoods over MSP and the Mandi system reeks of politics. (savedelete.com)
  • The government has already said that the present system of MSP is not being done away with. (savedelete.com)
  • The way the system has been going on for 70 years, it will continue and so will the mandis. (savedelete.com)
  • He was replaced as party leader by former Reform and coalition minister Adam Hamilton at the end of the parliamentary session, in early November 1936. (teara.govt.nz)
  • This isn't news, but the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. (scoop.co.nz)
  • New CTU analysis of the National & ACT coalition agreement has shown the cost of returning interest deductibility to landlords is an extra $900M on top of National's original proposal. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Since no single political party holds a majority, the parties must form a coalition government. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • However if the new leader of the Kadima party is unable to form a coalition government, Israel may be forced to hold early elections. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • If the new Kadima leader fails to form a coalition government, and early elections must be held, it could be a much as six months before Israel has a new Prime Minister. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Israel's 120-member national legislature, the Knesset, is elected by the people. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Members of the Knesset are elected to four year terms, but it is rare for the legislature to serve its full term. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 271 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists. (lu.se)
  • That sometimes puts them at odds with leaders of the party that for decades has been their home. (texastribune.org)
  • On the other hand, Narendra Modi loyalists are working hard to elevate the Prime Minister to iconic status, most recently demonstrated by the manner in which a book marking his two decades in political office has been launched. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • as well as an extended discussion of the rise and fall of the royalist political party FUNCINPEC, which won the 1993 post-UNTAC election but within two decades had been practically wiped out by Hun Sen's CPP. (lu.se)
  • Despite National's rhetoric last year, it is in sound financial shape and operates with lower costs and levies than overseas schemes. (scoop.co.nz)
  • According to the Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, Israel is in 64th place out of 180 countries, DOWN 18 points since last year. (lilith.org)
  • They're taking issue with pending legislation that would prohibit drive-thru voting, make it illegal for election officials to send vote-by-mail applications without being asked, block 24-hour early voting like that offered in Harris County last year, prohibit voting in tents and other temporary structures, and allow poll watchers - usually from the political parties - more freedom at polling and vote-counting locations. (texastribune.org)
  • One in 10 full-time-equivalent GP partner positions is vacant - up almost 50% since last year - and a fifth of practices are waiting a year or more to fill a vacancy. (pulsetoday.co.uk)
  • The government boasted over nine hundred thousand entries for the month of August alone and a slight increase in revenues compared to 2010, the last year before the revolution. (nationalinterest.org)
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  • These references raise questions, not only about the continuing political relevance of the Bible, but also about the task of Biblical Scholars to engage with the Bible's relevance in today's political climate. (lu.se)
  • Another thing going for Milwaukee, Barrett adds, is the fact that it's familiar with hosting major events and festivals, though it's never hosted a major party's political convention. (wuwm.com)
  • I took part in the Centre Party's local government days, meeting members from up and down the country and supporting the newly elected leader Muharrem Demirok, then I travelled to my family and was completely off that weekend. (lu.se)
  • Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali argued that the Ennahda-led cabinet should step aside in favor of a broader one, but he was rebuffed and resigned from the party. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • This was the last time Ennahda controlled the government. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Further, the secularist parties, civil-society groups, and the UGTT have been enough of a check to rein in any excesses of Ennahda over time. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Miettunen, who was named government formateur by President Kekkonen on October 29, was given the task of assembling a broadly based government to deal with Finland's difficult economic problems. (cia.gov)
  • Twenty years ago, finding government documents or historical records required a trip to Washington D.C. Now, that information is as close as your computer screen. (bellaonline.com)
  • Dozens of parties now exist on paper and over twenty are seated in the 217-member National Assembly. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • It deals with her almost twenty years in politics, but also the private side of her life. (lu.se)
  • The political narratives exploited by ethno-nationalist Oromo groups were designed to pit one group against another. (thisisafrica.me)
  • For my PhD research at the University of Cambridge, I explored the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses and narratives in Cambodia's new political order. (lu.se)
  • The Left parties continue to seek ideological inspiration from Marx and Lenin, but at the party political level count on the legacy of an EMS, a Sundarayya, an Achutanandan and a Jyoti Basu. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • The BJP, especially in recent years, has tried hard to overcome the historic legacy of its deep ideological differences with Gandhiji but has so far been unable to ignore the widespread national and international affection and respect for the Mahatma. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • What has not been studied extensively are the political, social, and ideological dimensions of their films, which this thesis will explore in depth. (lu.se)
  • In a country that has been ravaged by the politics of ethno-nationalism, most occurrences are interpreted along ethnic lines. (thisisafrica.me)
  • For example, in both India and China, with two economies that increasingly depend on globalization, we see a strengthening of nationalism, understood here as the cultural politics that has the nation as its subject and its object . (lu.se)
  • This paper examines this tension by discusses the largely taken for granted notion of Maldivian Muslim nationalism, while focussing on the religious-nationalist rhetoric surrounding the controversial transfer of government in 2012. (lu.se)
  • With regard to its South Asian neighbours, the significance of the Maldivian case is that the conjuncture of religion and nationalism is hardly challenged, but rather evoked, played out and reinforced in the political realm. (lu.se)
  • The National Party was formed in 1936 by the merger of the two main conservative parties of the time. (teara.govt.nz)
  • The National Party was formed in May 1936 through the fusion of the two main conservative parties of the time, Reform and United. (teara.govt.nz)
  • MARX: Well, you know, in a practical sense, Sturgeon has said she'll remain as first minister until a new leader of her SNP party is selected. (wkar.org)
  • And although the current British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, thanked Sturgeon in a statement for her, quote, "long-standing service," it's not entirely clear whether a new SNP leader will be more hardline when it comes to that defining political issue, Scottish independence, or if the next leader of Scotland's government will be able to develop a warmer, indeed a more productive relationship with Sunak and the U.K. government. (wkar.org)
  • It's not ok when around one million New Zealanders don't vote," said Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei. (greens.org.nz)
  • According to one stylist National leader John Key needs to update his style. (thestandard.org.nz)
  • The roadmap calls for parties to choose a new independent leader and to appoint a nonpartisan government. (nationalinterest.org)
  • It is a form of politics that educated opinion disdains. (prospectmagazine.co.uk)
  • Unlimited GovernmentEach slide has bullet point form information about forms of government.Pear Deck review slides follow the lesson slides in the presentation. (trunojoyo.ac.id)
  • BERGMANN: Well - so there's sort of a collection of three far-right or center-right parties that are going to form a government. (keranews.org)
  • Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are banging at the doors, and the political establishment, consisting of both politicians and the media, seems determined not to let them in on the grounds that they have no public support. (nybooks.com)
  • The controversy has caused chaos in Israel's political sphere and disrupted the Middle East peace process. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Political Data Yearbook captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU. (lu.se)
  • The European Journal of Political Research (EJPR) Political Data Yearbook documents election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms. (lu.se)
  • He was a 34-year old Ethiopian singer and activist for the rights of the Oromo. (thisisafrica.me)
  • Following Hundessa's death, the government arrested powerful activist Oromo Jawar Mohammed and other political leaders. (thisisafrica.me)
  • And there is broad support among Tea Party Republicans, as well as non-Tea Party Republicans, for maintaining defense spending at current levels. (pewresearch.org)
  • In late May, Republicans and GOP leaners who agree with the Tea Party movement overwhelmingly sympathized more with Israel than the Palestinians. (pewresearch.org)
  • Majorities of Tea Party Republicans (56%) and non-Tea Party Republicans (61%) said stable governments were more important, even if it meant less stability. (pewresearch.org)
  • But among Tea Party Republicans support for tougher immigration measures is virtually universal - 98% favor stronger enforcement of immigration laws. (pewresearch.org)
  • Alaska's lone U.S. House seat is one national Republicans are eyeing in their quest to keep and widen their control of the chamber in 2024. (adn.com)
  • Social care itself has seen a 3% reduction in real-terms spending across the country since 2010, and remaining local authority social care services have become increasingly prioritised towards the poorest and most vulnerable older people, leaving over a million pensioners who were previously receiving public sector social care without any government assistance. (if.org.uk)
  • Most political parties have increasingly come to draw inspiration from sectional or provincial leaders representing narrow political platforms. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Both new systems and regulation - driven largely sector, and 8 did not require periodic and old programmes are increasingly by national governments and interna- relicensing) linked to health care funding, or to an tional donor agencies ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • Weather and climate patterns are changing, causing increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, drought, flooding, and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels, a report released in May by the U.S. Global Change Research Program concluded ( National Climate Assessment ). (cdc.gov)
  • Political donations have lost legitimacy among the masses. (lu.se)
  • They are becoming prominent actors directly impacting national economies by significantly contributing to GDP growth. (who.int)
  • In November 1949 his efforts were rewarded when he led his party to victory. (teara.govt.nz)
  • 2 Holland was finance minister as well as prime minister in the new government. (teara.govt.nz)
  • Protestant groups have held significant political sway since at least the 1990 election when Alberto Fujimori, a Catholic, courted the evangelical vote and chose a Baptist minister as second vice president. (nationalinterest.org)
  • After eight years, Nicola Sturgeon has unexpectedly resigned as the first minister of Scotland. (wkar.org)
  • In November of 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the Likud to establish a new political party. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • In the wake of Ariel Sharon's incapacitation, Ehud Olmert took over as acting Prime Minister and was chosen as the Kadima Party candidate. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • The Prime Minister is the head of the government and the most powerful political official, while the President's role is largely ceremonial. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Therefore, whoever wins the Kadima's party leadership election in September will probably become the new Prime Minister. (bibleprophecyblog.com)
  • Audrey Young in the NZ Herald has compiled a useful list of the many ways Christopher Luxon plans to roll back the progress made in race relations over the past forty years. (scoop.co.nz)
  • Technology has made the government more transparent, but led to a different problem - information overload. (bellaonline.com)
  • The only apparent concession made to the government-the replacement of extreme leftist general Otelo de Carvalho as commander of the Lisbon Military Region-was frustrated on Saturday when Carvalho's successor withdrew his name from consideration. (cia.gov)
  • He made moves to consolidate pro-government political parties into one big, powerful group under his leadership. (vox.com)
  • Compare and contrast that, though, with the political declaration that was made on control of noncommunicable diseases. (medscape.com)