• On Wednesday, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the country's National Assembly ahead of a vote to impeach him on allegations of corruption, including ties to organized crime, tax evasion, and corruption in the energy industry. (vox.com)
  • By offering vacuous rhetoric on reconciliation instead of addressing the roots of the country's political conflict, the National Unity Government and TNA pushed both local Sinhalese and Tamils - the main contenders in the country's national conflict - to distrust them as political actors. (srilankabrief.org)
  • Now that he has finished his consultations with the country's political parties and charged Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new coalition, Israel's respected President, Shimon Peres, is once again very much in the news. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Since its founding in 1921, the Communist Party of China (CPC), which is the governing party in China, has taken the wellbeing of Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its abiding goals, and has made continuous efforts to ensure the people's status as masters of the country. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • At the core of China's government structure lies the Communist Party of China (CPC). (talktalkchina.com)
  • The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the ruling political party in the People's Republic of China. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The Communist Party of China plays a pivotal role in the government structure and political landscape of the country. (talktalkchina.com)
  • From an essentially two-coalition parliamentary system, the runup to elections produced a third national coalition, followed by the formation of a post-election 'unity' government. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • Anticipation over state-level Malaysian elections later this year - as state and party leaders confer over dates, partners, and seat distribution - brings to the forefront the implications of Malaysia's 15th general election (GE15) last November. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • These elections will be held under the supervision of the Ethiopian National Election Board. (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • The last time Gannouchi was so close to the heart of Tunisian politics was in 1989, when Al Nahda obtained 20 per cent of the popular vote in legislative elections. (gulfnews.com)
  • As the Working People's Alliance (WPA) observes the 39th assassination anniversary of its co-leader, Dr. Walter Rodney, that party vowed that it would not be part of any plot to rig the upcoming general elections and that it knows of no such plans to do so. (demerarawaves.com)
  • General Secretary of the People's Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday defended his party's decision to hire a United States (US) public relations lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, for $34 million to make out a solid case for free and fair elections in Guyana, saying that he was not concerned at all about its blemishes. (demerarawaves.com)
  • It is likely that all other political business will be set aside until the elections are over and a new government is formed. (africanarguments.org)
  • A large section of mainstream media has turned pro-government, especially after the general elections in the spring of 2019. (globalissues.org)
  • asiancorrespondent.com) SRI LANKA'S recent local elections saw both the incumbent National Unity Government and main opposition party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), suffer serious setbacks. (srilankabrief.org)
  • Formed after presidential and parliamentary elections in 2015 by the country's two largest political parties - the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and the United National Party (UNP) - this Government replaced the defeated autocratic regime of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (srilankabrief.org)
  • The two elections of 2015 also made the TNA an influential player in national politics. (srilankabrief.org)
  • The TNA also became the Tamil party with most seats in the legislature after parliamentary elections. (srilankabrief.org)
  • But negotiations with the rebels fell through partly because Kumaratunga dismissed Wickremesinghe's government and called fresh elections. (srilankabrief.org)
  • Catalonia held elections on 27 September, with the poll being framed by several parties as a de facto vote on Catalan independence. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The complex outcome of the elections will prove difficult to manage both for the pro-independence movement and for the Spanish government. (lse.ac.uk)
  • They have been elected under the candidatures of Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), with 62 MPs, and CUP (Popular Unity Candidature of the Catalan Countries), with 10 MPs (both combined have lost 2 seats compared to the previous 2012 Catalan elections). (lse.ac.uk)
  • The plebiscite nature that Artur Mas, the President of the Catalan Government, Generalitat , wanted for these elections has resulted in a minority of popular votes (47.8 per cent) for the secessionist lists. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The coming Spanish elections in December will be crucial in determining whether any eventual reform of the Spanish Constitution could now possibly accommodate the political claims for deeper self-government in Catalonia within Spain, or to work out a constitutional process for a possible referendum of independence. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The NHS would not have needed a " human shield " or been " overwhelmed " (as per Pope Bojo's Easter address) had it not been underfunded for a decade or been a political football kicked about during Brexit and elections. (katyjon.com)
  • When asked after the 2011 elections if he intended to invite the opposition into the government, President Ramotar, heading a minority government which was bound to fail said, "that will not happen. (conversationtree.gy)
  • On the contrary, Washington should never have led Jumblatt and Hariri down the garden path to believe that they could rely on US troops to defeat Hizbullah and Lebanon's other opposition parties. (joshualandis.com)
  • Lebanon's national unity government has recently collapsed after Hezbollah ministers and their allies resigned over a UN-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. (trend.az)
  • Portugal's Prime Minister and leader of the Socialist Party, José Sócrates, resigned on 23 March after proposing a new pack of austerity measures, which he could not get through the parliament. (fifthinternational.org)
  • The forth version of the Stability and Growth Programme (PEC) since 2010 was rejected by the Republic's Assembly, with the liberal Social Democratic Party (PSD) defecting from its previous supporting role for the Socialist Party-led government. (fifthinternational.org)
  • The emergent pro-unity of Spain party, Ciutadans , has achieved the largest parliamentary group among the non-independentist parties, ahead of the Socialist Party and conservative Popular Party, the two main political formations in the Spanish Parliament. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The APNU+AFC coalition has taken an important initiative towards transforming Guyana's culture of ethno-political dominance. (conversationtree.gy)
  • In 1977 the PPP's announcement of its National Patriotic Front proposals designed to end ethno-political dominance was a major development in Guyana's politics. (conversationtree.gy)
  • It had succumbed to the 'attractions' of ethno-political dominance that has bedeviled Guyana since the split of the PPP in 1955. (conversationtree.gy)
  • He did not have the vision to see that such a role could best be achieved, not by seeking individual, ethnic, glory, but through the elimination of ethno-political dominance by way of a government of national unity, which he would have headed. (conversationtree.gy)
  • By 2011, so entrenched within the PPP was the culture of ethno-political dominance, that it was prepared to lose political office rather than act in its own interests and those of Guyana. (conversationtree.gy)
  • The internal pressures within the coalition, or specifically within APNU, against ending the culture of ethno-political dominance will loom large in the coming period. (conversationtree.gy)
  • The National People's Congress (NPC) is the highest organ of state power. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • As an example, consider the case study of the National People's Congress (NPC), which serves as China's highest legislative body. (talktalkchina.com)
  • Transitioning into the subsequent section about "The National People's Congress," we delve deeper into another important pillar of China's government system. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The National People's Congress (NPC) also holds significant power and influence over policy-making and legislative matters. (talktalkchina.com)
  • William Rufus King As a formal organization, Alabama's Democratic Party, first known as the Democratic-Republican Party, initially appeared in the state during the 1830s. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • George S. Houston With Reconstruction , a larger number of freed blacks entered the state's electorate and began voting for the antislavery Republican Party . (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Many predict a legislative wasteland marked by infighting within the Republican Party as well as with the Democratic Party-led Senate. (pherson.org)
  • This dismal outcome could be avoided if Democratic and Republican party leaders decide to form a government of national unity . (pherson.org)
  • Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, with a deeper understanding of China's path to democracy and the political system, the CPC has developed theWhole-Process People's Democracy as a key concept and striven to translate it and relevant democratic values into effective institutions and concrete actions. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The whole-process people's democracy in China, which has distinctive Chinese characteristics, exemplifies common values and contributes China's ideas and solutions to the political progress of humanity. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • It is China's fundamental political system. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • It is a basic element of China's political framework, a new model growing out of the soil of China, also learning from others. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Notwithstanding outsiders' misunderstanding, China's political party system is not a system of one-party rule, nor is it one in which multiple parties vie for power and govern in turn. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • China's government structure also emphasizes collective leadership rather than individual decision-making. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The CPC plays a central role in China's political landscape, shaping policy decisions and directing the country's development. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The Tanzania People's Defense Forces include the army, navy, air force, and National Services. (state.gov)
  • the leader of the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi said on Wednesday. (india-forum.com)
  • Indian National Congress is known as the oldest political party of India. (newsblaze.com)
  • The Congress that got fame all over India because of its secular policies in the country that has unity in diversity. (newsblaze.com)
  • It is because of the efforts of Sonia Gandhi that the Congress party is the major constituent of the UPA government that is ruling the country & the Congress Party is ruling in many states. (newsblaze.com)
  • This wish of supporters of Sonia & well wishers of Congress was fulfilled on March 14, 1998 when Sonia Gandhi took charge of the Congress from Sita Ram Kesri the then president of the party. (newsblaze.com)
  • This was the time when many leaders of the Congress had taken shelter under other political parties & had left the Congress. (newsblaze.com)
  • Now some party leaders were in trouble because Sonia Gandhi was president of the Congress & those leaders were thinking themselves the claimants of this chair & even of Prime Ministership. (newsblaze.com)
  • The Bharatiya Rashtra (Indian-nation) can only be saved and strengthened with constitution-sanctioned policies and principles of equality in the national life, which have been all but abandoned by all the so-called secular parties and intellectuals, including the Congress. (countercurrents.org)
  • If Congress were to establish a government of national unity , its prospects for success would be greatly enhanced if it abandoned its traditional Team A-Team B approach to legislating and adopted Adversarial Collaboration techniques initially championed by Nobel Prize winner David Kahneman. (pherson.org)
  • Party officials began to ask artists to put their skills at the service of the Communist's wider political programme and express Communist contents through their work in every case, with an 'understandable' style aimed to ideologically shape the uneducated proletariat. (bl.uk)
  • Now we need unity around a programme of action to make the bosses, not the workers, pay the costs of this crisis. (fifthinternational.org)
  • Addis Abeba - On November 2, 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GoE) government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (the Pretoria deal). (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • John Gayle The Alabama Democratic Party has existed for almost as long as Alabama has been a state. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • During the roughly 50-year existence of the "solid, one-party South," the Democratic Party was the political party of Alabama. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • In recent decades, a more competitive, two-party politics has emerged, lessening Democratic Party dominance in Alabama politics. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • During its history, the Alabama Democratic Party has experienced varying levels of internal division. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • What has remained constant, however, is the central and important position the Alabama Democratic Party occupies in the state's politics. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Between 1820 and 1860, the Democratic Party often faced stiff opposition but still carried the state in each pre-Civil War election for governor and president. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • In the 1845 contest for governor and the 1860 presidential race, however, splits within the party resulted in an "independent" Democrat winning over the "regular" Democratic candidate. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Eventually, these issues fractured both the Alabama Democratic Party and the state's politics generally. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • The Democratic Party consequently no longer dominated Alabama's politics. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Meanwhile, the state's traditional, conservative Democratic leadership fought to regain political power. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • The two major Portuguese parties, PSD and PS, as well as the Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party (CDS-PP), a conservative, Christian Democratic party, with a conspicuously reactionary agenda. (fifthinternational.org)
  • Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) Chairperson Ali Waheed tweeted around 2:45pm today that police have entered Maafanu Yaagoothuge to arrest the former president. (minivannewsarchive.com)
  • 4:55pm: The MDP claims warrants have been issued for the arrest of other senior members of the Maldivian Democratic Party, including the party's spokesperson for international affairs Hamid Abdul Ghafoor. (minivannewsarchive.com)
  • this organization has to bear the responsibility to run the democratic government of free India. (newsblaze.com)
  • He proposed the ideal of "national unity," and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary opposition. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Instead of being obstructed by extreme factions, Democratic and Republican leaders could agree to construct a new "operating framework" that would curtail the power of the most disruptive elements of both parties. (pherson.org)
  • As part of the agreement, Democratic and Republican leaders would develop a national unity legislative agenda , focusing attention initially on issues that two-thirds of the US population support. (pherson.org)
  • Established in 2017, the Problem Solvers Caucus is equally comprised of Democratic and Republican House members, and is committed to championing ideas that appeal to a broad spectrum of the American people and breaking the gridlock of today's politics. (pherson.org)
  • They waited until the Lebanese public were so fed up with political paralysis that they welcomed Hizbullah's move and the Doha agreement. (joshualandis.com)
  • They waited until Jumblatt made his fateful mistake and convinced Siniora to move against Hizbullah's security network, then in less than 12 hours Hizbullah and the Lebanese opposition pulled the plug on the March 14th government. (joshualandis.com)
  • Davutoglu and al-Thani are scheduled to meet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Premier Saad Hariri as well as leading figures in Lebanese politics. (trend.az)
  • This policy of alliances collapsed in 1947, when the PCI was expelled from the Government of national unity, which was controlled by the Christian Democrats. (bl.uk)
  • Still, roughly 30 to 40 percent of Alabamians currently identify themselves as Democrats and hundreds of party members hold elected office at all levels of government throughout the state. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Democrats generally saw themselves as supporters of small farmers, merchants, and laborers who were concerned with maintaining individual rights and opposing strong centralized government. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • During the pre-Civil War years, Alabama Democrats fought amongst themselves and with their opponents over a wide range of issues, including the national bank, tariffs, the distribution of former Indian lands, and prohibition. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • The key element of the framework would be for Democrats to work with Republican leaders to elect a Speaker of the House acceptable to both parties and create a bipartisan group to identify legislation that could pass the House without dependence on a small group or members who would hold the Republican leadership hostage to their agendas. (pherson.org)
  • Democrats offer to form a government of national unity , agreeing to cast enough votes for a moderate Republican candidate (e.g., someone like the late Senator Richard Lugar) to win without needing the votes of the Freedom Caucus. (pherson.org)
  • part of the political impetus for this was the 19th century movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (wikipedia.org)
  • While it has been the backbone of the Japanese culture from ancient times, between the 16th to the 19th century Shintoism flourished, eventually seeking unity under a symbolic imperial rule. (tripod.com)
  • At centre stage of media are views of political parties, their respective spokespersons making more noise than saying anything substantive on the electronic media," Anand Vardhan Singh, Lucknow-based senior journalist and founder of YouTube channel The Public, told the IPS. (globalissues.org)
  • Although in the past, we could not know what share of the vote each coalition would secure, we could predict with some confidence the set of contenders, and that whichever won the most seats would form the government. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • The hopes for a comeback of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and its Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition were dramatically quashed in the polls. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • Under pressure to request a bailout from the Eurozone and the IMF, Portuguese politics is likely to realign, with many analysts predicting a new coalition encompassing all the pro-austerity parties on the right and left. (fifthinternational.org)
  • But the "economics of disaster", as the Left Bloc's leader, Francisco Louçã, called it, won't disappear with the election of a new coalition made up of the same old bourgeois parties. (fifthinternational.org)
  • Peres has rightly earned respect for this from many quarters, but now, as the coalition is being formed, it might be a good time to examine one aspect of Israel's political culture: the lack of respect for the task of a parliamentary opposition. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Before we get to the matter of coalition politics, which is very much on our minds right now as Netanyahu struggles to put together a government, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The decision by the APNU+AFC coalition to invite the PPP to share the government is a major and welcome departure from earlier positions. (conversationtree.gy)
  • By this time, however, the PPP has long departed from any intention to create national unity by coalition. (conversationtree.gy)
  • For the same reason, it is often difficult to distinguish between a ruling party spokesperson and a journalist in India today. (globalissues.org)
  • India under Modi solved National water issue with Bangladesh, then so called Big leaders of this alliance why cant they solve state issues. (daijiworld.com)
  • Kumarswamy talks about political unity and not the unity to resolve the issue of water on humanitarian basis or duty. (daijiworld.com)
  • said Turkey would not let Lebanon be dragged into a crisis, and to that end, it would continue to hold talks without ignoring any of the parties in the country. (trend.az)
  • Davutoglu said he would have high-level talks with all the relevant parties in Lebanon, including representatives of Hezbollah, adding telephone traffic with France also continued. (trend.az)
  • Thus it is necessary to launch a public campaign in support of talks for national unity. (conversationtree.gy)
  • Talks leading to a national unity government should be seen as a process, not an event. (conversationtree.gy)
  • Political opposition - secular, Islamic, right, left - in both countries was rendered hopelessly weak by the ruling elite and it was left to the ordinary people themselves to raise their voices in defence of their rights. (gulfnews.com)
  • This rat-pack of pro-austerity parties would mean that all but the Portuguese left had united around the need for cuts and implement, without harming anyone's vote, the dictats of the EU and IMF. (fifthinternational.org)
  • It's an act of national vandalism and misguided austerity ideology. (katyjon.com)
  • Under this arrangement, The Pretoria deal aims to bring about a forced marriage between the parties to Tigray's TPLF and the Prosperity Party of Abiy Ahmed's government, previously greatly at odds. (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • Zanzibaris speak Swahili (Kiswahili), a Bantu language that is extensively spoken in the African Great Lakes region and indeed most of Tanzania where it is the de facto national and official language. (wikipedia.org)
  • Instead, Republicans, including black party members, were repeatedly elected to a wide variety of public offices in the post-war years. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • They took advantage of divisions among Alabama Republicans and a decreased interest in southern affairs among national Republicans. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • The Islamic party is now dejected and there are real fears that the followers could return to extremism if political instability sets in. (gulfnews.com)
  • The mutually assured distrust that marks relations between Tigray and Ethiopia's federal state will not end soon and it is not impossible that Tigray, like the Oromia region before it, becomes characterized by the politics of resentment and resultant endemic violence. (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • In some cases the government took steps to investigate and prosecute officials who committed human rights abuses or were involved in corruption, but impunity in police and other security forces and civilian branches of government was widespread. (state.gov)
  • Founded in 1921, it remains the ruling party with absolute authority over all branches of government. (talktalkchina.com)
  • Taoisigh and government ministers travel regularly to the US for the annual St Patrick's Day celebrations and other business-focused visits, while individual politicians like Fianna Fáil's Mark Daly, former senator Billy Lawless and former Fine Gael TD John Deasy have strong relationships on Capitol Hill. (irishtimes.com)
  • The ministers of the ruling party often make a variety of anti-constitutional announcements that includes declaration about changing the very Constitution. (countercurrents.org)
  • With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • Strict adherence to party ideology and regulations is expected from all members, ensuring unity and loyalty to party principles. (talktalkchina.com)
  • One possible outcome of Brexit says Howarth is that UK politics itself will realign along different allegiances while Deakin believes the EU will continue with its integrationist plans and think itself better off with the UK outside it now as it has other pressing issues to confront. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Until a few days ago, there seemed to be a real chance that a political deal would be reached, granting the south extra seats in the National Assembly, to compensate for southern objections over the census. (africanarguments.org)
  • The final result produced a majority of seats in the Catalan Parliament for pro-independence parties, with these parties securing 47.8 per cent of the votes cast. (lse.ac.uk)
  • It's the second time that the National Assembly has attempted to remove Lasso from office since his term began in 2021. (vox.com)
  • The security laws passed by the NCP majority in the National Assembly can be used to restrict freedom of speech and freedom of association. (africanarguments.org)
  • Its unicameral legislative body is the National Assembly (parliament). (state.gov)
  • Said came under increasing pressure from the British to abolish slavery, and in 1842 the British government told the Zanzibari ruler it wished to abolish the slave trade to Arabia, Oman, Persia, and the Red Sea. (wikipedia.org)
  • The issues of slavery and secession grew in importance during this period, aided by national events, fears about the intentions of the national government, concerns about the economic impact of ending slavery , racial unity, and a weakened Whig Party. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • This shift is not due to political radicalism, but is largely down to an internal squabble between the two centrist parties. (fifthinternational.org)
  • On the anti-independence side, the big winners are the centrist Ciudadanos , who won votes from both Rajoy's Popular Party and the Catalan Socialists, affiliated with the main statewide opposition PSOE . (lse.ac.uk)
  • Zanzibari independence is a political ambition of some political parties, advocacy groups, and individuals of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region territory within Tanzania, to become an independent sovereign state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rather, by the Zanzibar Act 1963 of the United Kingdom, the UK ended the Protectorate and made provision for full self-government in Zanzibar as an independent country within the Commonwealth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Sultan fled into exile, and the Sultanate was replaced by the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba, a socialist government led by the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). (wikipedia.org)
  • Zanzibar, although part of the union, exercises considerable autonomy and has its own government with a president, court system, and legislature. (state.gov)
  • In the second part of the thesis, I explain how, similarly, Italian artists were heavily influenced by political allegiances in the wake of Fascism. (bl.uk)
  • While this forced consolidation allows the government to proceed, the array of political parties is deinstitutionalising, leaving a far less predictable electoral future. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • The messy electoral map bodes poorly for Malaysian politics. (rsis.edu.sg)
  • It is also important to note that not insignificant forces on the left in Venezuela, such as many around Causa R, in fact slowly and in part through the electoral prism, liquidated their politics and in some cases moved substantially to the right in the period preceding Chavez. (links.org.au)
  • The political upheaval comes as Ecuador faces increasing levels of violence and inequality under Lasso's watch - arguably the greater driving forces behind the push to remove him from office, experts said. (vox.com)
  • In a payback to the support sought and given to Barack Obama as a presidential candidate from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). (blogspot.com)
  • It is true that in democracy, people have no choice other than the present opposition parties, and have placed their hope for change only from this Opposition. (countercurrents.org)
  • The CPC exercises control through various mechanisms such as its extensive party organizations at every level of administration, ensuring loyalty to its ideology and policies are upheld throughout governmental institutions. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The surface of the Pretoria deal may seem smooth enough now but under it lies widespread and broad-based public resentments that inevitably will be a major factor in arriving at any final political settlement. (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • The SLFP and UNP joining to form a government of national unity was hailed by optimists as a vital precursor to a political settlement of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war. (srilankabrief.org)
  • But in 1965 when the D-C Pact was under consideration between UNP leader and Tamil leaders, the SLFP, now in opposition, unleashed anti-Tamil nationalism and gutted a political settlement. (srilankabrief.org)
  • It was the first political move toward a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, and Peres deserves huge credit for securing the agreement. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The transition authority that took over is led by former prime minister Mohammad Gannouchi, whose attempts to form a government of national unity have floundered, even as he tried in vain to block the home-coming of the exiled Al Nahda leader. (gulfnews.com)
  • Amid political turmoil and financial uncertainty, Joana Ramiro explains why the election of a new Prime Minister in Portugal will not solve the crisis - it's high time for a revolution. (fifthinternational.org)
  • Narsimha Rao who had himself retired from the active politics was asked to take oath as the Prime Minister, after the death of Rajiv Gandhi. (newsblaze.com)
  • In 1987, following the launch of an armed struggle, the then UNP government's accommodation of Tamil political demands to share power through the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lanka constitution was stubbornly opposed by the SLFP, while President Chandrika Kumaratunga's attempt to widen power-sharing features in constitutional proposals in 2000, was prevented by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's UNP. (srilankabrief.org)
  • In a report in SN on September 6 Prime Minister Nagamootoo, at a meeting in Whim, Corentyne, said "we are prepared to open the doors to the PPP if they want to enter this government. (conversationtree.gy)
  • A previous attempt in June 2022 fell short of the 92 votes needed to end his presidency, motivated by " the serious political crisis and internal commotion " caused by weeks of protest against the increased cost of living and poverty in the South American nation. (vox.com)
  • My view is that there is already a constitutional crisis-the two political titans are interpreting the constitution differently. (demerarawaves.com)
  • Sure, we have discussed the "ideological crisis" at least since 1989, but rightfully excited about some of the breaks in the contemporary political situation we have probably somewhat neglected history. (links.org.au)
  • It can be said that, in view of the crisis, the efforts of the opposition unity are directed merely with the intention of getting power to rule. (countercurrents.org)
  • Who blinks first may well determine the future of the UK's Brexit negotiations with the EU, but with all eyes again on Parliament this week all bets are off as to whether Theresa May and her government can survive this constitutional crisis. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Jumhooree Party (JP) Spokesperson Ali Solih has confirmed that Nasheed was arrested on terrorism charges over the controversial detention of Criminal Court Judge Abdulla Mohamed. (minivannewsarchive.com)
  • He devoted most of his address to a discussion of Egypt's domestic economic problems, however, in an obvious attempt to dissipate growing public and official frustration with the government. (cia.gov)
  • Their opponents tended to have a broader world view, were supportive of a stronger central government, and favored efforts to promote economic development. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • This has led to increased emphasis on the mass production of scientists and technicians with economic aid given to the schools by government and industry. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Underfunding the NHS is economic and political policy domestic terrorism! (katyjon.com)
  • Both political parties would benefit from this shift away from political polarization to productive compromise. (pherson.org)
  • However, press freedom, as well as the unity of the country, is threatened by communal politics. (globalissues.org)
  • That is, the communal fascist forces increasingly became strong in society and politics despite the so-called strategy. (countercurrents.org)
  • During its early years, the party-under the leadership of figures such as U.S. senator and future vice president William Rufus King , Gov. John Gayle , U.S. representative and later senator Dixon Hall Lewis , and U.S. representative and newspaper editor William Lownes Yancey -experienced frequent splits, divisions, and reconfigurations. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • The ruinous legacy of Bin Ali's 23-year kleptocracy includes a crippled political establishment, a weak opposition and a non-existent leadership. (gulfnews.com)
  • Secondly, reinforce the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • These parties accept CPC's leadership, and cooperate closely with the CPC and function as its advisors and assistants. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • This system, which is also a basic political system, means that areas with large ethnic minority populations can practice regional autonomy, establish autonomous organs, and exercise the power of self-governance under the unified leadership of the country. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • It is the greatness of time that persons who called Sonia a foreigner have came again under her leadership & members of the constituent government of the UPA government & partner in the government. (newsblaze.com)
  • Their struggle against fascism could not stop the formation of BJP governments at the center in 1999 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and in 2014 under Narendra Modi's leadership. (countercurrents.org)
  • It's astonishing that after the largest 230 seat Government defeat people retire to party political lines and this current leadership (if it can be called that) is shored up to go on and on with flogging the same dead horse deal. (katyjon.com)
  • This approach aims to attract capable individuals into leadership positions, fostering competence and efficiency within the government. (talktalkchina.com)
  • The opposition too has been making certain efforts in order to defeat the present government in the next Lok Sabha election. (countercurrents.org)
  • The worst Government defeat in modern history by a margin of 230 votes and an unheard of stubborn clinging to power, despite a No Confidence vote. (katyjon.com)
  • Though I'm personally in favour of Remain still and actively want Article 50 abandoned or extended and Brexit cancelled, Labour can't defeat the political maths of Tory+DUP, and so we drag on till exit EU day on 29 March because nobody will fall on their political sword for the sake of the UK bigger picture. (katyjon.com)
  • Additionally, this system incorporates a hierarchical division between central and local governments, where provinces and municipalities have limited autonomy compared to their counterparts in federal systems. (talktalkchina.com)
  • Uncertainty is likely to dominate Catalan politics in the next months. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Predictions of mass resignations from the Cabinet, even the formation of a government of National unity with opposition MPs serving in it in order to prevent what is termed a no-deal Brexit, may or may not come to fruition but one thing is certain #Brexit is set to dominate UK politics for years to come even if the UK does leave the EU on the 29th March 2019. (cam.ac.uk)
  • In the shadow of the referendum a year hence, each party is making its zero sum calculations. (africanarguments.org)
  • Although a local election - where issues other than addressing the country's national conflict were at stake - the polls were seen in Sinhala-majority southern Sri Lanka as a referendum on the performance of the National Unity Government. (srilankabrief.org)
  • The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • It is really big blocks of capital that invest in government debt - some of the richest people and institutions in the world. (fifthinternational.org)
  • The formation of a government of national unity, if it comes, will expose more than ever before, the sham of bourgeois democracy: as the illusions in one party grow out of office, then recede when they are in it carrying out attacks on the people. (fifthinternational.org)
  • People who had previously never had any interest in politics suddenly felt they had something worth voting and hitting the streets for. (marxist.com)
  • Therefore, it is obvious for the people to believe that the alternative is to change this government in the next general election. (countercurrents.org)
  • Your request is strengthened the white Government of people. (lsconsign.com)
  • In Tunisia, the most significant development after the revolution has been the re-emergence of the Al Nahda party after decades in the political wilderness under ousted president Zine Al Abidine Bin Ali's repressive rule. (gulfnews.com)
  • Blame for this decades-long conflict has been placed on the competition for national power by the UNP and UPFA (whose core is the Sri Lanka Freedom Party - SLFP). (srilankabrief.org)
  • The election was intended as an affirmation of the CPA and its promise of making unity attractive, and a mechanism for expanding the political base of the Government of National Unity. (africanarguments.org)
  • The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) serves as a key element of the multiparty mechanism. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Bin Ali, who had only been in power for three years then, chose to ignore the voice of this large chunk of the electorate and banned the party and threw its leaders into prison. (gulfnews.com)
  • He is the author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power. (africanarguments.org)
  • They do not seem to mind if that would mean merely a change of government for political power only. (countercurrents.org)
  • To accomplish the objectives of that agenda the Sinhala establishment has to exercise its hegemony over the Tamils and Muslims by controlling as much political power as possible. (srilankabrief.org)
  • The power of the most extreme conservatives and progressives would be largely neutralized, and key legislation supported by the majority of members from both parties would be enacted. (pherson.org)
  • I understand Bramble is a very powerful man with 16 years of power-building under his belt, as well as having held a seat on the National Board of Directors of the American Legislative Exchange Council. (jasonthepatriot.com)
  • At present, apart from the center, the BJP has governments in 22 states of the country. (countercurrents.org)
  • And, stop with the references to how the country came together after 9/11/01 in politics. (blogspot.com)
  • Alternative candidates also fail to gain sufficient votes as Freedom Caucus members demand concessions that the bulk of the party finds unacceptable. (pherson.org)
  • Lasso's move - though technically constitutional - tees up potentially massive political upheaval and wrangling. (vox.com)
  • Instead, he offered a period of building trust and confidence during the process of constitutional reform taking place at that time, after which focus could be directed to national unity ( Building Trust and Confidence - Towards Greater Inclusive Governance in Guyana: February 11, 2003) . (conversationtree.gy)
  • Lasso initially slashed fuel subsidies as part of a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund, and eased regulations on the mining and oil and gas industries in an effort to cut government spending and revive Ecuador's economy, which had been sputtering since the mid-2010s. (vox.com)
  • In addition, the political and financial uncertainty had left ten-year bond yields hitting 7.81% in March, which goes well beyond a manageable cost of borrowing in the Portuguese context. (fifthinternational.org)
  • The more informal roots of the party can be traced to pre-statehood political leaders and groups. (encyclopediaofalabama.org)
  • Some such leaders had forsaken the party. (newsblaze.com)
  • Alternatively, party leaders could agree to elect an apolitical Speaker who is highly respected by both parties but not a member of the House, such as the likes of Colin Powell. (pherson.org)
  • In 1898, the French writer Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the then French president in the newspaper Lâ Aurore, titled jâ accuse (â I accuseâ ), where he accused the French government of anti- Semitism towards Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer unfairly condemned for treason. (india-forum.com)
  • The union is headed by a president, who is also the head of government. (state.gov)
  • The party claimed it had a hand in the change of regime because it had asked the Tamils to vote for UPFA's Maithripala Sirisena as president over Rajapaksa. (srilankabrief.org)
  • In his speech inviting Netanyahu to form the next government, the President spoke forcefully about peace and even seemed to influence Bibi to mention peace, a word he never used in his election campaign. (thedailybeast.com)
  • While it is true that President Granger had indicated support for a national unity government involving the PPP at the time of President Carter's visit, most of his public pronouncements had projected the APNU+AFC alliance as the multi-ethnic government of national unity. (conversationtree.gy)
  • And he could have served a second term as president heading a second national unity government. (conversationtree.gy)
  • But, precisely, anti-Fascism was a cornerstone for collaboration and understanding between representatives of disparate trends, and associations of artists from a broad political spectrum were organised. (bl.uk)
  • Nevertheless, this policy seemed unacceptable for those artists who equated Communism with political anti-fascism and free intellectual enquiry. (bl.uk)
  • The establishment of the IRA, the Pretoria deal states, 'will be settled through political dialogue between the Parties. (ethiopiannewsdigest.com)
  • How the Irish political establishment has dealt with Sinn Féin's continuing influence and grassroots activities in the US has been a challenge for successive governments, Irish embassies and consulates. (irishtimes.com)
  • The reason post-independence Sri Lanka saw little movement towards the accommodation of Tamil and Muslim political demands is less to do with the Sinhala voter than with the country's Sinhala ruling establishment. (srilankabrief.org)
  • It is the Sinhala establishment with whatever Tamil and Muslim camp followers it can muster that sets the national agenda. (srilankabrief.org)