word | | Background |
| parliament | Moldova | ... general elections (in April 2009, July 2009, and November 2010) and four valid presidential ballots in parliament, all of which failed to secure a president. Following the November 2010 parliamentary elections, a ... |
| parliament | Morocco | ... by popular referendum in July 2011. Under the new constitution, some new powers were extended to parliament and the prime minister, but ultimate authority remained in the hands of the monarch. That ... |
| parliament | Nepal | ... 10-year civil war between insurgents and government forces witnessed the dissolution of the cabinet and parliament and assumption of absolute power by the king. Several weeks of mass protests in April ... |
| parliament | Russia | ... War of 1904-05 contributed to the Revolution of 1905, which resulted in the formation of a parliament and other reforms. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led ... |
| Parliament | Somalia | ... the Somali Republic. The TFG included a 275-member parliamentary body, known as the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP). President YUSUF resigned late in 2008 while United Nations-sponsored talks between the TFG ... |
| parliament | United Arab Emirates | ... sent to the government a petition calling for greater political reform, including the establishment of a parliament with full legislative powers and the further expansion of the electorate and the rights of ... |
| Parliament | United Kingdom | ... of the EU, although it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly were established in 1999. The ... |
| parliament | Zimbabwe | ... censure of the ZANU-PF-led government with the opposition winning a majority of seats in parliament. MDC opposition leader Morgan TSVANGIRAI won the most votes in the presidential polls, but not ... |
| parliamentary | Andorra | ... system was modified with the titular heads of state retained, but the government transformed into a parliamentary democracy. For decades Andorra enjoyed its status as a small refuge of fiscal and banking ... |
| parliamentary | Bangladesh | ... with West Pakistan in 1971 and was renamed Bangladesh. A military-backed, emergency caretaker regime suspended parliamentary elections planned for January 2007 in an effort to reform the political system and root ... |
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