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• Ukraine Voters Go to Polls Again

  Published: September 28, 2007, 6:46 am

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Ukraine

  After five months of political infighting, Ukraine will once again try to elect a parliamentary government. Ukrainians go to the polls Sunday, 30 September, in yet another attempt to break the deadlock that has consumed the political process since the Orange Revolution in 2004.

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• Ukraine's Ruling Party Inches Ahead of Opposition

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:11 pm

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Political Situation In Ukraine, Ukraine

  Ukraine's Electoral Commission says Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's ruling party has edged slightly ahead of the opposition in the latest results of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

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• Ukraine's Orange Revolution allies likely to win elections

  Published: October 3, 2007, 8:59 am

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Ukraine

  Ukraine's Orange Revolution allies are likely to win parliamentary elections. Near-final results show that they will be able to form a strong coalition to unseat Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

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• This is "Leadership"

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:46 pm

  Tags: Drug Culture, Official Opposition, Drug Dealers, Election, Mandatory Jail Sentences, Marijuana, Parliamentary Mandate, We Re Ready, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Press Conference

  Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper vows to change the drug culture in Canada by way of mandatory jail sentences for drug traffickers and to build up more border security to stop drug imports."If you're addicted to drugs, we'll help you. If you deal drugs, we'll punish you.""A simple war on drugs is not going to be successful, but neither is

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• Pro-West blocs gain advantage in Ukraine elections

  Published: October 6, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Ukraine

  The final votes in Ukraine's parliamentary elections were counted on Friday, with pro-West blocs gathering enough votes to form a coalition government. Following elections on September 30, five blocs made it into the Supreme Rada, with the pro-Russian Party of Regions headed by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych leading with 34.32%.

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• FISA: A lobbying (and procedure) lesson

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:03 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Parliamentary Procedure, Motion To Recommit

  debate, there's a bit of parliamentary procedure I think you need to know about in order to be a more effective citizen lobbyist: the motion to recommit. The motion is used exclusively in the House, and here's the short version of what it does: A motion to recommit returns a bill to committee, in effect killing it. However, a motion to

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• What happened to the House FISA bill?

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:27 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Motion To Recommit, Parliamentary Procedure

  The House was scheduled to take up the RESTORE Act today, in an effort to roll back the August FISA debacle. But as predicted last week, the bill fell victim to yet another Republican motion to recommit (see linked story for a backgrounder on the motion). As TPM Election Central reported earlier, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced his intention to

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• So FISA's on hold. What does that mean?

  Published: October 18, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: Fisa, Senate, Hold, Chris Dodd, Parliamentary Procedure, Teaching

  Now that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) has put a "hold" on the Senate FISA bill, the newest FAQ is, "What does it really mean?" Here's the deal on holds, adapted from a previous answers to the question of whether or not Senator Feingold could hold the same bill: There are no real rules about holds. Holds don't really exist on their own as an

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• Poland prepares for Sunday's parliamentary vote

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Poland

  Poles are set to choose between their nationalist incumbent prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and center-right pro-business challenger Donald Tusk at Sunday's parliamentary elections.

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• Poland's Kaczynski Concedes Defeat

  Published: October 21, 2007, 11:30 pm

  Tags: World, Parliamentary Elections, Poland

  Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is conceding defeat as exit polls give a pro-business party a large lead over his ruling nationalists in Sunday's parliamentary elections.

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• Pakistan: Crackdown Continues, Musharraf Meets To Discuss Election

  Published: November 6, 2007, 5:59 am

  Tags: Al Qaeda, Batons, Bush, Criticism From The U S, Democracy, Election, Emergency, High Court, Karachi, Lahore, Lawyers, Lawyers Protesting, Martial Law, Militants, Musharraf, News, Pakistan, Parliamentary Elections, Politics, Stone, Supreme Court, Taliban

  No one knows for certain where nuclear-armed Pakistan is headed. read more

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• Variations on a theme: the motion to instruct

  Published: November 11, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: Motion To Recommit, Parliamentary Procedure, Motion To Instruct Conferees, Fisa

  took a look back at a bit of parliamentary maneuvering that the House Republicans have been using to great effect in derailing Democratic legislation, and even pushing Republican legislation through the House, even though the 2006 elections gave Dems nominal control of the chamber. Specifically, I looked at the way Republicans were able to use

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• Musharraf Calls for Parliamentary Elections in January

  Published: November 11, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Musharraf, Calls, For, Parliamentary, Elections, January

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 11 -- Pakistan's military president announced Sunday that he wants parliamentary elections to be held by early January, but he did not set a date for ending emergency rule, making it likely that any elections would take place with the constitution suspended and most civil...

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• Lebanon Presidential Vote Delayed, Sparks Fears of Violence

  Published: November 23, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Behalf, Beirut, Berri, Christian, Consultations, Creating, Deadlocked, Delay, Elect, Emile, Factions, Failed, Fifth, Friday, Grasp, Lahoud, Leader, Leaves, Lebanon, Maronite, Means, Midnight, Nabih, November, Opposition, Parliamentary, Politics, Postponed, Power Sharing, President

  As if tensions aren't running high enough in the middle east already, the Lebanese parliament failed to schedule a presidential vote, creating a power vaccuum when President Emile Lahoud leaves office tonight."Lebanon's parliament failed on Friday to grasp its last chance to...read more

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• ABC Australia: Howard congratulates Rudd on election victory

  Published: November 24, 2007, 6:50 am

  Tags: World, Australia, Elections, General Elections, John Howard, Parliamentary Elections

  According to ABC Australia the outgoing Prime Minister of Australia John Howard has conceded the defeat and congratulates Rudd on election victory in Australia.

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