Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major reason for the NPD gains lies not so much in its strength as in the weakness of the government. West Germany is ruled by the Grand Coalition, a union of the two largest parties in parliament -the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party. While the two parties still compete fiercely in elections, many Germans feel they are indistinguishable. For those with serious objections to the government there is no alternative except to vote for an extremist, non government party. The situation in the United States would be analogous if the Democrats and Republicans joined in a government...
...vote of 15 per cent or more will shake the Germans badly. Though probably leaving the SPD-DDU votes undiminished it could eliminate the smaller parties in the parliament. It would leave the NPD the only effective opposition, with crucial swing votes if the two major parties should ever split...
...effort, perhaps, to reinforce the power and legitimacy of the Northern Ireland government, the British began to construct an elaborate Parliament Building for the Northern Irish parliament. This parliament building looks something like the Cambridge Post Office and sits in a triumphal landscaped formal estate at the Belfast suburb of Stormont. Adjacent to the parliament building is a castle with a tin roof which became the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...
...small, official opposition in the parliament is the Nationalist Party. The Nationalists reject or rejected the notion of Ulster and at the base of their party was the notion that Ulster should be part of the whole Irish nation. Basing the politics of the province on such a fundamental question had the effect of stalling, until this last year, effective opposition to the Unionist regime...
...roll call of British labor pioneers: Victor Grayson became Britain's first independently elected Labor Member of Parliament in 1908. Keir Hardie founded the Independent Labor Party...