Word: parliament
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...election is Portugal's third in the past 14 months, and potentially its most significant. In April 1975, the voters chose a Constituent Assembly that drafted a new constitution. A year later, they elected 263 members of a new Parliament. Now they will pick the country's first freely elected President in nearly half a century-an act that most Portuguese hope will bring an end to the tension and sporadic violence that has besieged the country since the revolution of April...
...India Congress Committee, the decision-making body of the ruling party, at which delegates dutifully approved several proposed constitutional changes that will further consolidate the Prime Minister's rule. Among other things, the new amendments will limit the right of the judiciary to strike down laws passed by Parliament, and explicitly forbid court challenges to constitutional amendments passed by Parliament...
President Giovanni Leone was forced to call the election a year ahead of schedule-the statutory term for a Parliament is five years -since the country's imperfect governmental system had once again worked imperfectly. The latest patchwork Christian Democratic government, headed by Premier Aldo Moro, finally collapsed last month after the Socialist Party withdrew its necessary support. Leone had no choice but to let the voters make a fresh choice, under a parliamentary system that in 30 years has produced nearly 40 revolving-door governments...
...five huge fans whirled lazily overhead, the mace-bearing sergeant at arms stomped into Georgetown's 19th century House of Assembly to declare the presence of the Speaker of Guyana's Parliament. Opening last week's regular session on the eve of the former British colony's tenth anniversary of independence, the Speaker then interrupted a droning debate about a pension scheme, with a notable announcement: after a three-year boycott, the opposition People's Progressive Party, led by dedicated Marxist Cheddi Jagan, had agreed to take its seats in Parliament. The return...
...Castro. Washington, which lavished millions on Guyana in development projects to encourage Burnham's election in 1964, is upset. So are neighboring Venezuela and Brazil. Outsiders' suspicion has provoked a kind of fortress mentality on the part of Burnham, who optimistically called Jagan's return to Parliament "a warning to our enemies that we are a united people...