Word: parliament
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...national level, Congress still controls 75% of the seats in Parliament, but the losses have spotlighted serious declines in the party's popularity. Gandhi has political troubles on other fronts, including a feud with India's President, Giani Zail Singh. Capturing a widespread mood in the country, the Calcutta Telegraph declared last week, "The growing questions about Mr. Gandhi's abilities are taking their toll...
...Budget day" in Parliament is always tinged with politics, a time when the government's Chancellor of the Exchequer tries to sweeten his economic plan for the coming year with at least a spoonful of sugar. But last week, when Chancellor Nigel Lawson arrived at the House of Commons with his 25-page budget, he brought along an entire sugar bowl. In a somber, 59-minute speech, Lawson cut taxes, pared government borrowing and placed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in an excellent position to call national elections as early as June...
Some Laborites feel that the best they can hope for in an early election is a "hung" Parliament, with the increasingly popular Alliance holding the balance of power. But if the economy continues to improve, thus vindicating the redoubtable Prime Minister's tough policies, Margaret Thatcher may not have to call the moving vans to 10 Downing Street for at least another few years...
...South African parliament currently consists of three houses, one each for the whites, the coloreds--people of mixed Black and white backround--and the Indian population...
...cantons, the book suggests, should be the 306 magisterial districts that already exist in South Africa. Each canton would have its own parliament and possibly its own constitution. Every level of government would be barred from passing laws that discriminate on racial grounds and would be required to apply all laws equally to all races. "In other words," write the authors, "government would be color-blind...