Word: parliament
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...were once Yeltsin's right-hand man in parliament. What went wrong...
...immediate deepening of sanctions against Serbia only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that the nominally democratic opposition last week hailed a plan to install a new parliament representing Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia -- a.k.a. Greater Serbia...
...rare moment of humor in a listless campaign in which both candidate and voters have acted as if a week in the Gulag would be preferable to enduring one more speech. To break his deadlock with the nay-saying parliament, Yeltsin has organized a national vote on April 25 that will ask Russians whether they trust their President, whether they approve of his economic reform policies and whether they favor holding early elections for both President and the 1,033-member Congress of People's Deputies. Yeltsin is determined to win yes votes on all four points...
...will not be overcoming the hurdle that parliament set up when it approved the poll: a requirement that he win a yes from a majority of all eligible voters in Russia. That adds up to more than 53 million of the country's 106 million qualified adults -- an impossible feat for any politician in a democracy. By the Russian parliament's standard, no U.S. President could have made it to the White House. When he ran for President in 1991, Yeltsin captured 60% of the votes cast -- but even that landslide represented only 43% of the electorate...
...Parliament and its aggressive leader, Ruslan Khasbulatov, will be mounting an attack of their own. When Yeltsin does not come up with the required 53 million votes, they may demand his resignation or try again to vote him out of office, as they almost did last month. The Constitutional Court's Zorkin could rule that the President should resign in favor of the Vice President, Alexander Rutskoi, another anti-Yeltsinite...