Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Czech Republic, the eastern European country's own parliamentary-style government remains shaken after elections last month. The previous government led by the Civic Democratic Party (CDP) collapsed in June, prompting emergency elections for a new prime minister and for representatives to one of the houses of parliament...
...country's President Vaclav Havel, who is elected separately, has recently criticized the two most powerful parties, the Social Democrats and the CDP. He called their leaders' plan to share power--with one serving as prime minister and one heading the parliament-unconstitutional...
MOSCOW: Call it good Kremlin, bad Kremlin. The last time Boris Yeltsin addressed parliament about passing tax reforms, he threatened to dissolve it. Friday, beleaguered prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko tried a softer sell: He appealed to its good nature. "The financial market has practically ceased to exist," Kiriyenko said. "Social tension is growing in society, which naturally is not helpful to stabilization." Kiriyenko pleaded with the recalcitrant Duma to speed passage of a series of new tax laws that Russia needs to get a desperately needed multibillion-dollar bailout from...
...remarkable 70% of the popular vote, hard-liners retained all the instruments of state power: control of the army, the police and the courts, as well as the terrorist elements that have caused mayhem abroad. The fundamentalists also continue to hold a majority in the 270-member Iranian Parliament...
...later speech to both houses of the Irish parliament in 1995, Robinson related a story from her time at Harvard to illustrate the feelings of these "exiles" toward their homeland...