Word: parliament
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...twice ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the lower house of parliament and was instrumental in a failed 1983 campaign to legalize abortion...
...Irish constitution requires that the president not take political positions. All of his or her public statements must be approved by the parliament, and the president cannot leave the country without the government's permission...
Even as the students who had wrought the revolution were peacefully but firmly cleared from the Parliament building in the early hours of Saturday morning, few Indonesians thought Habibie would be more than a brief tenant of the presidential office. "I don't see Habibie enjoying meaningful political support from anyone," said Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Minister of Environment. "In the economic crisis we lost trust. We have to regain trust, and Habibie is not the man for that." Indonesia's transition out of the Suharto era into a modern, free-market democracy has, with his departure, just barely begun...
Foreign investors are worried that Habibie may allow Muslim activists a greater role in society than they were permitted under Suharto. Unsettling signs appeared the day after Habibie's swearing in, when hundreds of Muslim protesters forced their way into Parliament to confront students still demonstrating for greater democratic reforms. They advanced shouting, "Muslims must support Habibie!" and "Religion and politics are one and the same!" The security forces had to intervene to prevent a serious riot from breaking...
...long he would hold the power that had so serendipitously devolved upon him. But deeper down, many Indonesians had a sense that a great shift was taking place in their country. "Everything is moving, the way water moves," said Ade Nasution, a businessman who turned up at the Parliament last week to support the students. "I don't think anything can stop it." Despite Habibie's accession, Suharto's departure leaves a political vacuum. Indonesians are left to wonder who or what is really going to fill...