Word: parliament
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...Catholics feel that this is a betrayal, that the British were carrying on negotiations for the show of it. What it has done is make the Catholics much more suspicious of what Blair plans to do." As riots raged on today, Mowlam denied taking sides with the Protestants, telling Parliament she "didn't have a view outside the desire to reach accommodation." At a press conference later in the day, she also admitted handling the crisis inappropriately and said that she realizes Catholics will not trust her any time soon. But in some respects, the conflict would have arisen...
...integration as "Hitler's dream come true." At one rally, he walked onstage with a platter bearing a papier-mache head of his main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted by a pro-Socialist crowd, Le Pen leaped out of his car and tore into the throng with fists flying. He violently pushed local mayor and Socialist candidate Annette Peulvast-Bergeal into a wall, shouting, "We're fed up with you people...
FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS The first popularly chosen parliament was elected...
...last week's election dramatized a new deterioration in Canadian political life. The new Parliament is more regionally Balkanized than at any other time in the country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time...
...such a change would require the consent of voters in western Canada. There the Reform Party leader, Preston Manning, campaigned specifically against such constitutional recognition for Quebec. In Canada's new Parliament, that position is likely to gain currency. "We have seen the true face of the rest of Canada, and it is Preston Manning," said a former Quebec politician last week...