Word: parliament
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...Canadians" and "not just Quebec politicians?" asked the narrator. Incensed Quebeckers charged the sponsors of the ad, the western-based Reform Party, with bigotry and racism. In the west, by contrast, the message struck a sympathetic chord. The Reform Party went on to capture 60 seats in Parliament, second only to Chretien's victorious Liberals...
...good, he believes, Germany must be anchored in a strong European Union and not left to throw its weight around between East and West. Chirac demonstrated his commitment to monetary union, if not his political smarts, when he called the snap election in hopes of securing control of his parliament for the next five years. The Benelux countries are on board the money plan, and Ireland, Spain and Finland are eager. In an interview last week Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told TIME, "The euro must happen on time," that is, on Jan. 1, 1999. And, he predicted, "Italy will...
...face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional lines, with two smaller opposition parties, the right-wing Progressive Conservatives and the left-wing New Democrats, posting impressive comebacks. But Chr?tien, who barely managed to hold onto his own Qu?bec seat, remains sanguine, downplaying the prospect of a parliament frozen into stasis. "I say this is a season of transition," he told supporters in Calgary. Trouble is, for the moment no one seems to know where that "season of transition" will lead...
Many believed the election results were preordained, if not precooked. For months it had been a foregone conclusion that the next President of Iran would be Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, a staunch conservative backed by the country's most powerful political machine. He even had the implicit support of Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, successor of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...British Parliament inflames revolutionary sentiments by imposing the Stamp...