Word: parliament
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...serious doubts that their country's young democratic institutions can weather a transfer of power. Yeltsin's unfinished scheme to create a presidential republic has resulted in a state as fragile as the health of its chief executive. Unresolved constitutional questions remain about how the country's two-tier parliament should be formed. Although Russians will be going to the polls on Dec. 17 to elect deputies to the State Duma, the lower house, it still has not been decided whether the Federation Council, the upper house, should be a forum of regional leaders or senators elected directly...
...Central Electoral Commission refused to register the Yabloko bloc of economist Grigori Yavlinksy, citing a technicality: the group had violated election laws by dropping six names from its list of more than 200 candidates without supporting documents. The surprise decision to exclude the only reformist group in the present parliament with a serious chance to do well in the election set off an immediate firestorm of protest. Yavlinksy claimed that officials "in the top echelons of power" were taking advantage of the President's illness to settle political scores. Chernomyrdin said the decision "damaged the whole election campaign and democracy...
Some semblance of PR still exists in New York City for the election of district school boards. It is also used in the Republic of Ireland to elect the National Parliament, according to Shepsle...
Although "the entire Parliament of England spent two weeks on this guy," Damrosch said, Naylor rarely receives more than a paragraph in histories of the period...
...seven weeks, Russian voters will elect a new parliament. The last time they did this, in December 1993, they voted strongly for conservative and ultranationalist politicians including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, demagogues who captured the national spotlight by denouncing Yeltsin's half-finished experiment with reform and by promising a return to the stability and prestige Russians enjoyed during the days of the old Soviet Union. In the past two years, Yeltsin has managed to stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election...