Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhilaration among right-wingers following Italy's election of a majority conservative coalition to the Parliament was dampened as party officials bickered over who would govern. By week's end, however, two parties in the alliance had reached an agreement endorsing constitutional changes that could lead to media tycoon and populist leader Silvio Berlusconi's becoming Prime Minister...
Wednesday: Faced turmoil within his ranks when two members of parliament quit its Liberal Democratic faction, criticizing Zhirinovsky's populist stances as too extreme...
...green and pleasant land, and the Industrial Revolution has brought new wealth to towns like Eliot's fictional Middlemarch. The passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, which enlarged the franchise, has created fear of revolution among reactionaries while holding out the promise of democratizing a corrupt and elitist Parliament...
...fractious right-wing coalition won Italy's national parliamentary elections. Led by billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Freedom Alliance won a strong majority of 366 seats in Parliament's lower house and a plurality of 155 seats in the Senate. Included in the victorious coalition is the neo-Fascist National Alliance, whose leaders still revere the memory of the dictator Benito Mussolini...
Just hours after the Bosnian parliament ratified an agreement that would create a federation with Bosnian Croats, U.S. officials pledged $10 million for the reconstruction of Sarajevo. At week's end U.N. officials reported at least 17 Muslims and two Croats murdered by Bosnian Serbs in the northern Bosnian town of Prijedor...