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...such matters would be made in the House of Commons - and they pointed out that some of the troops included in his headline-grabbing figure had already returned home. Brown denied he used the trip just to score political points. He was planning a much more detailed announcement to parliament, he said, and would have been criticized for not visiting Iraq before...
...Government denies it is directing the reinvigorated police activity, insisting that it is a law-enforcement action, not a politically motivated one. ""The Judicial branch acts independently and the Government does not tell the judges what to do", Jose Antonio Pastor, the Basque Socialist Party speaker at the Basque Parliament, told TIME. "[This operation] is not an instrumental action by the Government...
...were tapped for extra funds. Politicians pounded the streets peddling their policies as their constituents mulled over the options. All that remained was for Brown to summon an official limo to take the short drive from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace where he would ask the Queen to dissolve parliament. He was expected to do so on Oct. 9 to set up an election...
...avowedly republican party, other signs of change have appeared. In July, a weekly satirical magazine called El Jueves published a cartoon that depicted the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, having sex with his wife. Over the summer, leaders of ten Andalusian towns signed a motion in the regional parliament that would "situate the democratic fight for a republic on the political agenda...
...Musharraf its most important ally in the war on terror, has been quietly but forcefully pushing for a power sharing deal between the two politicians. Although Musharraf stood a good chance of winning the presidency without the PPP - his Pakistan Muslim League (Q) party has a slim majority in parliament - the tacit acquiescence of Bhutto's party lends the elections, and Musharraf's certain presidency, the democratic credentials necessary to garner continued international support for the war on terror currently being waged in Pakistan. Observers point out that Oct. 17, the day the courts decide on Musharraf's eligibility...