Word: parliament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest of Europe. Since 2000, all political parties have had to present as many female as male candidates on their electoral lists. Yet only 12% of the current members of the National Assembly are women, compared with 20% in Britain's House of Commons and 45% in Sweden's Parliament. (With women making up just 15% of the House of Representatives, the U.S. has only a slightly better record than France.) With traditional politics hidebound, Royal has tended to bypass party fixtures and go straight to the people. "Her strategy, which she exercises with no scruples, is one of seduction...
...movements are as restricted as ever. In his meeting with TIME, Karzai's aides would not allow him to be photographed beyond the door of his office, for fear that his whereabouts could be exposed. "The palace is like a jail," says Shukria Barakzai, a member of Afghanistan's parliament and a Karzai ally. "The walls are so high that he has become distant from his own nation." That helps explain why, as hope fades and parts of the country drift into lawlessness, Afghans have started to direct their anger toward Karzai himself...
...them elect a dictator. I am not one of those." Of course, what Karzai and his Western benefactors know is that the alternative to a democratically elected Afghan leader isn't despotism--it's all-out anarchy. "If Karzai isn't there," says Jamil Karzai, a member of parliament and second cousin of the President, "forget about democracy. Forget about human rights. Forget about Afghanistan." The dilemma is that even if Karzai is the wrong man for the job, he is also the only...
...should be. Karzai: No, it isn't. Within Afghanistan it is very clear as to what the Afghan people want this country to be. Eight and a half million Afghans participated in the elections. That's very clear. That's almost half of Afghanistan's population. We have a parliament. The whole country got together to have a constitution. The whole country cried for more international forces four days ago to go to the whole country in order to have more security. People from the districts come to us and say, "Well, Mr. President, police police police, strong institutions, better...
...that the city's already undercapitalized $1.25 billion pension fund may have been used to illegally finance various business deals and speculative real estate projects. Among those hit by accusations of bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor and a member of China's parliament; Zhang Rongkun, one of the nation's richest men; and Qin Yu, former secretary to Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's top Party official. The growing scandal comes as China's President Hu Jintao has intensified his campaign against corruption, instructing government officials and their families to report any property transactions, business...