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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Spanish legislative election, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 14, 2004.
The day after the election, Zapatero announced his intention to form a minority PSOE government, without a coalition, saying in a radio interview: "the implicit mandate of the people is for us to form a minority government negotiating accords on each issue with other parliamentary groups".
This was the eighth general election since the restoration of democratic government in 1978, or the ninth if the elections to a constitutional assembly in 1977 are included.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Spanish_legislative_election,_2004   (1317 words)

  
 Guyana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exports: $570.2 million (f.o.b., 2004 est.): sugar, gold, bauxite/alumina, rice, shrimp, molasses, rum, timber.
Politics of Guyana takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Guyana is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly of Guyana.
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 IFES Election Guide
Serves as the chief executive officer of a state, who ensures that laws are executed, that government programs are developed and presented to the legislative for action, and that government officials are appointed and supervised.
An election to select the members of the national legislative body in a presidential system of government.
An election to select the members of the national legislative body in a parliamentary system of government.
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 ipedia.com: Kenya Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At Kenyatta's death in 1978, Daniel arap Moi became President, and in democratic multiparty elections in 1992 and 1997 won re-election.
Ethnically split opposition groups allowed the regime of Daniel arap Moi, in power from 1978 until 2002, to be reelected for four terms, with the election in 1997 being marred by violence and fraud.
Ethnically split opposition groups allowed the regime of Daniel arap Moi, in power from 1978 until 2002, to be re-elected for four terms, with the election in 1997 being marred by violence and fraud.
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 Top20Haiti.com - Your Top20 Guide to Haiti!
Most of his term was usurped by a military coup d'etat, but he was able to return to office in 1994 and oversee the installation of a close associate to the presidency in 1996.
Furthermore, Haiti suffered badly during 2004 with floods hitting the Fonds Verettes and Mapou region in May 2004 and Hurricane Jeanne hitting the Gonaives area that September Tropical storm Jeanne [1].
On September 17, 2004 Tropical storm Jeanne skimmed the north coast of Haiti leaving 3006 people dead in flooding and mudslides, mostly in the city of Gonaïves.
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 Top20Guyana.com - Your Top20 Guide to Guyana!
Legislative power rests in the unicameral Guyanese parliament, the National Assembly, with 53 members chosen on the basis of proportional representation from national lists named by the political parties.
Any dissolution of the assembly and election of a new assembly can lead to a change in the assembly majority and consequently a change in the presidency.
The highest judicial body is the Court of Appeal, headed by a chancellor of the judiciary.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Antigua and Barbuda
The Siboney were the first to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak and Carib Indians populated the islands when Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493.
Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834.
elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; governor general chosen by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the governor general
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 alt.talk.royalty FAQ: British royalty and nobility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Sovereign and his heir do not vote in elections, general or local ones, because they must remain politically neutral and it would be considered unconstitutional for them to do so.
No Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to a Dominion as part of the law of that Dominion, unless it is expressly declared in that Act that that Dominion has requested, and consented to, the enactment thereof.
The importance of this for the monarchy was that any future legislation of the UK parliament affecting the succession to the throne required the assent of each dominion in order to have effect in that dominion.
www.heraldica.org /faqs/britfaq.html   (18602 words)

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