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	Constructive Vote of No Confidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constructive Vote of No Confidence (in German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum) is a specialty of the 1949 German constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
		The vote was highly influenced by tactics; although being secret, the voting of the CDU was exposed by the coalition mostly abstaining from the vote.
		The vote was not as tricky technically as the earlier one since it was clear this time that the FDP wanted to switch over to a coalition with the CDU and was already in negotiations at the time the vote happened.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constructive_Vote_of_No_Confidence (972 words)

	Motion of no confidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Motion of No Confidence, also called a Motion of Non Confidence, is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or embarrassing a government.
		Where a government has lost the confidence of the responsible house (i.e., the directly elected lower chamber which can select and dismiss it, though in some states both houses of parliament are responsible) a head of state may have the constitutional right to refuse a request for a parliamentary dissolution, so forcing an immediate resignation.
		The cases in which a Motion of No Confidence have passed are generally those in which the government party has a slim majority which is eliminated by either by-elections or defections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vote_of_no_confidence (811 words)

	Motion of No Confidence: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Motion of No Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For example, in Germany, a vote of No Confidence requires that the opposition propose a candidate who is appointed Chancellor by the Federal President.
		The cases in which a Motion of No Confidence have passed are generally those in which the government party has a slim majority which is eliminated by either byelections[?] or defections.
		Motions of No Confidence are far more common in multi-party systems in which a minority party quits a coalition government.
	www.encyclopedian.com /no/Non-confidence.html (641 words)

	Faculty Group Rebukes Harvard President With Vote (washingtonpost.com)
		Tuesday's votes were held in a regular monthly faculty meeting that was moved to a local theater to accommodate the large number of professors expected to attend.
		No previous president since the university was founded in 1636 has faced or lost a faculty vote over confidence in his leadership, according to the university's public relations office, which released a statement outlining the history of "Harvard Presidents Under Fire."
		The votes came on the heels of two emotionally charged faculty meetings in February, during which Summers was lambasted by critics who broadened the debate beyond his remarks about women to include what some describe as a closed-minded and imperious approach to university politics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A38375-2005Mar15.html (810 words)

	Items of business / Motions
		Thus, a motion of no confidence is in reality a motion for the election of a new Federal Chancellor (so-called constructive vote of no confidence).
		To date, a motion of no confidence has been moved on two occasions: it failed in 1972 (Rainer Barzel versus Willy Brandt), because Barzel obtained only 247 votes (instead of 249); by contrast, it was successful in 1982, when Helmut Kohl was elected Federal Chancellor with 256 votes, thus replacing Helmut Schmidt.
		If such a motion of the Federal Chancellor for a vote of confidence, which he may combine with the vote on a bill, is not carried by the majority of the Members of the Bundestag, "the Federal President may, upon the proposal of the Federal Chancellor, dissolve the Bundestag within twenty-one days.
	www.bundestag.de /htdocs_e/orga/04plenar/02itembusi/itembus2.html (1394 words)

	Vote Of No Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The vote has no legislative clout, but is considered an important symbolic gesture as it is the Senate's first vote of no-confidence in a serving leader...
		The Constructive Vote of No Confidence (in German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum) is a specialty of the...
		for the Opposition in that no confidence motions tend to unite the...
	colunn.com /4network/52/vote-of-no-confidence.html (423 words)

	Motion of no confidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The motion is passed or rejected by means of a parliamentary vote.
		In the Westminster system, the defeat of a (one that concerns the spending of money) automatically requires the resignation of the government or dissolution of Parliament, much like a no-confidence vote, since a government that cannot spend money is hamstrung.
		An example of a vote of no confidence in fiction is the vote in Star Wars Episode 1, which puts Palpatine into the chancellorship.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Vote_of_no_confidence (870 words)

	Motion of no confidence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Motion of No Confidence, also called Motion of Non Confidence is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or embarrassing a government.
		A Motion of No Confidence can be proposed in the government collectively or by any individual member, including the (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister.
		The cases in which a Motion of No Confidence have passed are generally those in which the government party has a slim majority which is eliminated by either (Click link for more info and facts about by-election) by-elections or defections.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mo/Motion_of_No_Confidence.htm (1168 words)

	Constructive Vote of No Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since 1949, only two Constructive Votes of No Confidence were attempted, one of which was successful.
		The corruption was never affirmed; neither is clear until today who is to blame for the second missing vote.
		However, after the 1990 German reunification, it became clear that the money came from the East-German Stasi who at the time saw a need for Brandt to stay in power.
	bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/constructive_vote_of_no_confidence.html (929 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From 1969--1976 he was Ministerpräsident of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, after which he became a member of the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) to be the leader of the CDU opposition against the government led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of the time.
		On October 1, 1982, he succeeded Helmut Schmidt as Bundeskanzler by means of a Constructive Vote of No Confidence, the only one in post-war German history that was successful to date.
		Kohl holds the record of being the longest-serving Bundeskanzler of Germany until being succeeded by Gerhard Schröder on October 27, 1998 after a landslide victory of the SPD in the 1998 federal elections.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/h/he/helmut_kohl.html (415 words)

	BASIC LAW FOR THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		In addition it was possible for the parliament to remove single ministers by a vote of distrust while it now has to vote against the cabinet as a whole.
		In 1982, Chancellor Helmut_Kohl intentionally lost a confidence vote in order to call an early election to strengthen his position in the Bundestag.
		It was decided that a vote of no confidence could be engineered only if it was based on an actual legislative impasse.
	www.palfacts.com /Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany (2232 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		It is obvious therefore the main purpose of moving no confidence motion is not to topple the Govt.
		Hence the proposals for fixed term for Lok Sabha, constructive vote of no confidence and all manner of concessions to its allies.
		No commander- least of all the Army Chief himself relishes the prospect of greenhorns being pushed into battle or a low-intensity conflict.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00july16/edit.htm (5965 words)

	The Chancellor in German Government and Politics
		For that reason, some observers refer to the German political system as a "chancellor democracy." The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party or coalition of parties holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag.
		The constructive no-confidence vote makes it harder to remove a chancellor because opponents of the chancellor not only must disagree with his or her governing but also must agree on a replacement.
		Although not commonly used, this procedure enables the chancellor to gauge support in the Bundestag for the government and to increase pressure on the Bundestag to vote in favor of legislation that the government considers as critical.
	www.germanculture.com.ua /library/facts/bl_chancellor.htm (940 words)

	Schröder Pins Hopes on Vote of Confidence \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 23.05.2005
		A further option available to Berlin is the constructive vote of no confidence laid out in Article 67, which states that "The Bundestag can express its lack of confidence in the federal chancellor only by electing a successor with the majority of its members and by requesting the federal president to dismiss the federal chancellor.
		Social Democrat German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder linked parliament's vote on the German deployment in the war against terrorism on Friday, Nov. 16, 2001, to a vote of confidence in his three-year old government in coalition with the Greens.
		He was subsequently voted out of office in October 1982 through a constructive vote of no confidence.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1592979,00.html (736 words)

	Response to Senator Shenton's no confidence vote
		She explained that the developer was entitled to expect the planning permit to be followed by a development permit unless new planning factors were identified to support a refusal.
		In the present case the proposition upon which the request of the States was based raised no new planning factors and therefore is not of itself a sufficient new consideration.
		The final result in that case would be that Dandara would be able to construct the development for which they already have planning consent and the Committee would be liable for the costs of the appeals.
	www.statesassembly.gov.je /documents/propositions/40575-22499.htm (5133 words)

	Federal Foreign Office - Facts about Germany: The Federal Government
		Instead, if the Bundestag proclaims a vote of no confidence in the Chancellor it must, at the same time, elect a successor by majority vote.
		To date there have been two attempts to bring down the Chancellor with the help of the constructive vote of no confidence, but only one was successful.
		That was in October 1982 when, after a no confidence motion against Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl was elected Federal Chancellor in his place.
	www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de /742.0.html (396 words)

	India is no Germany
		Five of the confidence motions were adopted and four resulted in the fall of the governments of Charan Singh, V.P. Singh, A.B. Vajpayee and H.D. Deve Gowda.
		The machinery for a `constructive vote of no-confidence' is contained in Article 67 of the German Constitution which reads: ``The Bundestag (Parliament) may express lack of confidence in the Federal Chancellor (Prime Minister) only by electing a successor with the majority of its members and requesting the Federal President to dismiss the incumbent.
		Hence the proposals for a fixed Lok Sabha term, the `constructive vote of no-confidence' and all manner of concessions to the BJP's allies.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000804/ied04060.html (800 words)

	EWD :: Duma to debate vote of no confidence in government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The State Duma will debate a vote of no confidence in the government, suggested by the parliamentary groups of the Yabloko Party and the Communist Party (KPRF).
		The debates on the vote of no confidence are scheduled for this afternoon.
		Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is not concerned with the initiative of a number of deputies to suggest a vote of no confidence in the government.
	www.eastwestdevelopment.net /news/2003/06/18/print/authority01.shtml (200 words)

	constructive vote of no-confidence (September 1987) - Biografie Willy Brandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Against this, the talent of Party Chairman Willy Brandt in drawing party members into a dialog is valued all the more highly by party members who hope that he will provide the impulse for a programmatic renewal of the Party.
		Helmut Schmidt is deposed through a constructive vote of no-confidence in the Bundestag (Lower House of the German Parliament) on October 1, 1982.
		The SPD suffers a large loss of votes in the Bundestag elections in March 1983.
	www.willy-brandt.org /bwbs_biografie/index.php?l=en&p=wb&m=2&id=419 (662 words)

	AllRefer.com - Germany - The Chancellor and the Cabinet - The Legislature \| German Information Resource
		For that reason, some observers refer to the German political system as a "c hancellor democracy." The chancellor's authority emanates from the provisions of the Basic Law and from his or her status as leader of the party or coalition of parties holding a majority of seats in the Bundestag.
		As a consequence, the Basic Law allows only for a "constructive vote of no-confidence." That is, the Bundestag can remove a chancellor only when it si multaneously agrees on a successor.
		The constructive no-confidence vote makes it harder to remove a chancellor bec ause opponents of the chancellor not only must disagree with his or her governing but also must agree on a replacement.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/germany/germany124.html (1234 words)

	JURIST Belgium - Belgian law, legal research, human rights
		A main political function is to designate a political leader to attempt to form a new cabinet after an election or the resignation of a cabinet.
		In conditions where there is a "constructive vote of no-confidence," the government has to resign and the Lower House of Parliament proposes a new Prime Minister to the King.
		The number of ministers is limited to 15, and they have no seat in Parliament.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/belgi.htm (376 words)

	CNN.com - Putin wins confidence vote - March 14, 2001
		MOSCOW, Russia -- President Vladimir Putin's government has survived a vote of no confidence in the Russian State Duma lower house.
		The Duma overwhelmingly rejected the vote proposed by the Communist Party of no confidence in Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.
		Only 127 members supported the motion, far short of the 226 votes needed to pass in the 450-seat lower house of parliament.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/14/putin.confidence.02 (583 words)

	Ambassador's column May 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Barzel was expecting to get 249 votes, 2 votes more than he needed to oust the government.
		Leader of the Opposition Rainer Barzel (CDU/CSU) casting his vote on 27th April 1972 during the constructive vote of no confidence against the coalition government led by Federal Chancellor Willi Brandt (SPD).
		The Basic Law had learnt from the lessons of the Weimar Republic which so frequently was left with no one at the helm after a vote of no confidence.
	www.germanembassy-india.org /news/may97/04gn05.htm (378 words)

	Shifting Dimensions of Citizen Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The empirical analysis, which is based on data from Austria, Denmark, and Norway, suggests that parties that are in opposition, and that have no immediate chance of gaining a government position, are the ones who benefit from protest voting.
		A formal analysis of a possible adjustment in the present voting institutions of the Norwegian parliament is conducted.
		The proposed adjustment in the voting institutions leads to something that resembles a de facto constructive vote of no confidence in the budget process.
	sockom.helsinki.fi /NOPSA/abstracts274.html (744 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Federal System with significant powers granted to states - after fall of Hitler, there was a need for a decentralized government - people wanted states to have more powers to prevent another Third Reich -states now had control over educational system, police, radio networks, etc. 2.
		Five Percent Rule -political party had to receive at least 5% of the vote to obtain seats in the Bundestag or in state or municipal governments -smaller parties faded and were absorbed by major parties, and no extreme right wing parties have ever achieved 5% of the national vote 3.
		Constructive Vote of No Confidence -institutional mechanism designed to force majorities to propose a constructive alternative -or, to vote out one chancellor, the Bundestag must simultaneously vote in another B) Government Institutions 1.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~kimjyz/govpolgm.doc (945 words)

	Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The confidence vote in the cabinet was "a very serious matter" and required further discussions.
		Tusk said the vote of confidence could be held only after Miller completed his testimony before the Sejm special committee investigating the Rywin affair.
		The vote of confidence is granted by a simple majority in the presence of at least half of all MPs.
	www.polandembassy.org /News/Biuletyny_news/p2003-06-10.htm (1770 words)

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