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	Danish parliamentary election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The election marked the second time in a row that the Social Democrats were not the largest party in the parliament, a change from most of the 20th century.
		Marianne Jelved (leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party), Connie Hedegaard (Minister of the Environment), Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (front figure of Enhedslisten) and Helle Thorning-Schmidt (later elected as leader of Social Democrats) are other important woman in the parliament.
		Following the election, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen reformed his liberal-conservative cabinet as the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II with parliamentary support from Danish People's Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danish_parliamentary_election,_2005 (597 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Danish parliamentary election, 2005
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Portugal since 1975 (now including results of the early legislative election held on Sunday, February 20, 2005), as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Portuguese legislature are available in Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Denmark since 1990 (now including final results of the early parliamentary election held on Tuesday, February 8, 2005), as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Danish legislature are available in Elections to the Danish Folketing.
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand since 1996 and in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1972.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Danish-parliamentary-election,-2005 (1667 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Politics of Denmark
		States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orangeâ€”the former being constitutional monarchies and the latter being republics A parliamentary system, also known as parliamentarianism (and parliamentarism in U.S. English), is distinguished by the executive branch of government being dependent on the direct or indirect support...
		States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and redâ€”the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state.
		However, she must consult with parliamentary leaders to determine the public's will, since the cabinet may be dismissed by a vote of no confidence in the Folketing, the Danish parliament.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-Denmark (3035 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
		The results of legislative elections held in Norway from 1985 to 2005, as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Norwegian legislature are available in Elections to the Norwegian Storting.
		The new electoral systems introduced in 2005 to choose members of the Italian Senate and Chamber of Deputies in the April 9-10, 2006 legislative elections, as well as the previous electoral systems are described in Elections to the Italian Parliament, with results of parliamentary elections held in Italy from 1994 to 2006.
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
	www.electionresources.org (1014 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 2005 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Based on estimates by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable wide-spread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius.
		Ali Al-Haidri (died January 4, 2005) was the governor of the Iraqi province of Baghdad.
		The February 23, 2005 French law on colonialism was an act passed by the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) conservative majority, which imposed to high-school teachers to teach the positive values of colonialism to their students (article 4).
	www.nationmaster.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/2005 (6489 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Danish Folketing
		The election statistics presented in this space come from official reports issued by the Danish Ministry of the Interior.
		Venstre, which formed a minority government with just 22 seats, polled strongly in an early Folketing election held in January 1975, but was unable to remain in power; the Social Democrats then formed a minority government, and went on to recover much of their previously lost electoral support in the 1977 and 1979 Folketing elections.
		The Danish People's Party and the Conservative People's Party gained two seats each, while the Social Liberals scored their best results in more than three decades and nearly doubled their parliamentary representation with a gain of eight seats.
	electionresources.org /dk (899 words)

	Danish parliamentary election, 2005 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Marianne Jelved (leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)), Connie Hedegaard (Minister of the Environment), Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (front figure of Unity List - The Red-Greens) and Helle Thorning-Schmidt (later elected as leader of Social Democrats) are other important woman in the parliament.
		Following the election, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen reformed his cabinet as the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen II.
		Danish parliamentary election, 2005, Results, Platforms, External links, Elections in Denmark and 2005 elections.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Danish_parliamentary_election%2C_2005 (637 words)

	Red-Green Alliance (Denmark) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the 2005 Danish parliamentary elections got 114.123 votes (3,4%) and has 6 out of 179 seats, making it one of the minor political parties.
		Unite left-wing cooperation and left-wing representation in the Danish Parliament.
		Also: The members of Parliament pay a part of their parliamentary salary to the party, such that their net income is comparable to a skilled worker.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Unity_List (390 words)

	Monitors in Azerbaijan Say Election Did Not Meet Standards - New York Times
		BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 7 - International election monitors said today that Azerbaijan's parliamentary election was tainted by range of government abuses and failed to meet democratic standards, expressing evident Western disappointment that the country had not lived up its president's pledges to hold a fair vote.
		Azerbaijan's elections have been condemned for years for the their corruption and rigging, and for the government's willingness to use force to intimidate opponents and to prevent them from expressing their discontent in rallies.
		The problems included an election commission stacked with pro-government officials, official interference in the campaign, undue restrictions on the opposition bloc's freedom of assembly and disproportionate use of police force, arbitrary detentions of opposition candidates and supporters, and unequal news media coverage in state media.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/07/international/asia/07cnd-azerbaijan.html?ex=1289019600&en=03cadc1f355b3d18&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (959 words)

	Germany - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The election (1925) of Hindenburg as president after the death of Ebert seemed a nationalist victory, but Hindenburg cooperated with the cabinets (1923–32) of Wilhelm Marx, Hans Luther, Hermann Müller, and Heinrich Brüning, in which coalitions drawn mainly from the Social Democrats, the Catholic Center party, and the conservative German People's party fulfilled moderate programs.
		In the elections of Mar., 1933, Hitler played upon the electorate's fear of the Communists (especially after the Reichstag building was largely destroyed by fire in Feb., 1933) to win a bare majority of seats in the Reichstag for the National Socialists and the Nationalists.
		Located in Europe, it is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
	germany.quickseek.com.cob-web.org:8888 (10776 words)

	Danish elections: A severe defeat for the Social Democracy
		In the recent elections, the vote for the Social Democracy fell to a disastrous 25.9 percent, thus five seats in parliament were lost.
		The election campaign was mainly focused on issues surrounding the welfare state, such as elder care and childcare, but immigration and unemployment were also big issues.
		On the eve of the elections, when it was clear that he was going to be defeated, Lykketoft announced that he would resign as chairman of the party.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/denmark_elections_2005.htm (1388 words)

	The Hindu : International : Nepal King for elections in 2007
		``We have commanded the Election Commission to conduct elections to the House of Representatives within the year 2063 BS by further strengthening the favourable environment created with the holding of the municipal elections,'' the King said in a message to the nation on the occassion of Vijaya Dashami on Wednesday.
		The major political parties struggling to establish "full-fledged democracy" have said the election is not possible without resolving the Maoists insurgency which has claimed over 12,000 lives since 1996.
		The mainstream political forces have demanded the revival of the dissolved House and form an all-party government to hold talks with the rebels before holding the election.
	www.hindu.com /2005/10/13/stories/2005101304911500.htm (270 words)

	CNN.com - 'Significant increase' seen in Iraqi expatriate vote - Dec 17, 2005
		The International Mission for Iraqi Elections, based in Canada, said in a Friday news release about 320,000 ballots were cast among Iraqi expatriates voting for the country's new parliament.
		Iraqi election officials have been counting votes for two days but cannot yet provide results or vote percentages, even though media reports estimate that the national turnout could be as high as 70 percent, pushing the number of actual voters past 11 million.
		Among the top blocs in the election are the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdish alliance, who hold sway in the current transitional national assembly.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/12/17/iraq.elections (804 words)

	2005
		June 19 - Preliminarty election results in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain show that Manuel Fraga and the Partido Popular have lost control of the autonomous parliament.
		September 12 - The Norwegian parliamentary election results in a victory for the red-green-coalition.
		September 17 - Helen Clark, leader of the Labour Party, is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_2005 (4916 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Denmark's incumbent government wins second term
		With 99 percent of the votes tallied, the governing bloc – a coalition of Liberals, Conservatives and the anti-immigration Danish Peoples Party – had 54 percent and was set to take 95 seats in the 179-seat parliament, or Folketing.
		The percentage was roughly the same in the last national election in 2001.
		Fogh Rasmussen called for early elections in January, banking on the popularity of his government's push to preserve Denmark's welfare state, keep immigration under control and prevent taxes, the second highest in Europe, from rising.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050208-1610-denmark-election.html (432 words)

	2005 ENAR Country Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During the run-up to the 2005 election, Prime Minister Rasmussen promised to continue the crackdown on asylum seekers, the same discourse which propelled him to power in 2001.
		Also, during the election, DFP leader Pia Kjaersgaard called for an end of the use of foreign languages in all communications between the state and its citizens and the scrapping of the right to permanent settlement for accepted refugees.
		Article 81 paragraph 6 is very clear in its formulation: “In the sentencing of crimes, the nature of crime has to be taken in to consideration if it is seen that the crime committed is due to the victims’ ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation” (www.inm.dk and www.lbl.dk).
	www.islamicsupremecouncil.com /Shadow%20Report%202005-%20Denmark.htm (4488 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		COPENHAGEN, November 18, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – The Muslim minority in Denmark will send delegations to a number of Muslim countries to meet with senior officials and prominent scholars on the provocative caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) recently published by Denmark's main daily.
		Rasmussen said in a written reply that he would not intervene in the affair, on the grounds of freedom of expression, but said the diplomats were free to undertake legal proceedings.
		Danish Muslims are estimated at 180,000 or around 3 per cent of Denmark's 5.4 million.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2005-11/18/article02.shtml (787 words)

	Danes Vote in Parliamentary Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danes voted Tuesday in parliamentary elections dominated by competing strategies for strengthening the country's cradle-to-grave welfare state and tightening immigration.
		Fogh Rasmussen called the elections last month - nine months before the end of his four-year term - to capitalize on favorable public opinion.
		The four remaining seats are allotted evenly between the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, both of which are semi-independent Danish territories.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/02/08/54308.xml (465 words)

	Morocco
		The 2002 parliamentary elections for the lower house were widely regarded as free, fair, and transparent.
		In the latter elections, the government limited the participation of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD), one of the 27 political parties in the country.
		The law provides for regular, free elections on the basis of universal suffrage, although citizens did not have the full right to change their government.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61695.htm (10891 words)

	Parliamentary elections 2005 - unofficial results, exit polls, parallel counting.
		Parliamentary elections 2005 - unofficial results, exit polls, parallel counting.
		Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections Coalition 2005 and some political parties has carry out on the day of elections a parallel counting of the votes.
		Constitutional Court considered constitutional the results of elections.
	politicom.moldova.org /pagini/eng/157 (147 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Previous elections in Albania _ sealed off from the world during decades of Communist rule _ have been plagued by fraud and irregularities.
		``Elections are a golden opportunity for Albania to show their standards are close to those of the EU,'' said Finn Theilgaard, Danish Charge d'Affaires in Tirana.
		Some 2.8 million Albanians are registered to vote in the July 3 election to elect 100 parliamentary seats directly through constituency voting.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/003200507011610.htm (476 words)

	Putin for Parliamentary Elections in Chechnya Soon - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The president has agreed with the opinion of the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Aleksandr Veshnyakov, who said earlier that “elections to the Chechen parliament should not be postponed.
		Meeting with Veshnyakov, Putin said that these elections “should be prepared together with the newly-elected president of Chechnya.” The presidential elections in Chechnya are to be held at the end of this month.
		Parliamentary Elections in Chechnya Valid — Deputy PM
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/08/16/chechelections.shtml (601 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Denmark's immigration issue
		The 1998 elections were won by the Social Democrats and Radical Liberals, who formed a coalition government.
		The Danish People's Party first became a significant player after the Conservatives and Liberals triumphed in November 2001 and formed a coalition government reliant on DPP support for a parliamentary majority.
		New provisions stipulated that Danish citizens could not bring a foreign spouse into the country unless both partners were aged 24 or over, passed a solvency test showing the Dane had not claimed social security for 12 months and had to lodge a bond of 53,000 kroner ($9,300).
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4276963.stm (609 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament following the early dissolution of this body.
		Controversial issues such as Danish troops in Iraq, immigration control and the EU Constitution were avoided.
		The Coalition and the Danish PeopleÂ’s Party together captured 95 seats (52 for the Liberal Party, 18 for the Conservative PeopleÂ’s Party, and 24 for the Danish PeopleÂ’s Party).
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2087_E.htm (481 words)

	Denmark's Incumbent Gov't Wins 2nd Term (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to supporters after voting in Naerum, Denmark Tuesday Feb. 8, 2005.
		Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's center-right government was set to win its second term, according to early returns of votes being counted by the government, as voters embraced its plans to keep immigration in check and taxes from rising.
		With 99 percent of the votes tallied, the governing bloc - a coalition of Liberals, Conservatives and the anti-immigration Danish Peoples Party - had 54 percent and was set to take 95 seats in the 179-seat parliament, or Folketing.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/02/09/54912.xml (449 words)

	Egypt abuzz with presidential campaign \| csmonitor.com
		The Brotherhood, thousands of whose members have been jailed and released in recent months, encouraged their rank and file on Sunday to participate in the elections, a move seen as a lending an air of legitimacy to the elections.
		Though the Brotherhood denounced Mubarak, their statement has fueled rumors that the technically banned Islamist organization is cooperating with the government in exchange for increased seats in parliamentary elections later this year.
		The government appointed election commission has rejected requests by international election observers and local civil society organizations to supervise the elections.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0823/p06s01-wome.html?s=widep (1050 words)

	St. Petersburg Times Online
		The election is also seen as an opportunity to restart the peace process, since Israel and the United States rejected Arafat as both leader of the Palestinians and their chief negotiator.
		Semitransparent boxes were donated by the Danish government, for polling station staff to see the ballot but not read the contents.
		Whoever wins, difficult issues remain: The question of the right of return to Israel for Palestinian refugees; the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank; Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; the nature of the future Palestinian state and whether its capital will be east Jerusalem.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/01/08/sortitout-palestine (991 words)

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