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  Dutch general election, 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections in the Netherlands for the Tweede Kamer of Parliament
The Dutch general election of 2002, held on May 15, 2002 was completely focused on the assassination of populist leader Pim Fortuyn, who questioned all forms of policies undertaken by the “purple cabinet” of Wim Kok.
The election of May 15, 2002 was the beginning of a year of political chaos in the Netherlands as the inexperienced members of the LPF spent their time on public fights.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_general_election,_2002   (302 words)

  
 Elections in the Netherlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections in the Netherlands gives information on election and election results in the Netherlands.
It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
Two weeks before the election all voters receive a card in which they are called to vote (this card is the evidence that one is a registered voter and it must be handed in in order to vote).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutch_general_election   (481 words)

  
 Category:Election Data - Wikisource
An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office.
This category is for pages that contain data about election results anywhere in the world.
This can include the results of elections from federal, sub-national and municipal authorities, and can include referendum results.
wikisource.org /wiki/Category:Election_Data   (95 words)

  
 Asia Society: Publications - Indonesia's 1999 Elections
Decreed that parliamentary elections should be held in May or June 1999, that all parties meeting the legal requirements would be able to compete, and that appointed military representation in legislative bodies should gradually be reduced in accordance with a law to be enacted later.
Elections in 1999 will for the first time be held on a holiday to avoid workplace pressure and the possibility, as has happened in the past, that supervisors will know how their employees voted and take punitive action against them.
He is handicapped by the generally low esteem in which the military is now held, but he should not be ruled out as a contender for one of the top two jobs, especially if a turbulent election campaign increases the public desire for stability.
www.asiasociety.org /publications/update_indonesia.html   (14133 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Presidential elections scheduled for 2005 are unlikely to bring change since the opposition remains weak, divided, and financially dependent on the current regime.
The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945.
Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: The Republic of South Africa Electoral System
In the 1981 general election the PFP, led since 1979 by an Afrikaner, Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, increased its representation in the House of Assembly to 26 seats, consolidating its position as the Official Opposition to the NP.
After losing a House of Assembly by-election to the CP in the constituency of Potchefstroom, the government held a referendum on March 17, 1992, in which the white electorate was asked whether it supported the continuation of the reform process aimed at a new constitution through negotiation.
The elections were to be held under an interim constitution, approved on November 18 by the multi-party conference, and by Parliament on December 22.
electionresources.org /za/system   (8482 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Dutch Culture
It is perfectly true that the Dutch carried thrift and saving and industry to a fault; selling everything and living on little; but when one understands their origins and what for centuries they had been through in the Palatinate, one realizes how it was with the Dutch.
The Dutch, even before they came to America, had seen plenty of soldiering, and it is therefore not surprising that they ranked high in Revolutionary soldiering-nor that in the great World War America picked as the head of her entire army, the largest in American history, General John J. Pershing, a Dutchman.
The imagination of the Dutch, due to their language handicap, was rarely expressed in written words, although there exists now a fair amount of verse and story in dialect, written in the last 40 years.
www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/culture   (19961 words)

  
 Sri Lanka - Parlimentary Election 2000 by Lanka Academic Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The election campaign was marred by widespread violence, including the death of over 70 people, and numerous violations of the election laws.
Occupied by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century and the Dutch in the seventeenth century it became a British colony in 1802.
In an assesment of the election process in Sri Lanka, The Asia Foundation's Election Advisor, Tim Meisburger, found that one of the most serious structural deficiencies is the failure to respect the secrecy of the ballot.
www.lacnet.org /srilanka/politics/elections/Oct2000   (1384 words)

  
 Dave Kopel on Second Amendment & Election 2002 on National Review Online
While the White House expected Sununu to cruise in the general election, his arrogant personality (perhaps inherited from his father) contrasts markedly with likeable Governor Jeanne Shaheen (F, NR), and the race is a toss-up.
Lautenberg is currently touting his authorship of the "Lautenberg Amendment," a 1994 provision in the Clinton crime bill which made it illegal for anyone with a domestic violence misdemeanor — no matter how far in the past — to even a hold a gun in his or her hands.
On election night, he'll be providing Colorado and national election commentary on KBDI-TV Channel 12 in Denver, simulcast on the web on KNRC radio, 1510 AM, from 8-10 p.m.
www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel110402.asp   (6892 words)

  
 Analysis
Wednesday's general election in the Netherlands has grandly endorsed Prime Minister Wim Kok's Labour party.
The Dutch election campaign has been rather dull, partly due to the fact that there weren't any hot issues and probably because most Dutch wanted a second Purple cabinet.
Concluding, few changes are expected in Dutch government policy, since Prime-Minister Wim Kok and his coalition partner Frits Bolkestein have made it quite clear that they want to continue the policy that the Dutch government has followed in the past four years.
www.rnw.nl /election/html/analysis.html   (547 words)

  
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Duma elections were held on December 19, 1999 and presidential elections March 26, 2000.
Both the presidential and parliamentary elections were judged generally free and fair by international observers.
The July 1994 Law on the Constitutional Court prohibits the court from examining cases on its own initiative and limits the scope of issues the court can hear.
www2.msstate.edu /~travis/russia.html   (3300 words)

  
 NRC Handelsblad - Den Haag: Dutch voters shift to the Right   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The general elections were predicted to be most the bizarre and unpredictable the Netherlands have ever seen - and they were.
During the election campaign, he insisted on a return to norms and values and refused to exclude the LPF from participating in a new coalition government.
The election result means that a centre-right coalition, containing the CDA, VVD and LPF, with a majority of 92 seats, is the most likely.
www.nrc.nl /denhaag/1021526553414.html   (709 words)

  
 Core Reports - Australia - HRI/CORE/1/Add.44 (1994)
Following a general election in the federal sphere, the Governor-General commissions a member of the Parliament to be Prime Minister.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Dutch explored the surrounding seas and the coastline of Australia.
It was generally recognized that that position was unsatisfactory and Federal/State discussions were commenced to resolve the constitutional difficulties which stood in the way of a complete abolition of Privy Council appeals and other rules and procedures that were relics of the Imperial past.
www.bayefsky.com /core/australia_hri_core_1_add.44_1994.php   (10464 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He continues to imply that he is "the middle" of politics despite the clear election results of the loss of so many of his compatriots in the his idea of the middle.
Passage of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs is part of the both the Clinton and the Republican agenda.
It is about time Clinton found a dutch uncle rather than a sensitivity counselor to talk with him.
www.giwersworld.org /mgiwer/94-2.html   (596 words)

  
 Editorial: Code of Conduct for Politicians...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
THE SWIFT AND non-contentious conclusion of our Election 2000 while America, the acclaimed Father of Democracy, wrangled acrimoniously over theirs held a few weeks earlier, won the country much mileage as a place where democratic ethos was fast developing taproots.
He said the objective of the code is to ensure that electioneering was done with decorum and without inflammatory language to ensure that nothing was done to create tension and disrupt the congenial atmosphere of the elections.
From stories carried in their publications, these editors appear to be against election violence and would freely contribute their quota to minimise, if not curb it altogether, if properly approached.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/features/artikel.php?ID=57493   (659 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Dutch general joins Srebrenica exodus
General Van Baal was the second-highest ranking officer in the army at the time of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, when up to 8,000 men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
News of his resignation came as the Dutch parliament met to decide how the country should be run until a general election is held on 15 May.
The effect of the mass resignation on Dutch voters remains to be seen.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1935484.stm   (468 words)

  
 English Usage Archives Page
Marcel Proust, a famous snob from a country generally thought to be teeming with them, defined snobbery as "admiration of something in other people unconnected with their personality." He also called it "the greatest sterilizer of inspiration, the greatest deadener of originality, the greatest destroyer of talent." Perhaps, Mr.
Generally the words represented as being an item of direct speech seem not to claim to be the actual words used.
A year that began with a disputed U.S. election and finished with a war in Afghanistan also produced a wealth of "overused, misused and generally useless words and phrases" that ought to be banned, a U.S. university said on Monday.
www.yaelf.com /archives.shtml   (17598 words)

  
 maryland
He was elected to a second term in November of 1998, winning more than 70 per cent of the vote in the countywide general election.
Prior to his election as County Executive, Dutch was a partner with the law firm of Ruppersberger, Clark, and Mister for 14 years.
Not only are her views outdated for this Maryland district, but she is not spending nearly enough money or running an effective campaign at all.
aurora.wells.edu /~ryoung/maryland.html   (366 words)

  
 Happy days are here again
Predictably, it was not an easy task, but persuasion, persistence and patience paid off when the flab was finally removed to bring in a well-structured 21-member force to conduct the administration.
Although the contours of the polarisation were visible on the eve of the elections, the 61-year-old charming Dutch lady sailed through on the second count after the 40-40 deadlock.
In the same way as she did in 1994 taking over as the first woman Secretary-General, Els became the first-ever woman President, taking the mantle from the debonair Spaniard, Juan Calzado.
www.sportstaronnet.com /tss2452/24520850.htm   (2026 words)

  
 Holocaust History - Poland's Holocaust - Maps & Info
The September 1993 election to the Sejm was held according to the new election law with a 5% vote required for representation in the Parliament (for electoral coalitions (this threshold was set at 8%).
Actually, the new election rules limited the number of political parties represented in the Parliament is 6 as compared to 29 previously.
In April of 1994, the Democratic Union merged with the Liberal Party (not represented in the Sejm), to form the Freedom Union (UW).
www.holocaustforgotten.com /info.htm   (1618 words)

  
 The Flemish Republic
In the 1999 elections, the Vlaams Blok leapt to 15.3 % of the Flemish votes and to 15 seats in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
The week before the 1995 general elections, the then Prime Minister, Jean-Luc Dehaene, ran an ad in Antwerp’s biggest newspaper telling the Antverpians that if they voted Vlaams Blok, the government in Brussels would not listen to them: “No-one in Brussels cares about Antwerp anymore.
The Antwerp affair has turned the cordon sanitaire into the central issue of the coming general elections on 18 May. All parties have reaffirmed their adherence to it, but they are rapidly losing public support.
www.flemishrepublic.org /current_issue.php?id=3&artikelsoort=2   (539 words)

  
 The 1996 Suriname Elections
In the months after the 1996 elections, 10 New Front members elected to parliament left the New Front to join in a coalition with the NDP, leaving the New Front with 14 seats and boosting the NDP total to 26 seats.
Dutch aid was squandered, much of it used by the ruling NPS to
elections for a new civilian government, but would remain as military commander.
www.parbo.com /information/census.html   (3293 words)

  
 E/1996/54 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (a), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of two members from candidates nominated by the World Health Organization 1.
The Secretary-General informed the Economic and Social Council, at its organizational session for 1996, of the conditions under which the forthcoming election of members to the International Narcotics Control Board would be held.
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 2491 (XXIII) of 21 December 1968, the members of the Board receive a per diem allowance while participating in Board sessions or in official missions.
www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-54.htm   (817 words)

  
 CFP 2005 > PANOPTICON'05
By 1994, she had already explored the impact of the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why many software products are now turning into online services).
From 1994 to 1997 she was an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies Department of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Goldberg was awarded the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, the Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award in 2000, the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in 2001 and named IEEE Fellow in 2005.
cfp2005.org /Speakers.html   (11865 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / South Africa
Mahlasela, Benjamin E. A General Survey of Xhosa Literature from Its Early Beginnings in the 1800s to the Present.
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump.
Washington: Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, 1994.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/south_africa/za_bibl.html   (10072 words)

  
 Pro-life Infonet - 09/20/2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Amsterdam, Netherlands -- A Dutch nurse accused of killing 13 people has denied murdering her patients at a trial in the Netherlands.
Critics of the Dutch law say it could allow qualified medical staff to easily get away with murder and warn that more cases similar to De Berk's could surface under the new law.
The only other publicly released poll of the general election race, an August survey taken for the National Republican Congressional Committee, put Beauprez's lead at 8 points.
www.priestsforlife.org /news/infonet/infonet02-09-20.htm   (3179 words)

  
 Timeline 600CE to 999CE
Based on folk tales known to the Anglo-Saxons prior to their invasion of England, the work is made up primarily of pagan myths and legends.
The followers of Ali became known as Shiites from the Arabic meaning "the party of Ali." Those who believe that the election of the first three caliphs was valid and who claim to follow the Sunna reject the Shiite idea of the Imam, and are called the Sunnis.
One Abbasid general, Abdullah, invited 80 Umayyad leaders to a banquet where they were killed by Abdullah’s men.
timelines.ws /0600AD_999AD.HTML   (10742 words)

  
 Maryland 2004 General Election
President 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2000, 2004.
Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006.
Governors' by election 'cycle' -- Governors by Region and Subregion
www.thegreenpapers.com /G04/MD.phtml   (446 words)

  
 Ephemera Society of America
It begins with a selection of writings on ephemera in general, paper, and conservation.
Fraktur: the illuminated manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
The History of street literature: the story of broadside ballads, chapbooks, proclamations, news-sheets, election bills, tracts, pamphlets, cocks, catchpennies and other ephemera.
www.ephemerasociety.org /bibliography.html   (1578 words)

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