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	Motion of Confidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament or other assembly of elected representatives to give members of parliament (or other such assembly) a chance to register their confidence in a government.
		A Motion of Confidence may be proposed in the government collectively or in any member thereof, including the prime minister.
		However, tactical Motions of Confidence are dangerous, as they may backfire catastrophically against those who use them, if they have misjudged the willingness of their opponents to call the proposer's bluff and vote against the motion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_of_Confidence (1031 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Motion of Confidence
		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.
		A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament to give members of parliament a chance to register their confidence for a government by means of a parliamentary vote.
		A Motion of Confidence may also be used tactically to humilate critics of a government (often from the inside of the governing party or parties) who nevertheless dare not vote against the government.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Motion-of-Confidence (2137 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.
		For example, in Germany, Spain, and Israel, a vote of No Confidence requires that the opposition, on the same ballot, propose a candidate of their own whom they want to be appointed as successor by the respective head of state.
		Thus the Motion of No Confidence is required to be at the same time a Motion of Confidence for a new candidate (this variation is called a Constructive Vote of No Confidence).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence (985 words)

	Motion of no confidence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The motion is passed or rejected by means of a parliamentary vote.
		This procedure is either formalized through constitutional convention as is the case with the United Kingdom or explicitly stated in the constitutional law as is the case with Germany.
		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.
	www.yorbalinda.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Motion_of_No_Confidence (870 words)

	Motion of Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed by a government in a parliament to give members ofparliament a chance to register their confidence for a government by means of a parliamentary vote.
		A Motion of Confidence may also be used tactically to humilate critics of a government (often from the inside of the governingparty or parties) who nevertheless dare not vote against the government.
		However, tactical Motions of Confidence are dangerous, as they may backfire catastrophically against those who use them, ifthey have misjudged the willingness of their opponents to call the proposer's bluff and vote against the motion.
	www.therfcc.org /motion-of-confidence-108080.html (616 words)

	The Confidence Convention and the May 10, 2005 Vote
		In the most prominent of these loses, governments have introduced their own explicit motion of confidence for the House to vote on; this is an important response which is needed to settle whether the government still has a right to govern.
		However the motion is worded, the essence of a confidence motion is to embody the House's judgment that the government is unfit in some way to govern.
		That motion also recommended that a committee report be amended and precipitated the whole King-Byng crisis, when the Governor General refused a dissolution to King on the grounds that he should not avoid a censure motion then before the House but not voted on; this was the Stevens' motion.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/conventions.html (1101 words)

	Motion of Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Motion of Confidence is a motion of support proposed a government in a parliament to give of parliament a chance to register their for a government by means of a vote.
		A Motion of Confidence may be proposed the government collectively or in many member including the prime minister.
		However tactical Motions of Confidence are dangerous they may backfire catastrophically against those who them if they have misjudged the willingness their opponents to call the proposer's bluff vote against the motion.
	www.freeglossary.com /Motion_of_Confidence (942 words)

	MOTION OF CENSURE AND VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A motion of no confidence in the Government may not be submitted before the lapse of six months from the rejection by the parliament of such a motion (Article 84.2 of the Constitution).
		The motion of no confidence must be signed by at least one sixth of the deputies and must contain in detail the topic to be discussed.
		The debate on the motion of no confidence commences two days after the submission of the motion, and may not be extended beyond three days from the commencement thereof.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/CtrlParlementaire/2125_F1.htm (278 words)

	Political Commentary from a Nobody: It is A Vote of Confidence
		Forgetting the fact that I do not believe the motion should be in order at all, but since the Speaker has ruled that it is, we must accept it is a motion of confidence against the government.
		The Liberals are arguing that is a procedural motion and thus not a confidence motion.
		Although the motion recommends that the committee recommend that the government resign, the fact is if the motion passes then a majority of members of the house believe that the committee should change the report to say the government should resign.
	politicalnobody.blogspot.com /2005/05/it-is-vote-of-confidence.html (639 words)

	The Confidence Convention and th
		That motion also recommended that a committee report be amended and precipitated the whole King-Byng crisis, when the Governor General refused a dissolution to King on the grounds that he should not avoid a confidence motion then before the House but not voted on; this was the Stevens' motion.
		Where a motion is passed that appears to convey a loss of confidence but some ambiguity remains, the precedents indicate the proper constitutional course of action is for the government to introduce its own confidence motion within a few days.
		The wording of the May motion certainly conveys enough of the essence of confidence that the government should at a minimum respond to its passage with its own clearly-worded motion of confidence.
	www.sfu.ca /~aheard/conventions-1.html (967 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Australian PM censured over Iraq
		While the motion declared opposition to any unilateral US attack on Iraq, it did not go quite as far as the Greens had hoped.
		And a no-confidence motion similar to that passed in the Senate was defeated in Australia's lower House of Representatives on Wednesday.
		The conservative majority ensured the motion fell by 82 votes to 63.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2727551.stm (448 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		Kanu's strategy may be to use this particular motion to silence the rebels in its midst, among them the 13 who appended their signatures on the 84-group.
		The timing of the confidence motion by extension, coming soon after a revamped civil service under Dr Richard Leakey may also be a way of sending a message to the donors that the Kanu government enjoys popular support from the House and by extension the electorate.
		In the Kenyan Parliament, the late Tom Mboya brought a similar motion in 1969 to counter Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's Opposition and to defuse the notion that Kenya was bending to the Marxist ideology of the former Eastern bloc.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/050899/News/News9.html (361 words)

	Motion of Confidence - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Motion of Confidence
		The opposition may move a vote of ‘no confidence’; if the vote is carried, it requires the government, by convention, to resign.
		In Germany, a ‘constructive vote of no confidence’ is held in which a majority of assembly members are required to vote positively in favour of an alternative executive leader (or chancellor).
		The last prime minister to be defeated in the House of Commons and forced to resign was Labour prime minister James Callaghan 1979.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Motion+of+Confidence (247 words)

	Senate declares no confidence motion in PM
		The Senate passed a six-point motion attacking the government.
		It included the censure, a vote of no confidence in Mr Howard and insistence the UN be involved in disarming Iraq.
		The Greens had sought an amendment to condemn any military action in Iraq whether with or without UN backing but the amendment was defeated 56-10 when the ALP voted with the government.
	www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_020503_general10.html (322 words)

	CBC News: Harper unveils no-confidence motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The House of Commons is expected to vote on the motion on Nov. 28.
		The motion stems from a plan to oust the Liberals that came out of talks between Harper, NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe on Nov. 13.
		The Liberals opted to ignore the non-binding motion, painting it as an attempt by the opposition parties to avoid aggravating voters by forcing a holiday election.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/11/23/ottawa-politics051123.html (281 words)

	nir005 Motion of no confidence withdrawn in Niger
		The opposition had accused the government of "misrule," "misappropriation of scarce resources," and the granting of public contracts in a manner that was "in breach of the legislation in force" and indicting the government for "setting up a totalitarian regime," PANA reported, quoting parliamentary sources.
		However, he stressed, the Prime Minister "does not enjoy the confidence of an increasing majority of the deputies." Therefore, the "struggle continues" and it would be likely that a new motion would be presented within short time.
		According to 'Kakaki', this was the third time that the opposition has brought a motion of no confidence against the government since the current Assembly took office in January 2000.
	www.afrol.com /News2001/nir005_no_confidence.htm (628 words)

	No-confidence motion ... - Jul. 26, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TOKYO — Japanese opposition parties tabled a no-confidence motion against the cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Friday in a bid to delay the passage of a bill allowing Japanese troops to be sent to Iraq.
		In the unlikely event that the motion were approved, Koizumi would have to choose between the cabinet resigning en masse or calling a general election.
		Opposition lawmakers literally dragged their feet in going up to vote on the respective censure motions Thursday evening through early Friday, delaying the start of debate of the bill, which had been set for Thursday by the upper house Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/jul/26/text/wnw_1-1-p.htm (406 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Duma rejects no-confidence motion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unity, the main party supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin, withdrew its backing for the motion on Tuesday, leaving the Communists and their allies with not nearly enough votes to pass the motion.
		It was the first vote of no confidence since Putin became acting president at the end of last year and one of the few times that the Communist Party has openly challenged his government's policies.
		Speaking in favor of the motion, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said: "We are motivated by our understanding of the tragedy which is continuing in the country.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=2087 (291 words)

	Politics Watch - Canada's Political Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Valeri said he expects the motion to be returned to committee and debated there before returning to the House to be voted on.
		He said the opposition parties are "spinning" that their motion is a confidence motion.
		Nonetheless, although concurrence motions are non-binding, this could potentially lead to a vote in the House declaring non-confidence in the government.
	www.politicswatch.com /house-may9-2005.htm (450 words)

	Constructive Vote Of No Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Constructive Vote of No Confidence (in German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum) is a specialty of the 1949 German constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law).
		As a result, the failure of a Motion of Confidence does not automatically trigger the resignation of the government.
		To obtain a clearer majority in the Bundestag (which seemed to be in reach according to the polls), after the vote, Helmut Kohl put up a Motion of Confidence in which the new CDU-FDP coalition intentionally voted against the Chancellor that it just put into power.
	www.wikiverse.org /constructive-vote-of-no-confidence (1081 words)

	MOTION OF CENSURE AND VOTES OF NO CONFIDENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Motions may be passed following an inquiry, a declaration or a debate.
		There are reasoned motions that contain recommendations to the Government without giving an expression of confidence in respect of it; pure and simples motions, which the Assembly moves on from to the following item on its agenda, and constructive motions of no confidence whose adoption obligates the Government to resign.
		It is likewise customary for the Chamber to adopt a non-constructive motion of no confidence, obligating a particular minister to resign.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/CtrlParlementaire/2029_F1.htm (258 words)

	Motion of confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Confidence".
		: The motion to amend is now open for discussion.
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Motion".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Motion_of_confidence.html (162 words)

	Lok Sabha rejects no-confidence motion
		The opposition pressed for a division after the motion was rejected by a voice vote.
		As rightly said by the leader of the opposition it is the their right and responsibility to check the government.
		This No Confidence motion shows how desperate the opposition is to grab the power at any cause.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/aug/19ncm20.htm (297 words)

	Motion of no confidence set for December 2
		He said he has replied in a letter to the Opposition leader Sato Kilman that the motion was in order while Parliament has been summoned to meet in its second ordinary session on Tuesday November 30.
		The Opposition leader said the Taiwan issue was the main reason for the motion of no confidence.
		Mr Kilman was aware of Vohor’s statement carried by both Taiwan and China media of his strong position on Taiwan —contrary to the Council of Ministers’ decision.
	www.news.vu /en/news/politics/041125-motion-set-for-december-2.shtml (552 words)

	Motion of Confidence - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the failure of such a motion of Confidence the Federal Chancellor can ask the Federal President to dissolve the Bundestag or to call the Legislative State of Emergency (Gesetzgebungsnotstand).
		The procedure - considered by many to be unconstitutional - is affirmed by the Federal Constitutional Court.
		Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wants his coalition to pass by an own majority a government motion which is to allow German soldiers to take part in the U.S.-led military action Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Confidence_vote (716 words)

	Motion Of Confidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mr Rini remained defiant on Friday, staring down a no-confidence motion and rejecting mounting calls for him to resign in the wake of the destructive riots...
		This is because he knew his colleagues were colluding to table a motion of no confidence in him, the former Foreign Affairs Minister in the Labour-led...
		The party, garnering votes for a no-confidence motion against Rini, say they now only need one further vote for the tactic to succeed.
	motion-of-confidence.wikiverse.org (825 words)

	CTV.ca \| Liberals will ignore Tory non-confidence motion
		But House Leader Tony Valeri shrugged it off, saying the motion is only a procedural matter that has no binding effect on the government and that the Liberals would not step down from power if it should pass.
		The Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois maintained that if the Speaker of the House approved the motion, it would be a clear expression that Parliament has lost confidence in the government and would make an election necessary.
		The Liberals appear to be running out of room to manoeuvre, and will likely face a confidence test by late June -- either in the form of a budget vote or a confidence motion.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1115326655971_110735855/?hub=Canada (591 words)

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