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Topic: Sweden general election, 1998

	Swedish general election, 2006 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A general election will be held in Sweden on September 17, 2006 to elect members to the Riksdag.
		All 349 seats are up for election: 310 "fixed seats" in 29 electoral districts and 39 members at a national level for what are called "adjustment seats", used to ensure that parties have representation in the Riksdag proportional to their vote.
		The campaigning for the 2006 election began early, as the opposition decided to present itself as a viable alternative government by forming an alliance: Alliance for Sweden.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweden_general_election,_2006 (2400 words)

	Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the south of Sweden leaf-bearing trees are prolific, in the north pines, spruces and hardy birches dominate the landscape.
		Election turnout in Sweden has always been high in international comparisons, although it has declined in recent decades, and is currently around 80 percent (80.11 in Sweden general election, 2002).
		Sweden was also known to be the first western nation to detect unusually high radiation levels in the atmosphere, which later was confirmed to have been the residual nuclear fallout from the Chernobyl accident.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sweden (5978 words)

	1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 1998 - A massive ice storm, caused by El Niño, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
		UNESCO had previously declared 1998 to be the International Year of the Oceans due to the Expo.
		August 20 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1998 (5195 words)

	general elections in sweden 15th september 2002
		This timetable leads to the local and general elections occurring at the same time: there is an habitually high participation rate and the predominance of national political themes throughout the electoral campaign.
		During the last elections in 1998 30% revealed their choice on their voting slip, thereby ensuring the election of one quarter of the Riksdag.
		Over the last 17 years Sweden has been governed by them except for a short period from 1991 to 1994 where it was governed by a conservative coalition led by Carl Bildt and which brought together the Moderates, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/suede (1146 words)

	Major issues of the 1998 Swedish election
		AS SWEDEN PREPARES for what is likely to be the last national election of this century, most of the major issues are in one way or another related to the country's Nordic model of society, and its fate in a world that is increasingly dominated by multi-national corporations.
		In fact, it is generally agreed that the labour movement and its political instrument, the Social Democratic Party, have been steadily losing ground in the face of global trends which pose a growing threat to the Nordic model.
		Sweden's crucial forest industry, representing roughly one-half of total export revenues, provides a case in point: Having convinced themselves that the climate for their business was bad in Sweden, industry leaders have invested heavily abroad.
	www.nnn.se /archive/val-98/major.htm (4730 words)

	Sweden (07/06)
		Sweden suffered further territorial losses during the Napoleonic wars and was forced to cede Finland to Russia in 1809.
		Sweden's predominantly agricultural economy shifted gradually from village to private farm-based agriculture during the Industrial Revolution, but this change failed to bring economic and social improvements commensurate with the rate of population growth.
		While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality (Sweden had not joined the EU during the Cold War because it was incompatible with neutrality), others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2880.htm (3662 words)

	BBC News \| The Economy \| Sweden's Euro divide
		With the economy generally healthy and the budget now in surplus, it is the future of Sweden's relationship with European Monetary Union that is the main issue dividing the parties.
		Sweden's Social Democrats, who have been in power since 1994, are expected to return as a minority government.
		Sweden's business community has long been pressing for membership in the single currency, warning that jobs and investment could move south unless there was a clear commitment to join soon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/the_economy/172110.stm (601 words)

	[11 Sep 1998] GA/9434 : GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 166-ITEM GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA
		The General Committee, in two meetings held today, recommended 166 items for inclusion on the General Assembly's agenda for its fifty-third session and allocated them among the six Main Committees and the plenary.
		The representative of the United Kingdom said he agreed with the recommendation contained in paragraph 35, which refers to observances and commemorative meetings, on the understanding that in accordance with previous practice, the rule be applied with the necessary flexibility.
		The representative of Senegal suggested that the General Committee recommend that the General Assembly defer the item to its fifty-fourth session and to inscribe it on the provisional agenda for the next session without prejudice to the two parties involved.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19980911.ga9434.html (7392 words)

	general elections in sweden 15th september 2002 Results
		As soon as the results were announced its leader Bo Lundgren whose personality, that is especially lacking in charisma, was particularly criticised during the campaign, stated his desire to continue leading the party in spite of this extremely poor result.
		The Liberals have achieved a breakthrough that was forecast by all the opinion polls (13.4% versus 4.7% in 1998), and have won 31 seats in Parliament becoming the third political party in Sweden just behind the moderate Party.
		Sweden might be able to enter the Euro zone on 1St January 2005.However, not only will Göran Persson have to convince most of his countrymen but also the Left Party and the Greens as well as a number of members of his own party who are still opposed to economic and monetary Union.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/suede/resultats.htm (943 words)

	NATO/SFOR: UN Secretary General S/1998/500
		On the basis of that guarantee, a memorandum of understanding was concluded in July 1997 between the Government of Croatia and UNTAES on the ethnic composition and deployment of the police in the region in the post-UNTAES period.
		Holding elections in selected municipalities would mean a revision of the results of the election organized and certified under UNTAES and endorsed by the Security Council only one year ago.
		On 31 March 1998, my Representative wrote to the Head of the OSCE Mission in Croatia inviting OSCE to begin appropriate contingency planning for the intended transfer of the police monitoring function in the region to that organization.
	www.nato.int /ifor/un/1998/u980611b.htm (4463 words)

	Swedish general election campaign focuses on immigration
		Opening exchanges in the Swedish general election, to be held on September 15, have centred on immigration.
		Leijonborg told Radio Sweden, “You have to be an American data engineer with a job at IBM to possibly get a work permit, otherwise this kind of job-related immigration hardly exists at all....
		Leijonborg told Radio Sweden, “We do not have an immigration problem, we have an integration problem.” His comments were supported by Maud Olofsson, leader of the Centre Party, also in the right wing coalition, who declared, “We are not for strong walls....
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/aug2002/swed-a28.shtml (1288 words)

	[08 Oct 1998] GA/9474 : GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTS ARGENTINA, CANADA, MALAYSIA, NAMIBIA, NETHERLANDS TO SERVE TWO-YEAR ...
		Today's elections were held to fill non-permanent seats being vacated on 31 December by Costa Rica, Japan, Kenya, Portugal and Sweden, which were not eligible for immediate re-election.
		General Assembly President DIDIER OPERTTI (Uruguay), speaking prior to balloting, said, in accord with established practice, of the two States to be elected from African and Asian States, one should be from Africa and one from Asia.
		He informed the Assembly that in accordance with the rules of procedure, the election would be held by secret ballot and there would be no nominations.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1998/19981008.ga9474.html (709 words)

	Irish News, October 24, 1998
		In the 12 months up to 30 April, 1998, the Revenue Commissioners issued a total of 236,666 blank RCT-DC forms to principal building contractors for use with Labour Only Sub-Contractors — which building unions claim should be PAYE employees — which is twice as many as the number of building workers in the country.
		It is generally believed that workers in the Black Economy are registered as unemployed and receiving the whole gamut of social welfare benefits while being paid cash-in-hand in the building industry.
		That notice was refused by CAB in a letter of January 7, 1998, which informed him he may wish to have a late appeal.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/1998/october/24/ihead.htm (4503 words)

	1998 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		January 6 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon and later found evidence for frozen water in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
		October 28 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
		Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/1/9/9/1998.html (5038 words)

	1998 Election - Daily News - Week 4
		It is generally accepted that the government's campaign would benefit from a sense of unease in the community about the Asian crisis in the sense that it may encourage voters to believe that now is not the time to change governments.
		A feature of the election campaign now is that interest groups are emerging every day to argue their case for exemptions from the goods and services tax.
		After Whitlam was effectively forced to an early election in 1974, he was returned to office with a decrease in the primary vote of 0.3% and the net loss of one seat.
	www.australianpolitics.com /elections/1998/news4.shtml (7795 words)

	Swedish political parties— 1998 election
		But its general profile has often been difficult for voters to discern, especially since it insists on a form of leadership divided between two "spokespersons", one male and one female.
		The Conservatives tend to soften their generally harsh criticism of the Nordic model at election time, since the vast majority of the population favours its retention.
		The Conservatives tend to soften their generally harsh criticism of the Nordic model at election time, since they are aware that the vast majority of the population favours its retention.
	www.nnn.se /archive/val-98/parties.htm (1911 words)

	Voter turnout: the greatest unknown in Election '98 - October 23, 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under normal circumstances, the upcoming election would seem to be a fairly easy call since the party that's not in the White House usually does well during off-year elections.
		In many less-scandalized elections, checkbook issues often determine the outcome, and it's possible the same may be true this year.
		But projecting those results onto the general election in an effort to predict turnout in November could be an exercise in futility.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/23/voter.turnout (1264 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
		The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
		General Elections in the Republic of Northern Cyprus, December 2003
		National Electoral Committee has information in English on the Parliamentary Elections of 1995 and 1999, and the local elections of 1996, plus an overview of elections from 1989-1996.
	www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm (1374 words)

	Behind the Scenes: The AEC's 1998 Federal Election Report
		This handbook is intended as a useful reference for party officers and others involved with the election funding and financial disclosure provisions of the Act.
		The behind the scenes story of the conduct of the 1998 federal election and summary of results.
		The election statistics series is the official publication of the results of the 1998 half-Senate and House of Representatives election.
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/When/elections/1998/report/appendix.htm (999 words)

	Hungary holds first general election since joining EU - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance
		Hungarians head to the polls on Sunday in the first general election since the country joined the European Union in 2004, with the governing Socialists expected to edge out the main conservative Fidesz party according to the latest polls.
		The election is shaping up to be a battle between the young, charismatic leaders of the two main parties, Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany and Fidesz leader and former premier Viktor Orban.
		Orban, who was prime minister from 1998 to 2002, is meanwhile looking to become the first premier to win a second term.
	www.eubusiness.com /East_Europe/060404020602.gfsv0vr8 (913 words)

	British general election: Northern Ireland vote deepens instability
		The June 7 general election saw a sharp polarisation in the vote between the more extreme pro-British unionist and Irish republican parties in Northern Ireland.
		Paisley proclaimed the election result as a vindication of his party's opposition to the Good Friday Agreement and Sinn Fein being allowed into the devolved government institutions before the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had decommissioned its weapons.
		The day the election results were announced, British Prime Minister Tony Blair telephoned the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to discuss a crisis meeting at the upcoming European summit in Gothenburg in Sweden this week.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jun2001/ire-j12_prn.shtml (1375 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ex-general nears victory in Indonesia election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With over 80 million votes counted, or about two-thirds of the ballots cast in Monday's election, Yudhoyono was leading with 61%, while incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri had 39%, according to the General Election Commission.
		The election was the first in which Indonesian voters chose their leader directly, and was a key step in the sprawling nation's transition to democracy.
		Yudhoyono is popular in Washington because of his relatively hardline stance on terrorism in the strategically located nation, the target of three major attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group in the past two years, including the 2002 Bali bombings.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-09-21-indonesia_x.htm (792 words)

	CFP 2004 / Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference
		Baker is the former General Counsel of the National Security Agency (1992-1994) and author of the book, The Limits of Trust: Cryptography, Governments, and Electronic Commerce (1998), as well as various other publications and articles on electronic commerce and international trade.
		As Registrar of Voters for San Bernardino County, Scott is responsible for administering elections for the largest geographic election jurisdiction in the continental United States (21,000 square miles), with 650,000 registered voters.
		Scott's election career began in 1995, after a 15 year career as an Army Intelligence Officer, when he was appointed as the Elections and Voter Registration Manager for Salt Lake County, Utah.
	www.cfp2004.org /program/speakers.html (17893 words)

	SE- SWEDISH ELECTION STUDY 1998 -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abstract: This is the fourteenth election study carried out in Sweden in connection with a Swedish general election.
		The interview included questions on how much the respondent takes part of political matters in mass media; political interest in general and political discussions among family and friends; important issues when deciding how to vote; and preferred formation of the government after the election as well as person preferred as prime minister.
		As in earlier election studies the respondent had to place the political parties on a political left-right scale.
	www.ssd.gu.se /kid/swe/ssd0750.html (336 words)

	Minutes of the General Assembly Meeting, Munich, 11th september 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dr G.C. van der Weijden, who advised the General Assembly to adopt the financial records as presented and to exonerate the Treasurer and the entire WAHVM Board from their financial responsibilities for the year 1997.
		The Board, during its meeting of 10th September 1998, decided to propose to the General Assembly to adjust the Articles 8.1-8.4 as proposed by the Secretary.
		The General Assembly endorsed this proposal by acclamation.
	wahvm.vet.uu.nl /board/munichminutes.html (1818 words)

	Philip Merrill College of Journalism \| University of Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At The Providence Journal, where he was a reporter from 1981 to 1995, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts.
		In 1998, he returned to the College, where he teaches courses on writing the complex story, the press and the civil rights movement, and newsroom management.
		Since 1998, her students have won nearly 40 regional and national citations from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Hearst Foundation.
	www.journalism.umd.edu /faculty (3773 words)

	Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Aims For 1998 Election - NORML
		Although this year's proposal failed to collect the 73,261 registered voters' signatures necessary to place the initiative on the 1996 ballot, organizers are convinced that a future, more organized, and better funded campaign will be successful.
		The measure would also allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to patients through pharmacies, allow farmers to grow marijuana with a license for sales to the state, allow adults to grow marijuana for personal use without a license, and allow for industrial hemp cultivation.
		Ninety percent of the net proceeds will go to a state general fund, and the remaining 10 percent will be used to fund drug abuse education and treatment programs.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=3659 (480 words)

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