Women in the elections of the European Parliament

It performed disastrously in recent elections for local councils and the European parliament.

The system was first used in the 2009 election of Members of the European Parliament.

He was a SYRIZA candidate for the European Parliament in the elections of 25 May 2014.

This is one of the lowest thresholds for national parliament elections in the world.

He resigned only after winning election to parliament.

In response, protesters have staged a parliament sit in until the resignation of parliament members and elections are held.

If these efforts fail, a dissolution of parliament and a fresh election may be the last resort.

The first was the election in February 1974, and the ensuing parliament lasted only until October.

At age 91, he was also the oldest person elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 election.

After the 1976 federal elections, which made the CDU CSU the largest group in parliament, Carstens was elected president of the Bundestag on 14 December 1976.

Qatar today announced it will hold parliamentary elections in the second half of 2013.

It contested the 1979 and 1983 elections to Lagtinget , without winning any seat.

In the 2009 European Parliament election he won a seat in the European Parliament with Finland's highest personal vote share (nearly 10 of all votes), becoming the first member of the Finns Party in the European Parliament.

She returned to the national Parliament in the elections of 2003, and in 2009, she was re elected to the European Parliament.

In the 2002 elections, 35 women had been elected to Parliament, and there were two women ministers in the present Government.

The provisions had been implemented for the first time in elections to the European Parliament and had resulted in an increase in the number of Italian women parliamentarians.

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In the European Parliament election of 2009 the Swedish Pirate Party received 7.1 percent of the votes, winning two seats and achieving the first major success of a Pirate Party in an election.

In 2009, its parliament extended its term until 2017, with no elections, citing instability as a reason.

The opposition parties gained more than 200 parliamentary seats, compared with just 12 in the 2000 elections.

The party eventually received 7.1 of the vote in the 7th June election, and won a seat in the European Parliament.

Municipal elections were planned for 2006 and elections to the national parliament for the following year.

When three members of parliament sought to question the Prime Minister their right, under the Kuwaiti constitution the parliament was dissolved and elections called.

As the United Kingdom is a member of the European Union, there are elections held regionally in England to decide who is sent as Members of the European Parliament.

The results of the 2004 elections showed a threefold increase in the percentage of women elected to Parliament as compared with 1994.

One idea making the rounds is for the European Parliament to define the ECB s objectives, on the basis that it is democratically elected as if the Maastricht Treaty did not result from a democratic process.

The remaining two posts, president of the European Parliament and the Mr. Euro job currently held by Juncker, will also have to contribute to overall balance and reflect the outcome of the European Parliament elections in mid 2009.

Faced with a possible constitutional coup that would have eviscerated his powers, President Viktor Yushchenko has dissolved Ukraine s parliament and called for new elections.

Germany went from having 37 female Members of Parliament out of 577, to none, after the German election, November 1933.

If its leadership can build on this success, the AfD will make news in next spring s European Parliament elections.

The 2004 elections for the European Parliament had already shown that the level of discontent with the Union was high.

The Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 require that a new election must be called no later than five years after the previous general election.

In the elections of 8 August 1910, almost half the seats in the parliament were won by Independents, who were newcomers to the Greek political scene.

If the third vote is fruitless, Parliament is dissolved and elections are proclaimed by the outgoing President within the next 30 days.

In the United Kingdom, the Fixed term Parliaments Act 2011 set elections for Parliament on the first Thursday in May every five years.

Following the 2004 elections, the European People s Party (EPP), which regroups right and center right parties, held 288 MPs of the Parliament s 785 seats.

The answer is not nearly enough, and the political price may be high at next summer s European Parliament elections.

Failure to do so would bring the risk of still greater political problems after next June s European elections.

At the 2011 elections the Scottish National Party won re election and achieved an overall majority in the Scottish parliament, with its leader, Alex Salmond, as First Minister of Scotland.

In a Westminster parliamentary system, the defeat of an appropriation bill in a parliamentary vote generally necessitates either the resignation of a government or the calling of a general election.

The independent expert stressed the importance of free and fair elections, and that the Somaliland authorities would be strongly encouraging the Parliament to hold the scheduled elections.

He looks pathetic because the high court certified the March 7 election results and declared Ayad Allawi the man with the most seats in parliament.

Strong pan European center right and center left political parties are likely to contest the European Parliament elections in the spring of 2009.

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a strong force in parliament despite the limits imposed on the participation of Islamist groups in last year s elections.