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  • the government and Solidarity-led opposition led to semi-free elections ... the government and Solidarity-led opposition led to semi-free elections ...
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  • onto only eight of the total of 168 parliamentary seats. In 1980 she was ... Banadaranaike spent the next 17 years in opposition warding off challenges ...
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  • points of order. She was also Speaker during an Opposition campaign against the Energy Security Act, which culminated in a two-week bell-ringing episode ...
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  • and was opposed by the Conservative opposition, many of whom were large ... reform/from-the-collections/from-the-parliamentary-collections-the-parliament ...
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  • years. She was elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the ... government on December 6, 1990. In the parliamentary elections held under ...
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  • the first Speaker to be chosen from the opposition benches since 1835. Boothroyd ... Boothroyd contested parliamentary seats at Leicester South East (1957 ...
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  • The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... and lack of cohesion between the various opposition groups in the House, rather ...
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  • responsibilities had been considered, opposition by a number of politicians ... the members of the party formed a united opposition Democratic Nationalist ...
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  • 1976. A year later, she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry ... She assumed the official leadership of the opposition. ===Second Term ...
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  • political participation by the two main opposition parties. He was later found ... Ershad was regarded as an usurper. Opposition began as early as December ...
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  • 1888, lured largely by the prize of a parliamentary constituency. ... back benches. Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal ...
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  • was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of England ... In 1254, however, he led Parliamentary opposition to Henry's ...
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  • as Deputy Prime Minister in 1989. In opposition from 1990 until 1999, she ... === Leader of the Opposition === From October 1990 until December 1993 ...
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  • or less appointed the MP), he pursued parliamentary reforms to make the institution ... American colonies. Pitt also supported parliamentary reform measures, including ...
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  • of Finland as a result of the 1905 parliamentary elections. ... 18. Both the Liberal government and the opposition subsequently claimed credit ...
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  • Edward III. In 1321, he joined baronial opposition to Edward's profligacy ... == Opposition to Edward II == Edward's rule was unpopular with ...
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  • The Douglas bill caused a firestorm of opposition because it allowed ... the Lecompton Constitution, despite the opposition of Senator Douglas, who ...
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  • to swing in her favor. Election of the opposition party to government in ... In December 2001, she suffered a setback in the parliamentary election ...
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  • Labour Prime Minister to serve a full Parliamentary term and the first to ... Service. After initial Conservative opposition, this settlement, generally ...
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  • Awami League participated in the 1986 Parliamentary election held under President ... Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party. Hasina was defeated ...
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