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Mexico's once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, which appeared on the brink of political oblivion just three years ago, staged a stunning comeback in Sunday's midterm elections to emerge again as the largest bloc in the lower house of Congress.
All 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, 300 elected directly and 200 by proportional representation, were at stake Sunday, as well as six of the country's 31 governorships.
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Sixty-nine members of the 130-seat chamber of deputies are elected directly and 61 members are elected by proportional representation to five-year terms. The president of the island nation off the coast of Africa is elected to a five-year term by popular vote.
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... seats in parliament's directly elected chamber. . Basking in its pseudo-hegemonic status, Congres...
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This study will examine the United States, China, and the United Kingdom's business strategies for political and economic operations. This analysis is aimed at determining if their strategy is working successfully or not. Statistical data has indicated the effectiveness of these governments. The United States scored high in five of seven categories, while the United Kingdom's parliamentary monarchy ranked second in four of seven categories; China's communism ranked third in four of seven categories.
... on a first-past-the-post basis; the upper chamber, the House of Lords, was reformed in late 1999. Mo...
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...In each case, the lower chamber has come to represent the individual citizenry esp...
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... to secure the approval of a legislative chamber needed for its enactment. From the outside, this w...
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Morocco's King Hussan has been able to satisfy demands for democratization and social change in the adverse conditions of a Western-influenced economic transformation. Yet the monarchy has been able to sustain itself through a strategy of political dualism. The monarch can only remain strong by carrying out democratic reform.
...provides for both a directly elected . Chamber of Representatives (a . long-standing request . of...
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... had originated in the Senate because that Chamber was the first to pass an assessment provision, id....
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Kazakh reforms
Kazakhstan's new secretary of state yesterday wrapped up an intense visit to Washington, where he explained new constitutional reforms in a Central Asian nation criticized for a weak democracy and lobbied for U.S. support for his government's bid to chair a major European body that promotes political freedom and security.
... Senate, will be directly elected, and the chamber's membership was increased to 15 from seven. Senat...
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...Chamber of Commerce filed a petition with the D.C. Circuit...