However, the Knesset maintains that the declaration is neither a law nor an ordinary legal document.

However, it was barred from participating in the next election in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism.

However, the new system again appeared to have failed, as although Barak's One Israel party ( an alliance of Labour, Gesher and Meimad ) won more votes than any other party in the Knesset election, they garnered only 26 seats, the lowest ever by a winning party, meaning that a coalition with six smaller parties was once again necessary.

However, because Likud only had 21 seats in the Knesset, Sharon had to form a national unity government.

However the left-wing bloc in the Knesset only won an overall narrow majority, facilitated by the disqualification of small nationalist parties that did not manage to pass the electoral threshold.

However, it was not enough to pass the 2 % threshold, and they were ultimately the largest party not to make it into the Knesset ( Balad, with 72, 066 votes, was the smallest to make it ).

However, it did not officially become the national anthem until November 2004, when it was sanctioned by the Knesset in an amendment to the Flag and Coat-of-Arms Law ( now renamed the Flag, Coat-of-Arms, and National Anthem Law ).

However, after ruling the country for most of the 1980s, the party lost the Knesset election in 1992.

However, a suggestion for a Knesset motion calling for the establishment of an inquiry to probe the expulsions of the villagers of Kafr ' Inan, Farradiyya and Al-Ghabisiyya, was apparently never brought to the Knesset plenum.

However, over the years they have cooperated and united as a voting bloc in order to win the maximum number of seats in the Knesset, since many extra votes can be wasted if election thresholds are not attained under Israel's proportional representation parliamentary system.

However, they are still representing, by principle and not practice, their Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredi Jewish Sectors in the Knesset.

However, the four other Knesset Members of the NRP supported Orlev's stand that the party should remain in the coalition and thwart the disengagement plan from inside.

However, his ploy failed ; although Labor won the most seats in the Knesset election, he lost to the election for Prime Minister to Benjamin Netanyahu following a wave of suicide bombings by Hamas.

However, they did become the first Zionist party to have an Israeli Arab, Rostam Bastuni, representing them in the Knesset.

" However, this clause was dropped after the first reading in the Knesset.

However, he reappeared in the Knesset in April 2006 after winning a seat in the 2006 elections.

However, Eitan had troubles in controlling his party, resulting in some Knesset members splitting from Tzomet to join other parties.

However, Ben-Gurion could not reconcile himself to the merger with his foes, and broke away from the party to sit as an independent MK for the rest of the Knesset session.

However, she entered the Knesset in November 1999 when Labor MK Matan Vilnai resigned.

However, the original Great Assembly was composed exclusively of the most learned sages of that age, while the modern Knesset is composed mainly of secular Jews.

However, a request was submitted that same year for the list to disband, and did so after the Knesset approved the request.

However, he resigned from the Knesset shortly before the 1988 elections.

However, Tehiya joined the government in June after the Alignment had left, and he was appointed Minister of Energy and Infrastructure and Minister of Science and Technology despite not retaking his seat in the Knesset.

However, most of this aid has been targeted at the Federation ; the previous government of the RS was anti-Dayton and not assisted by the U. S. The election of the " Sloga " or " Unity " Coalition government, led by Prime Minister Dodik, has shifted the balance of power in the Republika Srpska ( RS ) to a pro-Dayton stance and will result in an upsurge of funding to the RS from the international community.

However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the passage of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election once the new voting register had been compiled.

However, difficulties in South Africa ( epitomised by the defeat of the British Army at the Battle of Isandlwana ), as well as Afghanistan, weakened his government and led to his party's defeat in the 1880 election.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

However, Croatia's first-past-the-post election system enabled Tuđman to form the government relatively independently.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, unlike plebeian aediles, curule aediles were allowed certain symbols of rank — the sella curulis or ' curule chair ,' for example — and only patricians could stand for election to curule aedile.

However, several CND members and supporters have stood for election at various times as Independent Nuclear Disarmament candidates.

However the appointment of the next two caliphs varied from the election of Abu Bakr.

However, Tshisekedi maintained that the result of the election was illegitimate and said that he intended also to " swear himself in " as president.

However, the Egyptian presidential election, 2012 occurred without a new constitution.

However, it was noted that foreign election observers ( including Gomes ) were not given the authority and / or documentations in order to travel and monitor rural areas of the country.

" However, on election day things had changed.

However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50 % since 1999.

However, after reaching its best ever election result in 2009, the FDP's support has since collapsed.

However, it has also been argued that powerful Tammany Hall boss Jimmy Hines was able to successfully get enough votes forged to get LaGuardia unseated in this election as well.

However, because he failed to achieve a fifty percent majority, he won a runoff election on December 28, defeating the center-left candidate Álvaro Colom.

However, the elections were marred by controversy in the Senate race over the calculation of whether Senate candidates had achieved the majority required to avoid a run-off election ( in Haiti, seats where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes cast has to enter a second-round run-off election ).

However, there is very strong optimism with the conclusion of peaceful elections during the year 2004 and the election of the reformist president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

However, in the election to the European Parliament of June 2004, the party lost both of the European Parliament seats.

However, the election may be overruled by the Magistrates ' Court if the facts suggest that the sentencing powers of a Magistrates ' Court would be inadequate to reflect the seriousness of the offence.