However, international observers have questioned the fairness of Armenia's parliamentary and presidential elections and constitutional referendum since 1995, citing polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the Electoral Commission, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places.

However, in November 1992 elections were held for an enlarged Legislative Assembly and the Government was soundly defeated, casting doubt on constitutional reform.

However, weeks before the UN deadline, Klerides was defeated in presidential elections by centre candidate Tassos Papadopoulos.

However, in the European Union, one can vote in municipal elections if one lives in the municipality and is an EU citizen ; the nationality of the country of residence is not required.

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

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

However, this was averted in the Schleswig-Holstein state elections, when they achieved 8 % of the vote, which was a severe loss of seats but still over the 5 % threshold.

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, after the elections in April 2006, the Socialist coalition under Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany unveiled a package of austerity measures which were designed to reduce the budget deficit to 3 % of GDP by 2008.

However the right to vote in elections to the Chamber of Deputies was restricted to only the wealthiest men.

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, the vast majority of its seats were lost at the 2009 council elections, including its entire traditional Dublin base, where-with the exception of a Town Council Seat in Balbriggan-it now holds no council seats at all in Dublin and only three County Council seats in total.

However, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2002, Tito's opponents won major victories, and in March 2003 he was ousted in a no-confidence vote ( having served the maximum three terms, he is barred by the constitution to run for another term ).

However, from the mid-1970s until the parliamentary elections in 1992, civil war precluded the exercise of political rights.

However, when the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) lost the first post-independence general elections to the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ), Leabua Jonathan refused to cede and declared himself Tona Kholo ( Sesotho translation of prime minister ).

However these ideologies are all very marginal and politically insignificant during elections.

However, the elections proceeded as planned, and Panamanians voted for the anti-Noriega candidates by a margin of over three-to-one.

However, when Otto the Great designated Benedict VI as the next pope, the Crescentii family, along with most of the Roman people, began to feel indignation towards the emperor because they felt he was interfering too much in the papal elections.

However, in 1848 the Earl of Elgin, the then Governor General, appointed a Cabinet nominated by the majority party of the Legislative Assembly, the Baldwin-Lafontaine coalition that had won elections in January.

However, the government was not brought down, and only elections for prime minister were necessary.

However, he suffered a stroke in January 2006, in the midst of election season, leading Ehud Olmert to become Acting Prime Minister in the weeks leading to the elections.

However, a third contender, Jean-Marie Le Pen, unexpectedly obtained slightly more than Jospin in the first round of elections:

However the fact that it involves two rounds means that, for large elections, runoff voting is more expensive than some other electoral systems.

However, in the second parliamentary elections held on May 30, 1950, the majority of seats went to independents, confirming the lack of support and the fragile state of the nation.

However, the right to stand for elections remains with matai title holders.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

However, the series continued in Australia and the United Kingdom, with a further ten volumes being issued between 1999 and 2001.

However, since 2001, more emphasis has been placed on Defense-Independent Pitching Statistics, including Defense-Independent ERA ( dERA ), in an attempt to evaluate a pitcher's performance regardless of the strength of the defensive players behind him.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

( However, the 1940 census was postponed to 1946, and the census after 1990 came in 2001.

However, as an exception, the American shorthand " 9 / 11 " is widely understood as referring to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

However, in 2001 the United States Environmental Protection Agency shut the plant down.

However, with an agreement in 2001 between the UUA and CUC, from July 2002 onwards most services have been provided by the CUC to its own member congregations.

However, a planned referendum on a roadmap towards independence in 2001 was called off following Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen saying that Danish money grants would be phased out within four years if there was a ' yes ' vote.

However, all three countries withdrew their recognition in the months following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

However, there has been renewed interest seen since 2001.

However, there are a few games with broad enough appeal to win both awards: The Settlers of Catan ( 1995 ), Carcassonne ( 2001 ), Dominion ( 2009 ).

" However on the other side, Devine ( 1999 ) and Ray ( 2001 ) argue that long-term economic and social changes were already undermining the clan system.

However, in 2001 Pope John Paul II acknowledged Dupuis's ' pioneering ' work on the meaning of other religions in " God's plan of salvation of mankind ".

However, KHAD has continued to operate after the fall of the Soviet backed government in 1992 and acted as the intelligence arm of the United Front or " Northern Alliance " during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1996 – 2001 ).

However, this interpretation of history for the entire southern region of Africa has been refuted by Norman Etherington in The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 ( Longman, 2001 ).

However, the population on Granite Island ( which is a fox, cat and dog-free island ) has been severely depleted, from around 2000 penguins in the year of 2001 down to 146 in 2009.

However, the rate of decline slowed markedly since 2000 and 2001, when GDP contracted by less than 3 percent.

However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's " New Year's Eve-il " special on December 31, 2001.

However, there has been considerable controversy over this as later researchers have failed to reproduce the original findings of Rauscher ( e. g. Steele, Bass & Crook, 1999 ), questioned both theory and methodology of the original study ( Fudis & Lembesis 2004 ) and suggested that the enhancing effects of music in experiments have been simply due to an increased level of arousal ( Thompson, Schellenberg & Husain, 2001 ).

However, in 2001 the EPA shut the plant down due to the leaking of their underground hazardous waste storage tanks.

However, since the 2001 invasion little success has been accomplished in quelling the Taliban insurgency in the southern parts of the country, many believe the Taliban cannot be defeated as long as it has sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan and that Operation Enduring Freedom has transformed into a continuing full fledged war with no end in sight.

However in 2001 in Kyllo v. United States ( 533 U. S. 27 ) it was decided that the use of thermal imaging devices that can reveal previously unknown information without a warrant does indeed constitute a violation of privacy.

However, after Sweden successfully hosted its first presidency of the EU in the first half of 2001, most Swedes today have a more positive attitude towards the EU.

However, he did not lead the league in any of those seasons ; in 2001, he finished behind Barry Bonds, who hit 73 homers, breaking the single-season home run record set by McGwire in 1998 ( 70 ).