Although he has had limited success at the voting booth regarding his candidacy for the colonial post of Governor of Puerto Rico in 1976, 1980, 1988, 2000 and 2004-losing every time to either the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) or the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) candidate-he nevertheless has enjoyed great electoral success regarding his candidacy to the Senate, receiving more votes than any other candidates in the Puerto Rican senatorial elections of 1972, 1984, 1992 and 1996.

In 1988 Rosselló was the New Progressive Party ( NPP ) candidate for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.

Nevertheless, he was the candidate from the New Progressive Party ( PNP ) for whom the most votes were cast in the 1988 Elections.

In the 1988 election, his name appeared on the ballot as the Presidential candidate of a handful of left-wing state parties, such as the Consumer Party in Pennsylvania and the Minnesota Progressive Party in Minnesota.

On 10 February 1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing of the People's Progressive Party ( PPP ) became the President of Bophuthatswana for one day when he took over the government through a military coup.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

In March 1988 Progressive Enterprises became part of the Australian company Coles Myer.

He was retained as the NDP's External Affairs Critic after the Progressive Conservatives won a second consecutive majority government in the 1988 federal election, and was also chosen as his party's spokesman for federal-provincial relations and the Constitution.

The greatest difference from 1988 was the rise of two new parties that cut into the Progressive Conservatives ' support and caused Mulroney's " grand coalition " to implode.

In the 1988 federal election, McTeer ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Carleton — Gloucester, hoping to get elected alongside her husband.

Category: Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election

In 1982, Suárez founded the Democratic and Social Centre ( Centro Democrático y Social, CDS ) party, which never achieved the success of UCD, though Suárez and its party were important elements in the Liberal International, joining it in 1988, leading to it be renamed Liberal and Progressive International, and Suárez became President of the Liberal International in 1989.

The Upper Midwest was the heartland of early 20th century Progressive Party politics, and the region continues to be favorable to the Democratic Party of the United States and moderate Republicans, with Minnesota favoring each Democratic presidential candidate since 1976 and Wisconsin since 1988.

In 1988, Cordero received the endorsement of then governor Rafael Hernández Colón for the office of Mayor of the city of Ponce and won the elections for the PPD by 1, 617 votes against his opponent Helcías Bermúdez of the New Progressive Party that same year.

Complete free trade was not achieved until 1988 with the Canadian-American Free Trade Agreement brought in by Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative government.

It had no formal connection to the earlier Progressive Party, although it received support from Douglas Campbell in 1988.

Gary Filmon became leader of the Progressive Conservatives in 1983, and formed a minority government in 1988 after defeating the NDP.

Defeated twice as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the federal elections of 1984 and 1988, he was elected in 2004 as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Thunder Bay — Rainy River riding, and was re-elected for MP in 2006.

Munro attempted to return to Parliament in the 1988 general election, in the riding of Lincoln but was defeated by Progressive Conservative Shirley Martin.

The Progressive Conservatives won a majority government in 1988, and Wappel entered parliament as a member of the opposition.

After failing to win a nomination as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the riding of Markham, Gamble ran as an independent in the 1988 election, winning less than five percent of the vote.

Turner was elected as the Progressive Conservative ( PC ) MP for Halton — Peel in the 1988 election.

He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as the 19th Premier from 1988 to 1999.

Stronach was a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1988 federal election for the riding of York — Simcoe, but was defeated by the Progressive Conservative John Cole.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

In 1988, the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism issued an official statement of belief, Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism.

* Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook, Pamela S. Nadell, Greenwood Press, NY 1988

He wrote one of the first pamphlets explaining Conservative ideology in 1946, and in 1988 he chaired the Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism which produced the official statement of Conservative ideology " Emet Ve-Emunah ".

* Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism, Robert Gordis et al., Jewish Theological Seminary and the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988.

In 1988, the Leadership Council of Conservative Judaism finally issued an official statement of belief, " Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism ".

) Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism JTS, Rabbinical Assembly, and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, 1988

GCSE exams were introduced as the compulsory school-leavers ' examinations in the late 1980s ( the first exams being taken in the summer of 1988 ) by the Conservative Party government, replacing the Certificate of Secondary Education ( CSE ) and GCE Ordinary Level ( O-Level ) examinations.

He voted for the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1988, 1990 and 1994, and voted in favour of keeping Section 28 ( along with almost every other Conservative MP in a whipped vote ) in November 2003.

* The Conservative Movement, Twayne Pub 1988, with Thomas Fleming ( second edition 1992 ) ISBN 0-8057-9724-6

Following the Conservative victory in the 2006 election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named MacKay as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ; he was also tasked to be the political minister for both his home province, and for neighbouring Prince Edward Island, just as his father Elmer had done between 1988 and 1993.

The CTC programme was established in the late 1980s by the Conservative government under the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988 and the Colleges themselves opened in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Conservative party was elected with a majority government ( 166 seats ) on 2 May 2011, the first time any party had won a majority since the Liberals in 2000 and the first time that a conservative party had a majority since the PC's in 1988.

* Towards 2000 by Malcolm Rifkind ( 1988, Conservative Political Centre ) ISBN 0-85070-788-9

He has also served on the All-Party Committee on East Africa ( since 1988 ), the All-Party Group for the Jubilee 2000 ( 1997 – 2000 ), but more notably the Select Committee on European Legislation ( since 1985 ), and as chairman of the Conservative Backbench Committee on European Affairs ( 1989 – 91 ).

* 1988 – 90 with the Conservative People's Party and Social Liberal Party ( junior partner )

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

She appeared partially nude in Prime Suspect ( 1988 ) and Compelling Evidence ( 1995 ), but her most infamous film is 1997's Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill ... and Jill.

* 1908 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1988 )

In early 1988, the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers met at Davos, Switzerland, and later in Brussels.

* 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

With the death of Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.

On April 16, 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades-PCC killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

In 1988, Thailand became more democratic after General Prem Tinsulanonda decided to step down and was succeeded by Major General ( later, General ) Chatichai Choonhavan, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand since 1976.

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's 1988 victory in Pakistan makes women leaders in Muslim states unextraordinary.

* February 23 – William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1988 )

* March 17 – Takeo Miki, former Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1988 )

He was replaced by Forlani in 1989, after that he had become Prime Minister in 1988.

He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 ( making him the only person to hold the position of Prime Minister twice under the Fifth Republic ), and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

After less statist policy when he was Prime Minister ( 1986 – 1988 ), he changed his method.

Prime minister: 1974 – 1976 ( Resignation ) / 1986 – 1988.

Member of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze: March – April 1967 ( Became Secretary of State in April 1967 ) Reelected in 1968, 1973, but he stays minister / 1976 – 1986 ( Became Prime minister in 1986 ) / 1988 – 1995 ( Resignation, became President of the French Republic in 1995 ).

During the third state reform in 1988 and 1989, under Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, the Brussels-Capital Region was established with its own regional institutions, as well as Dutch and French institutions for community matters.

Other hits included the political satire Yes Minister ( 1980 – 84 ) and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ( 1986 – 88 ), Esmonde and Larbey's suburban sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles ( 1984 – 89 ) and the sci-fi-comedy Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99 ).

Koizumi gained his first senior post in 1979 as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance, and his first ministerial post in 1988 as Minister of Health and Welfare under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.

By the time the soap opera had been cancelled, Collins followed in her sister's footsteps and published her first novel Prime Time ( 1988 ) which became a bestseller despite critical pans.

This area is now the site of many of the most important government buildings, including the Senate House and the Office of the Prime Minister, now renamed for the use of President Mugabe after the position was abolished in January 1988.

In 1988, after Mitterrand's re-election, he left the PS leadership, and, though the President considered naming him Prime Minister, he was nominated Minister of Education.