The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part ( 13. 5 % in 1994 ) and reached 15. 7 % in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right.

A split from the PPI, the United Christian Democrats ( CDU ), joined Forza Italia and the CCD in the centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition ( later becoming the Pole for Freedoms ), while the PPI was a founding member of The Olive Tree centre-left coalition in 1996.

In 1995, Prodi was one of the founders of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and as its main leader he defeated the Silvio Berlusconi-led centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition in the 1996 Italian general election.

Several MPs seceded to form non-viable centre-right satellite parties before the New Zealand general election, 1996.

Since 1996 and Bhutto's assassination, the Peoples Party has suffered with major internal factions, opposing Pakistan Peoples Party and Benazir Bhutto's sudden shift to centre-right economics.

It has participated in both centre-right governments ( 1982 – 1988 ) and centre-left governments ( 1993 – 1996 ).

In 1996 elections, Peterle's party suffered a decisive defeat, losing popular support to the other two centre-right parties, the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia and the Slovene People's Party, that had remained in the opposition and had criticised what they called a " unprincipled coalition between Christian Democracy and former Communists ".

A split in the centre-right vote between Weisgerber's BC Reform Party and Gordon Campbell's Liberals is cited as a factor for the New Democratic Party winning the 1996 BC election.

His attempts to contest the 1996 presidential elections on the ticket of the centre-right New Patriotic Party were scuppered when the Supreme Court ruled to uphold a controversial law preventing individuals convicted of treasonous acts from holding public office, even if such acts were committed during periods of unconstitutional rule.

Though not immediately stepping down after losing power to Partido Popular's Jose Maria Aznar in 1996, he was ousted following a controversy regarding illegal means used in the struggle against the ETA during his government.

Following the 1996 national elections in Spain, Pujol surprised many by lending CiU's support in the Cortes Generales to the minority government of the People's Party ( Partido Popular, PP ).

Teresita Gimenez Maceda, Mga Tinig Mula sa Ibaba: Kasaysayan ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas at Partido Sosialista ng Pilipinas sa Awit, 1930 – 1955, QC, 1996.

* Maultsby, Portia K., ( 1996 ) Intra-and International Identities in American Popular Music, Trading Culture.

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.

Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era ( 1996 – 2003 ) London and New York: Continuum.

" The Journal of Popular Culture 30 ( 1996 ): 249-262.

Also in 1996, she participated in the annual music video special, produced by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, dedicated to Bobby Capó, which usually includes only the most important and international singers the island has to offer.

* 1996: Popular bought American Midwest Bank for its two branches in suburban Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb that was drawing Hispanics.

Matthew Engel, in his book Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press ( Gollancz, 1996 ), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was " a very fine paper indeed ".

* ( 1996 ) By Popular Request

In 1996, he was elected as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives for the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ).

* Spring in Salonica: Sephardic Popular Songs by Savina Yannatou and Primavera En Salonico ( Lyra Records, 1996 ).

* 1996 Japanese Academy Awards-Most Popular Performer ( Etsushi Toyokawa )

The PCRM was part of the Popular Patriotic Forces Front at the time of the 1996 presidential election, in which Voronin stood as the coalition's candidate and won 10. 3 % of the vote, placing third.

* Popular Science article: VentureStar, X-34, MAKS, Burlak and other-October 1996

Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher (; 17 April 1909 – 9 December 1996 ) was a French centrist politician, affiliated first with the Popular Republican Movement and later with the Democratic Centre.

He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock ( Constable, 1978 ), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock ' n ' Roll ( Pantheon, 1981 ), Art into Pop ( Methuen, 1987-written with Howard Horne ), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop ( Cambridge University Press, 1988 ), and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music ( Oxford University Press, 1996 ).

* Shine On Brighter ( featuring Liam Clancy )-( 1996 ) Popular CD

In 1964, Winters wrote Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity ( Prentice Hall ), an etiquette book aimed at young girls, which inspired the alternative rock band Nada Surf's 1996 song and video " Popular.

It was founded in February 1996 by merger of the Organization for Popular Democracy-Labour Movement with the National Convention of Progressive Patriots / Social Democratic Party ( CNPP / PSD ), Group of Revolutionary Democrats ( GDR ), Movement for Socialist Democracy ( MDS ), Party of Action for the Liberalism in Solidarity ( PACTILS ), Party for Democracy and Rally ( PDR ), Rally of Independent Social Democrats ( RSI ), Union of Social Democrats ( UDS ), Union of Democrats and Patriots of Burkina ( UDPB ) and factions of the Group of Patriotic Democrats ( GDP ) and the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc ( BSB ).

In 1994, he was elected president of the Popular Democratic Party, and in 1996 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Puerto Rico, losing by a 51 % to 45 % margin to Pedro Rosselló.

* Most Popular Comedy Program ( 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 )

* the ' Most Popular Comedy Personality ' award in 1996, for his role in Denton.

He received a BA ( Hons ) in English with Media Studies, from the University of Sussex in 1992, and a Ph. D. in Cultural Studies with the dissertation " Co-opting Culture: State Intervention in and Party Patronage of Literary and Popular Culture, 1929-1941 " from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996.

In You've Come A Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture ( 1996 ), Lilly J. Goren observed that " 1993 album Janet moved away from politically driven lyrics to songs about love and sex-lyrics that could capitalize on her new sexy, more scantily clad image in MTV music videos.

* Most Popular Light Entertainment Personality-4 times ( 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 )

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

In 1996, two-tier local government was abolished and Angus was established as one of the replacement single-tier Council Areas.

Further local government organisation in 1996 placed the area in the county borough of Caerphilly.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

The BSP won convincingly the pre-term elections in December 1994 with a majority of 125 seats out of the 240 seats in the parliament and despite the mandate is for 4 years, BSP's government collapsed too and remained in office until 1996 due to the economic crysis in Bulgaria.

Censorship was abolished in 1996, but the government sometimes seizes or suspends newspapers and occasionally arrests journalists.

Salary arrears, labor unrest, and unequal treatment of military officers from different ethnic groups had also been among the causes of the three mutinies against the Patassé government in 1996 and 1997.

Economic difficulties caused by the looting and destruction during the 1996 and 1997 mutinies, energy crises, and government mismanagement continued to trouble Patassé's government through 2000.

Croatia has had an uneven record in these areas between 1996 and 1999 during the right-wing HDZ government, inhibiting its relations with the European Union and the U. S. Improvement in these areas severely hindered the advance of Croatia's prospects for further Euro-Atlantic integration.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

The tests were concluded in January 1996 and a moratorium was placed on future testing by the French government.

When the Zairian government began to escalate its massacres in November 1996, the Tutsi militias erupted in rebellion against Mobutu.

The two recent conflicts ( the First and Second Congo Wars ), which began in 1996, have dramatically reduced national output and government revenue, have increased external debt, and have resulted in deaths of more than five million people from war, and associated famine and disease.

Though Dar es Salaam lost its official status as capital city to Dodoma in 1974 ( a move which was not complete until 1996 ), it remains the centre of the permanent central government bureaucracy and continues to serve as the capital for the surrounding Dar es Salaam Region.

This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that " there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were rightwing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government.

After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.

Under the Arzú administration, peace negotiations were concluded, and the government signed peace accords ending the 36-year internal conflict in December 1996.

In 1996, President Conté reorganized the government, appointing Sidya Touré to the revived post of Prime Minister and charging him with special responsibility for leading the government's economic reform program.

The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of municipal government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square.

In late 1996, Aristide broke with Préval and formed a new political party, the Lavalas Family ( Fanmi Lavalas, FL ), which won elections in April 1997 for one-third of the Senate and local assemblies, but these results were not accepted by the government.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

These successes allowed the government to concentrate in 1996 and 1997 on major structural reforms such as the implementation of a fully funded pension system ( partly modelled after Chile's pension system with major modifications ), reform of higher education, and the creation of a national treasury.

The years 1996 – 1998 were a period of turmoil in the federal government with several short-lived alliances holding sway.