During these years, the NDP began to bleed support and activists to the Greens who reached 5 % in the polls in the fall of 1997 and 11 % by the fall of 1998 ; however, by far the majority of the NDP's former voters deserted the party for the centre-right BC Liberals.

In 1997, he was elected to Vilnius City Council for the centre-right Homeland Union and became mayor.

After the 1997 uprising, in which the centre-right coalition was overthrown by socialist supporters, the party became an opposition party.

Spanning the centre and centre-right of Polish politics, Religa was well-placed to play a significant role in the newly created Conservative People's Party ( SKL ), which became part of the Solidarity Electoral Action ( AWS ) in 1997.

Third was the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, mainly supported by ethnic Turks and Roma with around 13 %, fourth were the far-right nationalists National Union Attack with around 8 %, fifth were the previously governing centre-right United Democratic Forces also with around 8 %, sixth was a party that broke away party from the United Democratic Forces-Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, led by the prime minister between 1997 and 2001 Ivan Kostov and seventh and the last that entered the parliament was the Bulgarian People's Union, which represents а coalition of two parties that broke away from the United Democratic Forces and one nationalist party.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Agreements also were struck with rebels from the National Front of Chad ( FNT ) and Movement for Social Justice and Democracy in October 1997.

Charles has opened the National Lottery draw ( 1997 ) and his home has featured on Through the Keyhole.

* From the Field: A Collection of Writings from National Geographic ( 1997, editor )

Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.

In May 1997, following the demonstrations that led to the ousting of Bucaram and appointment of Alarcón, the people of Ecuador called for a National Assembly to reform the Constitution and the country's political structure.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

In 1997 he also gave over the leadership of the National Party and retired from politics.

Regulation: The National Communications Authority ( NCA ), an independent regulator, was created in 1997, deriving its statutory framework from the NCA Act 1996.

Center on National Security and Law, University of Virginia, 1997: entire.

* 1997 – Foreign Associate, U. S. National Academy of Sciences

The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time, and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997 for being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

In October 1997, Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reached agreement on an economic reform program aimed at macroeconomic stabilization and elimination of some of the country's most damaging economic policies, such as the National Car Program and the clove monopoly, both involving family members of President Soeharto.

In 1997 ICI acquired National Starch & Chemical, Quest, Unichema, and Crosfield, the specialty chemicals businesses of Unilever for $ 8bn.

The Jell-O Gallery museum is operated by the Le Roy Historical Society and located at the Le Roy House and Union Free School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

In the middle of this era, in 1997, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League as part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams.

Among Kain's other honours are the Performing Arts Award ( 1992 ) and the National Arts Centre Award ( 1997 ).

After considerable progress in negotiations conducted by the United States, United Nations, Organization of African Unity, and the Economic Community of West African States, disarmament and demobilization of warring factions were hastily carried out and special elections were held on 19 July 1997 with Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Party emerging victorious.

In 1997, Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

The election was effectively a repeat of 1997, as the Labour party vindicated the faith placed in it 4 years ago, and thus retained its overwhelming majority.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

Déby ’ s MPS party won 63 of 125 seats in the January 1997 legislative elections.

In the election of 1997, the Hannara-dang became the opposition party for the first time.

* Facing fascism: the conservative party and the European dictators, 1935 – 1940 / NJ Crowson., 1997

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.

In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South – East.

Despite efforts to restore ( or at least improve ) the popularity of the Conservative party, Labour remained far ahead in the opinion polls as the 1997 election loomed, despite the economic boom that had followed the exit from recession four years earlier, and the swift fall in unemployment.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

In the 1997 mid-term elections, no party held majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and in 2000 the first opposition party president was sworn in office since 1929.

The party contested several federal and state elections between 1990 and 1997.

He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.

For example, Tony Blair, whose Labour party was elected in 1997 partly on a promise to enact a British Bill of Rights and to create devolved governments for Scotland and Wales, subsequently stewarded through Parliament the Human Rights Act ( 1998 ), the Scotland Act ( 1998 ) and the Government of Wales Act ( 1998 ).

Jenkins is seen by many as a key influence on " New Labour ", as the Labour Party marketed itself after the election of Tony Blair ( who served as prime minister from winning the first of three successive general elections in 1997 ) in 1994, when the party abandoned many of its long-established policies including nationalisation, nuclear disarmament and unconditional support for the trade unions.

The crushing defeat of the 1997 election saw the Conservative Party lose over half their seats from 1992 and saw the party re-align with public perceptions of them.

In December 1997, IRA prisoner Liam Averill escaped from the prison dressed as a woman during a Christmas party for prisoners ' children.

After the Labour party won the 1997 general election, the policy was outlined in a White paper entitled A Mayor and Assembly for London ( March 1998 ).

In 1997, the European Parliament, of which Le Pen was then a member, removed his parliamentary immunity so that Le Pen could be tried by a German court for comments he made at a December 1996 press conference before the German Republikaner party.

Bildt himself was married to Kerstin Zetterberg 1974 – 1975, Mia Bohman ( daughter of former Moderate party leader and Minister of Economy, Gösta Bohman ) 1984 – 1997 and is currently married to Anna Maria Corazza since 1998.

Enneüs Heerma, party leader from 1994 until 1997

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, party leader from 1997 until 2001

The party won Vitrolles, its fourth town, in a 1997 by-election, where similar policies were pursued.

In the tenth FN national congress in 1997, Mégret stepped up his position in the party as its rising star and a potential leader following Le Pen.

Gordon Brown, who became Chancellor when Labour came into Government in 1997, had a large personal power base in the party.