A shared border crossing point has been built and has been functioning since 2003, and is used without hindrance by either party.

In late 2003, new parliamentary elections were held and a reformed HDZ party won under leadership of Ivo Sanader, who became prime minister.

A shared border crossing point has been built and has been functioning since 2003, and is used without hindrance by either party.

From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

Fine Gael supported civil unions for same-sex couples from 2003, voting for the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Bill 2010, and the party approved a motion at its 2012 Ard Fheis to prioritise the consideration of same-sex marriage in the upcoming constitutional convention.

The party then held a member referendum on this question in the spring of 2003 which changed the party statute.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

The November 2003 convention is also noteworthy because it was the first convention of a German political party ever to use an electronic voting system.

( See Japan general election, 2003 ) Likewise, that year, the LDP won the election, even though it suffered setbacks from the new opposition party, the liberal and social-democratic Democratic Party ( DPJ ).

The only non-Hindu PM was Paul Raymond Bérenger who spent 22 months in office from 2003 to 2005 thanks to an understanding between his party, the MMM, and Sir Aneerood Jugnauth's party, the MSM, prior to the 2000 elections.

Roberto Madrazo, the presidential candidate, polled only 22. 3 percent of the vote, and the party ended up with only 121 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a loss of more than half of what the party had obtained in 2003, and 38 Senate seats, a loss of 22.

The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the Electoral Commission at the end of 2003.

According to accounts filed with the Electoral Commission for the year ending 2010, the party had a membership of 16232, up from 15, 097 in 2008 and 9, 450 in 2003.

In 2003 screenwriter Katherine Fugate was approached for the project, and was quoted saying that she expects the start of production to be three to five years away, which suggested a release sometime between 2006 and 2009.

In 2003 he approached Amadou & Mariam and later produced their 2004 album Dimanche à Bamako (" Sunday in Bamako ").

During the scoring of The Last Samurai in early 2003, Zimmer was approached by the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with whom he had worked previously on Crimson Tide, The Rock and Pearl Harbor.

CNN reported in October 2003 that Catherine Dell ' Orto, a veterinarian at Columbia University, had approached the university's Institute of Comparative Medicine about the treatment of baboons who were undergoing surgery as part of an experiment into stroke treatment.

In April 2003, Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville approached the UM System with the possibility of becoming the fifth school in the system.

Brendon has done work for the Stuttering Foundation of America, which approached him around 2001, and made him its honorary chairperson for its National Stuttering Awareness Week in May 2001, May 2002 and May 2003.

In 2003, Joseph Haptas, a spokesman from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) approached then-Town Supervisor Patrick Hoak and asked him to have the name of Hamburg changed to Veggieburg.

Puffy were approached by Cartoon Network to sing the theme song for their 2003 animated series Teen Titans.

In 2003, Devlin approached Paramount to pitch the project but failed to receive funding.

In 2000, Cox was approached by the fashion house Charles Jourdan, and in January 2003 he was appointed Creative Director, his brief being to rejuvenate the brand.

In the summer of 2003, Garofalo was approached by representatives of Air America Radio to be a radio personality for their programming.

Governor Cruz Bustamante and Governor Gray Davis were both Democrats, they reportedly had an icy relationship and had not spoken in months before the 2003 California recall election approached.

In 2003, Hanley was approached by Jun Senoue from Sega to co-write and perform on an original song for their upcoming entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, entitled Sonic Heroes.

Former front man Zak Stevens was approached by long-time friend and Savatage stage manager Dan Campbell to co found a new band, Circle II Circle in 2003 and their first record entitled Watching in Silence was released in 2003, and produced by Jon Oliva and featuring a guest appearance from Caffery.

At 12: 45 am on April 30, 2003, the suicide bomber approached Mike's Place and blew himself up at the entrance.

As the 2003 deadline approached a number of debates broke out about the launcher profile, with many arguing that the H-2 should be replaced with a jet-powered cargo aircraft for an air-start.

According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U. S. military in the 2003 Iraq conflict, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent.

Malik was approached by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in July 2003 to act as a replacement for Ian Harvey, who was on international duty with Australia.

In 2003, Amondson was approached by James Hedges, the Tax assessor for Thompson Township, Pennsylvania, and the Prohibition Party's only elected official.

Inafune has expressed disdain for this design, stating in a 2003 interview that if an artist approached him with similar work, he would reject it and demand better.

In 2003, pianist Jeffrey Biegel approached Joel about a commission for a piano concerto.

In summer 2003, Leeds were approached by Chelsea and Everton with offers to sign Martyn.

Josh Lyman approached him with blunt talk – his hope of being President had died the day in 2003 that he resigned the VP's office and his record was too checkered for him to be nominated to a high Cabinet or diplomatic position – and made him an offer of being a " party elder " under a Matt Santos administration in return for Hoynes endorsing Santos and releasing his primary delegates, stating that he would be persona non grata under a Robert Russell presidency.

After being for three years ( 2003 – 06 ) in the interregnum between two constitutions, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now under the regime of the Constitution of the Third Republic.

A referendum on the issue was called in March 2003 for which the Nationalists and the Democratic Alternative campaigned for a " yes " vote while Labour campaigned heavily for " no " vote, invalidate their vote or abstain.

* 2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.

He was Prime Minister of Finland from 1995 to 2003, and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1993 to 2005.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

Later, ( Hirst, 2003, p. 427 ) a promised Charter amendment based on Fatah doctrine " that all Jews < nowiki > date restriction </ nowiki >... were to be entitled to Palestinian citizenship " failed due to doctrinal quarrels over the meaning of the precise nature of the proposed Democratic State.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received ( effective January 1, 2004 ) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.

* The Second Congo War ( 1998 – 2003 ) – took place largely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* Central African Republic Bush War ( 2004 – 2007 ) – began with the rebellion by the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ) rebels, after the current president of the Central African Republic, François Bozizé, seized power in a 2003 coup.

Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007

Thurmond's retirement from the Senate on January 3, 2003, coincided with a change from Democratic to Republican control, making Stevens president pro tempore and Byrd the second president pro tempore emeritus.

Gary Adrian Condit ( born April 21, 1948 ) is a former politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003.

He lost the Democratic primary election in March 2002 to his former aide, then-Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza, and left Congress at the end of his term in January 2003.

Between 1998 and 2003, the Ugandan army was involved in the Second Congo War in the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo and the government continues to support rebel groups such as the Movement for the Liberation of Congo and some factions of the Rally for Congolese Democracy.

The 2003 California recall began with a petition drive that successfully forced sitting Democratic Governor Gray Davis into a special recall election.

Joseph Graham " Gray " Davis, Jr. ( born December 26, 1942 ) is an American Democratic politician who served as California's 37th Governor from 1999 until being recalled in 2003.

* J. Warner Wiley ( Democratic, 1991 — 2003 )

He followed Democrat Joseph Matthews after defeating him in the 2003 Democratic primary.

* Frank Mascara, former Democratic member of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003

By mid-December 2003, 67 states had ratified the Optional Protocol, including seven mentioned in this report ( The seven are: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Uganda ).

And they further – further, the point was that if and when they would be used, they would brief Congress at that time " Pelosi's office stated that she later protested the technique and that she concurred with objections raised by Democratic colleague Jane Harman in a letter to the CIA in early 2003.