Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

The day following the election a sheriff's posse left the city for Manton by special train to seize the county records.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

Mimault became unnerved because of the decision, and after an incident where he shot at and wounded two students of the École Polytechnique ( charges for which were dropped ), he demanded a special act to prolong the duration of his patents, 100, 000 Francs, and election to the Légion d ' honneur.

The President is elected every five years by the Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ), a special body convened only for this purpose, comprising the entire Bundestag and an equal number of state delegates selected especially for this purpose in proportion to election results for the state diets.

Through the patriarchs God announces the election of Israel, meaning that he has chosen Israel to be his special people and committed himself to their future.

Election usually is the constitutional way to choose the head of state of a republic, and some monarchies, either directly through popular election, indirectly by members of the legislature or of a special college of electors ( such as the Electoral College in the United States ), or as an exclusive prerogative.

The junior ( Class I ) Senator, elected in a special election on January 19, 2010, is Scott Brown.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

The special functions of the Assembly included the admission of new members, the periodical election of non-permanent members to the Council, the election with the Council of the judges of the Permanent Court, and control of the budget.

The NLP was invited to take part in the special elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, but withdrew before the election, bringing praise from sections of the political spectrum in Northern Ireland.

There are also 50 + special seats for women now, and women are selected ( i. e. not directly elected in the general election but given representation according to how their parties performed in the general election ) on these seat by their party head: another seventeenth amendment innovation.

On March 20, 1973, the Baseball Writers Association of America held a special election for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

* Clangers election special: Vote For Froglet ( 1974 )

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

The final Clangers programme, however, was a four-minute election special, broadcast on October 10, 1974.

Since Representatives are to be " chosen ... by the People ," State Governors are not allowed to appoint temporary replacements when vacancies occur in a state's delegation to the House of Representatives ; instead, the Governor of the state is required by clause 4 to issue a writ of election calling a special election to fill the vacancy.

Moreover, the State Governor may not appoint a temporary replacement, but must instead arrange for a special election to fill the vacancy.

In a nod to the less populist nature of the Senate, the Amendment tracks the vacancy procedures for the House of Representatives in requiring that the Governor call a special election to fill the vacancy, but ( unlike in the House ) it vests in the State Legislature the authority to allow the Governor to appoint a temporary replacement until the special election is held.

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

These liquids are held in either special containers known as Dewar flasks, which are generally about six feet tall ( 1. 8 m ) and three feet ( 91. 5 cm ) in diameter, or giant tanks in larger commercial operations.

Lower caste participants consisted of mostly non-farm working immigrants, who at times were provided special privileges and held high positions in society.

Reportedly, at the special board meeting held on April 15, the directors were unanimous in dismissing Pfeiffer.

In some cases the candidate can be granted special dispensation if no master degree is held.

In this special phase, the barbarians ' attack strength, corresponding to the combined number of cities and metropolises held by all players, is compared to Catan's defense strength, corresponding to the combined levels ( i. e. 1 point for each basic, 2 for each strong, and 3 for each mighty ) of all activated knights in play.

Unity within the Albanian Party of Labour began to decline as well, with a special delegate meeting held in Tirana in April, 1956, composed of 450 delegates and having unexpected results.

In contrast to Positivism, which held that statements are meaningless if they cannot be verified or falsified, Popper claimed that falsifiability is merely a special case of the more general notion of criticizability, even though he admitted that empirical refutation is one of the most effective methods by which theories can be criticized.

On 22 May 2007, hearings were held in the UK Parliament concerning citizen-initiated petitions for special regulation of franchising by the government of the UK due to losses incurred by citizens who had invested in franchises.

The Social Democrats held a special party meeting on 25 – 27 November 1917.

The result is a cedar-wood boat long, its timbers held together by ropes, which is now currently housed in a special boat-shaped, air-conditioned museum beside the pyramid.

The guild system reached a mature state in Germany circa 1300 and held on in the German cities into the 19th century, with some special privileges for certain occupations remaining today.

The most recent workshop, held at Chennai, India, in February 2008, concerned polymetallic nodule mining technology, with special reference to its current status and challenges ahead

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 1941, the British Secret Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game outside the U. S., create a special edition for World War II prisoners of war held by the Nazis.

In 1905, Einstein used these laws in motivating his theory of special relativity, requiring that the laws held true in all inertial reference frames.

There are two holidays ( Eids ) in the Islamic calendar, Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha during which there are special prayers held at mosques in the morning.

The microcode for this model was also held on special punched cards, which were stored inside the machine in a dedicated reader per card, called " CROS " units ( Capacitor Read-Only Storage ).

The Cardinals held a special ceremony at Busch Stadium on September 28, 1996, before a game against the Cincinnati Reds, honoring Smith by retiring his uniform number.

* Sumerian and Akkadian Entu or EN were top-ranking priestesses who were distinguished with special ceremonial attire and held equal status to high priests.

A special conference of scholars on Pius XII on the 50th anniversary of his death was held in Rome on 15 – 17 September 2008, by Pave the Way Foundation, a nonsectarian organization founded by Gary Krupp, a Jewish American, which promotes interfaith cooperation.

A graphics tablet or digitizing tablet is a special tablet similar to a touchpad, but controlled with a pen or stylus that is held and used like a normal pen or pencil.

That October, Brookes hosted the Frenchman at a special festival held in his honour at Much Wenlock.