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.

Talks with political opponents in early 1996 did not go well, but Déby announced his intent to hold presidential elections in June.

Cameroon's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held in 1992 followed by municipal elections in 1996 and another round of legislative and presidential elections in 1997.

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.

In early January 1996 Obiang called presidential elections to be held in six weeks.

* 1997 – After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

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.

This arrangement soon broke down, however, and the 1996 and 1997 legislative and municipal elections provided the background for renewed partisan politics.

This arrangement soon broke down, and the 1996 and 1997 legislative and municipal elections provided the background for renewed partisan politics.

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 elections of June 1996 the Democratic Party tried to win an absolute majority and manipulated the results.

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

In April 1996, national elections led to the victory of a center-left coalition, Olive Tree, under the leadership of Romano Prodi.

At the time of the 1994 mid-term elections, Kemp was widely anticipated to announce his candidacy for 1996, and his supporters wanted a formal announcement by the end of the year.

Kyrgyzstan's independent political parties competed in the 1996 parliamentary elections.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

The 1996 elections resulted in the election of the Labour Party, by 8, 000 votes, to replace the Nationalists who had won in 1987 and 1992.

* 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.

The October 20, 1996 presidential, legislative, and mayoral elections also were judged free and fair by international observers and by the groundbreaking national electoral observer group Ética y Transparencia ( Ethics and Transparency ) despite a number of irregularities, due largely to logistical difficulties and a baroquely complicated electoral law.

In the 1996 general elections the Natural Law Party ran candidates only in the Trentino-Alto Adige / Südtirol region, who won 8, 298 votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 5, 842 for the Senate ( about 1 % on a regional basis, 0. 2 % in the whole country ).

During the thirteenth Knesset ( 1992 – 1996 ) it was decided to hold a separate ballot for prime minister modeled after American presidential elections.

From episode 2981 on Friday 20 October 1989 at 19: 30, a third weekly episode was introduced and this increased to four episodes a week from episode 4096 on Sunday 24 November 1996, again at 19: 30.

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.

According to a 1996 report of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress, during Reagan's two terms, and through 1993, the top 10 % of taxpayers paid an increased share of income taxes ( not including payroll taxes ) to the Federal government, while the lowest 50 % of taxpayers paid a reduced share of income tax revenue.

However the price growth continued and by November 1996 the total price level in Turkmenistan had increased tens of thousands times in comparison with December 1991.

The collapse of the Soviet planned economy and the transition to market economy resulted in catastrophic declines in GDP of about 45 % during the 1990 – 1996 period and poverty in the region had increased more than tenfold.

The number of squatter settlements had increased 14 % since January 2001, and 73 % since 1996.

Following its departure from the CQRS in 1996, Falun Gong came under increased scrutiny from authorities and responded by adopting a more decentralized and loose organizational structure.

By 2010, the percentage of U. S. public schools requiring uniforms had increased from 3 % in 1996 to 25 %.

Average daily traffic volume increased at a rate about 4. 5 percent more than the gross domestic product each year between 1990 and 1996.

In 1997 / 98 season the Paxton Road stand had a new upper tier added which included the second Jumbotron screen and increased capacity to 36, 240 and was funded by a rights issue in 1996.

The growing importance of international business is reflected in its increased share of GDP, which grew from 12. 6 % in 1996 to 13. 8 % in 2000.

The canon of films related to Indigenous Australians also increased over the period of the 1990s and early 21st Century, with Nick Parson's 1996 film Dead Heart featuring Ernie Dingo and Bryan Brown ; Rolf de Heer's The Tracker, starring Gary Sweet and David Gulpilil ; and Phillip Noyce's Rabbit-Proof Fence in 2002.

The increased sensitivity of the site meant that in 1996 the Wye River Accords, part of the Arab-Israeli peace process, included a temporary status agreement for the site restricting access for both Jews and Muslims.

In 1996, Martinair bought a 40 % stake in Colombian cargo carrier TAMPA Cargo, based in Medellín, which it increased to 58 % in 2003.

Childbirth by C-Sections increased 50 % in the U. S. from 1996 to 2006, and comprise nearly 32 % of births in the U. S. and Canada.

The 4. 6 L V8 was initially rated at, 1996 – 1997, but was later increased to in 1998.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that in 1996 local law enforcement agencies made 1, 467, 300 arrests nationwide for driving under the influence of alcohol, 1 out of every 10 arrests for all crimes in the U. S., compared to 1. 9 million such arrests during the peak year in 1983, accounting for 1 out of every 80 licensed drivers in the U. S. This represented a 220 % increase in DUI arrests from 1970 to 1986, while the number of licensed drivers increased by just 42 % in the same period.

The proportion of the total population who are Christian fell from 71 % in 1996 to around 64 % in 2006, while people affiliated with non-Christian religions increased from around 3. 5 % to 5. 6 % over the same period.

Hindus came to Australia as labourers and merchants during the 19th century and numbers increased dramatically from the 1960s, more than doubling between 1996 and 2006 to reach 148 000 people.

When the Federal Reserve Board increased the limit to 25 % in December 1996, the Board noted the Securities Industry Association ( SIA ) had complained this would mean even the largest Wall Street securities firms could affiliate with commercial banks.

In March 2000, Fitzgerald was on the Board of Directors of Election. com, when it conducted the world's first public election ever held over the Internet, which was the Arizona Democratic Primary, which was won by Al Gore ; in that primary, voter turnout increased more than 500 % over the 1996 primary.

New uses in the computer field and the demand for higher resolution televisions to match the quality of DVD when it was introduced in 1996 led to increased sales, delivering another 180 million units in the next decade.

Between 1995 and 1996, sales at Gucci increased by 90 %.

A 1996 Agrarian Reform Law ( also ) increased protection for smallholdings and indigenous territories, but also protected absentee landholders who pay taxes from expropriation.