The remaining opposition parties regrouped in preparation for 1997 legislative elections and the 1998 presidential election.

The 1997 legislative elections, which international observers pronounced to be substantially free, fair, and transparent, resulted in a large CDP majority — 101 to 111 seats.

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

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.

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

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

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

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

In 1997, attempts to renew national institutions through democratic elections ran into administrative difficulties, resulting in a court-ordered annulment of the legislative elections held in April 1997.

In 1997, Chirac dissolved parliament for early legislative elections in a gamble designed to bolster support for his conservative economic program.

The FMLN emerged strengthened from the legislative and municipal elections of 1997, where they won the mayoralty of San Salvador.

Mindful that the government might have to take politically costly decisions in advance of the legislative elections planned for spring 1998 in order to ensure that France met the Maastricht criteria for the single currency of the EU, Chirac decided in April 1997 to call early elections.

The legislative elections held in January 1997 were dominated by the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction ( the new incarnation of AFPRC ), which captured 33 out of 45 seats.

He was a candidate of Les Verts for the legislative elections of 1986 in Seine-Saint-Denis, and became the national spokesperson of the French Green Party in 1997.

* Upendra J. Chivukula ( born 1950 ), represents the 17th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly, and has served on the Franklin Township Council since 1997, serving as its Mayor in 2000 and its Deputy Mayor in 1998.

ISO 14001 was developed primarily to assist companies in reducing their environmental impact, but in addition to an improvement in environmental standards and performance, organizations can reap a number of economic benefits including higher conformance with legislative and regulatory requirements ( Sheldon 1997 ) by utilizing the ISO standard.

Meanwhile, in 1997 Congressional Quarterly reported Senate Banking Committee Chairman Al D ’ Amato ( R-NY ) rejected Treasury Department pressure to produce a financial modernization bill because banking firms ( such as Citicorp ) were satisfied with the competitive advantages they had received from regulatory actions and were not really interested in legislative reforms.

In Scotland, listing was begun by a provision in the Town and Country Planning ( Scotland ) Act 1947, and the current legislative basis for listing is the Planning ( Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas ) ( Scotland ) Act 1997.

This " Plural Left " won the 1997 legislative election and Jospin became Prime Minister of the third " cohabitation ".

** Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( 1997 – 1998, the first legislative council of Hong Kong after becoming a Special Administrative Region of China )

His supporters lost the 1997 legislative election.

After their defeat in the 1997 legislative election, RPR and UDF created the Alliance for France in order to coordinate the action of their parliamentary groups.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

A caretaker cabinet was appointed by the President again and served until the new pre-term parliamentary elections in April 1997.

In April 1997, the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) government won pre-term parliamentary elections and introduced an IMF currency board system which succeeded in stabilizing the economy.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

In 1997, a new law took effect, allowing Dominicans living abroad to retain their citizenship and vote in Presidential elections.

A new constitution was promulgated in 1997 but has not yet been implemented, and general elections have been postponed.

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

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 summer 1997, Berisha was defeated in elections, winning just 25 seats out of a total of 156.

In the 1997 unrest in Albania the general elections of June 1997 brought the Socialists and their allies to power.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were overshadowed by political killings on both sides.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

International and local observers reported the 2002 elections to be generally more fair and less violent than those of both 1992 and 1997.

The assembly was expanded to 99 members in 1997 and in 2006 elections had 115.

Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.

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.

During the FN's 1997 national congress, the FN established the loose EuroNat group, which consisted of a variety of European right-wing parties.

EuroNat is an organisation of European nationalist political parties, formed initially at the congress of the French National Front ( FN ) in Strasbourg on 30 March 1997.

* Les Nationalistes en France, tome 2: La montée du FN, 1983-1997, Jean Picollec, 1997, 448 p.

* 1997: best of 19-4. 75 … tied for 5th at USA Indoor ( 18-8. 25 )… 2nd in USA Outdoors ( 19-2. 25 )… bronze in World Champs ( 19-4. 75 )… ranked # 9 in world (# 2 U. S .) by T & FN.