These mounting problems and a rise in crime rates helped lead to the president's first electoral defeat, during the 1997 mid-term elections.

At a public function in Calcutta on 23 November 1997, he gave a hint of what was to follow saying ' mid-term elections are around the corner '.

The party's defeats in the 1997 mid-term elections bode poorly for their chances in 1999 ( elections they went on to lose ).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

This was the first $ 50 coin issued by the U. S. Mint and no higher was produced until the production of the $ 100 platinum coins in 1997.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

Previous legislation ( 1997 ) made no specific inclusion of foreign investors.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

If the man wearing a gold ring is fighting a battle on land the mention of the sea will have no relevance to his situation at all and does not contribute to the picture of the battle being described ” ( Faulkes ( 1997 ), pp. 8 – 9 ).

According to a report in the Skeptical Inquirer in 1997 no credible theory of psi has yet been presented.

In 1997, at the invitation of Logitech CEO Pierluigi Zappacosta, Adams, wearing a wig and false mustache, successfully impersonated a management consultant and tricked Logitech managers into adopting a mission statement that Adams described as " so impossibly complicated that it has no real content whatsoever.

On September 2, 1997, Singer said that " The possibility that global temperatures could rise because of an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a concern that needs to be monitored ... But there has been no indication in the last century that we've seen anything other than natural climate fluctuations.

In addition, both this game ( unchanged, except for being converted into a downloadable format ) and an exclusive " loosely-based " sequel ( which used the same game engine ) called BS Zelda no Densetsu Inishie no Sekiban were released on the Satellaview in Japan on March 2, 1997, and March 30, 1997, respectively.

A third Satellaview title released in March 1997, BS Zelda no Densetsu Inishie no Sekiban ( BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets ) could also be considered a spin-off for the same reason.

As a result, on July 2, 1997, Thailand had only USD2, 850 billion left as international reserves and, hence, could no longer fight against currency attack to protect the pegged value of the Thai baht.

* Gakkō no Kaidan 3 ( 1997 )

Since it is absurd to have no logical method by which to settle on one hypothesis amongst an infinite number of equally data-compliant hypotheses, we should choose the simplest theory: " either science is irrational the way it judges theories and predictions probable or the principle of simplicity is a fundamental synthetic a priori truth " ( Swinburne 1997 ).

He left Cravath in 1997 after a major client objected to his representation of the New York Yankees even though the firm itself had found no conflict.

One old study from 1997 found that it did not matter how close you were to a power line or a sub-station, there was no increased risk of cancer or illness.