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

In the February 1998 national election, PUSC candidate Miguel Ángel Rodríguez won the presidency over PLN nominee Jose Miguel Corrales.

Following the 1998 presidential election, Klerides tried to form a government of national unity, by including six ministers from Klerides ' Democratic Rally party, two ministers from the socialist EDEK, three from the Democratic Party ( who broke ranks with party leader Spyros Kyprianou ) and one from the United Democrats.

No presidential candidate obtained a majority, so a run-off election between the top two candidates-Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad of the DP and Social Christian Álvaro Noboa Pontón-was held on July 12, 1998.

* Bowman v United Kingdom ( 1998 ) 26 EHRR 1, distributing vast quantities of anti-abortion material in contravention to election spending laws

Ialá returned as the candidate for the PRS, claiming to be the legitimate president of the country, but the election was won by former president João Bernardo Vieira, deposed in the 1998 coup.

In the 1998 federal election, despite a slight fall in their percentage of the vote ( 6. 7 %), the Greens retained 47 seats and joined the federal government for the first time in ' Red-Green ' coalition government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ).

Prime Minister Hashimoto headed a loose coalition of three parties until the July 1998 Upper House election, when the two smaller parties cut ties with the LDP.

He was Engler's running mate in the 1998 election and served from 1999 to 2003.

In early 1998, he was a serious contender for the 2000 United States presidential election, but his campaign possibilities faltered, and he instead endorsed eventual winner George W. Bush.

In 1998, Ashcroft briefly considered running for U. S. President ; but on January 5, 1999, he announced that he would not seek the presidency and would instead defend his Senate seat in the 2000 election.

After the election of then-commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces Émile Lahoud as President in 1998 following Hrawi's extended term as President, Salim al-Hoss again served as Prime Minister.

Many regarded this as a second time Syria had pressured Lebanon's Parliament to amend the constitution in a way that favored Lahoud ( the first allowing for his election in 1998 immediately after he had resigned as commander-in-chief of the LAF.

In 1998, the Labour Party's loss in a parliamentary vote led the Prime Minister to call an early election.

It was formed in late 1998 as the political wing of the Maharishi Vedic Vishwa Prashasan ( MVVP ( Maharishi Global Administration Through Natural Law )), which had nominated thirty-four candidates in the February 1998 parliamentary election from Madhya Pradesh.

For the November 1998 election, the Ajeya Bharat had a list of 100 candidates for the Assembly.

Oviedo became the Colorado candidate for president in the 1998 election, but when the Supreme Court of Paraguay upheld in April his conviction on charges related to the 1996 coup attempt, he was not allowed to run and remained in confinement.

Three candidates again contested the 1998 presidential election — Mr. Albert Rene, SPPF ; Mr. James Mancham, DP ; and Rev.

It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements.

However, this system has been sidelined following the initial 1998 election of current president Hugo Chávez, which started the Bolivarian Revolution.

However with the election of Hugo Chávez as President of Venezuela in 1998, the foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government has differed substantially from that of previous Venezuelan governments.

* March 11 – Danish parliamentary election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.

After the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan press " failed miserably in their duty to provide information that their fellow citizens needed to navigate the storms of Venezuelan politics under Chavez.

After the Labour party won the 1997 general election, the policy was outlined in a White paper entitled A Mayor and Assembly for London ( March 1998 ).

7 Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 87 ( 1998 – 1999 ).

# 1998 London: Chris Knight, James R. Hurford and Michael Studdert-Kennedy ( eds ), The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social function and the origins of linguistic form, Cambridge University Press,

After 16 years of the Christian-Liberal coalition, led by Helmut Kohl, the Social Democrats together with the Greens won the elections of 1998.

James Chevedden made a written complaint to the Superior General of the Jesuit Order, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, regarding the promotion of the ideology of the Marxist philosopher, Herbert Marcuse at the 1998 California Jesuit Province Social Pastoral Conference.

* In 1998 the University of Social Sciences in Strasbourg was renamed in honour of Bloch.

In his 1998 book Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action, Shupe notes that Barker, Bromley, and he himself had used the term in other publications, " and meant no offense ".

Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, in Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Tradition in the Twentieth Century ( 1998 ), take issue with what they consider Denisoff's reductive approach to the history and function of song ( and particularly traditional song ) in social movements.

* Rawski, Evelyn S. The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

The IFC adopted its Environmental and Social Standards in 1998 with the intent of prioritizing sustainability in its investment activities.

* Mark, Noah, 1998, " Birds of a Feather Sing Together ," Social Forces 77 ( 2 ): 453 – 85

* In Germany, a red-green coalition of the Social Democratic Party and The Greens led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder governed the country from 1998 to 2005.

1998: Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology.

They were in federal government with the Social Democratic Party of Germany in a so-called Red-Green alliance from 1998 to 2005.

* Weston, Kath ( 1998 ) Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science ISBN 0-415-92043-4

From 1969 to 1982 and 1998 to 2005 the Chancellors of Germany were Social Democrats whereas the other years the Chancellors were Christian Democrats.

The Good Friday Agreement ( 1998 ), produced a wholesale reorganisation of inter-community, governmental and policing systems, including a power-sharing executive with David Trimble and the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party's ( SDLP ) Seamus Mallon ( later replaced by new party leader Mark Durkan ) as co-chairmen.

* Halliwell, Ruth ( 1998 ) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context, Oxford University Press.

Bomont Building, which was completed in 1998, and houses the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, the Iris Murdoch building, opened in 2002 for The Dementia Services Development Centre, and the Colin Bell Building, completed in 2003 for the School of Applied Social Science.

* Deviance, Agency, and the Social Control of Women's Bodies in a Mennonite Community, Linda B. Arthur, NWSA Journal, v10. n2 ( Summer 1998 ): pp75 ( 25 ).

This was the world's first council housing, and brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont were brought up here .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 126-32 accessed: 14 November 2006 </ ref > In 1909, the Bethnal Green Estate was built with money left by the philanthropist William Richard Sutton which he left for ' modern dwellings and houses for occupation by the poor of London and other towns and populous places in England '.< ref >< cite >< cite >

As the political scene in the 1990s came under the sway of the Brazilian real monetary stabilization plan, which ended decades of rampant inflation, former Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso ( Brazilian Social Democracy Party ( PSDB )) defeated Lula in 1994 and again, by an even wider margin, in 1998.

* Gross, Dominik, Marriage Strategies, Social prestige and Property of Barber-Surgeons in 19th-century Württemberg: An Evaluation of Marriage-and Probate Inventories, Historical Social Research 23 / 4, 1998, pp. 94 – 108