In May 1999, Azali decreed a constitution that gave him both executive and legislative powers.

Guatemala held presidential, legislative, and municipal elections on November 7, 1999, and a runoff presidential election on December 26.

A constitutional amendment to this end was defeated as part of a May 1999 plebiscite, but discussions between the executive and legislative branches continue on how to achieve this objective.

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

In 1999 a working group of leading LP activists proposed to reformat and retire the platform to serve as a guide for legislative projects ( its main purpose to that point ) and create a series of custom platforms on current issues for different purposes, including the needs of the growing number of Libertarians in office.

However, in Bavaria, the Senate was a second legislative chamber until its abolition in 1999.

Its presidential candidate in the 2006 general elections, Heloísa Helena is termed a Trotskyist who was a member of the Workers Party of Brazil ( PT ), a legislative deputy in Alagoas and in 1999 was elected to the Federal Senate.

* Mae Street Kidd ( 1909 – 1999 )- State Representative 1968-1984, representing Louisville's 41st state legislative district was born in Millersburg, Kentucky.

After the Austrian legislative election, 1999, the People's Party formed in 2000 a coalition government with the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria of its then-leader Jörg Haider.

The legislative remit laid down for the agency by the North / South Co-operation ( Implementation Bodies ) Northern Ireland Order 1999 is: " the promotion of greater awareness and the use of Ullans and of Ulster-Scots cultural issues, both within Northern Ireland and throughout the island ".

The new law has stripped down the television ownership rules so much, that: big media players will can be more aggressive in buying out smaller stations ... A new: legislative fight is brewing on the horizon as the broadcast industry gears up for: the introduction of digital television ... The Telecommunications Act ... highlights include: Deregulation of most cable TV rates by 1999 ... End the FCC partial ban on broadcast networks owning cable systems ... Extends TV and radio station license terms to eight years ... Eases one-to-a-market rule to allow ownership of TV and radio combos ... in the top 50 markets.

Under Helms-Biden, the U. S. paid $ 100 million in arrears to the UN in December 1999 ; release of the next $ 582 million awaits a legislative revision to Helms-Biden, necessary because the benchmark requiring a 25 percent peacekeeping assessment rate ceiling was not quite achieved.

In the subsequent local elections, the party continued to decline, but in the legislative election of 1999, the party increased its voting percentage for the first time in many years.

This reflected itself in the 2004 legislative election, PDI-P obtained 18. 5 % of the total vote, down from the 33. 7 % it obtained during the 1999 legislative election.

The Justicialist Party was defeated by a coalition formed by the UCR and the centre-left FrePaSo ( itself a left-wing offshoot of the PJ ) in 1999, but regained political weight in the 2001 legislative elections, and was ultimately left in charge of managing the selection of an interim president after the economic collapse of December 2001.

In 1999, Golkar lost it first legislative elections to Megawati Sukarnoputri's PDI-P. Golkar won 20 % of the votes and was the runner-up in the legislative elections.

By 2004, the reformist sentiments that had led PDI-P to victory in the 1999 legislative elections had died down.

PPP received 8. 1 % of the vote in the 2004 legislative elections, a decrease from its 10. 7 % share of the vote in 1999, but enough to retain its place as the third-best represented party in the legislature, behind PDI-P and Golkar.

It contested the legislative elections of 1993, 1995, 1999, and 2003, with the following results ( including deputies elected on the party-list proportional as well as the single-member districts:

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

Under the new Bolivarian 1999 Constitution, the legislative branch of Government in Venezuela is represented by a unicameral National Assembly.

The legislative elections held on 19 December 1999 had been suspended in Chechnya for these reasons.

The Commons will occasionally bargain and negotiate with the Lords such as when the Labour Government of 1999 tried to expel all Hereditary Peers from the Lords, and the Lords threatened to wreck the Government's entire legislative agenda and to block every bill which was sent to the chamber.

The opposition claimed to be disadvantaged by the ALP's longstanding monopoly on patronage and its control of the media, especially in the 1999 general election.

On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

Compared to only three parties allowed to exist in the New Order era, a total of 48 political parties participated in the 1999 election, a total of 24 parties in the 2004 election, and 38 parties in the 2009 election.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

However, turnout at European Parliament elections has fallen consecutively at each election since that date, and has been under 50 % since 1999.

Following the 1999 European Parliament election EFA members formed a common European parliamentary group with the European Green Party called The Greens – European Free Alliance.

At the 2004 election, the National Front led by Abdullah had a massive victory, virtually wiping out the PAS and Keadilan, although the DAP recovered the seats it had lost in 1999.

Previously, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had taken office in October 1999 after a general election in which a BJP-led coalition of 13 parties called the National Democratic Alliance emerged with a majority.

A general election in June 1999 produced the first freely elected national, provincial, and regional parliaments in over forty years.

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

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.

In the November 1999 general election, the Barisan Nasional was returned to power with three-fourths of the parliamentary seats, but UMNO's seats dropped from 94 to 72.

* 1999 – Panamanian election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

Following another coup in April 1999, in which Maïnassara was killed, the MNSD-Nassara's Tandja won the October 1999 presidential election.

The government's overall budget deficit rose sharply in 1999 and 2000 to 3. 2 % of GDP, the result of hikes in government salaries, expenditures related to the 2000 election campaign, higher foreign debt service payments, and lower tax revenues.

On 31 December 1999 President Yeltsin resigned, handing the post to the recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who then won the 2000 presidential election.

Rudolf Schuster won election as president in 1999.

The first fully multi-racial democratic election was held in 1994, the second in 1999, the third in 2004, and the most recent in 2009.

This " magic formula " has been repeatedly criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties ; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party ; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest.