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Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006.

In the 2006 general election, the final election to which the party participated with its own list, AN won 12. 3 % of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate.

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

A new election was held on 29 October 2006, which Kabila won with 70 % of the vote.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1996 and 2001, before winning the 2006 presidential election.

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

A presidential election was held on 15 October 2006 and November 26, 2006.

In February 2006, UK Prime Minister Blair, acknowledging that the EPRDF has won the election, said he wanted to see Ethiopia resolve its internal problems and continue on a democratic path.

It was readmitted to the Commonwealth in December 2001, following the parliamentary election held to restore democracy in September that year, and is currently suspended again after the 2006 coup.

In the January 25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its majority in the Palestinian parliament to Hamas, and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the role as the main opposition party.

Al-Mustaqbal was to campaign against Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, presenting a list including Mohammed Dahlan, Kadoura Fares, Samir Mashharawi and Jibril Rajoub.

Since July 2007, following the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and the following Battle of Gaza, Hamas has functioned as the de-facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, forming an alternative Hamas Government in Gaza.

An opinion poll conducted by the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra and published on April 10, 2006 suggested that Salome Zourabichvili would garner 23. 1 % of votes if a presidential election were held today.

In the May 2006 city election, incumbent mayor Larry Rogers, who also serves on JMU's Board of Visitors, lost his bid for reelection to a JMU graduate.

He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Military aid is received from Australia, the People's Republic of China, and the United Kingdom ( although the latter has suspended aid as a result of the 2006 military coup against the civilian government ).

* 2006 – The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.

" However, following the People's Power revolution in April 2006, the 1990 constitution has been replaced by an interim constitution which has removed the King from anything to do with the army.

In the summer of 2006, the Conservatives became founding members of the Movement for European Reform, following Cameron's pledge to end the fourteen-year-old partnership between the largely Eurosceptic Conservatives and the more Euro-integrationist European People's Party ( EPP ).

An example of this is the Property Law of the People's Republic of China which was withdrawn from the 2006 legislative agenda after objections that the law did not do enough to protect state property.

In the 2006 elections, several parties claimed to be motivated by his ideas, including the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy ( PPRD ), the political party initiated by the incumbent President Joseph Kabila.

* Alliance ( Sweden ), an electoral and governing ( since September 2006 ) political coalition between the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and Christian Democrats

In 2006 John Smith's launched the John Smith's People's Race which gave ten members of the public the chance to ride in a flat race at Aintree on Grand National day.

* A Young People's History of the United States, adapted from the original text by Rebecca Stefoff ; illustrated and updated through 2006, with new introduction and afterword by Howard Zinn ; two volumes, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007.

The People's Daily and CCTV-1's 7 pm national news each had Jiang-related events as the front-page or top stories, a fact that remained until Hu Jintao's media administrative changes in 2006.

Including variant forms, there are at least 106, 000 individual Chinese characters, but as of 2006, in the People's Republic of China Public Security Bureau only approximately 32, 000 are supported for computer input and even fewer are in common use.

More than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions have been based on Einstein's Dreams, including a production at Chicago's National Pastime Theater in 2000, produced and directed by Patrizia Acerra and Dawn Arnold ; a production at Paradise Theater in New York in 2001, produced and directed by Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart ; a production at the Culture Project Theater in New York in 2003, directed by Rebecca Holderness ; a production at the People's Branch Theater in Nashville in 2003, adapted by Brian Niece and David Alford, directed by David Alford ; a musical production at the Martin Segal Theater of CUNY in New York in 2003, produced by Brian Schwartz with music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Lessner ; a production by the Underground Railway Theater in Boston in 2006 ; and a production by the University of Memphis in 2006, under the direction of Gloria Baxter ; a musical composition titled " In This World " by Paul Hoffman in 2000 and performed by the Silverwood Trio on their own CD ; and a musical composition titled " When Einstein Dreams " by Nando Michelin in 2003 and performed by the Nando Michelin Group on a Double Times Record CD.

In 2006, the People's Justice Party disbanded, with their two councillors joining the Liberal Democrats, and Councillor Ann Holtom defected from Labour to the Liberal Democrats.

In response to this statement, on 5 July 2006 Nuno da Câmara Pereira, member of the Portuguese parliament, then leader of the People's Monarchist Party addressed the President of the Assembly of the Republic, asking for a clarification as to the official recognition of Dom Duarte as pretender to the throne and as Duke of Braganza.

In 2006, the Luoding Railway () was sold to Shenzhen China Technology Industry Group Corporation Limited () through auction, and became the first and only one private railway in People's Republic of China.

Continuing the coalition ’ s free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

* 2006, April: The Government of the People's Republic of China sponsors the First World Buddhist Forum in Mount Putuo, Zhejiang Province.

With the general election of 2006 the Moderates formed a coalition government with the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats.

He led the Swedish People's Party from 1998 until 2006.