After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

The next year, in 1970, it was in this charged atmosphere that parliamentary elections were held in the country in December 1970.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

Early results of the first post-independence elections in January 1970 indicated that the BNP might lose control.

Subsequent elections in 1970 and 1974 gave Mancham a small majority in votes, but a large one in seats, through the " first past the post " voting system.

The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).

Within a year of 28 July 1969 he had set up a framework for elections that were held in December 1970.

After conflict over the 1970 constitution, a new constitution was written and approved in 1977, and Lamizana was reelected by open elections in 1978.

The Christian Democrats ( who had campaigned on a socialist platform in the 1970 elections, but drifted away from those positions during Allende's presidency, eventually forming a coalition with the National Party ), continued to accuse Allende of leading Chile toward a Cuban-style dictatorship, and sought to overturn many of his more radical policies.

Documents released in 2000 by the CIA confirmed that before the elections of 1970, ITT gave $ 700, 000 to Allende's conservative opponent, Jorge Alessandri, with help from the CIA on how to channel the money safely.

Their proposals were not central to Chilean political debate until 1973, where the debate focused on how best to take developmentalism forward and all three major political parties in the 1970 elections favoured nationalization of the copper mines.

While the ON had competed in some local elections since 1970, at its second congress in June 1972 it decided to establish a new political party to contest the 1973 legislative elections.

On June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that required the voting age to be 18 in all federal, state, and local elections.

After the Awami League won the 1970 national elections, negotiations to form a new government floundered, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War by which the eastern wing of Pakistan seceded, to become Bangladesh.

Although the Idaho Statutes still provide for the appointment of election constables to keep order during elections ( Title 34, Chapter 11 ) and define constables as peace officers, the position was effectively eliminated in 1970, when the Idaho Legislature's Election Reform Act removed all provisions for the appointment of constables.

The Rural Party achieved its two major victories in the elections of 1970 and 1983, winning 18 and 17 seats respectively.

In the municipal elections of October 1970, Drapeau used the proclamation of the War Measures Act and the October Crisis to discredit and neutralize the candidates of the opposition party by accusing them of being terrorist sympathisers and supporters of the Front de libération du Québec.

He defeated sitting Republican congressmen from safe House seats in all four of his Senate elections, including Bush in 1970.

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In order to hold the proposed elections, President Yahya Khan promulgated a Legal Framework Order on 30 March 1970 that also spelled out the fundamental principles of the proposed constitution and the structure and composition of the national and provincial assemblies.

In December, 1970 elections were held simultaneously for both the national and five provincial assemblies.

Thus the general elections of 1970 produced a new political configuration with three distinct centres of power :( i ) the AL in East Pakistan: ( ii ) the PPP in Sindh and the Punjab ; and ( iii ) the NAP-JUI in Baluchistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

After the general elections, President General Yahya Khan attempted to negotiate with both Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami League to share power in the central government but talks were failed when President Yahya Khan authorized an armed operation ( codename Searchlight ) to attack the Awami League.

The nexus of Communist Party of Pakistan | Communist Party, Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal | Marxist-Leninist and Awami League won the 1954 elections for East Pakistan.

The elections sparked the gruesome violence in Pakistan and tension between Awami League and the Pakistan Peoples Party began to rise.

Ironically, Awami League later opposed him as Chief adviser ( CA ) until Mukhles Chowdhury brought all parties in elections meeting their demands for the sake of a participatory democracy and in another contradiction Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government took oath from him.

The Awami League had fought the elections on the basis of their six points formula, which committed them to restructure the existing federal system in order to ensure maximum political autonomy for East Pakistan.

After the emergence of independent Bangladesh, the Awami League would win the first general elections in 1973 but was overthrown in 1975 after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The party was forced by subsequent military regimes into political wilderness and many of its senior leaders and actvists were executed and jailed.

Prior to the 2008 general elections in Bangladesh, the Awami League announced in its manifesto, its " Vision 2021 " and " Digital Bangladesh " action plans to transform Bangladesh into a fast developing Middle Income Country by 2021.

The Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party in parliament in the elections in 1991, following the uprising against Ershad.

Starting in late October 2006, the Awami League led alliance carried out a series of nationwide demonstrations and blockades centering around the selection of the leader of the interim caretaker administration to oversee the 2007 elections.

The Awami League won a massive majority in the first parliamentary elections of Bangladesh in March 1973.

The pressure from both West and East Pakistan forced him to held new general elections where the Awami Party came to power under the founding fathers of Pakistan.

The Awami League began negotiating a power sharing programme with the Muslim League, re-organizing after the 1954 elections.

Awami League won 146 seats in the 1996 parliamentary elections.

The Awami League succumbed to a landslide defeat in the 2001 Parliament elections.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favor of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

Hasina demanded that the head of the caretaker government, President Iajuddin Ahmed, step down from that position, and on 3 January 2007, she announced that the Awami League and its allies would boycott the elections.

It was only on 13 December 1989 that the governing League of Communists of Croatia agreed to legalize opposition political parties and hold free elections in the spring of 1990.

All over the country, the political parties had favored the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of Muslim League.

After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

National elections held on 13 May 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right " Freedom House " coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the Democrats ' Center Union.

In 1971 Kahane founded a new party, Kach, which ran in the 1973 elections under the name " The League List ".

In 1973, the party ran for the Knesset ( Israeli parliament ) during the general elections under the name " The League List ".

This resulted in a surge of Slovene and Croat nationalism in response and the collapse of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990, the victory of nationalists in multiparty elections in most of Yugoslavia's constituent republics, and eventually civil war between the various nationalities beginning in 1991.

The One Unit program of Mohammad Ali Bogra was met with quiet the harsh opposition, civil unrest, and the threats of returning of Muslim League and Pakistan Socialist Party in the upcoming elections threatened the technocracy of Pakistan.

The Muslim League and Socialist Party had gained momentum since Muslim League's defeat in 1954 elections and Socialist Party had been challenging for the constituencies of Republican Party, President Iskandar Mirza's party.

* Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Burma wins a majority of seats in the first free elections in 30 years in 1990, yet the Burmese military junta refuses to relinquish power, beginning an ongoing peaceful struggle throughout the 1990s to the present by Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule in Burma.

However, after a sensational uncovering of massive bribes scandals in the early 1990s, the city had become a stronghold of the conservative coalition led by Milanese media-magnate Silvio Berlusconi combined with the secessionist far-right movement Northern League, a trend that seems to have been reversed only by the 2011 municipal elections, in which a progressive candidate successfully contested the mayoral seat, thus ending almost 20 years of conservative administrations.

Joyce was sacked from his paid position when Mosley drastically reduced the BUF staff shortly after the 1937 elections ; upon which, Joyce promptly formed a breakaway organisation, the National Socialist League.

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