* 2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

Sanader was reelected in the closely contested 2007 parliamentary election.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

The Croatian constitution and legislation provides for regular presidential and parliamentary elections, and the election of county prefects and assemblies, and city and municipal mayors and councils.

In the Netherlands, Denmark and in Belgium, for example, the Monarch formally appoints a representative to preside over the creation of a coalition government following a parliamentary election, while in Norway the King chairs special meetings of the cabinet.

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

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.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

The president is required to appoint a deputy, and a commission will draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election.

Many new political parties formed in anticipation of running candidates in the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results, which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

On September 5, 2005, the National Elections Board of Ethiopia released the final election results in which confirmed that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front retained its control of the government, but showed that opposition parties had increased their share of parliamentary seats, from 12 to 176.

Leaves the second round of parliamentary elections in Iran election

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.

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.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority ; the leaders subsequently agreed against a two-party system and ran with a single list of candidates.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority.

In the first post-independence election, held under a parliamentary system, neither party was able to win a majority.

It was only due to a temporary modification of German election law, applying the five-percent " hurdle " separately in East and West Germany, that the Greens acquired any parliamentary seats at all.

In a parliamentary system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen.

Some parallels can be drawn between the general election in parliamentary systems and the biennial elections determining all House seats, although there is no analogue to " calling early elections " in the U. S., and the members of the elected U. S. Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.

In 1881 the Isle of Man, an internally self-governing dependent territory of the British Crown, enfranchised women property owners and delivered the first installment of women ’ s right to vote in parliamentary elections within the British Isles.

His parliamentary career was short, for in 1881 the Judicature Act required that the Master of the Rolls should cease to sit regularly as a judge of first instance, and Chitty was selected to fill the vacancy thus created in the Chancery Division.

Following parliamentary approval in 1881 to upgrade the Royal Mint, the firm provided ten lever presses and a cutting-out press, effectively depriving itself of coining contracts from the Royal Mint for some time.

It fell to him to deal with the systematic obstruction of the Irish Nationalist Party, and his speakership is memorable for his action on 2 February 1881 in refusing further debate on W. E. Forster's Coercion Bill — a step which led to the formal introduction of the closure into parliamentary procedure.

In the long run, he envisioned a system of national representation with a constitution and a bicameral parliament modeled on the earlier aristocratic English model, but he speeled his parliamentary ideas only in 1881, when he was safely retired:

Although the 1990 and 1995 parliamentary elections were far from democratic, the predominance of conservatives in the legislature had deeper roots than just the lack of means for free expression and the strictures of the electoral procedure.

France, however, remained long divided between liberals, conservatives, royalists and democrats, with laissez-faire liberals consistently holding a great deal of parliamentary power.

The conservatives shored their position against the Social Democrats, on 18 May 1930, the Heimwehr of the CS declared their Korneuburger Eid ( Oath of Korneuburg ), in which they openly called for the overthrow of the parliamentary democracy (“ Wir verwerfen den westlichen demokratischen Parlamentarismus und den Parteienstaat !”)

The Iranian parliamentary elections of February 20 and May 7, 2004 were a victory for Islamic conservatives over the reformist parties.

In his most famous work Reflections On Violence ( 1908 ), Sorel warned about the political trend that conservatives and parliamentary socialism could become allies in a common struggle against capitalism.

Sorel's view is that the conservatives and parliamentary socialism had common goals, because they both want the nation to be a centrally controlled, organic unit where all the parts are working together as a whole.

This critique led many conservatives to argue that the American model of checks and balances offered Canada a more balanced and conservative form of democracy than did British parliamentary government.

He echoed a significant minority of conservatives in Upper Canada who critiqued Canada's imitation of the British parliamentary constitutional monarchy as both too democratic and too tyrannical, theorizing that it simultaneously destroyed the independence of the appointed governor and legislative council, and further concentrated power in the Cabinet.

The conservatives then moved against Hall, putting forward party proposals to lessen the influence of its parliamentary leader.

In May of the same year, socialists achieved considerable electoral success while conservatives lost a significant number of parliamentary representatives.

Philip persuaded Mary that Elizabeth should marry his cousin, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, to secure the Catholic succession and preserve the Habsburg interest in England, but Elizabeth refused to comply and parliamentary consent was unlikely.

Wade refused to go along with holding presidential elections in 2006, arguing that there were economic reasons for wanting to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections simultaneously in 2007.

The Rutte cabinet's parliamentary majority has been provided by Geert Wilders ' Party for Freedom ( PVV ), but this majority became unstable when Wilders ' party refused to support austerity measures in connection with the Euro crisis.

In 2009, when Anuj Dhar, the author of the book, CIA's Eye on South Asia, asked the Prime Minister's Office under an RTI plea ( Right to Information Act ), to declassify a document supposedly related to Shastri's death, the PMO refused to oblige, reportedly citing that this could lead to harming of foreign relations, cause disruption in the country and cause breach of parliamentary privileges.

In April 1645, Lilburne resigned from the Army, because he refused to sign the Presbyterian Solemn League and Covenant, on the grounds that the covenant deprived those who might swear it of freedom of religion, namely members of the parliamentary army.

His reputation rose further when opposition leaders under parliamentary privilege alleged that Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who in January 1982 had been Leader of the Opposition, had not merely rung the President's Office but threatened to end the career of the army officer who took the call and who, on Hillery's explicit instructions, had refused to put through the call to the President.

If the King of Spain ever refused in conscience to grant Royal Assent to a Bill a procedure similar to the one that was used in Belgium to handle King Baudouin's objection would not be possible under the current Constitution: in Spain, if the King were ever declared incapable of discharging the royal authority, his powers would not be transferred to the Cabinet pending the parliamentary appointment of a Regency.

Although he refused to return to politics, Ryti voted regularly in parliamentary and presidential elections.

Parnell continued the exhausting life of an Irish public agitator, refused to regard parliamentary pressure as outmoded and looked to the next election to restore his fortunes.

Finding that his brother had procured his election for the County of Kildare, and desiring to maintain political independence, Lord Edward refused the command of an expedition against Cadiz offered him by Pitt, and devoted himself for the next few years to the pleasures of society and his parliamentary duties.

The parliamentary authorities, however, refused to recognize the creation of the earldom, and continued to speak of the father as " Lord Goring " and the son as " General Goring ".

In February 2006 another crisis loomed when the D66 parliamentary party led by Boris Dittrich refused to agree to a military ISAF mission in Uruzgan.

On taking his seat on 3 August 1892 Hardie refused to wear the ' parliamentary uniform ' of black frock coat, black silk top hat and starched wing collar that other working class MPs wore.

At the 1931 general election the ILP candidates refused to accept the standing orders of the parliamentary Labour Party, resulting in them standing without official Labour Party support.

In 2004 he attempted to participate in parliamentary elections, but was refused registration by the electoral commission.

Bayrou subsequently refused Chirac's invitation to his group, to join the newly-forimed centre-right catch-all party, the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) for the oncoming June parliamentary elections.

After the 1990 Croatian parliamentary elections, Bobetko refused to accept the position of defense minister.

He refused to co-operate in parliamentary matters and denounced the CDU as agents of the capitalists and foreign powers.

Ernst & Young was hired, to advise the Central Bank of Ireland on the € 440 billion bank guarantee scheme in January 2009, despite the fact that Ernst & Young was being investigated arising from its audits of Anglo Irish Bank and had also refused to appear before a parliamentary committee following the collapse of the same bank after receiving " legal advice ".

This led to a lively debate in public and in the CDU, and after Hohmann refused to retract the speech, he was expelled from the parliamentary group of the CDU in the Bundestag in 2003 and from the party itself in 2004.

When the parliamentary wing of the National Party deposed Bjelke-Petersen and elected one of the dissident ministers, Mike Ahern, as new Leader of the National Party, Sir Joh initially refused to resign as Premier and Sir Walter resisted calls to dismiss him.

The remaining seven MPs refused, and initiated the Democratic Representative Caucus on September 12, with Strahl as its parliamentary leader and Grey as deputy leader.

On 8 June, the General Election Committee ( GEC ) had refused to register Enkhbayar as a candidate for parliamentary elections 2012.

In 1639 he was deprived by the king of his office of governor of Hull, and joining the parliamentary party, he refused to pay ship-money.

The party refused to sign the Tripartite Declaration of November 1991, and it chose to boycott the March 1992 parliamentary election, along with the Democratic Union of Cameroon, due to the government's failure to meet opposition demands, which included the establishment of an independent electoral commission to oversee the election.