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The last congressional elections were held on December 11, 2006.

Founded 2000 by former PLN member ; strong showings in 2002 and 2006 elections ( 30 % of Assembly in 2006 ).

Several smaller new parties that participated for the first time in the 2006 elections include Partido Unión Patriótica and Partido Alianza Democrática Nacionalista.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

On 15 May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, a cleric and successful businessman educated in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, was declared the winner of elections for President of the Republic.

2006 — Parliamentary elections held.

A constitution was approved by voters and on 30 July 2006 the Congo held its first multi-party elections since independence in 1960.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

The country's first democratic elections in four decades were held on 30 July 2006 with a run-off between current president Kabila and his rival Bemba held on 29 October 2006.

Two founding documents emerged from this: The Transition Constitution, and the Global and Inclusive Agreement, both of which describe and determine the make-up and organization of the Congolese institutions, until planned elections in July 2006, at which time the provisions of the new constitution, democratically approved by referendum in December 2005, will take full effect and that is how it happened.

The position of Vice-President expired after the 2006 elections.

Since the July 2006 elections, the country is led by a semi-presidential, strongly-decentralized state.

In March 2006, Djibouti held its first regional elections and began implementing a decentralization plan.

* 2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.

Vice President Alfredo Palacio assumed the Presidency and vowed to complete the term of office and hold elections in 2006.

The first elections since the overthrow were held on February 8, 2006 to elect a new President.

However, after the elections in April 2006, the Socialist coalition under Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany unveiled a package of austerity measures which were designed to reduce the budget deficit to 3 % of GDP by 2008.

These coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2006 national elections.

Between 17 May 2006 and 21 February 2007 Romano Prodi served as Prime Minister of Italy following the narrow victory of his l ' Unione coalition over the Casa delle Libertà led by Silvio Berlusconi in the April 2006 Italian elections.

* John David Ford, Canadian political figure ; Green Party leader in Ottawa South ; candidate in 2004 and 2006 federal elections ( Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 )

In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006 Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career that saw him deprived of his royalties from the most successful part of his career.

The 2006 – 7 season saw the club introduce new RFID tickets, which are read electronically when passing through the gates.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

2006, however, saw the introduction instead of the Criminal Justice Act 2006, which controversially contained an enormous rewrite of the Firearms Act, virtually rewriting 80 % of the Act completely.

The aims of these attacks were not completely clear, but it was argued in 2006 / 7 that these attacks were aimed at fomenting civil conflict within Iraq to destroy the legitimacy of the newly created collaborationist Iraqi government ( which many of its nationalist critics saw as illegitimate and a product of the U. S. government ) and create an unsustainable position for the U. S. forces within Iraq.

But McNaught did extend the work to examine the placement of the Moon with trails and saw a large chance of a storm impacting in 1999 from a trail while there were less direct impacts from trails in 2000 and 2001 ( successive contact with trails through 2006 showed no hits.

The parade in Essen saw 1. 2 million visitors in comparison to the 500, 000 who attended the 2006 parade in Berlin.

The Malian Equipment and Transport Ministry reported that the first half of 2008 saw 254 deaths and 1, 924 injuries on Mali's roads, following on 579 deaths in 2007 and 642 in 2006.

Growth from 2002 to 2006 was especially strong in the transport and communications sector, which became the biggest component of GDP, although many sectors also saw strong growth.

The rebound which started in mid 2003 saw growth rate growth rate averaging 3 % ( 2004 and 2005 saw a GDP growth of 2. 5 % and 2. 6 % respectively ; for 2006 and 2007, the rate was 3. 6 %).

2010 saw Andy Smith win for a 3rd consecutive time at Coventry, the same venue as his 1st win in 2006.

Development of a then small Taliban insurgency up until 2006, the year which saw an escalation in Taliban attacks.

2006 saw the release of another anthology titled Terminal Cool in the United States by the prestigious garage rock and punk label Get Hip Records.

May 18, 2006, saw the introduction of two more Walkman phones, a second clamshell model, W710, and the first slider, W850i.

2006 saw the IWW formally registered by the UK government as a recognised trade union.

In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, after a controversial second-round match between Portugal and the Netherlands, which saw referee Valentin Ivanov issue a record 16 yellow cards and four red cards, Blatter was said to have lambasted the officiating referee, and said that Ivanov should have given himself a yellow card for his poor performance as a referee.

November 29, 2006 saw the first public alpha release, which forms a new approach since the alpha test of Pine was always non-public.

" Bergkamp Day " took place on 15 April 2006 and saw Arsenal up against West Bromwich Albion.

2006 also saw the opening of Alessi's first New York City flagship store in SoHo.

The 2006 edition saw Eric Clapton, Placebo, Massive Attack, Roger Waters, Tracy Chapman and Santana play live in the Piazza Napoleone.

In 2005, Memphis was ranked the 4th most dangerous city with a population of 500, 000 or higher in the U. S. Crime in Memphis increased in 2005, and saw a dramatic rise in the first half of 2006.

Between 2006 and 2008, the crime rate fell by 16 %, while the first half of 2009 saw a reduction in serious crime of over 10 % from the previous year.