Lacking the two-thirds majority necessary in both houses of the Legislature to submit constitutional amendments to the electorate, in 2004 the Popular Democratic Party's then-majority approved legislation to hold a referendum, not on a particular constitutional amendment as such, but on the general concept of switching from a bicameral to a unicameral system which was held on July 10, 2005.

He has been a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Second Secretary of its Politburo since the Party's formation in October 1965 ; also, the First Vice President of the Cuban Council of State, of the National Assembly of the Popular Power and of the Council of Ministers since these were created in 1976.

The People's World / Mundo Popular, formerly the People's Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo ( Spanish title: Our World ) is a national, grassroots weekly newspaper and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker, the east coast Communist Party daily newspaper, which was founded in 1924, and the Communist Party's west coast daily newspaper, The Daily People's World.

Popular imperial unity was the central thread of the Scottish Unionist Party's belief system.

For the 1938 presidential election, the PS participated in the formation of the Popular Front, withdrawing its presidential candidate, the colonel Marmaduque Grove, and supporting the Radical Party's candidate, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, who narrowly defeated the right-wing candidate following an attempted coup by the National Socialist Movement of Chile.

Following the first round of the 2007 presidential election, he called on voters to vote for Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to counter the Socialist Party's candidate Ségolène Royal and the left.

While the Party's trade union policies in the Popular Front era was close to what Foster had advocated in the 1920s, the Party's strength was not in the areas in which it had been active during the TUEL era — garment, railroads, and mining — but in the mass production industries with little history of union organization — automobile and electrical manufacturing, meatpacking, longshore on the west coast, maritime on the east coast, hard rock mining and lumber in the west and public transit in New York City.

Senator Roberto Prats became the Popular Democratic Party's nomineee for Resident Commissioner for the upcoming elections, which he lost to Luis Fortuño, despite a big boost for his congressional campaign, when the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) Chairman Terry McAuliffe endorsed him in March 2004.

The ballots in question were cast by marking the Puerto Rican Independence Party or New Progressive Party ( i. e. marking a cross under the emblem of one of these parties ) in addition to placing individual candidate marks ( crosses ) in favor of Acevedo Vilá as the candidate for governor of the Popular Democratic Party and Roberto Prats, the Popular Democratic Party's candidate for Resident Commissioner.

After the Popular Democratic Party's landslide victory in 1944, that Party controlled the House until 1969, when the New Progressive Party won the House and the governorship, but not the Senate, creating Puerto Rico's first " split " government.

The dictatorial regime operated as a one-party-state, which saw most of the powers concentrated between President Mobutu, who was simultaneously the head of the state-party ( Popular Movement of the Revolution ), and a series of essentially rubber-stamping institutions.

| 75pxHans Fritzsche || I || I || I |||-|| Acquitted || Popular radio commentator ; head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry.

The four killers were arrested together with the head of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), Ahmad Sa ' adat.

Popular Taoism typically presents the Jade Emperor as the official head deity.

Popular subspecialty areas are breast reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction, hand surgery / replantation, and brachial plexus surgery.

Popular both as a Triple Crown champion and in retirement, Secretariat was mourned by millions and buried at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, given the rare honor of being buried whole ; usually only the head, heart, and hooves of a winning race horse are buried, and the rest of the body is cremated.

Popular former player and longtime assistant coach Fred Carter succeeded Moe as head coach in March 1993, but could only manage a 32 – 76 record at the helm.

In addition, the mutual distaste between Villepin and Nicolas Sarkozy, head of the Union for a Popular Movement ( UMP ) majority party, is well-known.

Popular head coach Adam Rita was dismissed in September as the team struggled to find its way, Matt Dunigan left for Winnipeg as his replacement, Rickey Foggie struggled as the starting QB.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ( Union for a Popular Movement ) declared that the MEK " recently wanted to make France its support base, notably after the intervention in Iraq ", while Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, head of France's domestic intelligence service, claimed that the group was " transforming its Val d ' Oise centre Paris ... into an international terrorist base ".

He was succeeded by Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo as the head of the Council of Popular Salvation ( Conseil du Salut du Peuple ; CSP ).

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, a member of the Galician Popular Party, has been the PPdG head since late 2005.

* Robert Schuman, French politician who has served both as head of government and foreign minister, leader of Popular Republican Movement ; one of the founders of the European Union.

He was nominated for Most Popular Actor in 2003 and 2004 for his role in Kath and Kim and again nominated in 2005 for his role in the telemovie Da Kath and Kim Code in which his character punched Michael Bublé in the head.

Popular sentiment against Tinoco, which began on June 13, 1919, quickly came to a head, and his brother was assassinated in early August.

From September 8 – 10, 1989 writer Ivan Drach is elected to head Rukh, the Popular Movement of Ukraine for Peredudova, at its founding congress in Kyiv.

From 1943 to 1945 Salò was the de facto capital of Benito Mussolini's Nazi-backed puppet state, the Italian Social Republic, also known as the Republic of Salò: Villa Castagna was the seat of the police headquarters, Villa Amedei was the head office of the Ministry of Popular Culture, Villa Simonini ( nowadays Hotel Laurin ) was the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Stefani Agency, which distributed official press releases, was located in Via Brunati

After its transition from Popular Republic to Multiparty democracy in 1991, and according to the constitution adopted in 1992, Angola held in 1992 elections on national level, designed to choose a head of state-the president-and a legislature.

Salvador Allende was the president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, and head of the Popular Unity government ; he was the first Marxist ever to be elected to the national presidency of a democracy.

Ahmed Jibril the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, stated that a senior member of the PA delegation told him Arafat died of AIDS, what he was told was ' Frankly, the French gave us the medical report and the cause of Arafat's death was AIDS.

Young, who at the time held the position of head of drama serials, told The Guardian: " Popular drama has always been singled out for criticism, but people are increasingly voting with their on-buttons.

They also stated that groups in a summer camp for children sponsored by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were named after militants: Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre ; Salah Khalaf, head of Black September that carried out the Munich Massacre ; and Abu Ali Mustafa, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who perpetrated many attacks.

Klintberg was also co-host ( with Christina Mattsson, head of the Nordic Museum ) of " Folkminnen " (" Popular memories " or " Oral traditions ") a long-running radio show, which encouraged listeners to write letters describing or asking questions about the origin or significance of local legends, games, customs or other folklore.

His interest in marionettes began in 1935 when his father, who was the head carpenter for a major shipping line, gave him a copy of an American magazine called Popular Science Monthly, which contained instructions for making a puppet out of used bicycle inner tubes.

Popular Party, headed by Xhafer Bej Ypi, forms government with Ahmet Zogu, the future King Zog, as internal affairs minister.

In 1990, the Popular Front held its first National Congress, which formed a committee to draft a national constitution.

FUTH also became affiliated with a number of leftist popular organizations in a group known as the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations ( Comité Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Populares — CCOP ) that was formed in 1984.

In 1973, the Polisario Front ( Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro ) formed to combat the Spanish occupation of the territory.

The new armed forces were formed by integrating those soldiers of the former Popular Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique ( FPLM ) and the rebels Mozambican National Resistance RENAMO who wished to stay in uniform.

Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former South Yemen ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ), the rebels formed the Dhofar Liberation Front, which later merged with the Marxist-dominated Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf ( PFLOAG ).

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

A government led by Mircea Druc, one of the leaders of the Popular Front, was formed.

Compaoré, Captain Henri Zongo, and Major Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lengani formed the Popular Front ( FP ), which pledged to continue and pursue the goals of the revolution and to " rectify " Sankara's " deviations " from the original aims.

In 1972, the Popular Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Palestine was formed following a split in PFLP.

The PFLP has therefore formed alliances with other leftist groups formed within the Palestinian Authority, including the Palestinian People's Party, the Popular Resistance Committees of Gaza.

During the 1982 strike, Gbagbo formed what would become the Ivorian Popular Front ( FPI ).

In the elections of May 1936, the Popular Front won a majority of parliamentary seats ( 378 deputies against 220 ), and Léon Blum formed a government.

PSOE formed part of the Spanish government during the Second Spanish Republic and as part of the Spanish Popular Front, elected to government in February 1936.

The Popular Front was formed in 1936 by a coalition of left-wing republican parties.

As the leader of the Popular Party, in late December 1921 he formed a government where Fan S. Noli was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ahmed Zogu was the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Afterwards he moved sharply to the right and formed the French Popular Party, which would be one of the most collaborationist parties during Vichy France.

The Popular Front won the 1936 elections, and Léon Blum formed a Socialist-Radical government.

Supporters of Giscard formed the Popular Party for French Democracy ( PPDF ), that succeedeed to the Perspectives and Realities Clubs, while the CDS merged with the PSD into Democratic Force ( FD ).

In 1935 all the parties of left and centre formed the Popular Front, which at the elections of June 1936 won a sweeping victory.

The socialist parties were at first suspicious, given the bitter hostility of the 1920s, but eventually effective Popular Fronts were formed in both France and Spain.

This group was basically formed by two wings: classical liberals ( former members of the Italian Liberal Party, most of them organized in Popular Liberalism, as Alfredo Biondi, Raffaele Costa, Egidio Sterpa and Enrico Nan ); former Socialists, as Renato Brunetta and Paolo Guzzanti ; others like Stefania Prestigiacomo and Simone Baldelli ) and liberatarians, as Antonio Martino ( ex-PLI ), Dario Rivolta, Benedetto Della Vedova ( ex-Radical ) and his Liberal Reformers.

The original " internationalised " Communist Party of Cuba was formed in the 1920s, which was later renamed the Popular Socialist Party for electoral reasons.

In July 1961, two years after the 1959 Revolution, the Integrated Revolutionary Organizations ( ORI ) was formed by the merger of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, the Popular Socialist Party led by Blas Roca and the Revolutionary Directory March 13 led by Faure Chomón.