The question of the extension of the franchise, which was a burning one, was to be the principal measure of the Staaff government.

The government bill having, however, been passed by the Second Chamber, the Prime Minister proposed to the king that the Riksdag should be dissolved and new elections for the Second Chamber take place in order to hear the opinion of the country, but as the king did not approve of this Mr Staaff and his government resigned.

He helped collect public donations for the building of the battleship HMS Sverige, which the Liberal and anti-militarist government of Karl Staaff had been unwilling to finance.

He also said in a letter that Karl Staaff's government could take of social policy better than a conservative government could and that Staaff occasionally appeared to possess the ability to accomplish a lot, although he chose a different way.

In 1914 Staaff stepped down from government in protest, after Conservatives had summoned a farmers ' demonstration at the Royal castle's court in Stockholm, where King Gustaf V-who according to the law was supposed to stay out of politics-denounced Staaffs defence policies.

After the 1911 elections netted a massive landslide for the Liberals, Gustaf appointed Liberal leader Karl Staaff as Prime Minister, despite his own conservative predispositions.

The last time the King attempted to exercise political authority was in February 1914 when King Gustav V delivered a speech to 30, 000 peasants, assembled on the yard of the Royal Castle in Stockholm, an action which precipitated the fall the incumbent liberal cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Karl Staaff.

The Liberal Youth of Sweden traces its roots back to Verdandi, a radical student organisation founded in 1882 by Karl Staaff, the future prime minister and leader of the Liberal Coalition Party.

Ascending to the throne in 1907, his early reign saw the rise of parliamentary rule in Sweden, although the leadup to World War I pre-empted his overthrow of Liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff in 1914, replacing him with his own figurehead Hjalmar Hammarskjöld ( father of Dag Hammarskjöld ) for most of the war.

The so-called Påboda program was to have proportional elections to both parliamentary chambers, rather than the majoritarian system in place and retained in the Staaff proposition.

** Karl Staaff, Swedish politician ( d. 1915 )

Staaff was outraged, telling him that parliamentary rule called for the Crown to stay out of politics.

In 1912, when the liberal Karl Staaff became prime minister, Edén was made chairman of the liberal group in the Second chamber.

He was instrumental in the downfall of the liberal cabinet of Karl Staaff in 1906 over the issue of suffrage.

He was again minister of agriculture in the second Staaff cabinet 1911-1914 and finally, for the fourth time, in the coalition cabinet of Nils Edén 1917-1920.

Karl Albert Staaff ( 21 January 1860 – 4 October 1915 ) was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer.

Staaff was active in the Swedish movement for universal suffrage, and as the Liberal party's prime minister he presided in 1905 over the introduction of a limited democratic vote for men.

Staaff ran into sharp conflict with the conservative Swedish establishment, and became a hated figure in the Conservative, pro-Monarchic and anti-Democratic establishment.

Staaff had to bite the lemon, and the ship was ordered.

Dashnaksutyun, which was outlawed by Ter-Petrosyan in 1995 – 96 but legalized again after Ter-Petrosyan resigned, also usually supports the government.

* 1912 – U. S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U. S .- backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.

In June Radoslavov's government resigned.

This act was unpopular with the right wing of the Conservative Party, most notably Lord Cranborne ( later the Marquess of Salisbury ), who resigned from the government and spoke against the bill, accusing Disraeli of " a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals.

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

After many buffetings and, finally, after the catastrophic results of the June European Parliament election, 2004 Špidla resigned after a revolt in his own party and the government was reshuffled on the same basis.

Himself a former Sandinista who had held several high posts in the government, he had resigned apruptly in 1981 and defected, believing that the newly found power had corrupted the Sandinista's original ideas.

In mid-May, Mengistu resigned as head of the Ethiopian Government and went into exile in Zimbabwe, leaving a caretaker government in Addis Ababa.

After two years, he resigned from his ambassadorship because of disagreements with U. S. government policy.

In an attempt to guide the political system's transformation to multiparty democracy, Bongo resigned as PDG chairman and created a transitional government headed by a new Prime Minister, Casimir Oyé-Mba.

In an attempt to guide the political system's transformation to multi-party democracy, Bongo resigned as PDG chairman and created a transitional government headed by a new Prime Minister, Casimir Oye-Mba.

Numerous anti-war party members resigned their party membership when the first post-war deployment of German troops in a military conflict abroad occurred under a Red-Green government, and the party began to experience a long string of defeats in local and state-level elections.

Treating this as a vote of no confidence in his government, Aberdeen resigned.

New World Development announced in the early hours of 16 August that Leung had resigned from his post, without any compensation from either side or from the government, for the termination.

Venizelos resigned, but won the next elections, and again formed the government.

In October 1941, the UAP was ousted by a no-confidence vote, the ALP leader John Curtin was invited to form a new government, and Menzies resigned as UAP leader.

The Popular Party's head, Xhafer Ypi, formed a government in December 1921 with Fan S. Noli as foreign minister and Ahmed Bey Zogu as internal affairs minister, but Noli resigned soon after Zogu resorted to repression in an attempt to disarm the lowland Albanians despite the fact that bearing arms was a traditional custom.

A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.

As of 1 February 2011, Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Rifai resigned and King Abdullah asked Marouf Bakhit, a former prime minister, to form a new more democratic government.

He resigned as Co-Chairman of Freedom Works in March 2005 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) questioned his ties to Samir Vincent, a Northern Virginia oil trader implicated in the U. N. Oil-for-food scandal who pled guilty to four criminal charges, including illegally acting as an unregistered lobbyist of the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

The unpreparedness of the army was blamed on Defence Minister Menon, who " resigned " his government post to allow for someone who might modernise India's military further.

During the same month the entire government resigned, accepting blame for the loss of life during the protests earlier in the year.

Konoe resigned, only to form a new government without Matsuoka as Foreign Minister.

After the referendum, Repše's government started to fall apart and he eventually resigned in January 2004.

After the Saeima did not accept the budget for 2005 proposed by the government of Indulis Emsis, the government resigned.