As president, he can dissolve parliament on a whim.
They could barricade parliament again, as they did last month, and generate a fresh stalemate.
His reformist rival, Mehdi Karroubi, a liberal cleric and former speaker of parliament, has also boldly attacked the incumbent.
But Mr Abhisit rejected their demand for an immediate dissolution of Thailand's parliament and talks broke down with no agreement. See article.
Indeed, some experts say AV would sometimes be less proportional than FPTP, if the make-up of the resulting parliament is measured against the first-preference votes cast for each party.
The parliament was dissolved.
We are now into the second half of the parliament.
Lawmakers could try to impeach the President, but Mr. Musharraf also has power to dismiss parliament.
Demoralised and in disarray, the BNP has just 30 seats in parliament, down from 193 in 2001.
The incident has added significance because the remarkable rise of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn which won 18 seats in Greece's parliament less than a year ago.
Ayatollah Khamenei has tried his best to end the infighting, but his authority is limited by his record of support for Mr Ahmadinejad, which may be all that stops parliament from impeaching him.
At this point Kosovo's parliament will declare independence unilaterally.
Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament this morning that hospitalisation rates were similar to those in the US.
It also oversaw a huge business empire, since partially dismantled, and was guaranteed enough seats in the parliament to ensure its privileges could not be chipped away.
Afghanistan is due to inaugurate a parliament.
Iraq's top judicial body ruled the country's parliament must resume work, following a four-month hiatus.
There have been demonstrations, previously almost unheard of in Iceland, in which families have marched on the parliament buildings, stringing up an effigy of Oddsson along the way.
One came to parliament in an ambulance.
If parliament endorses this package, Mr Maliki will have 30 days to allot the entire gamut of ministries.
As recently as 2005 the French parliament passed a law referring to the "positive role of the French presence overseas, notably in north Africa", a clause later removed after an outcry.
The Dutch parliament, or Binnenhof, which is centred around a cluster of mediaeval buildings with turrets and a moat, has a lingering problem with vermin, the paper said.
It would be hard to scrap elections to the parliament now.
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In 1973, a popularly elected parliament was duly established, although a royal decree prevented women from voting.
The edifice is about half the size of the Great Hall of the People, to its north, a 1950s building which houses China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC). It shares its dour mien.
Mr Zardari would then inherit the swollen powers Mr Musharraf grabbed for the office, allowing him to appoint provincial governors and service chiefs and to dissolve parliament on a whim.
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