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| | The European Elections June 10th 13th 2004 |
 | | The “Union for the Country and Liberty” (TB/LNNK) with 29.2% of the vote and the Jaunas Laiks (JL) with 19.68% were the biggest winners of Latvia’s first-ever European Election. | | | The Prime Minister’s party, the Union of Farmers and Greens, received but 4.26% of the vote as his ally the Premier of Latvia garnered even less, with 3.25% of the vote. | | | In Latvia, the political party dedicated to the defense of the Russian-speaking minority, “Union for the Rights of Man and a United Latvia” (PCTVL), was headed by Tatiana Zdanoka, who was given the right to run for office due to a special exception. |
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| | How 14 Senate centrists forged deal to preserve filibuster tradition The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | It called for allowing final votes on Owen, California Supreme Court Janice Rogers Brown for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | | | WASHINGTON – The signatures of 14 Senate centrists, seven from each party, spilled across the last page of a hard-won compromise on President Bush's judicial nominees. | | | Finally, as the negotiators returned to the Capitol last Monday, the day before the scheduled vote, the centrists were optimistic they had a deal. |
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| | The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 14-Feb-06 - Sununu keeping mum on what how he’ll vote on filibuster ... |
| | Centrists hope to strike a deal that would stop Frist from banning judicial filibusters while blocking Reid from filibustering all of Bush’s most controversial nominees at the same time. | | | Unless compromise-minded centrists can strike a deal, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will force a test vote Tuesday on Texas judge Priscilla Owen’s nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | | | Republican John Warner and Democrat Robert Byrd are trying to avert that showdown, but Senate centrists have not been able to compromise on controversial nominees. |
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| | Democrats briefly lost control of the Assembly to the Republicans in the mid-1990s -- thanks to those swing districts created by the state Supreme Court in 1991. | | | To regain and hold Assembly power in the last two election cycles, Democrats had to wrest seats from Republicans by fielding a new generation of centrist candidates. | | | A major factor in all three liberal defeats was the strong signal from Gov. Gray Davis' lobbyists that he didn't want liberal bills to reach his desk. |
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| | The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA |
| | TALLINN - Leader of Peopleâs Union Villu Reiljan said that the party is ready to nominate Arnold Ruutel to run for a second five-year term as Estonian president in the elections scheduled for this fall. | | | VILNIUS - Opponents of the oppositional Liberal and Center Union leader are establishing a new political force - the Lithuanian Liberal Movement. | | | Bogdan Borusewicz, chairman of the upper house of Polish parliament, the Senate, and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis announced the news at a meeting in Warsaw on Nov. 15. |
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| | NewHampshire.com: News: Senate shuns showdown, reaches a compromise |
| | WASHINGTON — In a dramatic reach across party lines, Senate centrists sealed a compromise last night to clear the way for confirmation of many of President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, leave others in limbo and preserve venerable filibuster rules. | | | He said he's hoping that most of President Bush's nominees will now get an up-or-down vote and that judicial nominees will no longer have to find 60 votes for confirmation. | | | NewHampshire.com: News: Senate shuns showdown, reaches a compromise |
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| | USATODAY.com - Alito debate begins today in full Senate |
| | Given the Republican majority in the Senate, the only way for Alito's opponents to halt his nomination would be through a filibuster, which allows 40 senators to block a vote by refusing to end debate. | | | Alito opposed abortion as a lawyer in the Reagan administration but said during his confirmation hearings that he won't allow his personal views to affect his rulings. | | | The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Alito on Tuesday, 10-8, without a single Democratic vote. |
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| | The Radical Centrist: September 2005 |
| | This is the first time a state has passed such a law without being forced by the courts. | | | The reason I say they have killed it is that this act will almost certainly guarantee a constitutional amendment in the state reasserting that marriage in California is a union between a man and a woman (one of each, in fact. | | | The old political categorizations, Left vs Right, Dem vs Repub, just don't work very well any more. |
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| | Pravda.RU The Establishment Of A Single Centrist Party To Be Discussed In Moscow |
| | The decision to establish a centrist party is aimed at giving the most effective support for the Russian president's policy, the Unity Party said in an address to its members and supporters. | | | The establishment of a unified centrist party will help change the whole of Russia for the better, the leader of the Unity Party and Minister for Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, said in his report to the party's congress, which opened in Moscow on Saturday. | | | The All Russia movement has been admitted to the Unity-Fatherland union, a decision unanimously adopted by 384 delegates taking part in the second congress of the two organizations, currently underway in Moscow. |
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| | Union External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh, for one, dug his heels in, and refused to allow an APHC delegation to leave for Pakistan. | | | The centrists led by Abdul Ghani Lone, who command a six-to-one majority in the executive, were forced to refer Pant's offer to the organisation's 21-member working committee, and then to its 23-member general council. | | | Jaswant Singh had the support of Union Home Minister L.K. Advani, who insisted that the APHC delegation should not include far-right Jamaat-e-Islami leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. |
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| | The Union's 15 foreign ministers presented a common stance toward Turkey, which, as Papandreou said, safeguards Greek and Cypriot aims. | | | During the December Helsinki summit the leaders of the Union approved Turkey's candidacy to accession. | | | Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, expressed his satisfaction over the results of the meeting between the council and Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, stressing that it was "a very positive day both for the European Union and Turkey". |
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| | Interviewed by the private LNK TV on 17 October, Brazauskas indicated his preference for a coalition with his traditional opponents, the Homeland Union and the Liberal Centrists, rather than with the newcomer Labor. | | | The Social Democrats/Social Liberals won 31 seats, Homeland Union 25, and the Liberal Centrists 18. | | | On 24 October, Prime Minister and Social Democrat leader Algirdas Brazauskas and his coalition partner, Social Liberal chief Arturas Paulauskas, met with Liberal Centrist leader Arturas Zuokas and Andrius Kubilius, the Homeland Union leader, for initial consultations on forming a new ruling coalition without Labor. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Alaska Bars State Participation in Intrusive Federal Security Measures: Legislators ... |
| | This is the Web site of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. | | | The pro-civil liberties resolution makes Alaska the strongest critic of the federal government's controversial USA PATRIOT Act and initiates policies prohibiting enforcement of the law at the state level. | | | "Our own Congressman Don Young, one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, called the USA PATRIOT Act the 'worst piece of legislation we ever passed.' Conservatives, centrists and liberals alike are wary of too much government power over our lives - this resolution affirms Alaskan's bipartisan commitment to protecting civil liberties." |
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| | Duma to Open Autumn Sesion with Attack on the Communists |
| | Four centrist and two right-wing factions and groups in the lower house control enough votes to ensure passage of the draft law. | | | There can be no doubt that the proposed amendments will be passed, even though amendments to constitutional laws require 300 votes rather than 226. | | | An alliance of centrists, the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) and YABLOKO has proposed a draft law prohibiting referendums in the years of parliamentary or presidential elections. |
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| | Shot In The Dark: Do You Know The Way To Center? |
| | A well considered centrist opinion would suggest that there aren't enough private schools to teach everyone, as we take funds from public schools, just like medical care, we will degrade public schools because there will be too few payers. | | | I believe same-sex marriage is inevitable in the US, but it needs to work itself out in state legislatures and courts so the people have a chance to weigh in, rather than a top-down ruling as we saw in Canada. | | | Wade decision on marriage - nor do we need a constitutional amendment prohibiting it. |
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| | Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Europe: French minister takes helm of Chirac party |
| | New President of the French conservative governing party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) Nicolas Sarkozy, waves to reporters upon his arrival at the Hotel Matignon to hand his resignation as finance minister to French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004 in Paris. | | | PARIS -- Nicolas Sarkozy resigned as finance minister Monday, a day after accepting the leadership of France's conservative party and effectively becoming a rival to his old boss, President Jacques Chirac. | | | Chirac, however, sent a warning in a message to the party, insisting the "union" between conservatives and centrists upon which the movement was founded must be preserved. |
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| | The Democrats nationally then became a polyglot union of Southern centrists, Southern reactionaries and some anti-Wall Street Northern progressives, with the Northern sympathizers of slavery still hanging around for a while. | | | After General Ulysses S. Grant won a second term for the Republicans in 1872, the all-out drive to bourgeoisify the country continued at still greater speed. | | | Even if Tilden had won the election and been given the presidential crown, it would have made little difference. |
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| | FORWARD : News |
| | Debates over homosexuality have produced national headlines throughout the summer, with much of the attention focused on the Episcopal Church and its groundbreaking decision to appoint an openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson. | | | The decision, members of the law committee said, will come down to the fundamental question of whether to uphold the historical understanding of the biblical prohibition against homosexual sex. | | | A religious movement that sanctions same-sex unions but insists that these couples are obligated to keep the Sabbath and observe kosher dietary laws is a far different theological animal than a denomination, such as Reform Judaism, that ultimately leaves these decisions in the hands of individuals. |
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| | Republican centrists at the center of key votes - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com |
| | So for 48 hours at least, the dominant branch of the Republican Party this week was the centrist wing, comprised mostly of members of Congress from places far from the Southern-Mountain State heartland of George W. Bush’s brand of Republicanism. | | | Bush was born in Connecticut, a state his grandfather represented in the United States Senate, but today his party’s geographical and ideological center is somewhere closer to Midland, Texas, where Bush grew up, or Belle Meade, the wealthy Nashville suburb where Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist spent his childhood. | | | The House passed the Smith bill Tuesday with only one dissenting vote. |
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| | Meanwhile, centrist SIINM spoke in favor of a four-party coalition. | | | MRF Deputy Heads, Yunal Lyutfi and Emel Etem did not comment on his announcement. | | | The Bulgarian People's Union remains firm in its demands for the formation of a programme cabinet, co-head Stefan Sofianski said on his way out of the Presidency. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Country profile: Slovakia |
| | For the first five years after independence, there was growing international criticism of the lack of respect for minority rights and the democratic process shown by the authoritarian prime minister, Vladimir Meciar. | | | Under Mr Dzurinda, who won a second term in elections in September 2002, Slovakia has forged ahead with reforms. | | | Mikulas Dzurinda began a second consecutive term in office as prime minister in a centre-right coalition government in October 2002 following elections the previous month. |
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| | GOP centrists promote Giuliani |
| | While two New York governors captured the White House in the past century, no New York City mayor has made the jump. | | | But even his biggest boosters can’t say for sure whether a big-city mayor who supports abortion rights can win over the social conservatives who hold overwhelming sway within the GOP. | | | He also won plaudits for hosting a successful Republican National Convention in New York City. |
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| | Their appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected on 29 January and they were accordingly convicted on 21 February and fined. | | | On 4 February, Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, wrote a warning letter to President Voronin[6]. | | | This appeal was echoed the following day by the Journalists’ Union. |
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| | Salvation Army World Services: Easter European Command Moldova |
| | However, Snegur's opposition to immediate reunification with Romania led to a split with the Moldovan Popular Front in October 1991 and to his decision to run as an independent candidate in a December 1991 presidential election. | | | In 1995, the country became the first New Independent State admitted to the Council of Europe. | | | Political parties: Communist Party, Popular Christian Democratic Party, "Furnica" Social Democratic Party, Socialist Party, "Speranta-Nadejda" Movement, Union of Centrists of Moldova, Work Union, "Forta Noua" Socio-Political Movement, independent candidates. |
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| | This brought and end to Democrat rule and the Republicans with the Contract with America forced Bill to the center. | | | According to EWTN "The World Over Live" analysts, with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush.....a whopping number of votes since Catholics number about 52 million Americans. | | | According to CNN exit polls, Bush voters included 38% of union members, 40% of those with union members in their households, 42% of those earning $15,000-$30,000, 44% of those who earn under $50,000 and 44% of Latinos, 45% of youth (aged 18-29), 13% of liberals—even 11% of Democrats voted for Bush. |
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| | Centrists in the four-party governing coalition had courted Isarescu in the hope of boosting their sagging electoral fortunes, dented by nearly four years of political rows and growing economic hardship. | | | But Isarescu, a former central bank chief who earned a solid reputation as a negotiator with international institutions, has said he will only run as an independent in a field dominated by former President Ion Iliescu, a veteran ex-communist. | | | Nicolae Manolescu, a leading academic and civic rights campaigner who heads the group, said he had secured Isarescu's agreement to run as an independent to pursue his programme of integration into the European Union. |
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| | Ideological similarity results in a situation where Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces are gradually losing their voters. | | | The year of the Duma elections will have its own political intrigue. | | | He would not share it with the Union of Right Forces or give up his image as an irreconcilable fighter and a leader of a social-oriented party. |
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| | President of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) Oscar Lafontain said Sunday's election was "a great personal success" for the Greek prime minister and an "affirmation" to the citizens "of the road to revival." | | | British Labor Party leader Tony Blair said he had been informed of PASOK's victory with great satisfaction. | | | Simitis' "exceptionally impressive electoral victory," and expressed his belief that the Greek prime minister will lead Greece into Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) with the same energy and dynamism which led him to electoral victory. |
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| | Averting a showdown, centrists from both parties reached agreement Monday night on a compromise that clears the way for confirmation votes on many of President Bush's stalled judicial nominees, leaves others in limbo and preserves venerable Senate filibuster rules. | | | Nonetheless, his flopping face once again adorns what seems on the surface to be a cave-in on the filibuster option. |
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| | Two of Ukraine's three centrist parties, representing the largest of the three oligarchic parties, have decided not to create election blocs and instead contest the 2006 elections alone (Ukrayinska pravda, October 31, November 1). | | | The Orange Revolutionary camp is likely to re-unite after the 2006 elections to create a pro-Yushchenko majority that may include the Lytvyn bloc and the Socialists (Ukrayinska pravda, October 8, 10, 25, 27, November 1). | | | UKRAINE'S CENTRIST CAMP IN DISARRAY AHEAD OF 2006 ELECTIONS - Eurasia Daily Monitor |
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| | The party is deprived of the ballast offered by swing voters, the party moves further and further to the left, driven by a Jacobin desire for revolutionary purity and revenge against those who urge pragmatism and point to the path to victory. | | | Hillary will win the nomination in 2008, but she will face a party fractured by its ideological divisions and will find it harder and harder to please the left in her own ranks and the centrists in the swing states. | | | Here's how it work: When moderates and centrists embrace the GOP and President Bush, they leave the Democrats to the tender mercies of the liberals. |
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| | In Lithuania, this meant the right-wing parties such as the Homeland Union and the Liberal/Centrists were poised to gain big in this week's poll. | | | And this put Andrius Kubilius, head of the Homeland Union (the Conservatives), in a strong bargaining position vis-a-vis the ruling center-left parties. | | | In general, we could say that the victory belongs to the right-wing since out of all three groups - the Labor Party, Social Democrats and Social Liberals, and the Homeland Union and the Liberals - we've gathered the most votes. |
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| | And if they didn't their laws (unlike their judges) could be repealed. | | | Italian Government Falls, New Jersey Politician Indicted, Summer Brings Warmer Weather: The nation's biggest teachers' union, the NEA, doesn't like the No Child Left Behind Act? | | | added] Of course, Dillon could just as well have highlighted "some legal scholars" who said the union's proposed cause of action was dangerous and destructive, in addition to having dim "prospects" for actual success in the federal courts. |
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| | These efforts were to lead to the Hizbul Mujahideen declaring a unilateral ceasefire in July 2000, an initiative taken up the next month with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee declaring a ceasefire to mark the month of Ramzan. | | | Shortly after the assassinated People's Conference leader Abdul Gani Lone's party put up proxy candidates in last year's Assembly elections, Geelani had demanded that the organisation be removed from the APHC. | | | And, to add insult to injury, the Jamaat-e-Islami chose not to replace Geelani with his trusted lieutenant, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai. |
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| | LE BOURGET, France (AP) - Nicolas Sarkozy, one of France's most ambitious and visible politicians - and an in-house rival of President Jacques Chirac - moved to the helm of the president's party yesterday, a perfect podium for him to bid for the presidency in 2007. | | | In a multimillion-dollar, American-style political show, Sarkozy was named president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) kicking off a new era for Chirac's right. | | | However, Chirac sent a warning in a message to the party, insisting that the "union" between conservatives and centrists upon which UMP was founded must be preserved. |
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| | PORTSMOUTH — No matter who is president, there will be no wild schemes from the left or right getting through the U.S. Senate in the next two years. | | | Others in the group include Democrats Diane Feinstein of California and John Breaux of Louisiana, and Republicans Connie Mack of Florida and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. | | | He was discussing the strength of a centrist coalition in the Senate of which Maine's Sen. Olympia Snowe is a leader and Sen. Susan Collins is a member. |
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| | This is not action against the National Union of Seamen | | | On 28 May, Harold Wilson said Communists were using the seamen's strike to gain influence over the National Union of Seamen. | | | Mr Wilson's hardline tactics split the Labour party into Left and Centrists and did little to improve the country's economic problems. |
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| | In the struggle for the mayor's office in Paris it has become clear that politicians such as Séguin, Chirac and Balladur find it increasingly difficult to work within the same apparatus, and that a reorganisation of the right-wing in France is imminent. | | | As the plan of a politician known for his concern for the interests of the Parisian stock exchange, the constitution project actually seemed to be going in this direction. | | | Although he did not openly speak out against the monetary union and European integration, he declined to repudiate his previous anti-European views, which distinguish him clearly from the pro-European Edouard Balladur. |
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| | In both cases the outgoing government leaders, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a social-democrat, in Germany and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe Coburg, a centrist, in Bulgaria, were narrowly defeated by their parliamentary opposition, he noted. | | | “In Bulgaria the Socialists and the centrists were able to strike a compromise because both parties had pledged to ensure Bulgaria’s entry into the European Union in 2007,†political analyst Fritz Plasser added. | | | After seven weeks of horse-trading, and under pressure from the European Union, the Bulgarian centrists of former king Simeon II consented to join a coalition with the Socialists and a smaller Turkish minority party. |
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| | To capture the high ground, the vice president must forge a working coalition from his party's fractious collection of liberals, centrists, union members and minorities, many of whom mistrust him and despise one another. | | | Gore has the unenviable task of somehow upstaging an opponent known for his genial manner, raffish past and bottomless war chest. | | | It will be an uphill battle that will be made all the more difficult by Mr. |
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| | Russia became a member of the IMF in June 1992; it has the ninth-largest IMF quota (which determines countries' voting and borrowing rights), ranking behind only the G-7 countries and Saudi Arabia. | | | These limits are to be achieved by November 1995. | | | As of April 1994, Russia had received $3 billion in loans under the STF. |
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| | That's because the many bright people in this 15 percent or 20 percent of the electorate know Democrats can't elect a president without support from millions of moderates or independents. | | | To win, the party must reach out to centrists – including people who backed the war or who regret the decision to go to war yet think a pullout would be catastrophic. | | | It would rather have the Democratic Party be a small tent full of ideological clones who hold centrist sellouts and Red State America in equal contempt than a big tent that could actually change national politics. |
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| | It's also known that the majority of Byzanthine Laboral-Social Democratic Union (Socialists and Centrists, 42% of senate) and the whole bench of Byzanthine Reformist Partie (Liberals, 3%) and Byzanthine Moralistic Axis (Religious and Moralists, 5%) voted for the project, along with some others parties, with only few abstains or against votes here. | | | Almost the whole bench of the Byzanthine Democratic-Republican Alliance (Conservatives, 30% of senate) abstained to vote, as well as some other senators from different parties (the identity of the senators is secret, on the votation is only known its afilliance). | | | On the other hand, the majority of Byzanthine Coalition fro Progress and Prosperity and (pro-monopolists, capitalists and non-political afiliance) has voted against the project. |
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