The combined left-wing opposition in France has defeated President Jacque Chirac's ruling Conservative Coalition in the first round of the country's parliamentary elections.

在法国议会第一轮选举中，左翼反对派联合击败了总统雅克·希拉克的保守派执政联盟。

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At first sight the parliamentary elections look like a recipe for confusion. There will be something like 12, 000 candidates from 38 parties bat tling for the 560 seats.

乍看之下，印尼的国会选举方案复杂得像一纸致幻药方：来自三十八个不同党派的大约一万两千名候选人将一齐争夺五百六十个议员席位。

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His first hurdle is parliamentary elections on June 10th and 17th.

他的首要障碍是六月十日和十七日的议会选举。

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That is the largest parliamentary majority since Hungary's first democratic elections in 1990, following decades of Communist rule.

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Yet Australians are proud of their democratic inheritance: the world's first parliamentary elections by secret ballot (in Victoria in 1856), female suffrage (in South Australia in 1894) and so on.

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In October 2011, the country held its first democratic parliamentary elections, with some 80 new parties registering to take part.

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Say has been a vocal critic of the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party, which has governed Turkey since it first won parliamentary elections more than a decade ago.

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