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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That view is widely held in official Georgian circles. In an interview, former Parliamentary President Nino Burjanadze termed the Russian pullout claim disingenuous.

格鲁吉亚前议会议长布里扬纳泽认为俄罗斯的撤军说法是不真诚的。

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Kraisak Choonhavan is a government member of the Thai parliament and president of the ASEAN Inter-parliamentary Caucus on Burma.

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In these elections, the former-opposition Movement for Democratic Change defeated President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party in the parliamentary vote.

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Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24.

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In the 1999 referendum, the then-government of staunch monarchist John Howard asked voters to choose between maintaining the monarchy and replacing it with a president elected by a two-thirds parliamentary majority.

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The National Salvation Front (NSF) says electoral laws favour allies of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in April's parliamentary elections - a charge he denies.

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Russian president-in-waiting, Vladimir Putin, has been the source of much disdain since the Dec. 4 Parliamentary elections.

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