But Mr Rehman must heed hardliners inclined to abandon parliamentary politics and switch loyalties to the Taliban.
MSPs, all bar two of whom are new to full-time parliamentary politics, were intent on seeing their manifesto abolition pledge honoured.
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Even Germany and even Japan, Dower notes, experienced periods of parliamentary politics, if not outright democracy, during the century prior to World War II.
Mr Hashimi and fellow Sunni Arabs who have engaged in parliamentary politics say they are being increasingly targeted by al-Qaeda-tied insurgents and other violent Sunni groups.
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And just as he once put on a decent performance as a tightrope walker in a circus some 15 years ago, Mr Hagen has learned to keep his footing in parliamentary politics.
After sixteen years' activity in constituency, parliamentary and party politics, I want to bring that experience to bear where the party leadership is concerned.
Labour MP Paul Flynn has won plaudits for his book How To Be An MP, with the guide to parliamentary life selling well to students of politics.
After all, European politics is not of the confrontational parliamentary variety.
The report from the Hansard Society - a charity which aims to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics - also suggests that 33% of people believed peers were elected.
Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis, chairman of the all-party parliamentary mobile group, accused the Tories of playing politics with the issue.
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Former prime minister Sir John Major has said that parliamentary reform is badly needed to restore trust in politics and has heavily criticised the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Portcullis House, a parliamentary complex whose bland, airport-like atrium has become the 21st-century agora of British politics, pullulates with MPs from the 2010 Tory intake (who make up nearly half the parliamentary party).
Others carp that Mr Clegg should have profited more from the anti-politics mood provoked by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal.
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Women, almost excluded from politics in the past, will be guaranteed 10% of parliamentary seats and probably the highest proportion of legislators in the Arab world.
Central Asian countries such as Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are former Soviet republics, Iran had its parliamentary democracy subverted by the West in the 1950s, and Saudi Arabian politics have been dominated by the international oil market.
Stockholm's opinion-shapers take his frequent absences from the capital, and from some of the main parliamentary debates, as evidence that Mr Bildt has lost interest the hurly-burly of politics.
He is the only Kenyan politician who has changed political parties each time he has been a parliamentary candidate, leading his critics to conclude that he does not believe in strong party politics.
Their grip over Pakistani politics is bound to erode if there is a shift in the traditional distribution of parliamentary seats.
The difficulty is that, with a parliamentary election likely in Pakistan not long before America's presidential election in November, domestic politics hems in both sides.
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The phone-hacking accusations have reverberated through the top levels of British politics and journalism, led to the closing of a major tabloid and prompted a parliamentary committee to issue damning criticism of Murdoch.
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