According to a statement from Lieberman's office, he said U.N.forums give an automatic anti-Israel majority to countries with poor human rights records such as Cuba,Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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Thus we have the powers of a presidential type system with the automaticmajority of a Parliamentary system.
While Mr Bersani's narrow victory in the election guaranteed him an automaticmajority in the lower house, he cannot govern without control of the Senate too.
The voting methods in the European Banking Authority, a regulatory agency based in London, for instance, will have to be adjusted so that the 17 members of the euro zone do not have an automaticmajority against the ten others.