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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In reality their opposition is heavily influenced by the fact that there will be regional elections in the fall.
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In the British National Corpus:
The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain, so he argued.
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In Wikipedia:
They also have considerable budgets managed by a regional council “(conseil rgional)” made up of representatives voted into office in regional elections.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
If elections in Venezuela were not hopelessly rigged, they would have the democratic option of reining in Chi? 1 / 2 vez at the Nov. 23 regional elections.
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In Wikipedia:
In the municipal and the regional elections held in June 1987, the largest gains were made by the CDS.
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In Wikipedia:
He served as regional President of the Bretagne region until his defeat by the Socialist Jean – Yves Le Drian in the French regional elections, 2004.
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In Wikipedia:
In the regional elections of 2004, she was at the top of the roster of the Paris dpartment on the slate of Andr Santini (Union for French Democracy, UDF).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Now they smell their chance to win the regional elections or to get what they want: early elections that they would win, as a result of which they would overrule and cancel all reforms that the government recently introduced.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Reuters – Venezuela’s top court ruled on Tuesday that dozens of politicians, among them leading opponents of President Hugo Chavez, will not be allowed to run in regional elections later this year.
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In Wikipedia:
The conflict severely damaged the party’s reputation, as reflected in the 2004 Belgian regional elections results.
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In Wikipedia:
UM was once again was the key element to give the presidency back to Francesc Antich after the regional elections to the Balearic Island parliament held in 2007.
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In Wikipedia:
They called for a “unifying project for the pro – independence left” which would be aimed at creating an electoral list for regional elections to be held in Spring 2009.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Local areas will pick their favorite candidates from among those running, and the winners will go on to run in regional elections.
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In Wikipedia:
Regional parliamentary elections were held on June 20.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
What are the regional elections?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It is also unlikely that the Iraqi Parliament will get its act together in time to stage regional elections, which they swore they would hold this year.
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In the British National Corpus:
The two environmentalist parties in France have both scored successes in regional elections.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
U.S. officials have been livid since discovering that Iraq’s fledgling parliament – hardly a hive of activity in the first place – was planning to take a two – month summer recess, postponing work on a bill spelling out how oil money would be shared among Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian groups or a law authorizing new regional elections.”?
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In Wikipedia:
As there are no regional elections, outside London, local representatives on regional assemblies are nominated by the councils within each region and 30 % of members represent regional stakeholders.
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