parliamentary

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Not content with mere parliamentary preeminence, de Gaulle quickly fashioned a Fifth Republic with a semimonarchical presidency to which he was elected the following year, an office he would hold for a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

But the real meat of the disagreement here is not about parliamentary process.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Hungarian stocks rose to record highs and the forint hit a four-year high against the euro Monday after the country’s opposition Tisza party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said his negotiating team "put forward constructive initiatives but ultimately the other side was unable to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of negotiations".

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton