91. The president assailed both the previous parliament and the newly elected legislature, which he criticized for being preoccupied with infighting and unable to elect a speaker. 92. The tiny state has the only elected legislature in the conservative Persian Gulf, which is ruled by monarchs. 93. Their representatives have been expelled twice this year from China for protesting against the plan to replace the elected legislature with an appointed body. 94. There is an elected legislature, but members charge that Arafat ignores their resolutions. 95. There is no elected legislature. 96. They are the second-largest bloc in Parliament, which is the only elected legislature in the Gulf region. 97. There is an elected legislature, governmental institutions and a police force. 98. Thirty-three members of the elected legislature joined the provisional one. 99. To protest the democratic reforms Britain introduced without its consent, Beijing dismantled the largely elected legislature and appointed an interim body dominated by business and pro-Beijing elites. 100. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has said that if she were invited, she would boycott the swearing-in as a show of support for the elected legislature. |
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