81.   Also Friday, the Tajik parliament passed a law strengthening the powers of security agencies.

82.   Also, King Albert II regularly discusses matters of state with Belgian politicians and is required to sign each law passed by parliament.

83.   Although presidents can veto legislation passed by parliament, parliament can then pass it a second time, which makes the president powerless to stop it.

84.   Amid shrill denunciations from Russia and measured, but still strong, criticism from the West, the Saeima parliament passed liberalizing amendments in June.

85.   And in July, the Ukrainian parliament passed an adoption law, imposing new, tougher rules for foreign adoption.

86.   Another is the sale or lease of inefficient state-owned industries, and parliament has already passed privatization bills.

87.   At least one opposition party threatened on Tuesday to boycott the elections if parliament passed the Democratic proposal.

88.   At least one Peasant Party leader opposed the move, saying parliament should instead pass a law allowing access to files.

89.   As tensions with Russia escalated this spring, the parliament passed amendments eliminating the windows system and granting citizenship to all children born in Latvia since independence.

90.   At the end of September, the Haitian parliament passed an internationally-backed economic plan aimed at streamlining the bureaucracy and privatizing nine inefficient state-owned enterprises.