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Dullipatti

Mr. Laxmi Mandal is a present Mukhiya, a democratically elected representative, takes care of all types of development work in the village.


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1999 Burmese Embassy Siege

Myanmar (Burma) had been under military rule since 1962 when General Ne Win staged a coup against the democratically elected government of U Nu.

2644 Victor Jara

Chernykh named the asteroid in honor of the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara who was tortured and murdered shortly after the military coup of September 11, 1973 led by Army Commander-in-Chief Augusto Pinochet, that ended the democratically elected government of the socialist Salvador Allende Gossens.

Arch 22

It was built in 1996 to mark the military coup d'etat which over threw the democratically elected government, and saw the rise to power on 22 July 1994 of President Yahya Jammeh and his Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council.

Balcerowicz Plan

The unofficial talks at Magdalenka and then the Polish Round Table talks of 1989 allowed for a peaceful transition of power to the democratically-elected government.

Croatian Party of Rights

The ruling HDZ cooperated with the HSP until the fall of Vukovar, after which the leaders of the HSP and HOS were imprisoned for "terrorist activities" and "obstruction of democratically elected government".

Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim

The constitutional crisis caused by the illegal exclusion of the democratically elected SCP members from the Sudanese parliament, which was spearheaded by Sadiq al Mahdi caused much acrimony between the SCP and the Umma Party.

Gillis Bildt

The disqualification of Stockholm's 22 pro free-trade members of the democratically elected Lower House on a technicality (one member's non-payment of 11.58 kr in taxes a few years previously) and the appointment, in their place, of 22 protectionist members tipped the balance of power and brought about Themptander's resignation, opening the door for a new leader.

Giorgi Maisashvili

After the Georgian Civil War and the overthrowing of the democratically elected government by Eduard Shevardnadze in 1992, Maisashvili was forced to flee the country and was granted a political asylum by the United States.

Governor of San Luis Potosí

The governor is democratically elected for a term of six years, and cannot be re-elected.

Grémah Boucar

After the January 1996 military coup by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara against Niger’s first democratically elected president, Mahamane Ousmane, Radio Anfani became a target of government harassment.

Habibu Idris Shuaibu

Habibu Idris Shuaibu was military administrator of Niger State in Nigeria from August 1998 to May 1999, when he handed over control to the democratically elected Abdulkadir Kure.

John Willie Kofi Harlley

This commission remained in place even after the handover to the democratically elected Progress Party government of Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia.

Jože Mencinger

In May 1990, he was appointed Minister of Economy in the first democratically elected Slovenian government.

Karl Geiler

He replaced the social democrate Ludwig Bergsträsser, who served as acting minister-president for only one month, and would remain in office until a successor could be democratically elected.

LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium

Canada's existence and democratic foundation owes a great deal to the partnership of two 19th century political visionaries, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin, the first democratically elected Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada.

Luis Muñoz Rivera

His son, Luis Muñoz Marín would subsequently become involved in politics, becoming the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

He was elected in 1948 as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico in 1948.

Nanong Gewog

H.E. Lyenpo Jigme Thinley is the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Bhutan.

Ningalenne Communistakki

This drama propelled KPAC into the forefront of kerala cultural scene and played a historical role in popularising the Communist movement in Kerala during 1950's eventually leading to the establishment of first democratically elected communist ministry in the World in 1957 in Kerala under E. M. S. Namboodiripad.

Óscar Hahn

In the next year, 1973, his life would change dramatically, due to political developments in his home country; on 11 September of that year, during the Chilean coup of 1973 he was detained by the newly installed military government of Augusto Pinochet, which had displaced the progressive government of the democratically-elected leader Salvador Allende.

Ronald MacLean Abaroa

MacLean-Abaroa was the first democratically elected mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, and was reelected four times between 1985 and 1991 to this office.

Tengiz Gudava

Earlier in his career, Gudava was a close associate of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a fellow Georgian dissident and the future first democratically elected President of Georgia.

The Haitian National Truth and Justice Commission

Haiti's once diverse and lively civil society had been tarnished greatly as a result of the ousting of its first democratically-elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by its military forces.

Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde

His grandfather, the influential thinker, writer and diplomat Víctor Andrés Belaúnde was President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1959 to 1960 and his uncle Fernando Belaúnde Terry was the founder of the Popular Action and twice democratically elected President (1963–1968 and 1980–1985).

Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California

The tribe is headquartered in Gardnerville, Nevada and governed by a democratically elected twelve-member tribal council and chairman, which meet on a monthly basis.

Water privatization in Chile

The privatization of water in Chile was undertaken from 1998 to 2005 under the democratically elected governments of Eduardo Frei and Ricardo Lagos.

Zwaanendael Colony

Franciscus van den Enden had drawn up charter for a utopian society (that included equal education of all classes, joint ownership of property, and a democratically elected government.