There were 22 abstentions and one blank vote, he added.
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The annual government budget: 2,467 for, 299 against, 90 abstentions.
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The vote passed by 621 to 49, with 13 abstentions.
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The remaining votes were abstentions, unmarked or invalid voting slips.
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The handful of dissenting votes this time was lower than the 45 votes of no and abstentions lodged against less important constitutional amendments in 1999, and the 27 no votes and abstentions in 2004.
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The BVA poll showed abstentions at between 20 and 24 percent.
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Diplomats said they expected a number of abstentions but no veto.
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The vote was 10 to 6 to reject, with three abstentions.
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Abstentions by Rwanda and Nigeria, he said, helped tip the balance.
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The Supreme People's Court report: 93,600 for, 208 against, 46 abstentions.
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But he was defeated 125 to 112 margin, with two abstentions.
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There were 1013 votes against the motion, 126 for and 58 abstentions.
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Counting abstentions, the measure was not approved, according to Palo Alto filings.
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The measure was passed by 12 votes to five with four abstentions.
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Rousseff has to get 171 votes or abstentions to block the process.
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The tally was 87 in favor to 58 opposed, with 32 abstentions.
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That resolution was adopted with nine votes in favor and six abstentions.
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Indeed, the splendor of the day is expressed in terms of abstentions.
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The vote was 118 in favor and 62 against, with 10 abstentions.
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The U.S. elicited 62 votes in favor with 58 against and 42 abstentions.
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For one thing, talk of a landslide may increase abstentions by bored voters.
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Only two "no" votes were cast, with three abstentions, from almost 3,000 delegates.
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Not counting abstentions, 30.9% of shares were cast in favor of the resolution.
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Since then "no" votes and abstentions have been watched for hints of dissent.
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The no-confidence vote in Parliament passed 125 to 15, with two abstentions.
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The vote on Thursday was overwhelming, with 128 in support and 35 abstentions.
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It's widely believed that the abstentions were quid pro quo for this release.
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The closest thing the US got to support from allies was 35 abstentions.
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In the end, Mr. Torres's measure passed by 27-20, with three abstentions.
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The vote had 19 abstentions, and some members cautioned against making symbolic gestures.
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With the opposition boycotting the vote, it passed 70-10, with two abstentions.
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So did the Cincinnati City Council, through five abstentions and four votes in favor.
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Of the lawmakers, 438 voted in favor while 226 were against, with 39 abstentions.
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But it is the undecideds and especially the abstentions that could determine the results.
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The non-binding resolution passed with 513 votes for, 142 against and 30 abstentions.
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The resolution was passed by a vote of 105 to 15, with 52 abstentions.
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The legislation was adopted in the lower house by 241-4, with 21 abstentions.
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It passed on Thursday by a vote of 461 to 179, with nine abstentions.
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There were 120 votes in favor of the statute, seven against and 21 abstentions.
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A law regulating charitable organizations and fund-raising: 2,636 for, 131 against, 83 abstentions.
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Government officials have denied offering public works spending in return for votes or abstentions.
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The motion passed with a majority of 198 votes to 134 with seven abstentions.
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The actual number needed for victory depends on abstentions and absences on the day.
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S. Privacy Shield, but there were abstentions from Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia, sources said.
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The Senate rejected the proposed bill 38 to 31, with two abstentions and one absentee.
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According to the BBC, the agreement passed in a 621-49 vote, with 85033 abstentions.
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The copyright reform was passed with 438 votes in favor, 226 against and 39 abstentions.
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The new Commission was approved with 461 votes in favor, 157 against and 89 abstentions.
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Russia's draft resolution received 5 votes in favor, 6 against and there were 4 abstentions.
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In its final reading, the budget bill was approved by 108-86 votes with 36 abstentions.
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A proposal to suspend Muntarbhorn ultimately lost a General Assembly vote, 77-86, with 16 abstentions.
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In Sunday's parliamentary vote, Mr. Puigdemont was elected by 70 votes against 63, with two abstentions.
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The General Assembly adopted a resolution with 120 votes in favor, eight against and 45 abstentions.
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We lifted our heads and saw 38 votes against, 31 for, two abstentions, and one absence.
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The NGO committee rejected CPJ's application with 10 votes against, six in favor and three abstentions.
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To clinch the gavel, a candidate must win the majority support of voting members, excluding abstentions.
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Torra narrowly won the vote 66 to 65 with 4 abstentions, highlighting the parliament's divided nature.
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But lawmakers nevertheless approved the system with 461 votes in favor, 179 against and nine abstentions.
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The vote was 23 states in favor, eight against, with 15 abstentions and one delegation absent.
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Excluding abstentions 33.5 pct of investors voted against Sorrell's remuneration deal in the non-binding vote.
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Days later, lawmakers voted 393 to 226, with four abstentions, in favor of same-sex marriage.
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Just one Republican joined the four Democrats in backing the measure, but there were seven abstentions.
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The group voted forty-eight to seven, with forty-three abstentions, to cut short Bustani's term.
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But there were over a hundred abstentions, presumed to have come from rebels within Mrs Merkel's party.
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There were 393 votes in favor of "marriage for everybody," 226 opposing the measure, and four abstentions.
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The final tally was 367 votes cast in favour of impeachment, versus 137 against, and seven abstentions.
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The request came in a resolution adopted with 94 votes in favor, 15 against and 65 abstentions.
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A second round on Thursday will operate under different rules, requiring only a simple majority excluding abstentions.
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The parliamentary resolution on the amended report was passed by 396 votes to 123, with 85 abstentions.
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The final tally was 367 votes cast in favor of impeachment, versus 137 against, and seven abstentions.
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According to The Guardian, the abstentions also sparked a backlash from the Vatican and Rome's Jewish community.
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It passed in the 120-seat Parliament by a vote of 62 to 55 with two abstentions.
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The State Assembly passed the bill in a 45-25 vote with six abstentions, according to reports.
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There were 22018 votes in favor of the resolution and four abstentions, but no votes opposing it.
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Strip out Fox's stake and abstentions, however, and just half of Sky's independent shareholders backed the chairman.
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He was voted out of Congress by a landslide chamber vote of 450 to 10, with nine abstentions.
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Still, he faces an uphill struggle to convert abstentions and some 'no' votes into votes in his favor.
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The new law, passed 62-55 with two abstentions, has little practical effect in terms of daily living.
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Dr. Rosa, who represents the Bronx, was elected by a vote of 15 to 0, with two abstentions.
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Nor does Rousseff's Workers' Party and its allies have the 171 votes or abstentions needed to block it.
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The U.S. text received 87 votes in favor, 58 against, 32 abstentions and 16 countries did not vote.
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He obtained 166 votes in favor and 165 against, with 18 abstentions, while one lawmaker did not attend.
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He obtained 166 votes in favur and 165 against, with 18 abstentions, while one lawmaker did not attend.
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Lawmakers approved the motion in an expedited procedure with 163 votes in favour, two against and 11 abstentions.
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Only two "no" votes were cast, with three abstentions and one vote invalidated, from almost 3,000 delegates in parliament.
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European Parliament passed the copyright directive in a vote with 348 votes in favor, 274 against, and 36 abstentions.
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Sherlock said the update was meant to showed the types of proposals it might support, and to eliminate abstentions.
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After a marathon debate in the Senate, lawmakers voted by 38 to 31 against the bill, with two abstentions.
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The vote for the resolution, taken early Wednesday afternoon, was 191 in favor, none opposed and the two abstentions.
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Mayor Herntier fears abstentions will only help the AfD, which in 2017 won almost 30 percent in the Lausitz.
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The General Assembly resolution requesting the report was adopted with 120 votes in favor, eight against and 45 abstentions.
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In the end, the vote was a humiliating rebuke of the United States, 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions.
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The Russian-sponsored resolution was approved by a 79-60 vote with 33 abstentions, according to The Associated Press.
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The resolution was not adopted with five votes in favor, six votes against including the US, and four abstentions.
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There were no abstentions, making the results of the second vote exactly the same as the first vote on Wednesday.
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China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan voted with Russia to prevent the meeting, while Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia were abstentions.
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The amendment was adopted in the third committee on Monday with 84 votes in favor, 77 against and 17 abstentions.
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Only 2.8% of investors who voted opposed his re-election, although the number of votes against and abstentions was 16.3%.
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Though the resolution still passed with an overwhelming majority, the European abstentions represented a crack in the European Union's unanimity.
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The vote was as follows, per the AFP's Joanna Chiu: 2958 in favor, 2 against, 3 abstentions, 1 invalid vote.
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Lawmakers in the committee voted 37 in favor, 11 against and with four abstentions, in what was a secret ballot.
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"We can fear (large) abstentions," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told reporters during a visit to a polling station on Saturday.
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The 47-member Council voted 21 to 8, with 18 abstentions, in favor of a resolution supporting the experts' work.
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Russia and China abstained and the watering down of the resolution prompted angry abstentions from the United States and Britain.
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A United Nations Security Council resolution offered by the United States received only seven votes in favor, with eight abstentions.
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Some 106 parties to the U.N.-backed treaty voted in favor of the giraffe motion, 21 voted against, with 7 abstentions.
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The amendments passed 388 to 25 with five abstentions following an emotional session in the Sejm, the lower house of parliament.
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The speaker of parliament, Marek Kuchcinski, said that the amendments passed 388 to 25 with five abstentions during the Wednesday vote.
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The bill containing Reintke and her cohorts' proposals passed overwhelmingly on Thursday, by a vote of 580 - 10, with 27 abstentions.
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By the time voting ended, the government had been trounced by 367 votes to 137 (plus seven abstentions and two absentees).
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But a second-round vote would require only a qualified majority, meaning it could be achieved with the help of abstentions.
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The OAS said Thursday its member nations voted 19-6, with eight abstentions, to not recognize the legitimacy of Maduro's government.
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EU lawmakers voted 359 in favour, 212 against and with 31 abstentions for the formal call for an EU arms embargo.
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Espinosa Garces defeated Honduras&apos U.N. Ambassador Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake by a 128-62 vote, with two abstentions on Tuesday.
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After a 17-hour hearing, the bill was defeated early Thursday by a vote of 3543 to 31, with two abstentions.
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Tuesday's vote failed to reach a required three-quarters majority with 39 nations voting in favor, 25 against and three abstentions.
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Only the United States voted in favor of the second draft resolution, while there were three negative votes and 11 abstentions.
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And Le Pen actually got fewer votes than there were abstentions and blank ballots, arguably making her the third-place finisher.
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Park was impeached on December 9 by an overwhelming majority of the South Korean National Assembly, 234 to 56 with six abstentions.
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Lawmakers on the European Parliament's industry committee voted 41 votes to 13 in favor of the European Commission's proposal, with 9 abstentions.
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Brasilia-based consultancy ARKO Advice projected that the upper chamber would vote 57-21 to try Rousseff, with three abstentions or absences.
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The government of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League won the vote 167-78, with three abstentions.
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French lawmakers at the National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, cast 20173 votes in favor, 213 against and 74 abstentions.
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French lawmakers at the National Assembly, the country's lower house of parliament, cast 20173 votes in favour, 213 against and 74 abstentions.
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The motion to forward charges against Ms Rousseff to the Senate for trial passed by 367 votes to 203, with seven abstentions.
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The votes included: The 231th Five-Year-Plan, the first formulated under Mr. Xi. The result: 29,250 for, 53 against, 25 abstentions.
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It cited the 35 abstentions, coupled with 21 delegations that were absent, representing a significant chunk of the total membership of 193.
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Driving the news: The resolution, which passed 88-58 with 34 abstentions, sets up a working group to examine global cybercrime prevention.
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Mishustin received 383 votes out of 424 in Russia&aposs parliament, with 41 abstentions and no votes against him, according to Reuters.
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With voters weary of being called so often to the ballot box, the level of abstentions will be key on Nov. 10.
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This is well short of the 318 votes needed to guarantee approval of the amendment if there are no absences or abstentions.
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This week's resolution, put forward by Arab countries including Egypt, Algeria and Qatar, was adopted by a 24-6 vote, with 26 abstentions.
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Britain's resolution to launch the inquiry was adopted by 24 states in favor with 7 against, including Russia and China, and 16 abstentions.
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The vote — 372 to 51, with 99 abstentions — was followed by long applause in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament.
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In a legal document passed by 393 votes to 67, with 210 abstentions, the Parliament rejected the list saying it was too limited.
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He would need just 11 abstentions to win this second vote, but a loss is also likely if the Socialists do not cede.
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Staley faced much higher than usual abstentions at the Barclays annual general meeting on Wednesday, with only 62 percent of possible votes cast.
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The vote on whether abortion should be available without restriction until the 12th week of pregnancy was 12 to 5, with four abstentions.
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The government of Hungary said the vote was not valid, because it did not reach the two-thirds threshold once abstentions were included.
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Despite the U.S. opposition, a U.N. General Assembly committee approved the draft resolution on Friday with 151 votes in favor and 14 abstentions.
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Our bill passed the state legislature in 22019 with 130 votes in favor of the bill, 2 abstentions, and 2 votes against it.
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Leading voice in Rousseff's impeachment In 2016 Cunha was voted out of Congress in a chamber vote of 450 to 10, with nine abstentions.
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Under the proposed changes, the new voting system would need a simple majority for decisions concerning acts that apply agreed laws - making abstentions irrelevant.
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Around 320 votes are needed to be certain of winning a vote in the 650-seat House of Commons, depending on abstentions and absences.
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The parliament voted 308 to 204 with 70 abstentions to back the proposal to tackle the misuse of internet hosting services for "terrorist purposes" .
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A vote later confirmed the decree by 376 votes to 70 with two abstentions, according to the final tally read out by the speaker.
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The PP would need just 11 abstentions to win this second vote, but a loss is also likely if the Socialists do not cede.
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The measure had already passed the Senate and on Wednesday passed the lower house with 144 votes in favor, six against and 31 abstentions.
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In a great moment for democracy, Masahiro had polled the lords — the first time anyone had — and they tied 19-19, with 14 abstentions.
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Interpol said Palestine's membership was approved in a secret vote at its annual general meeting, passing by 75 to 24 votes, with 34 abstentions.
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The council voted 24-7, with 16 abstentions, at a special session on the "deteriorating situation of human rights" in Syria and in Aleppo.
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It was adopted on December 85033, 1948, during a UN General Assembly meeting in Paris, in a vote of 48-0, with eight abstentions.
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In 2017, the assembly passed a resolution to refer the matter to the ICJ by a vote of 94 to 15, with 65 abstentions.
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The workers' rights bill was approved by Mexico's lower house of Congress on Thursday night with 258 members in favor, 67 opposed and 18 abstentions.
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The council adopted an EU resolution for a one-year commission by a vote of 19 states in favor and seven against, with 21 abstentions.
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AIBA said in a statement its executive committee had elected Moustahsane, head of the African Boxing Confederation, by a 23-0 vote with two abstentions.
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With 350 votes cast in total, the bill was rejected after 175 voted against the decree, 142 were in favor while there was 33 abstentions.
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They expect more no votes and abstentions than in 1976, when the current version of the constitution was approved by 97.8 percent of the electorate.
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And when it comes to the parliamentary arithmetic around the December 11 vote, May will not only have to countenance abstentions from those same DUP lawmakers.
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Former whips, who have long studied parliamentary arithmetic, say the prime minister may end up needing only 305 votes if illnesses and abstentions are accounted for.
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Political experts believe this situation could lead to a minority government of the PP allowed by the Socialists and Ciudadanos through abstentions from votes of confidence.
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The result of the mandatory vote Wednesday among lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies on Premier Giuseppe Conte&aposs coalition was 350-236, with 35 abstentions.
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The U.N. General Assembly had requested the court's opinion in a resolution adopted in June 2017 with 94 votes in favor, 15 against and 65 abstentions.
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Highlighting the disappointment at its contents, the text received 10 yes votes, just one more than the required minimum, along with two against and three abstentions.
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The Organization of American States said last week that its member nations voted 19-6, with eight abstentions, to not recognize the legitimacy of Maduro's government.
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The General Assembly condemned Israel for excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians, adopting a resolution with 120 votes in favor, eight against and 45 abstentions.
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Quim Torra, the nominee of Carles Puigdemont, his separatist predecessor, was elected in the Catalan parliament by 66 votes to 65, with four abstentions, on May 14th.
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The top vote-getter among the environmental and social resolutions was a measure requesting a review of policies addressing sexual harassment, with 33.3% of shares, excluding abstentions.
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The decision by the UN's cultural agency, at a meeting in Poland by secret ballot, saw 12 countries vote in favor, with three against and six abstentions.
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The council voted 12-1 with two abstentions late on Monday to back Plank's Port Covington project, a mixed-use development on industrial waterfront, the spokesman said.
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Based on votes cast, which excludes abstentions and broker non-votes, XPO investor support came in at 67.1 percent, down from almost 93 percent a year earlier.
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Representatives noted how including abstentions, State Street did not support management in half of the eight cases, and that its funds often voted against directors as well.
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The Thai legislature approved its final reading of the amendment to the country's drug law in a 166-0 vote, with 13 abstentions, The Associated Press reported.
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With lawmakers still announcing their votes one by one, the number of abstentions and "no" votes had already reached a threshold that meant a defeat for Sanchez.
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EU lawmakers voted 439 in favor to 104 against, with 88 abstentions, at a special session in Brussels to recognize Venezuelan congress head Guaido as interim leader.
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She was elected last July on the 17th ballot from a field of nine candidates, on a vote of 88 in favor, none opposed and 12 abstentions.
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The proposal was voted down at the Amazon shareholder meeting in May but won significant support with around 30 percent of shareholder votes in favor, excluding abstentions.
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The announcement of the vote, witnessed by reporters in the Great Hall of the People, passed with two "no" votes and three abstentions among almost 3,000 delegates.
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But if you count abstentions, blank ballots and votes cast chiefly to keep her out, only a fifth of the electorate positively embraced his brand of new politics.
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Failing that, a second vote would be called 48 hours later in which he simply needs more votes in favor than against, meaning abstentions can make a difference.
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The deeply-divided Catalan parliament voted 66 in favor, 65 against and 4 abstentions for the election of Torra, a former lawyer and publisher with little political experience.
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The government, led by Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party (PT), managed 137, plus seven abstentions and two absentees—well short of the 172 it needed to block the motion.
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The group passed its resolution Wednesday night, voting 24-0 with four abstentions, said Paul Rosenbloom, a computer science professor who is president of the USC Academic Senate.
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But the party, which last week mustered 93 votes to begin proceedings, failed to secure the 87 needed to pass the motion, thanks to 10 Popular Force abstentions.
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The group passed its resolution Wednesday night, voting 24-0 with four abstentions, said Paul Rosenbloom, a computer science professor who is president of the USC academic senate.
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Though falling short of the simple majority required to oust the president, the final tally of 177 votes to 198, with nine abstentions, was closer than many expected.
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The European Parliament voted on Thursday 422 in favour to 147 against, with 48 abstentions, on a non-binding resolution to support the Commission's tough stance towards Poland.
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The "Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act" passed the Senate last week and was approved by the Alabama House in an 0003-0 vote on Tuesday, with six abstentions.
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The "Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act" passed the Senate last week and was approved by the Alabama House in an 87-0 vote on Tuesday, with six abstentions.
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Lawmakers voted by 457-140, with 71 abstentions, in favour of a plan to allow U.S. farmers a larger share of an existing 45,000 tonne quota from 2020.
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The 177-198 vote in his favor, with nine abstentions, was taken as a sign that accusations of corruption and ineptitude had jeopardized the party's hold on power.
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In July, the parliament voted by 318 votes to 278, with 31 abstentions, to reject the negotiating mandate that had been proposed by the Juri committee the month before.
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Some 98 out of 100 IOC members voted in favor of the Executive Board's decision on Russia's participation as neutrals at the Games apart from two abstentions, including Pound's.
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"The government's actions are further diverting Turkey from its European path," European lawmakers said in the resolution, which passed with 2677 votes in favor, 272 against and 107 abstentions.
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It turns out they have quite a bit of clout, considering they are currently the largest, most cohesive constituency in a party that cannot afford many defections or abstentions.
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Ultimately, the house approved the bill just before midnight Wednesday by a vote of 90 to 15, with 12 abstentions, and it moved on Thursday to the upper house.
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The 47-member Council voted by 35 votes to three, with seven abstentions, in favor of a resolution brought by the European Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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The Senate late on Thursday passed the budget 70-49 in general terms, with four abstentions, then worked through the night to vote down the individual reservations to the plan.
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The first-ever resolution on the Philippines, led by Iceland, was adopted by a vote of 18 countries in favor and 14 against, including China, with 15 abstentions, including Japan.
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The lack of support from Mr. Cuomo's nominees, combined with abstentions by the commission's judicial nominees, doomed a proposal to substantially increase lawmakers' pay, currently fixed at $79,500 a year.
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But the lopsided outcome — 2,958 votes in favor, two against, three abstentions and one invalid vote — underlined how much Mr. Xi dominates politics and feels emboldened to demand drastic changes.
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The advisory committee voted 12 to 1, including one emailed vote and three abstentions, that data supports the safety of the vaccine, Heplisav-B, for adults 18 years and older.
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The European Parliament voted by 457-140, with 71 abstentions, in favour of a plan to allow U.S. farmers a larger share of an existing 45,000 tonne quota from 7.53.
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The draft amendments were passed by 138 votes to 5, with 14 abstentions, Zhong Xuequan, spokesman for the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, told a media briefing on Saturday.
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Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, was removed from office Monday night by a landslide vote in the chamber of 450 votes to 10 with nine abstentions.
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At a later news conference in the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, Temer said the "immense number of abstentions, blank votes and spoilt ballots" showed the pressing need for political reform in Brazil.
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The 47-member state Geneva forum adopted a resolution, submitted by Britain along with Western and Arab allies, by a vote of 24 states in favor, 7 against with 16 abstentions.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted an European Union resolution for a one-year commission of inquiry by a vote of 19 states in favor and seven against, with 21 abstentions.
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The resolution, brought by Iceland, was adopted by a vote of 18 countries in favour, 14 against (including China), with 15 abstentions (including Japan) at the 47-member forum in Geneva.
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On Friday, it called for a vote on whether the committee should be allowed to consider the draft, but lost with only 31 votes in favor, 55 against and 54 abstentions.
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In a collective act of defiance toward Washington, the United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution demanding that the United States rescind its Dec.
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On Thursday, however, the repudiation of Mr. Trump was complete after the General Assembly, where Washington has no veto, voted 128 to 9 with 35 abstentions to approve a similar resolution.
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Members of the parliament's international trade committee voted 26-353, with four abstentions, for an agreement that will see U.S. farmers take up the majority of an existing 45,000-tonne allotment.
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Patrick Chappatte The United Nations General Assembly voted 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions, for a resolution demanding that the United States rescind its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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While the Palestinian-backed General Assembly resolution passed with 120 votes in favor, there were still 45 abstentions with a further eight countries voting against it, including the U.S., Israel and Australia.
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However, any abstentions or votes against the treaty by some LREM members would be a blow to Macron, already under fire from some quarters for not making the environment a bigger priority.
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Despite what some diplomats described as strong lobbying by the United States, the General Assembly narrowly adopted a Mexican-drafted resolution with 69 votes in favor, four votes against and 66 abstentions.
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Borisov's coalition government, in power since November 2014, lacks an outright majority but enjoys the support of two smaller parties, and defeated the motion by 130 votes to 80 with five abstentions.
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Either candidate needs 26 states to vote in their favor to win (or if Tom James can rally up enough abstentions the vote goes to the Senate, where he's the likely winner).
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Ms. Merkel voted against the measure on Friday, but many of her party colleagues voted in favor, allowing it to pass easily — 393 votes in favor and 226 against, with four abstentions.
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The Geneva forum adopted the text from the Lima Group by a vote of 19 in favor and seven against with 21 abstentions on the last day of a three-week session.
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Lawmakers of the European Parliament voted by 457-140, with 71 abstentions, in favor of a plan to allow U.S. farmers a larger share of an existing 45,000 tonne quota from 2020.
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The committee, which has only a consultative role and cannot bloc a nomination to the ECB by euro zone finance ministers, voted 24 to 14 with 13 abstentions in favour of De Guindos.
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The amended draft resolution, which makes no change to the work of the gay rights investigator, was then adopted by the third committee with 94 votes in favor, three against and 80 abstentions.
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Politicians in Ireland's lower house of Parliament debated for hours before approving the measure just before midnight on Wednesday by a vote of 90-15 with 12 abstentions, The New York Times reported.
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The panel voted 13-3, with three abstentions, that the clinical trial of 12 patients did not provide substantial evidence the drug was effective for muscular dystrophy patients with a specific genetic mutation.
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Their abstentions mean the maximum number of possible counter-votes is 106 - even if the parties who have not yet announced their position vote against the government - which Costa's 108 representatives will beat.
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But any abstentions or no-votes among President Emmanuel Macron's centrist LREM party, which has a comfortable majority, would be damaging for Macron, who has been criticized for taking little action against climate change.
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Only the Socialists voted for the bill, but abstentions by its former hard-left allies in the previous legislature - Left Bloc and the Communists - as well as a handful of other lawmakers, ensured it passed.
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The U.N. rights forum adopted an annual resolution on the Syrian Golan, brought by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), with 26 states in favor, 16 against and 5 abstentions.
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Earlier this year, members of the African Union talked about withdrawing en masse, and now Burundi has taken the first step, by a vote of 94 to 2 with 14 abstentions in its lower house.
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When Xi next asked for any "no" votes or abstentions for the amendment or two work reports, the sound of "none" echoed throughout the chamber, as officials shouted out from different sides of the hall.
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Surveys by leading newspapers continue to show the government lacks the one-third of votes or abstentions needed in the 513-seat lower house to avoid the president being sent for trial in the Senate.
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With 22 votes for, one against (San Domingo) and two abstentions (France and Brazil), the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, became the site of the prime meridian, the longitude separating Earth's eastern and western hemispheres.
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Locsin, a former journalist, on Wednesday called it a "nothing resolution" and "dead" arguing that it had failed because the votes in favor were fewer than the combined number of abstentions and votes against it.
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This is the same General Assembly that resoundingly passed a non-binding resolution last month criticizing President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital by 85033 votes in favor to nine against, with 35 abstentions.
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While the amendment was passed with just six dissenters - two no votes, three abstentions and one invalidated ballot - none of the roughly 3,000 legislators voted against Xi, a point made repeatedly in state media coverage.
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The lower house of parliament extended the measures until May 26th by a vote of 212 to 31 (with three abstentions), after the French senate approved the extension by a similarly large margin earlier this month.
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By a vote of 7 to 0, with two abstentions, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board also decided to raise rents by 2 percent for two-year leases, a modest rise that mirrors last year's.
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Should he fail, he faces a second confidence vote on Friday, in which it would be sufficient for him to collect more votes in favor of his government than against, no matter the number of abstentions.
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A non-union board member, who was not aware of Magnin's resignation letter, told Reuters he expected there could be one or two abstentions but that there was no doubt the UK project would be approved.
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"It is not at the president's bidding that we file legislation," de Jesus told reporters, referring to opposition to the bill, passed with 134 votes in favor, 57 against and two abstentions, from President Rodrigo Duterte.
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The proposal, with 368 against and 274 in favor and 34 abstentions, failed after the center-right European People's Party (EPP) said there was no legal basis for what one lawmaker called "another elite-driven project".
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The mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was extended until June 30, 2023, with 169 votes in favor and nine abstentions, while the United States and Israel voted against.
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Polls tip Macron to win by a significant margin, scoring around 60 percent of the vote, while Le Pen is predicted to get around 40 percent — but abstentions from disaffected socialists could give her an unexpected boost.
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The attempt was voted down in the U.N. General Assembly 84 to 77 with 16 abstentions, a month after African states made a similar unsuccessful move in the General Assembly's third committee, which deals with human rights.
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Forging a common European Parliament position on Turkey's long-stalled EU bid, lawmakers voted 370 in favor and 109 against, with 143 abstentions, for an official freeze of the membership process, which would jeopardize some EU funding.
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After the State Assembly passed its version of the bill — 45 to 25, with six abstentions — on Monday afternoon, the bill moved to the Senate, where the vote had been expected to pass by a small margin.
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Based on Congressional rules no one but Kent really understands, enough abstentions in the House takes the vote to the Senate, where it would be a wider race and Tom James would have a shot at the presidency.
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The General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights, voted 135 in favor, 10 against with 26 abstentions on the draft text that also asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint a special envoy on Myanmar.
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Panelo had previously called the resolution "grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan", arguing that it lacked legitimacy because the 18 council members who backed it was less than the 14 votes against and 15 abstentions combined.
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The council also voted last month on the rival Russian draft resolution that would have approved the two Turkish crossing points for six months, but it failed with only five votes in favor, six against and four abstentions.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - With neither side commanding enough firm support in the battle to impeach Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, the outcome of a crucial vote in Congress this month may boil down to a handful of no-shows and abstentions.
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The bill, drafted by the ruling Socialists garnered 110 votes in the 230-seat parliament, but was outvoted by 115 opponents, with 4 abstentions, after a heated debate and a vote that required each lawmaker to declare his or her stance.
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The attempt by Pedro Sánchez, the acting Socialist prime minister and winner of an election on April 28th, to achieve a parliamentary majority through a coalition with Podemos, a further-left outfit, failed by 124 votes to 20143, with 67 abstentions.
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Drafted by the ruling Socialists, the bill garnered 110 votes in the 230-seat parliament but was stymied by 115 opponents, with 4 abstentions, after a heated debate and a vote that required each lawmaker to declare his or her stance.
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The committee, which has only a consultative role and cannot bloc a nomination to the ECB by euro zone finance ministers, voted 27 to 14, with 13 abstentions, in favor of De Guindos, a minister in Spain's center-right government.
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Lawmakers voted by 364 to 315, with nine abstentions, in favor of re-electing Merkel, a humbling start as the coalition of her conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) has 399 votes in the Bundestag lower house of parliament.
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Pollsters see likely abstentions as highest among left-wing voters who feel disenfranchised by Sunday's choice after nine other candidates were eliminated in first round, but it is unclear what a high or low turnout could mean for the outcome.
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Another plus for Le Pen: some forecasters are predicting a huge jump in abstentions for the second round -- the hashtag #SansMoiLe7Mai (Without Me May 7) trending massively on Twitter -- a trend less likely to mark the committed Le Pen faithful.
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Lawmakers in Mexico City's Congress on Friday voted 38-0, with eight abstentions, in favor of a bill to remove a line in the Civic Culture Law which said prostitutes and their clients can be fined or arrested if neighbors complained.
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However, she did ask members of her party to vote individually instead of aligning to party ideals, and in the end, the bill passed with 393 votes in favor of "marriage for everybody," 226 opposing the measure, and four abstentions.
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The resolution by the European Parliament, backed by 510 deputies against 160 with 29 abstentions, is not binding, but is a further step in a process that could end with Poland losing its voting rights in the 28-nation bloc.
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However, the bill passed with a majority of 36 after the Labour leader suffered a rebellion by MPs representing areas which voted to Leave the EU. A total of seven Labour MPs voted in favour of the bill with six abstentions.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December - 113 in favour to 35 against, with 13 abstentions -that decided to "negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination" and encouraged all member states to participate.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December - 113 in favor to 35 against, with 13 abstentions - that decided to "negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination" and encouraged all member states to participate.
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The lower house vote was 138 to 103 with 8 abstentions after an 18-hour debate that started midday on Wednesday and was marred by violent protests outside the capitol complex, where anti-riot police fired tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets.
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Many of the abstentions on Wednesday were from the Greens group, which pointedly declared it would not support the new Commission or align with mainstream parties, and intended to continue functioning as an insurgent force despite the new executive's focus on climate change.
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The U.N. agreed on the new role in June, after the 47-member council overcame strong objections by Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries to adopt a Western-backed resolution by a vote of 23 states in favor and 18 against with six abstentions.
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In another contentious decision, "The Lion in Winter" lost the screenwriting award to "Pretty Poison," directed by the 31-year-old Noel Black from a script by Lorenzo Semple Jr., in a sixth ballot vote that — controversy within controversy — was notable for its six abstentions.
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In a 134-9 vote with 28 abstentions on Friday, the body approved the resolution, which also calls on Myanmar's government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in the states of Rakhine, Kachin and Shan.
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On Wednesday, the APA's council voted down the plan to allow psychologists back to Guantánamo by 105 votes to 57, with 15 abstentions — but only after the military psychologists tried to refer the issue to a special working group, postponing the vote on their own proposal.
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PETER RAMAGELondon A macrocosm of MacronYou said of Emmanuel Macron's victory in France, that if you count abstentions, blank ballots and votes cast to keep Marine Le Pen out, "only a fifth of the electorate positively embraced his brand of new politics", ("Macron's mission", May 13th).
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Following a fiery debate in which Orban accused the European Parliament in Strasbourg of insulting his country, lawmakers voted 448 to 113, with 48 abstentions, to launch Article 7 disciplinary proceedings, passing a motion declaring that Hungary was at risk of breaching the EU's core values.
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Following a fiery debate in which Orban accused the European Parliament in Strasbourg of insulting his country, lawmakers voted 448 to 197, with 48 abstentions, to launch Article 7 disciplinary proceedings, passing a motion declaring that Hungary was at risk of breaching the EU's core values.
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While strong in relation to historic levels of support for the National Front, Le Pen's 11 million vote wins must be taken in the context of the highest ever level of voters supporting neither candidate, with around 16 million votes representing abstentions, spoiled or blank votes.
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A resolution, passed by an 11-to-0 vote with four abstentions, basically gives the United Nations far more authority in South Sudan, backed by thousands of additional troops and lethal force if needed, to protect civilians and pressure armed antagonists in the conflict — including government soldiers.
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Voting 170 to eight with six abstentions, the lower house of Congress, dominated by President Rodrigo Duterte's allies, passed on the third and final reading a bill that would slash the corporate income tax from 30%, currently the highest in the region, to 20% by 2029.
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The diminutive Arroyo, 71, who was in power from 2001-2010 and then detained for five years for graft, was sworn in as the country's first woman house speaker late on Monday after receiving the support of 184 house members present, with 48 against and 12 abstentions.
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The vote — 105 for, 15 against and 52 abstentions — was a diplomatic embarrassment for Syria's principal allies, Russia and Iran, which just this week began consultations, along with Turkey, on a political settlement to the nearly six-year-old war without even consulting the United Nations.
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The resolution, approved by a 9-0 vote with six abstentions, was a watered-down version of a draft measure proposed by the United States, whose ambassador, Nikki Haley, wrote in The Washington Post on Wednesday that the administration had "lost patience with the status quo" in South Sudan.
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The vote on the sanctions was 27 in favor, 3 against and 6 abstentions, according to Archbishop Foley Beach, the leader of a conservative breakaway American group, the Anglican Church in North America, who attended the primates' meeting in Canterbury at the invitation of the archbishop of Canterbury.
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The 393 – 226 vote, with four abstentions, means Germany now joins the majority of western European countries in granting same-sex couples full marital rights (Austria, Italy and Northern Ireland recognize civil partnerships instead – the same level of recognition the German gay and lesbian couples had in Germany until Friday's vote).
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The coalition, formed of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, as well as a small left-wing party, won with 343 votes in Mr. Conte's favor, 343 votes against and three abstentions, after a long day of debate among lawmakers in the lower house.
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The new law, which Parliament approved by a vote of 138 to 6, with 22 abstentions, would allow the government to detain asylum seekers, including children, for potentially long periods of time in mobile housing units, which look like shipping containers, in camps surrounded by razor-wire fence, while their applications were processed.
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If Mrs Clinton were to combine a high turnout on her own side with a sizeable number of Republican abstentions and spoilt ballots and some voters who are prepared to switch from red to blue, then Democrats could not just win the presidency with a landslide, but also wrest back control of the Senate.
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To approve a budget, and the further belt-tightening required to meet the targets agreed with the European Commission for the fiscal deficit (to 3.1% of GDP next year, from a target of 4.6% this year), the prime minister will have to try and scrape up votes from Basque nationalists or rely on further Socialist abstentions.
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Pro-EU, British MEPs gave their, often emotional, final speeches to the parliament with some stating their hopes for the U.K. to one day return to the EU. Lawmakers then voted on the 'Withdrawal Agreement' with 621 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voting in favor of it, with 49 votes against and a smattering of abstentions.
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