Hamas now rules Gaza and the Palestinian Authority governs in the West Bank, and the two governments are very much separate, competing entities.
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, made the first step on Monday toward ending his group's disputes with the Palestinian Authority, which governs in the West Bank, and creating a unity government.
"They are waiting to see if Joseph Kabila governs in their interests.
"The principle of a woman's right to choose governs in that case," he said.
In Hanover, a CDU premier, David McAllister, governs in a coalition with the FDP.
The dual system still governs in Australia, New Zealand, and India.
As he himself has duly noted, he governs in a time when there are few happy options.
Likud has 19 seats in the outgoing Parliament and governs in a coalition of religious and rightist parties.
By the end of this decade, who governs in Westminster will not make much difference to the way we live.
Such oversimplifications do not take into account the decision-making that actually governs in a predominant majority of instances.
"A president governs in an unexpected manner, and it becomes a defining moment in our political history".
