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The confrontation, in which National Guard troops repeatedly fired tear gas at protesters and gunfire broke out, came two days before a government electoral board was to rule on the validity of signatures government opponents had collected to force a referendum on recalling Mr. Chávez from office.

By last April, when activists began to collect signatures to force an early presidential election that might remove him, there was no lower house of parliament, the constitution was contested, the economy was near ruin and Mr. Morsi was trying to institutionalize the power of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Filner's lawyers filed papers to move the lawsuit to Imperial County, east of the city.But calls for his resignation grew louder and organizers last Sunday started collecting signatures to force a recall election.Organizers of the recall effort said Friday that they already had more than 20,000 signatures, about one-fifth of what would be needed to qualify for the ballot.Mr.

And to win, his opponents need to collect nearly 400,000 more votes than the 3.4 million signatures they claimed to have collected in December to force the recall.

Unions and activists mobilised protests and collected 1m signatures to force a recall vote.

The antiunion legislation drew national attention and sparked an uproar that led to a recall campaign, which collected enough signatures to force a recall election in 2012.

Critics of Mr. Pearce's hard-line approach to illegal immigration collected enough signatures to force him into a recall election in November.

Jeff Peckman, 49, collected enough signatures to force the city council to either pass his initiative, which would require the city to study ways to alleviate stress, or send it to the voters.

The president's opponents learned Thursday that they had collected enough signatures to force a referendum but had worried that with administrative or legal challenges, he could push the vote past Aug.

The American-led attack on the Gnomes of Zurich has produced a backlash: a right-wing party has almost collected enough signatures to force a referendum on whether to strengthen constitutional support for financial secrecy.

In another move to placate Brussels, Turkish television began broadcasting programmes in Kurdish and Arabic for the first time.See articleRecall rulingVenezuela's electoral authority ruled that opponents of Hugo Chávez had collected enough signatures to force the president to submit to a recall referendum.