United Russia, the main pro-Kremlin party, has two-thirds of the Duma deputies, among them a raft of "independents" who joined it after the election.
However, the judge made clear he planned to assign a federal monitor who would have "significant authority" to oversee retraining of deputies, among other changes at the office.
The unanimous decision by the three-judge panel from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals clears the way for the former deputies, among them rank-and-file officers and mid-level commanders, to be sent to prison on lengthy sentences. .
It did not, for instance, show Hasan Yousefi-Eshkevari, a journalist and moderate cleric, shouting down the protesters disrupting his speech, or Jamileh Kadivar, the only parliamentary deputy among the accused, storming out of the conference hall in disgust.The conference, it seems, was useful as an excuse to lay low uppity reformists.
In a draft bill AK deputies proposed, among other things, that the president be allowed to dissolve parliament and to appoint cabinet ministers.
Teams drawn from the ranks of the former Iraqi opposition will be dispatched in coming days to each of Iraq's 28 provinces to invite local leaders to pick deputies from among tribal, professional and religious ranks and send them immediately to Baghdad to convene the assembly.
The head of the group's Haitian mission, Mr. Annabi, a Tunisian, and his deputy were among the missing, said Alain Le Roy, the United Nations peacekeeping chief.
The men, James A. Vaught, a former sergeant in the Henry County Sheriff's Department, and David A. King, a former deputy, were among 20 people indicted in October in the investigation.
With less than two weeks of the campaign remaining, Flint's canvassing suggests that about half of the Labour electorate are still undecided on who should be deputy, even among those who are are committed to one of the leadership candidates.
The president of Socialist Party, which counts former Brazil striker and current federal deputy Romario among its ranks, also said the alliance was "historic".
The tragedy took a personal turn for responders when they learned that the son of an Alameda County sheriff's deputy was among those who died.
