Among the world's nations, we are number 70 in national representation for women.
It has been the only completely new party to win national representation in the post-World War II era.
The Palestinian leadership's weak and incompetent posturing is the opposite of dignified and honourable national representation, and proves useless to boot.
In 1994 the party secured national representation, and in 1998 it assumed national political power as a junior coalition partner in the government headed by SPD leader Gerhard Schröder.
After a yearlong review of governance issues, our trustees approved sweeping changes, including new term limits that will turn over about half the board over the next two years and achieve greater national representation.
It does make election of a candidate with slightly fewer popular votes possible, but it forces a state with any hope of national representation for its special needs to vote as a bloc.
The backlash against the oriundi, however, was not solely because of on-field failings; after all, international football is not solely about success, but also identity and national representation.
Now polling at 12-14% nationwide, the party, which wants to ban minarets and the burqa, holds seats in half of Germany's 16 state parliaments and could win national representation in next year's general elections.
While Mr. Sharif remains popular in his home region of Punjab, the most populous province, Ms. Bhutto is thought to hold an edge in forming a government because her party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, has broader national representation.
