In 1963, Benn finally secured a change in the law, and St Clair honourably resigned, forcing another by-election, which Benn easily won.
See articleAfter regional elections in which the opposition made gains, Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, ordered his party to move quickly to secure a change in the constitution to abolish term limits, a measure that was defeated in a referendum a year ago.
But Mr Ortega's election is not part of any underlying shift to the left: he gained a smaller share of the vote than in 2001, but won because he secured a change in the rules lowering the threshold to avoid a run-off (which he would have lost).
President Ilham Aliyev was elected for the second time in 2008 (following two terms served by his father) — and he swiftly held a referendum that secured a change in the constitution allowing him to run for a third term.
However, by the time research funding was secured, a change in management at the Health Services Academy and the loss of one local co-investigator who left to pursue her PhD studies meant that the originally planned institutional collaboration could not be actualized to the degree planned.
In many cases, the student is trying to secure a change in funding.
Last October, he succeeded in securing a constitutional change that permits him to run for a third consecutive term.
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact.
After three years of campaigning, in 2011 Yukiko and her friends succeeded in securing a law change in Japan that means people with bilateral microtia can now have the cost of having a BAHA aid fitted - in one ear - covered by public insurance.
