Mr Yeltsin would then have had to dissolve the Duma and call a general election.
Or, if parliament fails to find a new government, the president could call a general election.
George Papandreou, the opposition Pasok leader, urged the prime minister to resign and call a general election.
George Papandreou, the Socialist opposition leader, has told Mr Karamanlis to resign and call a general election.
Before then, however, perhaps as early as next month, Dr Mahathir is expected to call a general election.
Mr Najib was constitutionally obliged to call a general election in April, when the National Front's five-year mandate ran out.
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Some of Mr Aznar's ministers say he should call a general election this summer, to coincide with the European and local ones.
Mr Blair does not have to call a general election until May 2002 but it is widely predicted that he will go to the polls in May this year.
If Mr Noda's government is forced to call a general election on the issue, as the opposition is demanding, progress in the north-east may once again grind to a halt.
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro's own seven-year term of office expires in April next year and, according to the constitution, he cannot dissolve parliament and call a general election for the six months before that event.
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The decision on whether to call a general election will hinge on the outcome of 13 contests for the powerful post of periferiarch (regional governor), the first time in Greece that senior administrators have been directly elected.
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The Belgians will have angered Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is about to call a General Election in which his Conservative opponent William Hague will insist that too much has been given away already to an increasingly federal Europe.
There was speculation that he might call a snap general election, though one does not have to be held until September 2009.
For months, Malaysia's capital has been abuzz with rumours that the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, will call a snap general election in August or September.
On October 25th Mr Papandreou said that if voters turned away from Pasok he might call a snap general election in December, barely a year after winning the previous one.
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Mr Cameron also used his message to call for the general election campaign to be a "good clean fight".
Mr Harper was expected to ask the governor-general either to suspend Parliament or to call a fresh election.
But it is not just the DPJ's Mr Ozawa who will be calling for a snap general election, which the LDP is not bound to call until 2009.
Prime Minister David Cameron hinted last week that he might be ready to call an EU referendum after the 2015 general election, saying that the coming years would see "opportunities for a new settlement between Britain and Europe" which would require "fresh consent from the British people".
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