Parliamentary elections that month saw a high turnout of 84% and a narrow win for the Progressive National Party, which took eight seats to the People's Democratic Movement's seven.

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Prime Minister Michael Misick resigned under pressure from critics within his Progressive National Party, and was succeeded briefly by his former home minister, Galmo Williams, before the governor suspended the post.

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Theodore Roosevelt ran for President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance.

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In parliamentary elections on May 6th, Mr Nikolic's centre-right Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), won, taking, with its allies, 73 of the 250 National Assembly seats.

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The standards committee's inquiry will drag on for several weeks, giving the Scottish National Party and the Conservatives plenty of chances to assert that New Labour, far from bringing progressive politics into Scotland, is aping the worst habits of Westminster.

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