So now it appears Koizumi will dissolve his government and seek a snap election.
The main opposition party is demanding Mr. Noda first dissolve parliament for a snap election.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi should call a snap election to deal with Japan's paralyzingly corrupt political structure.
On April 21, President Jacques Chirac called a snap election, ten months ahead of the regular schedule.
AKP's surviving parliamentarians would remain as independents in sufficient numbers to be able to force another snap election.
In early August 2005 the then-prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, called a snap election to push through postal privatisation.
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If a snap election were held, Labour might perhaps be able to form a government on its own.
Mr Noda may prefer to see his twin aims passed into law and then call a snap election.
Many in the party are pressing Mr Mugabe to call for a snap election, before it is too late.
All this fuels speculation he may call a snap election later this year to consolidate his grip on power.
He has written to Gordon Brown saying it is a matter of "urgency", given the speculation about a snap election.
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And if Mr Brown's failure to call a snap election hurt him politically, it also raised the bar for Mr Cameron.
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The electorate is entitled to gauge candidates in the hurly-burly of a full-blown campaign, not in the equivalent of a snap election.
The crisis from which Mr Brown has never recovered his abortive flirtation with a snap election in 2007 was caused by his mania for scheming.
Mr. Maduro, supported by the formidable campaign machinery of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, is considered the favorite in a snap election.
Arroyo may realize that if a snap election is called, she would have to face other candidates (including possibly Estrada), with no guarantee of victory.
They say that later this summer he might dissolve parliament and call a snap election, aiming to campaign on a pledge to abandon nuclear power.
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Either he can push the stimulus through the lower house of the Diet (parliament) in May and then call a snap election colleagues favour June 7th.
Catalunia has a snap election coming up in which the major real question is whether to demand more, or even possibly total, independence from Madrid.
Chancellor Schroeder called for a snap election that year and a few months later found himself handing over the keys to the Chancellery to Angela Merkel.
For a while the LDP refused even to meet the prime minister in person, in effect obstructing relief efforts in the hope of forcing a snap election.
Whether the prime minister plumps for a snap election in June or waits for the end of his term in November now hinges on the welfare-reform talks.
You would probably see a second attempt to form a national government in the wake of a controlled default, uncontrolled would almost certainly lead to a snap election.
Nikola Gruevski, leader of the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, won a snap election in June 2011 and made a deal with his party's Albanian coalition partner to form a government.
Talk that Japan's prime minister may call a snap election for parliament's lower house at the same time as the upper-house poll in July will not die away.
At the moment the most likely result of a snap election - as the ever-acute Conservative Home website points out here - would be a Labour government.
That initially prompted Mr Berlusconi to favour a snap election.
He had forced a snap election and then run such a poor campaign that the People's Party's share of the vote tumbled from 34% to 26%, a record low.
Mr Cameron's speech, perhaps his best to a Tory conference since he impressed enough to see off Mr Brown's mooted snap election in 2007, showed an appetite for the fight.
One might be to arrange for a straw man to win the election and then step down, paving the way for Mr Putin to return triumphantly in a snap election.
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