What Sweden also has, running in parallel with the state system, is a private school system.

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Sri Lanka will keep its long-running state of emergency, and reforms to the voting system will make it harder for smaller parties.

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But the dispute goes to the heart of several long-running debates about what kind of state Israel should be and what kind of justice system it should have.

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