term on the recommendation of the upper house. The president may dissolve the upper house on the advice of the prime minister (Banks 311-312).
The two government parties presently in power in a coalition are the Republic Party and the Progressive Democratic Party. The latter was formed in 1985 as an alternative to the existing party system, considered to be based on divisions of the 1920s and not on the concerns of today. There are a number of opposition parties as well (Banks 312).
The Republican majority that took power in
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