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President Obama meets Pope Francis, discussing their common goal to fix the world #39;s problem with income inequality. Ed Schultz and Jim Wallis discuss.
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Source: Tanjug, Veernje novosti
BELGRADE -- Leader of Progressives (SNS) Aleksandar Vui will start official talks on forming a new government with potential partners early next week, writes a daily.
According to Veernje Novosti, the head of the Progressives should invite all parties that had won seats in parliament in the March 16 ballot, "and are willing to talk."
Vui should present the leaders of these parties with an economic recovery program, "the writing of which has been well under way" - and that will be a part of his inaugural speech as prime minister, the paper said.
It noted that as early as next week Vui could make a decision on whom to invite to join his government, so that the names of new ministers could be announced before Easter, April 20.
One of SNS vice presidents, Bratislav Gai, told the daily that the party "has not talked with anyone so far," and that it will be known who they will negotiate with about a new government "after the completion of the new round of dialogue in Brussels."
BRUSSELS -- The Serbian representatives voiced the "principled position" that Serbia does not want to take any steps that would erode its ties with the Russian Federation.
BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vui says "the best possible result for Serbia and Serbs in terms of judiciary in Kosovo and Metohija was achieved, under difficult conditions."
BELGRADE -- The session of the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) concerning the constitution of the future government will be held on Saturday, April 5, Tanjug said it learned.
BRUSSELS -- A spokesperson for EU's Catherine Ashton says Serbia's stance towards the crisis in Ukraine will not be the topic of today's Belgrade-Pritina dialogue.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott, seated beside UN Women's Donelle Wheeler, greets Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during the International Women's Day parliamentary breakfast. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged ''progressives'' to cast politics aside and embrace the Coalition's paid parental leave scheme as a watershed moment for feminism in Australia.
Mr Abbott spoke about his own conversion to paid parental leave at an International Women's Day breakfast in Canberra on Tuesday, comparing it to US President Nixon's historic 1972 visit to communist China.
''I believe a fair dinkum paid parental leave scheme is an idea whose time has come,'' Mr Abbott said. "Just imagine if a progressive had come up with this idea. The usual suspects would have been cheering and saying: 'About time.'
But because a conservative has come up with this idea so many people are saying there must be something wrong with it.
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"Let's drop this silly guilt by association and let's get on with something which is unambiguously good for the women of our country, for the families of our country and for the economy of our country."
Mr Abbott said he opposed paid parental leave as a minister in the Howard government but his views changed after considering what would be best for his three daughters.
''It is a little disconcerting when a conservative, when a traditionalist such as myself, comes up with something which is not regarded as a conservative and a traditional position,'' he said.
"It is a bit like when Nixon went to China, conservatives thought: 'My God, has he suddenly abandoned the faith?'" he said. "Progressives thought: 'My God, is China no longer a progressive country?' The truth is this was a historic breakthrough. This was one of those moments when people from all sides of politics needed to realise that a watershed had been reached.''
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The seats of All Progressives Congress members in the House of Representatives, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, came under threat on Monday when an Abuja Federal High Court ruling that they could not validly function as members of the House because their defection was unconstitutional.
Consequently, Justice Adeniyi Ademola, in his judgment in a suit filed by the PDP after the defection of 42 of its lawmakers initially gave the APC a majority in the House of Representatives, declared that the defected legislators were not competent to sponsor, contribute or vote on any motion calling for a change in the leadership of the House, including the election of principal officers.
Justice Ademola also made an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defected lawmakers from taking any step to alter the leadership of the House of Representatives.
Interestingly, the judge suggested that the 42 lawmakers should honourably relinquish their seats because, according to him, they have no business in the National Assembly, but he did not order them to vacate their seats as the suit filed by the PDP did not ask for such a relief.
Following the defection of the lawmakers to the APC, PDP had approached the court, asking that the legislators should be restrained from altering or changing the leadership of the House, or taking any steps to do so.
PDP, through its lawyer, Yunus Usman, SAN, argued that the defection of the lawmakers was unconstitutional, as it did not comply with the provisions of section 68 (1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, which qualifies elected public office holders to defect to another political party and retain their seats in situations where there is division within political parties.
The ruling party insisted that there was no division within its ranks to warrant the lawmakers from defecting and continuing to hold on to their seats, but the APC legislators, who were listed as the 12th to 53rd defendants in the suit, argued that there was a division in the PDP.
Delivering judgment in the matter, Justice Ademola noted that the verdict was informed by the courts interpretation of section 68 (1) (g) of the 1999 Constitution, which read, 68 (1) A member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if
(g) Being a person whose election to the House was sponsored by a political party, he becomes a member of another political party before the expiration of the period for which that House was elected; provided that his membership of the latter political party is not as a result of a division in the political party of which he was previously a member or of a merger of two or more political parties or factions by one of which he was previously sponsored.
The judge said, The above constitutional provision is clear and unambiguous and must be given its literal meaning.
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