These districts are also headed by political assemblies, in some cases elected directly by the citizens.

Starting this year, all local officials, governors, regents and mayors are directly elected by the people.

Strong central institutions, responsible to a directly elected parliament, are needed to coordinate fiscal and economic policies.

President Yudhoyono I come here to speak for 220 million Indonesians as their first directly elected President.

The 2004 presidential election was the first in which the people directly elected the president and vice president.

The President of Ireland is directly elected once in every seven years, for a maximum of two terms.

The Seanad is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members selected in a number of ways.

The difference is in election and powers, because the president and vice presidents of Republika Srpska are elected directly, while in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina they are elected indirectly.

Ambitious but thwarted presidents are easily tempted to take unconstitutional measures after all, they reason, the people elected them directly.

Ambitious but thwarted presidents are easily tempted to take unconstitutional measures after all, they reason, the people elected them directly.

If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.

First elected in 1998, from 2002 to 2005 she was one of just two party representatives, having been directly elected as the representative of Berlin Marzahn Hellersdorf, a working class area of east Berlin.

One region, Greater London, has had a directly elected assembly and mayor since 2000 following popular support for the proposal in a referendum.

In Britain, it could mean looking to the French, learning from the French, getting directly elected mayors in place in a French commune system.

The human rights council, I suggest, should be smaller than the Commission and should be elected directly by a two thirds majority of this Assembly.

To prevent this, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, and recently Croatia and Ukraine reduced the constitutional powers of the directly elected president and increased the parliament s powers.

What happened to the spirit of an elected official of the nation, that he directly attacks a founding principle of our republic's democracy freedom of the press?

The number of directly elected seats increased from 204 to 222, whilst the number of indirectly elected seats rose from 102 to 111 (69 elected by Communal Councils, 15 by the Chamber of Agriculture, 10 by the Chamber of Commerce Industry, 7 by the Chamber of Craftspeople and 10 by the Chamber of Labor Unions).

Does this mean that a Sixth Republic is inevitable? As the president is already elected directly, some critics recommend a pure presidential regime, as in the United States.

Hong Kong's government felt it could ignore public opinion and push the bill through with a large majority of the functional members, plus a handful of directly elected pro government legislators.

(b) The Council shall comprise between 30 and 50 members, each serving for a period of three years, to be elected directly by the General Assembly, by a two thirds majority.

The Bonn process established the principle of democratic accountability, gave Afghanistan its first directly elected president, and provided a new constitution that approved after genuine debate and compromise created a legitimate central government.

Each county has a directly elected county assembly, led by a mayor, which decides upon matters falling within purview of the counties (upper secondary and vocational education, some culture, transport and social services).

And being elected directly by the General Assembly the principal United Nations legislative body would also have greater authority than the Commission, which is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council.

Seven parties and 185 candidates were vying for places in Nagorno Karabakh's fourth parliament, with two thirds of the parliament's 33 seats to be elected directly and one third under a proportional system.

As the president is already elected directly, some critics recommend a pure presidential regime, as in the United States. Others support moving toward a pure parliamentary regime in the manner of the United Kingdom.

The problem in Asia often arises from something the French call cohabitation an awkward arrangement by which a directly elected president must co exist with a parliament controlled by a rival party or parties.

The problem in Asia often arises from something the French call cohabitation an awkward arrangement by which a directly elected president must co exist with a parliament controlled by a rival party or parties.

Unlike a directly elected president in classic presidentialism, such a legislatively produced president could be voted out by a constructive vote of no confidence, leaving incumbents subject to coalition requiring and coalition sustaining incentives.

To strengthen Russia s political influence over Georgia s separatist regions, Gazprom, without taking the trouble to ask for permission from Georgia s democratically elected leaders, has begun constructing a gas pipeline connecting Russia and South Ossetia directly.

Many of the presidents re elected, either directly or by alternating terms with someone else, a la the Kirchners, won because they seemed to be responding to social demands for more security or less poverty.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 of the national party vote or three (directly elected) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

The members of the Council shall be elected directly by the General Assembly, by a two thirds majority on the basis of equitable geographic representation, and be comparable in size to the Commission on Human Rights

Elected Position

Today, Ozawa and the DPJ s Tanaka veterans, who lead a party overwhelmingly composed of newly elected, amateurish lawmakers, deal directly with former socialists and other populist spin offs from the LDP, in both the Cabinet and the Diet.

The GNC was originally to be charged with appointing a Constituent Assembly to draw up Libya's new constitution, but the National Transitional Council announced on 5 July that the Assembly would instead be directly elected at a later date.

Such rhetoric makes wars easier to justify, easier to wage, and easier to support, especially for elected leaders who must respond directly to swings in public opinion. Such language works equally well for any society in today s media obsessed age.

In addition to 17 women elected on reserved seats, 1 was elected as a technocrat.

We elected him chairman.

He was elected President.

(i) Two from those elected from African States, two from those elected from Eastern European States and two from those elected from Western European and other States

Philip Alston was elected Chairman and Sigma Huda was elected Rapporteur of the twelfth annual meeting.

(a) Under article 27 of the Constitution, citizens who have reached the age of 18 have the right to participate in the political life and administration of the State directly or through representatives, i.e., they have the right to elect and be elected.

The current president is Masoud Barzani, who was initially elected in 2005 and re elected in 2009.

Thereafter members will be elected for four year terms, with half the members elected every two years.